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A review by cydneydaniel
Braving the Wilderness by Brené Brown
4.0
What a good book to end 2018 on! I didn’t agree with everything in this book, and that’s okay. But the things that did resonate with me feel very real and important and I am excited to try them out in my everyday. I had already made “be more intentional” one of my New Years resolutions, and this book really solidified that idea in my mind. I hope to be more intentional in my conversations and relationships to have genuine, real connections.
Here are some quotes I wrote down as I listened to this book:
[Regarding the divide the current social/political climate has created in our world]: “We’ve turned away from one another and toward blame and rage. We’re lonely, untethered, and scared. So damn scared. Rather than coming together and sharing our experiences...... through song & story, we’re screaming at each other from further & further away. Instead of dancing & praying together, we’re running away from one another.”
[There is so much TRUTH here. We all just want to BELONG, but we’re pushing each other away &staying in our echo chambers.]
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“Not enough of us know how to sit in pain with others. Worse, our discomfort shows up in ways that can hurt them and reinforce their own isolation. I’ve started to believe that crying with strangers in person could change the world”
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“An experience of collective pain does not deliver us from grief or sadness. It is a ministry of presence. These moments remind us that we are not alone in our darkness, and our broken heart is connected to every heart that has known pain since the beginning of time.”
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“When you are grateful for what you have, you understand pain. The more we diminish our own pain or rank it compared to what others have survived, the less empathic we are to everyone.”
Here are some quotes I wrote down as I listened to this book:
[Regarding the divide the current social/political climate has created in our world]: “We’ve turned away from one another and toward blame and rage. We’re lonely, untethered, and scared. So damn scared. Rather than coming together and sharing our experiences...... through song & story, we’re screaming at each other from further & further away. Instead of dancing & praying together, we’re running away from one another.”
[There is so much TRUTH here. We all just want to BELONG, but we’re pushing each other away &staying in our echo chambers.]
•
“Not enough of us know how to sit in pain with others. Worse, our discomfort shows up in ways that can hurt them and reinforce their own isolation. I’ve started to believe that crying with strangers in person could change the world”
•
“An experience of collective pain does not deliver us from grief or sadness. It is a ministry of presence. These moments remind us that we are not alone in our darkness, and our broken heart is connected to every heart that has known pain since the beginning of time.”
•
“When you are grateful for what you have, you understand pain. The more we diminish our own pain or rank it compared to what others have survived, the less empathic we are to everyone.”