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Each day we face a barrage of images and ideas—from society and the media—telling us who we should be. We are led to believe that if we look perfect, live perfect, and do everything perfectly , we'd no longer struggle with feelings of inadequacy. Ironically, it's the pursuit of perfection... read more
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“People may call what happens at midlife “a crisis,” but it’s not. It’s an unraveling—a time when you feel a desperate pull to live the life you want to live, not the one you’re “supposed” to live.”
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Fitting in is about assessing a situation and becoming who you need to be to be accepted. Belonging, on the other hand, doesn’t require us to change who we are; it requires us to be who we are.
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If we want to fully experience love and belonging, we must believe that we are worthy of love and belonging.
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Until we can receive with an open heart, we are never really giving with an open heart. When we attach judgment to receiving help, we knowingly or unknowingly attach judgment to giving help.
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Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy—the experiences that make us the most vulnerable. Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.
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Ordinary courage is about putting our vulnerability on the line.
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The heart of compassion is really acceptance. The better we are at accepting ourselves and others, the more compassionate we become. Well, it’s difficult to accept people when they are hurting us or taking advantage of us or walking all over us. This research has taught me that if we really want to practice compassion, we have to start by setting boundaries and holding people accountable for their behavior.
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Courage originally meant “To speak one’s mind by telling all one’s heart.”
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“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
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Shame needs three things to grow out of control in our lives: secrecy, silence, and judgment.
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If we want to live and love with our whole hearts, and if we want to engage with the world from a place of worthiness, we have to talk about the things that get in the way—especially shame, fear, and vulnerability.
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Introduction: wholehearted living --
1. Courage, compassion, and connection: the gifts of imperfection --
2. Exploring the power of love, belonging, and being enough --The things that get in the way --
3. Cultivating authenticity: letting go of what people think --
4. Cultivating self-compassion: letting go of perfectionism --
5. Cultivating a resilient spirit: letting go of numbing and powerlessness --
6. Cultivating gratitude and joy: letting go of scarcity and fear of the dark --
7. Cultivating intuition and trusting faith: letting go of the need for certainty --
8. Cultivating creativity: letting go of comparison --
9. Cultivating play and rest: letting go of exhaustion as a status symbol and productivity as self-worth --
10. Cultivating calm and stillness: letting go of anxiety as a lifestyle --
11. Cultivating meaningful work: letting go of self-doubt and supposed to --
12. Cultivating laughter, song, and dance: letting go of being cool and always in control.
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- C. Brené Brown (Author)
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- Library of Congress: BF575.S37 B76 2010
- Dewey: 158
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- TED talks-Brene Brown: There are two TED talks that Brene Brown has done on topics similar to her books.
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