Daring Greatly

from porch_reader

I loved Brene Brown's previous book, The Gifts of Imperfection. In it (and in her highly popular TED talks), she describes how her research on shame and vulnerability has helped her understand that embracing vulnerability can be the key to wholehearted living. To achieve this goal, you have to cu...

from JenBurge

Rarely do I give a book 5 stars, but for me, this book was nothing less than transformative. Brene Brown comes across as a regular, flawed person who has found her way out of the dark with a great deal of effort. For her to be able to deliver this information on how she did it and we can too in a...

from trisarahdactyl

In this book, Brené Brown speaks on the importance of vulnerability in our everyday lives. I was certainly expecting the book to be interesting, but I wasn't expecting to be blown away in the way that I was. If I could recommend that everybody read this book, I would. It's an engaging read that m...

from ms_rowse

I started reading this book during the summer of 2015, at the suggestion of my therapist. Then school started, and then I started to get better (I like the imagery a friend of mine recently shared: my depression went into remission), so finishing this book wasn't a priority. I'm kind of glad I d...

from keylawk

After engaging for over ten years in scientific research on the topics of shame, vulnerability, and courage, the faculty and UT multimedia figure Brene Brown, is regarded as an expert. Fred Smoot assigned her books as texts for discussion among the chaplains during clinical training. Brown unfol...