If you put shame in a petri dish, it needs three ingredients to grow exponentially: secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you put the same amount of shame in the petri dish and douse it with empathy, it can't survive.
Brené BrownVulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness.
Brené BrownI am a storyteller and a researcher, and I'm sorry the world has a hard time straddling the tension of those two things, but that's who I am.
Brené Brown