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Living Authentically

I have written often about my love of Brené Brown’s work.  She is a brilliant shame researcher and author who not only helped change my self-attitude and the way I look at shameful situations with her book, but continues to give me things to think about through her blog.  Today’s post moved me more than I can say.  She began her blog post today with this quote from her book: Brené Brown, while an absolutely brilliant woman, is also an honest and real woman.  Her life isn’t perfect; she isn’t perfect, but she admits it and [ ... ]

Deep Breaths

Well, I did the deed.  I changed my goal weight on both my home page and on the Weight Watchers website tracker, and will attempt to change it on my Progress Chart page when I get home tonight.  I know this is a doctor-approved change, so why do I feel like I’m cheating? I think I could be happy at 170, but should I be?  Is it okay to be a woman that is okay with weighing 170? And why do I even care if others think it’s okay or not? Lots of thoughts running around in here today. I’ve written before about my love of [ ... ]

I’m Gratefully Incomplete

I’m a big Alanis Morissette fan.  I remember that when she first came out, she drove me nuts.  I couldn’t stand to listen to her for more than a few moments without wanting to rip my eyes out with whatever may have been handy just to distract myself.  However, my best friend loved her and made me listen to her over and over and over again.  I think I caved and fell in love with her music just out of self-preservation.  She recently came out with a new album that I picked up at the store last weekend.  While I [ ... ]

More on Shame

I reviewed a book yesterday that was written by Brene Brown and that discusses the idea of shame.  I know that not everyone out there is the avid reader that I am, and while I did give a link to her website, I thought I would give you a link to a page on that site that contains video footage of an interview she did for PBS.  In the videos, she discusses topics from her book. Shame Interview with Brene Brown

Shame Resilience

If you’ve read many of my previous posts, then you may have sensed an underlying theme of “fear of embarrassment.”  This underlying theme has plagued me throughout my life.  I try to avoid embarrassment at all costs, but tend to fail miserably.  I am also the kind of person that can remember even slightly embarrassing events that happened many years ago, as if they happened a split second ago.  All of the same pain and emotion that I felt when the event actually occurred floods back into me as though it were happening at that exact moment.  Obviously, I try to not think too much [ ... ]
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