Contact
Privacy
Book: The Power of Vulnerability: Teachings of Authenticity, Connections and Courage
Quotes of Book: The Power of Vulnerability:
TOP TAGS :spacereliableconspiracypsychiatristsvampireitalianolsdbook-quotes

  1. Brené Brown _ The Power of Vulnerability:

    When we lose our tolerance for vulnerability, joy becomes foreboding.
    book-quote

  2. Brené Brown _ The Power of Vulnerability:

    You can't numb those hard feelings without numbing the other affects, our emotions. You cannot selectively numb. So when we numb those, we numb joy, we numb gratitude, we numb happiness. And then we are miserable, and we are looking for purpose and meaning, and then we feel vulnerable, so then we have a couple of beers and a banana nut muffin. And it becomes this dangerous cycle.
    book-quote

  3. Brené Brown _ The Power of Vulnerability:

    Oversharing? Not vulnerability; I call it floodlighting. ... A lot of times we share too much information as a way to protect us from vulnerability, and here's why. I'm scared to let you know that I just wrote this article and I'm under total fire for it and people are making fun of me and I'm feeling hurt -- the same thing that I told someone in an intimate conversation. So what I do is I floodlight you with it - I don't know you very well or I'm in front of a big group, or it's a story that I haven't processed enough to be sharing with other people - and you immediately respond "hands up; push me away" and I go, "See? No one cares about me. No one gives a s*** that I'm hurting. I knew it." It's how we protect ourselves from vulnerability. We just engage in a behavior that confirms our fear.
    book-quotevulnerabilityfloodlightingoversharing

  4. Brené Brown _ The Power of Vulnerability:

    How much we know ourselves is extremely important but how we treat ourselves is the most important.
    book-quote

  5. Brené Brown _ The Power of Vulnerability:

    No one reaches out to you for compassion or empathy so you can teach them how to behave better. They reach out to us because they believe in our capacity to know our darkness well enough to sit in the dark with them.
    book-quotevulnerabilityempathy
Categories