Rising Strong: A Guide to Personal Growth and Resilience
The book explores how we grow from failure, embrace vulnerability, and build resilience. Through The Reckoning, The Rumble, and The Revolution, Brown teaches how to confront emotions, challenge our stories, and rise stronger.
The book explores how we grow from failure, embrace vulnerability, and build resilience. Through The Reckoning, The Rumble, and The Revolution, Brown teaches how to confront emotions, challenge our stories, and rise stronger.
Rising Strong is a gold mine for anyone committed to real, lasting personal growth.
Brené Brown's honesty and self-examination are both refreshing and challenging. She doesn't just talk about vulnerability—she lives it on the page, using her own experiences as a case study. Her insights feel personal and accessible, not just theoretical.
One of the book's most valuable lessons is how we rise after failure. Brown presents a three-phase process called The Reckoning, The Rumble, and The Revolution, which helps individuals confront their emotions, challenge their personal narratives, and emerge with greater self-awareness and strength. Setbacks are inevitable, but growth comes from how we engage with them
Facing Discomfort
A passage that truly struck me reads:
'My rumbles with shame, judgment, privilege, connection, need, fear, and self-worth taught me that it wasn't the pain or the hurt that made me look away. It was my own need. Act 2 is all about trying to find a comfortable way to solve the problem until those options are exhausted and you have to walk straight into discomfort, the lowest of the low. Helping and giving are comfortable for me. I wanted to solve this issue by doing more of what I already do.'
Reading those words, I recognised myself. When faced with emotional pain or discomfort, my instinct is often to double down on what feels familiar—helping others, working harder, or distracting myself—rather than confronting what truly needs to be faced. Brené's willingness to walk into discomfort and name it clearly is both brave and instructive.
This is where Rising Strong excels. Real transformation begins not when we avoid pain, but when we choose to face it head-on. Most of us try to solve our problems by repeating patterns that don't work, just to avoid the raw, uncomfortable space of self-examination.
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Rising Strong: A Guide to Personal Growth and Resilience
The book explores how we grow from failure, embrace vulnerability, and build resilience. Through The Reckoning, The Rumble, and The Revolution, Brown teaches how to confront emotions, challenge our stories, and rise stronger. The book explores how we grow from failure, embrace vulnerability, and build resilience. Through The Reckoning, The Rumble, and The Revolution, Brown teaches how to confront emotions, challenge our stories, and rise stronger. Rising Strong is a gold mine for anyone committed to real, lasting personal growth. Brené Brown's honesty and self-examination are both refreshing and challenging. She doesn't just talk about vulnerability—she lives it on the page, using her own experiences as a case study. Her insights feel personal and accessible, not just theoretical. One of the book's most valuable lessons is how we rise after failure. Brown presents a three-phase process called The Reckoning, The Rumble, and The Revolution, which helps individuals confront their emotions, challenge their personal narratives, and emerge with greater self-awareness and strength. Setbacks are inevitable, but growth comes from how we engage with them Facing Discomfort A passage that truly struck me reads: 'My rumbles with shame, judgment, privilege, connection, need, fear, and self-worth taught me that it wasn't the pain or the hurt that made me look away. It was my own need. Act 2 is all about trying to find a comfortable way to solve the problem until those options are exhausted and you have to walk straight into discomfort, the lowest of the low. Helping and giving are comfortable for me. I wanted to solve this issue by doing more of what I already do.' Reading those words, I recognised myself. When faced with emotional pain or discomfort, my instinct is often to double down on what feels familiar—helping others, working harder, or distracting myself—rather than confronting what truly needs to be faced. Brené's willingness to walk into discomfort and name it clearly is both brave and instructive. This is where Rising Strong excels. Real transformation begins not when we avoid pain, but when we choose to face it head-on. Most of us try to solve our problems by repeating patterns that don't work, just to avoid the raw, uncomfortable space of self-examination.
