Brene Brown: The power of vulnerability
“We numb vulnerability. We are the most in debt, obese, addicted, and medicated adult cohort in US history.”
“The problem is, you cannot selectively numb emotion. You can’t say here’s the bad stuff, here’s vulnerability, here’s grief, here’s shame, here’s fear, here’s disappointment; I don’t want to feel these. I’m going to have a couple of beers and a banana nut muffin. You can’t numb those hard feelings without numbing the other affects or emotions. When we numb those, we numb joy, we numb gratitude, we numb happiness, and then we are miserable…” “Blame is a way to discharge pain and discomfort” (Brené Brown)
