Brene Brown
Brene Brown
Brené Brownis an American scholar, author, and public speaker, who is currently a research professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work. Over the last twelve years she has been involved in research on a range of topics, including vulnerability, courage, worthiness, and shame. She is the author of two #1 New York Times Bestsellers: The Gifts of Imperfectionand Daring Greatly. She and her work have been featured on PBS, NPR, TED, and CNN...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth18 November 1965
CountryUnited States of America
There's no evidence that vulnerabilty is weakness.
Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It's the magic sauce.
You cannot shame or belittle people into changing their behaviors.
Hope is really a thought.
It's in our biology to trust what we see with our eyes. This makes living in a carefully edited, overproduced and photoshopped world very dangerous.
We cannot grow when we are in shame, and we can't use shame to change ourselves or others.
One of the reasons we judge each other so harshly in this world of parenting is because... we perceive anyone else who's doing anything differently than what we're doing as criticizing our choices.
Want to be happy? Stop trying to be perfect.
When you ask people about love, they tell you about heartbreak.
Share with people who have earned the right to hear your story.
In many ways, September feels like the busiest time of the year: The kids go back to school, work piles up after the summer's dog days, and Thanksgiving is suddenly upon us.
Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot tolerate having words wrapped around it. What it craves is secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you stay quiet, you stay in a lot of self-judgment.
Faith minus vulnerability is fundamentalism
Are you the adult that you want your child to grow up to be?