Summary: A book of three parts:
1) A raw intro from Brené describing her journey growing up in a Texas home where anger was the only acceptable emotion and why the power to name what we feel matters.
2) A glossary of 87 emotions and experiences organized in families such as “Places We Go When Things Are Uncertain or Too Much” or “Places We Go When We Compare”.
3) A grounded theory on true connections and what breaks them (otherwise known as their near enemies).
Takeaways: Brené Brown doesn’t identify as a “self help” author. It’s actually her pet peeve when readers dismiss her social work lens and attempt to jam her storytelling into this fix-me genre. That said, her nuanced research on emotions that are similar yet different–such as envy vs. jealousy or sympathy vs. empathy–is key to understanding the root of our human experience.
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