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#HardtobeBrave
23 July 2013
Allison read Brené Brown’s Facebook post yesterday and appreciated the acknowledgment that wholeheartedness requires a whole lot of courage.
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Brené Brown’s 2010 TEDx Houston talk, “The Power of Vulnerability,” has had over 10 million views. I first watched it in April 2011 and blogged about her inspiring (and hilarious) message as soon as the 21 minute video finished. Here’s an excerpt from my post:
“There was only one variable that separated these ‘whole-hearted’ people from the others. They believed they were worthy of love and belonging and they all had the following in common:
- courage to be imperfect;
- compassion to be kind to themselves first and then others;
- powerful connections as a result of authenticity; and
- an ability to fully embrace their vulnerability and a belief that what made them vulnerable made them beautiful.
No matter how much Brown wanted to believe that life could be controlled and predicted, her research was now showing her that the path to whole-heartedness required embracing the mess of life and being okay with it.”
Image From Brené Brown’s Facebook Page Cover Photo
Whole-heartedness sounds pretty great doesn’t it? One of the things that I most appreciate about Brown is that she never underestimates how hard it can be to try to have the courage to live this way. Her Facebook post yesterday poignantly summed up one of the most difficult aspects of this whole-hearted living:
“The greatest vulnerability challenge: Our capacity for wholeheartedness = our willingness to be brokenhearted. There are days when I think I should have called the book Daring Greatly Dammit. #HardtobeBrave”
Yup. What she said.
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