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When Brené Brown shared these words during a live talk at SXSW earlier this year, a lightbulb went off for me.
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I've been immersed in her research on vulnerability, courage, shame, and worthiness since doing training in 2014, but sometimes hearing a concept articulated in a new way leads to a new level of awareness. She may have been referring to people leaving anonymous online comments (and included a curse word), but we all know the feeling of being hurt by someone's words, regardless of context.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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We have a choice when stuff is hurled from what Brené calls the cheap seats (people who don’t know us well and aren’t also showing up in the arena being vulnerable and brave). Yes, hurtful comments will sting initially, but if we are clear about who's opinion matters and who's opinion doesn't matter, we get *very* boundaried with what we let into our hearts and what we don't (hint: your list of who's opinion matters should be very small and only contain people who love and care about you, not in spite of your imperfections, but because of them).⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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✨ #CourageIsContagious ✨ Give yourself permission to see the hurtful stuff, recognize the opinions that don't matter, and keep on going.⠀
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As always, if you have questions or need more support to understand and integrate a concept into your own life, get in touch or find a professional in your area with training in shame resilience. Applying this work in our lives takes practice and it can be helpful to have someone to help work through barriers when they crop up.
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Happy PRIDE MONTH !!!
| @entertainmentweekly | We fully support the LGBT community and want to help raise awareness against the judgement and insensitivity that still exists today which shouldn’t be happening. Pride is standing together. Pride is self expression. Live your life unapologetically and embrace your uniqueness. Pride is freedom to be who you are. Equality is key. Love is love.❤️
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