Bren Brown

emotions are responding to my “thinking” assessment of how well I can handle something.

chronic exposure to stressors can be detrimental to health.

chronic exposure to stressors can be detrimental to health.

rapid aging, decreased immune function, greater inflammatory processes, less sleep, and poorer health behaviors.

with an adventurous heart and the right maps, we can travel anywhere and never fear losing ourselves. Even when we don’t know where we are.

Avoidance will make you feel less vulnerable in the short run, but it will never make you less afraid

What surprised me the most when I was growing up was how little other people seemed to understand or even think about the connection between feelings, thinking, and behavior.

Ludwig Wittgenstein that I came across in college: “
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.”

What does it mean if the vastness of human emotion and experience can only be expressed as mad, sad, or happy?

when we are unable to articulate our emotions. We feel hopeless or we feel a destructive level of anger.