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Book: Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone
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  1. Brené Brown _ Braving the Wilderness: The

    I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain. -JAMES A. BALDWIN
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  2. Brené Brown _ Braving the Wilderness: The

    Cassandra Dahnke and Tomas Spath, write: Civility is claiming and caring for one's identity, needs, and beliefs without degrading someone else's in the process….{Civility} is about disagreeing without disrespect, seeking common ground as a starting point for dialogue about differences, listening past one's preconceptions, and teaching others to do the same. Civility is the hard work of staying present even with those with whom we have deep-rooted and fierce disagreements. It is political in the sense that it is a necessary prerequisite for civic action. But it is political, too, in the sense that it is about negotiating interpersonal power such that everyone's voice is heard, and nobody's is ignored.
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  3. Brené Brown _ Braving the Wilderness: The

    I've come to the conclusion that the way we engage with social media is like fire-you can use them to keep yourself warm and nourished, or you can burn down the barn. It all depends on your intentions, expectations, and reality-checking skills.
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  4. Brené Brown _ Braving the Wilderness: The

    Quoting Viola Davis {who is sharing rules she lives by}: '4. I will not be a mystery to my daughter. She will know me and I will share my stories with her-the stories of failure, shame, and accomplishment. She will know she's not alone in that wilderness.
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  5. Brené Brown _ Braving the Wilderness: The

    A wild heart is not something you can always see -- and yet it is our greatest spiritual possession.
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  6. Brené Brown _ Braving the Wilderness: The

    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.
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  7. Brené Brown _ Braving the Wilderness: The

    According to Bishop, the author of The Big Sort, in 1976 less than 25% of Americans lived in places where the presidential election was a landslide. In other words, we lived next door to and attended school and worshiped with people who held different beliefs than ours. We were ideologically diverse. In contrast, in 2016, 80% of U.S. counties gave either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton a landslide victory. Most of us no longer even live near people who are all that different from us in terms of political and social beliefs.
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  8. Brené Brown _ Braving the Wilderness: The

    • Belonging is being somewhere where you want to be, and they want you. Fitting in is being somewhere where you want to be, but they don't care one way or the other. • Belonging is being accepted for you. Fitting in is being accepted for being like everyone else. • If I get to be me, I belong. If I have to be like you, I fit in.
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  9. Brené Brown _ Braving the Wilderness: The

    We want to be part of something, but we need it to be real - not conditional or fake or constantly up for negotiation.
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  10. Brené Brown _ Braving the Wilderness: The

    Common enemy intimacy is counterfeit connection and the opposite of true belonging. If the bond we share with others is simply that we hate the same people, the intimacy we experience is often intense, immediately gratifying, and an easy way to discharge outrage and pain. It is not, however, fuel for real connection. It's fuel that runs hot, burns fast, and leaves a trail of polluted emotion. And if we live with any level of self-awareness, it's also the kind of intimacy that can leave us with the intense regrets of an integrity hangover. Did I really participate in that? Is that moving us forward? Am I engaging in, quite literally, the exact same behavior that I find loathsome in others?
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  11. Brené Brown _ Braving the Wilderness: The

    I believe Black Lives Matter is a movement to rehumanize black citizens. All lives matter, but not all lives need to be pulled back into moral inclusion. Not all people were subjected to the psychological process of demonizing and being made less than human so we could justify the inhumane practice of slavery.
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  12. Brené Brown _ Braving the Wilderness: The

    When we hear people referred to as animals or aliens, we should immediately wonder, "Is this an attempt to reduce someone's humanity so we can get away with hurting them or denying them basic human rights?
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