When we get to the point that we only do things that we’re already good at doing, we stop growing. Here's a peek at my strategy for staying in tough first times versus tapping out and shutting down.| Brené Brown
The Awkward, Brave, and Kind Edit exists to amplify the voices, experiences, and stories of people who are choosing to be brave with their lives and their work.| Brené Brown
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Brené Brown writes about being sober for 23 years. She writes, "Sobriety isn’t even a “have to” – it’s a superpower."| Brené Brown
Welcome. I’m a researcher, storyteller, and Texan who’s spent the past two decades studying courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy.| Brené Brown
In this first episode in a series on the possibilities and costs of living beyond human scale, Brené and Esther Perel discuss how we manage the paradox of exploring the world of social media and emerging technologies while staying tethered to our humanness.| Brené Brown
In Atlas of the Heart, we explore eighty-seven of the emotions and experiences that define what it means to be human and walk through a new framework for cultivating meaningful connection. This is for the mapmakers and travelers in all of us.| Brené Brown
The daring leaders we’ve interviewed are never empty-handed in the arena. In addition to rumble skills and tools, they always carry with them clarity of values.| Brené Brown
Cultivating meaningful connection is a daring and vulnerable practice—and one that isn’t possible without being a good steward of the stories we tell and the stories we hear.| Brené Brown
Midlife is not a crisis. Midlife is an unraveling. By definition, you can’t control or manage an unraveling. You can’t cure the midlife unraveling with control any more than the acquisitions, accomplishments, and alpha-parenting of our thirties cured our deep longing for permission to slow down and be imperfect...| Brené Brown
I believe that there is a profound difference between shame and guilt. I believe that guilt is adaptive and helpful - it's holding something we've done or failed to do up against our values and feeling psychological discomfort.| Brené Brown