Brené Brown - Worthiness

The Courage to be Vulnerable – the founder of Sounds True, Tami Simon interviews Brené Brown, PhD on vulnerability and worthiness.

Men, Women, and Worthiness, Published November 15th, 2012
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About Brené Brown
Brené Brown, PhD, LMSW is a research professor at the University of Houston’s Graduate College of Social Work who has spent the past 10 years studying vulnerability, courage, authenticity, and shame. She is a nationally renowned speaker and has won numerous teaching awards, including the college’s Outstanding Faculty Award. Her groundbreaking work has been featured on PBS, NPR, and CNN. Her 2010 TEDxHouston talk on the power of vulnerability is one of most watched talks on TED.com. Her most recent TED talk, “Listening to Shame,” was released in March 2012.

Brené is the author of The Gifts of Imperfection and I Thought It Was Just Me (but it isn’t). She is also the author of Connections, a psychoeducational shame resilience curriculum that is being facilitated across the nation by mental health and addiction professionals. Brené’s current research focuses on wholeheartedness in families, schools, and organizations. She lives in Houston with her husband and their two young children.

About Men, Women, & Worthiness
What does it take to be secure in our sense of belonging and self-worth? We may hustle to attain this security through achievements, meeting expectations, or repeating affirmations to ourselves—but Dr. Brené Brown's research has shown there is ultimately one obstacle to our sense of worthiness. “Shame is the barrier,” she teaches, “and building shame resilience is how we overcome it.” With Men, Women, and Worthiness, Dr. Brown draws upon more than 12 years of investigation to reveal how we can disarm the influence of shame to cultivate a life of greater courage, joy, and love.

Sounds True was founded in 1985 by Tami Simon with a clear mission: to disseminate spiritual wisdom. Since starting out as a project with one woman and her tape recorder, we have grown into a multimedia publishing company with more than 80 employees, a library of more than 1500 titles featuring some of the leading teachers and visionaries of our time, and an ever-expanding family of customers from across the world. In more than three decades of growth, change, and evolution, Sounds True has maintained its focus on its overriding purpose, as summed up in our Mission Statement.

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[bethrand]

I’m so glad I live in the era where Brene Brown exists.

[VRJensen]

"...the entire idea of Whole Heartedness is about Engaging with the world from a place of Worthiness."
This is Powerful!
What I need to work on is feeling worthy of love and belonging, aka Loving myself.
Thanks Brene You're Awesome!

[izawaniek]

No matter how much is done, I am worthy and I am enough. Thank you Brene.

[gabriellaarango]

Brene thank you for taking up the work you have done on such important issues as “ not being enough “ I listen to you and it has been life changing because I have been able to connect the dots and make sense of many issues in my life, ,,my mother was a perfectionist, striving to do things right is OK, , but when it turns into no matter how well you do is not good enough is hell. And the template in many of my most important relationships has been marked by this battle to prove I am Enough and I deserveto be loved as I I know better now and I can say I have been able to unload a lot of baggage it feels great to now, , to live My life feeling and saying I am not perfect and I am good enough, ,
Thank you again

[azucarmorena]

sometimes people around you, friends, family, coworkers reinforce that you are worth-less. 

[worldlyamNOT]

Media and advertising tells us that we are NOT enough. But with such and such product or hairstyle or $30 thing we can be perfect. We have to consciously reject those messages as they come in and see them for what they are.

[ChrisMontoya]

This is a simple, powerful, profound idea, and it's counter to the greater cultural conversation. Real friends don't reinforce your worthlessness, but support your brilliance. Haters hate because they feel jaded, cynical, and deeply unworthy. Deep within, the aspect of ourselves that references our physical existence into this reality tells us we are enough. It's the ego, survival mechanism that tells us to be less than brilliant, enough and curious. Education doesn't reinforce this. Media doesn't reinforce this. Pharma/Medicine doesn't really promote this. Sexual media doesn't promote this. The work of Brene is powerful because someone is addressing research and findings on worthiness and worthlessness. It's my dream to have people around the world know they are enough and to change their lives to create a vital legacy that matters to themselves, and overcomes the external noise of culture, haters and celebrities that get paid large amounts of money to reinforce self-loathing. #contribution #worthiness #brenebrown

[lynnrussell]

There is much more to be shared here, wish it were here... Lame, this ...

[anja]

Are cheaters, abandoners, rude/mean, ghosted worthy? No.