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“I'm slowing learning how to straddles the tension that comes with understanding I am tough and tender, brave and afraid, strong and struggling-all of these things, all of he time. I'm working on letting go of having to be one or the other and embracing the wholeness of wholeheartedness.”
― Brene Brown, Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution

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“Choosing to be curious is choosing to be vulnerable because it requires us to surrender to uncertainty.”
― Brené Brown, Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution.

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“When we deny our stories and disengage from tough emotions, they don’t go away; instead, they own us, they define us.”
― Brené Brown, Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution.

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“It’s always helpful to remember that when perfectionism is driving, shame is riding shotgun.”
― Brené Brown, Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution.

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“In the absence of data, we will always make up stories. In fact, the need to make up a story, especially when we are hurt, is part of our most primitive survival wiring. Mean making is in our biology, and our default is often to come up with a story that makes sense, feels familiar, and offers us insight into how best to self-protect.”
― Brene Brown, Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution

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