023 Daring Greatly by Brené Brown

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Who knew that some of the most personally transformative non-fiction of our time would come from a shame researcher? And yet, here we are, crying over Brené Brown’s Daring Greatly as she covers the walls we put in place to protect ourselves from vulnerability, the dominant shame messages we receive based on gender scripts, and the terrifying but essential tools we need to knock them all down.

Mentioned in the episode:

• Brené Brown’s previous works

• The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery

• What is the proper plural of Octopus?

• Brené Brown Netflix Special: The Call to Courage

• Scary Close by Donald Miller

• This Is Your Brain on Birth Control by Sarah E Hill, PhD

• Hilary McBride

• Theodore Roosevelt’s “Man In the Arena” speech

• Guilt vs Shame

• “Men are afraid women will laugh at them; women are afraid men will kill them.”

• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

• Is self care becoming a burden? (NPR article)

Recommendations:

• Shame episode by The Liturgists podcast

• The Mask You Live In documentary

• Shameless by Nadia Bolz-Weber

• This by Michael Gungor

• Scary Close by Donald Miller

• Mothers, Daughters & Body Image By Hilary McBride

Next Week:

• The Most Beautiful Thing I’ve Seen by Lisa Gungor