Brené Brown
I believe a joyful life is made up of joyful moments, gracefully strung together by trust, gratitude, inspiration, and faith.Collection: Gratitude
Connection gives purpose and meaning to our lives.Collection: Inspirational Life
Caring about the welfare of children and shaming parents are mutually exclusive endeavors.Collection: Children
In a highly critical, scarcity-based world, everyone's afraid to fail.Collection: Scarcity
Vulnerability is the cornerstone of confidence.Collection: Cornerstones
[I] never talk about gratitude and joy separately, for this reason. In 12 years, I've never interviewed a single person who would describe their lives as joyful, who would describe themselves as joyous, who was not actively practicing gratitude.Collection: Gratitude
Vulnerability is not weakness, and the uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure we face every day are not optional. Our only choice is a question of engagement. Our willingness to own and engage with our vulnerability determines the depth of our courage and the clarity of our purpose; the level to which we protect ourselves from being vulnerable is a measure of our fear and disconnection.Collection: Emotional
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 vulnerabilityCollection: Heart
The one thing that keeps us out of connection is our fear that we're not worthy of connection.Collection: Connections
I've found what makes children happy doesn't always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults.Collection: Children
There is no creativity without vulnerability.Collection: Creativity
One of the most painfully inauthentic ways we show up in our lives sometimes is saying "yes" when we mean "no," and saying "no" when we mean "hell yes." I'm the oldest of four, a people-pleaser - that's the good girl straitjacket that I wear sometimes. I spent a lot of my life saying yes all the time and then being pissed off and resentful.Collection: Girl
Why, when we know that there's no such thing as perfect, do most of us spend an incredible amount of time and energy trying to be everything to everyone? Is it that we really admire perfection? No - the truth is that we are actually drawn to people who are real and down-to-earth. We love authenticity and we know that life is messy and imperfect.Collection: Real
Wholeheartedness. There are many tenets of Wholeheartedness, but at its very core is vulnerability and worthiness; facing uncertainty, exposure, and emotional risks, and knowing that I am enough.Collection: Emotional
Empathy is the antidote to shame.Collection: Empathy
We need to change what we say and what we allow to be said in front of us.Collection: Needs
Ads sell a great deal more than products. They sell values, images, and concepts of success and worth.Collection: Deals
The only unique contribution that we will ever make in this world will be born of our creativity.Collection: Creativity
When we lose our tolerance for vulnerability, joy becomes foreboding.Collection: Joy
Vulnerability pushed, I pushed back. I lost the fight, but probably won my life back.Collection: Motivation
The truth is, rarely can a response make something better - what makes something better is connection.Collection: Connections
The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It's our fear of the dark that casts our joy into the shadows.Collection: Dark
We can’t practice compassion with other people if we can’t treat ourselves kindly.Collection: Compassion
If we can’t stand up to the never good enough and who do you think you are? we can’t move forward.Collection: Moving
Hope is not an emotion; it's a way of thinking or a cognitive process.Collection: Thinking
Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.... Vulnerability is the birthplace of connection and the path to the feeling of worthiness. If it doesn't feel vulnerable, the sharing is probably not constructive.Collection: Feelings
Do you light up when your kids are coming in the room or do you become the instant critic?Collection: Kids
Who we are and how we engage with the world are much stronger predictors of how our children will do than what we know about parenting.Collection: Children
Here's what is truly at the heart of wholeheartedness: Worthy now, not if, not when, we're worthy of love and belonging now. Right this minute. As is.Collection: Inspiring
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.Collection: Eye
I'm never more courageous than when I'm embracing imperfection, embracing vulnerabilities, and setting boundaries with the people in my life.Collection: People
Courage - To tell the story of who you are with your whole heart.Collection: Heart
There is no such thing as creative and non-creative people, only people who use their creativity and people who don't.Collection: Creativity
Connection, the ability to feel connected, is neurobiologically wired, that’s why we’re here!Collection: Connections
Nostalgia is also a dangerous form of comparison. Think about how often we compare our lives to a memory that nostalgia has so completely edited that it never really existed.Collection: Life
What we know matters, but who we are matters more. Being rather than knowing requires showing up and letting ourselves be seen. It requires us to dare greatly, to be vulnerable.Collection: Knowing
We're a nation of exhausted and over-stressed adults raising over-scheduled children.Collection: Children
If you own this story you get to write the ending.Collection: Writing
Empathy fuels connection; sympathy drives disconnection.Collection: Empathy
Staying vulnerable is a risk we have to take if we want to experience connection.Collection: Risk
Nothing is as uncomfortable, dangerous and hurtful as believing that I'm standing on the outside of my life looking in and wondering what it would be like if I had the courage to show up and let myself be seen.Collection: Believe
Even to me the issue of "stay small, sweet, quiet, and modest" sounds like an outdated problem, but the truth is that women still run into those demands whenever we find and use our voices.Collection: Inspirational
Joy comes to us in moments--ordina ry moments. We risk missing out on joy when we get too busy chasing down the extraordinary.Collection: Joy
Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage.Collection: Sound
Vulnerability is not knowing victory or defeat, it’s understanding the necessity of both; it’s engaging. It’s being all in.Collection: Knowing
hat whole phrase, "daring greatly," is from the Theodore Roosevelt quote that goes back to your original question of, what about the critics? And when I read his quote it was life-changing. "It's not the critic who counts; it's not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done the better.Collection: Strong
If you're also in the arena and you're putting your ideas out and you're owning them and you're saying "I disagree with you about this and that, I think you've got this wrong" - then not only do I invite that, I freaking love that. I love that. I'm an academic. I'm hardwired for a good debate.Collection: Thinking
If we are going to find our way out of shame and back to each other, vulnerability is the path and courage is the light. To set down those lists of *what we're supposed to be* is brave. To love ourselves and support each other in the process of becoming real is perhaps the greatest single act of daring greatly.Collection: Real
The real questions for parents should be: "Are you engaged? Are you paying attention?" If so, plan to make lots of mistakes and bad decisions. Imperfect parenting moments turn into gifts as our children watch us try to figure out what went wrong and how we can do better next time. The mandate is not to be perfect and raise happy children. Perfection doesn't exist, and I've found what makes children happy doesn't always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults.Collection: Children