In a powerful new vision Brené Brown challenges everything we think we know about vulnerability, and dispels the widely accepted myth that it's a weakness. Most of us try to fight those feelings - we strive to appear perfect.

**Now on Netflix as The Call to Courage**Įvery time we are introduced to someone new, try to be creative, or start a difficult conversation, we take a risk.

In actual fact, her husband was fighting off a panic attack – something that had nothing at all to do with her.The sensational US bestseller that teaches us how to embrace vulnerability For Brown, her husband was so revolted my her he didn’t even want to converse in the water. Words like “ugly”, “fat” and “disgusting” appear in our minds, justifying why bad things happen to us. “Or, you looked over at me and thought ‘Jeez man, she does not rock a speedo like she does two decade and two kids ago’.”įor a lot of women, the story they tell themselves revolves around body image. “Either you looked over at me while we were swimming and thought, ‘God… where’s the girl I married 25 years ago? You’re old and you don’t even know how to swim anymore’. “The story I’m making up right now is one of two things just happened,” she told him. Going back to her husband, she took a different approach to their impending fight.

I’m a fraud, and despite all my achievements, it’s only a matter of time before I get ‘found out’.

My relationships don’t work because I’m fundamentally unlovable.

“It’s just: ‘the story I’m telling myself’.” It began with five key words and she noticed it reappearing among her most resilient research participants. It’s what she refers to as her “magic sentence”. “I keep thinking about this sentence that’s been in my research for 15 years,” she told her audience. Brown also regularly consults and shares her knowledge with a vast array of people, from world class CEOs, military servicemen and the families of shooting victims. She’s spent her career studying shame, vulnerability, courage, and empathy and in 2014, she gave one of the most viewed TED Talks of all time, titled ‘The Power of Vulnerability’.

In that moment, Brown’s mind went back to her data. “I don’t want to do this with you,” he said. She asked him why he was “blowing her off”. What followed was a scenario most couples will be familiar with.įuelled with “nothing but rage and fury” (her words) she swam back to the dock where she reinitiated their fight. And he looks at me, and goes ‘water’s good’ and he keeps swimming.”

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