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David Baxter PhD

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November 13, 2010



Dr. Bren? Brown is a research professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work. She has spent the past ten years studying vulnerability, courage, authenticity, and shame. Bren? spent the first five years of her decade-long study focusing on shame and empathy, and is now using that work to explore a concept that she calls Wholeheartedness. She poses the questions:

How do we learn to embrace our vulnerabilities and imperfections so that we can engage in our lives from a place of authenticity and worthiness? How do we cultivate the courage, compassion, and connection that we need to recognize that we are enough ? that we are worthy of love, belonging, and joy?

Bren? is a nationally renown speaker and has won numerous teaching awards, including the College?s Outstanding Faculty Award. Her work has been featured on PBS, NPR, CNN, and was the topic of two 2010 TEDx talks (Houston and Kansas City).

Bren? is the author of The Gifts of Imperfection: Letting Go of Who We Think We Should Be and Embracing Who We Are (Hazelden, 2010) and I Thought It Was Just Me (but it isn?t): Telling the Truth About Perfectionism, Inadequacy, and Power (Penguin/Gotham, 2007). Her next book, Wholehearted: Spiritual Adventures in Falling Apart, Growing Up, and Finding Joy will be released in 2011. She is also the author of Connections, a psychoeducational shame resilience curriculum that is being facilitated across the nation by mental health and addiction professionals.
 
the only thing i disagree with is she says one cannot be compassionate to others without being that way to yourself
One can be compassionate and care for others even more so because one knows deep inside that that is what people need
people just want to be seen and heard and respected.
One does not have to be compassionate to themselves to give compassion
i have seen the most caring and compassionate people that are struggling so much with loving themselves but they are able to give so much to others.
does that not make sense the lack of something they so much want themselves they are able to give because they are able to see better
 
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