The Gifts Of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

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Brené is also a visiting professor in management at The University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business. I'm on a few support groups on Facebook and I've done nothing but praise your book and push people within the group to read it. Based on the idea that shame "needs three things to grow out of control in our lives: secrecy, silence, and judgment," she offers a path to building 'shame resilience. If we have a friend, or a small group of friends, or family who embraces our imperfections, vulnerabilities, and power, and fills us with a sense of belonging, we are incredibly lucky.

And I’m also thinking about the younger generation growing up with social media, I think they have it real tough. If we want to fully experience love and belonging, we must believe that we are worthy of love and belonging. I’m looking forward to a new mindset as I tread gently into the new year, anticipating more inner freedom, more acceptance of myself, and knowing the fact that being imperfect doesn't make one less worthy. I had to read this for work, but even without the burden of assigned reading, I would not have liked this book. I mean it's nice to feel closeness - connections - and generally have people like you), but I don't go out of my way thinking about it one way or another.It’s going to bed at night thinking, ‘Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn’t change the truth that I am also brave and worthy of love and belonging. The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are by Brene Brown is a book we all need to read.

What I really appreciate about the way she presents her work is it’s easy to grasp, understand, and applicable to real life. Many of us are willing to extend a helping hand, but we're very reluctant to reach out for help when we need it ourselves.Perfectionism is a self destructive and addictive belief system that fuels this primary thought: If I look perfect, and do everything perfectly, I can avoid or minimize the painful feelings of shame, judgment, and blame. I loved the humor interlacing with facts that makes the information easy to follow, relate, and agreeable. Spirituality is recognizing and celebrating that we are all inextricably connected to each other by a power greater than all of us, and that our connection to that power and to one another is grounded in love and compassion. There is another point where you feel like this is a beautiful woman complaining that her dates all go to long and the guys she meets love her too much and sometimes her chauffeur gets places too quickly. Readers get a feel of reading a memoir rather than just getting pointers to improve and reinvent their own lives.

But, I’m learning that recognizing and leaning into the discomfort of vulnerability teaches us how to live with joy, gratitude and grace.That means if women want to play it totally safe, we have to be willing to stay as small, quiet, and attractive as possible. If we have one or two people in our lives who can sit with us and hold space for our shame stories, and love us for our strengths and struggles, we are incredibly lucky. E.E Cummings wrote, "To be nobody-but-yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody but yourself - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight- and never stop fighting. Everything that I was doing wasn't helping me deter the triggers which caused me to pick my skin and this book has made everything so clear to me.