Bren Brown

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.

language does more than just communicate emotion, it can actually shape what we’re feeling

Language speeds and strengthens connections in the brain when we are processing sensory information.

those who are able to distinguish between a range of various emotions “
do much, much better at managing the ups and downs of ordinary existence than those who see everything in black and white.”

Stress, Overwhelm, Anxiety, Worry, Avoidance, Excitement, Dread, Fear, Vulnerability