Brené Brown

The physics of vulnerability is simple: If we are brave enough often enough, we will fall. The author of the #1New York Times bestsellers Daring Greatly and The Gifts of Imperfectiontells us what it takes to get back up, and how owning our stories of disappointment, failure, and heartbreak gives us the power to write a daring new ending. Struggle, Brené Brown writes, can be our greatest call to courage, and rising strong our clearest path to deeper meaning, wisdom, and hope.

Rising Strong

Nandita Joshi 

Once we fall in the service of being brave, we can never go back. We can rise up from our failures, screwups, and falls, but we can never go back to where we stood before we were brave or before we fell. Courage transforms the emotional structure of our being. This change often brings a deep sense of loss. During the process of rising, we sometimes find ourselves homesick for a place that no longer exists. We want to go back to that moment before we walked into the arena, but there's nowhere to go back to. What makes this more difficult is that now we have a new level of awareness about what it means to be brave. We can't fake it anymore. We now know when we're showing up and when we're hiding out, when we are living our values and when we are not. Our new awareness can also be invigorating - it can reignite our sense of purpose and remind us of our commitment to wholeheartedness.

Straddling the tension that lies between wanting to go back to the moment before we risked and fell and being pulled forward to even greater courage is an inescapable part of rising strong.

"The physics of vulnerability is simple: If we are brave enough often enough, we will fall. The author ... tells us what it takes to get back up, and how owning our stories of disappointment, failure, and heartbreak gives us the power to write a daring new ending"--

How the Ability to Reset Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

Elyse 

'Thanks to Brené Brown I learned how to be vulnerable... a life changer' Miranda Hart The physics of vulnerability is simple: If we are brave enough often enough, we will fall. This is a book about what it takes to get back up and how owning our stories of disappointment, failure, and heartbreak gives us the power to write a daring new ending. Struggle can be our greatest call to courage and Rising Strong, our clearest path to deeper meaning, wisdom and hope.

Marcy Pursell 

In the last year or so, I started to hear Brené Brown's name, but still wasn't familiar with her work. The library recently recommended several books about taking it easy, and two of her books were on the list. I listened to the author narrate her book, and found her voice easy to listen to. Her stories and anecdotes throughout the book were relatable, and I appreciated her ideas. I look forward to reading more of her work.

Deepika Ramesh

I am not sure why I approached 'Rising Strong' with expectations. That was out of character for me. Maybe because I saw Brene Brown's name being dropped by Cheryl Strayed and Elizabeth Gilbert quite often, I presumed that I would fall in love with Brown's books too. I could't do well with the boom.

Brown delivered some great lessons. Some life-changing perspectives. But they were all so sporadically offered that I had to wade through her ocean of academic research notes to unearth that one piece of dashing advice. As I read Brown's prosaic anecdotes and mind-numbing data points, the wait became an exercise in patience. I don't hate the book. That feeling is strong. I only wish that it could have been more personal, and the writing could have been warmer. It had a powerful title. It was replete with inspiring quotes and lyrics. But its heart was missing.

Stephanie Rosado

The book it's okay, I expected more after reading Dare greatly. I was expecting more depth and a more personal take on this one.

Sarah Ryan

Another fantastic and fascinating book by Brené Brown - I suspect I will end up reading everything she has written!

Nadine 

Sometimes the right book makes its way to you just in time for when you need it. This is such a book. So much of what she said about judgement, people doing the best they can, setting boundaries, integrity etc. resounded with what is going on and the issues people are facing at the moment.
A borrowed book that I need to buy.

Omar Fernandez

I've become a bit of a sucker for Brene Brown, I love how she defines and breaks down all the fuzziness around spirituality, the need for acceptance, handling guilt and shame, etc. Listening to this audio thing, more like a recording of a workshop, was a magnificent way to reflect on these important topics. 

Yes, Brene Brown has a pretty privileged life and some of her examples may seem like trivial problems compared to other struggles people have, but the insights she shares are powerful and I'm strongly enriched by her sharing these.

From this in particular: 
* Shitty First Drafts: that story you first tell yourself that is really blowing everything out of proportion. Write it down and examine it. 
* Compassion and empathy: the difference and how to improve (and why) at both. 
* Assuming everyone is doing the best they can: why this is not only likely true, but even if it isn't we are better off by believing that it is. 
* Over and under functioning during high anxiety times.

And much more.

Danica Holdaway

I liked this ~almost as much as Daring Greatly, which is very high praise. It needs to stand on the shoulders of Daring Greatly, but not in a bad way. This is the next step of the Daring Greatly process. When you're facedown in the arena - when you've been brave and failed - that's when you need Rising Strong. 

I really love the Reckoning, Rumble, and Revolution. I love how applicable the system is for every possible disappointment, failure, or discomfort in any area of our lives. The "story I'm making up" concept is seriously a game-changer, and I want to tell everyone about it constantly. Great read. Another awesome book by Brene Brown.

Lance Willett

Motivational and insightful, an in-depth companion to Brown's popular TED videos.

Kevin S Perrine

Adam

While Daring Greatly focuses on vulnerability, Rising Strong takes a look at this too, but adds on compassion, curiosity, love, generosity and more as a route to happiness and integrity. A few months out I can't say I remember much about this book verbatim, but my Myers Briggs did change from "Thinking" to "Feeling", so I think it had a bigger impact than I can put into words.

Caitlin Berger

The work Brené Brown has done and is doing regarding vulnerability and shame is indispensable to our society. If you want to be even a half-functioning human, please read her book(s). I cannot overstate how important her work is.

Rising Strong

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