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I usually try to power through them, but sometimes I just give up and don't read for a while.

I need to pick up the tagged book and get it finished. 🙄😏

1. I'm feeling well mentally, but I still have severe chronic knee pain, despite visits to 2 orthopedic doctors and bilateral knee replacement surgery 2.5 years ago.

2. I walk 2.5 miles twice a day

3. How to maintain a positive outlook. Sorry if you've already covered that. I'm new to your posts on mental health.

@Kerrbearlib #mentalhealthmonday

This is a follow up to Daring Greatly, and I loved this as much as the first. Some great analysis that continues the Daring Greatly conversation. Definitely some information I will circle back to in my hard copy and use toward my personal and professional growth.

Current BART #audiobook, and this month's #BookSpin. I loved Rising Strong as a Spiritual Practice and have enjoyed other works by Brené Brown, and this read feels well-timed to a new season of my life. #BARTandbook #audiocommute #BookSpinBingo #Pointsathon #Scarathlon #TeamMonsterMash @StayCurious @TheAromaofBooks @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES

#Audiowalk full of bees and flowers 😍 It's been an intense season of life, and now it's time for some serious self-care. Listening to this book while going for walks is one part of my self-care plan!

If we are brave enough often enough, we will fall; this is the physics of vulnerability.

This is a really good book. It gives some helpful tools to help with every day life situations. This book will not solve all of your life‘s problems but it gives some good advice.

#WinterGames2021 #MistletoeManiacs #Challenge2021 #DashingDecember #ChristmasMyWay

So much that I want to take away from this one. It‘s a definite re-read & I‘ll be adding it to my owned books so that I can make notations etc…

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I didn‘t even remember putting this book on hold at the library and it arrive just as I needed it. I was struggling to understanding where a loved one was coming from. Listening helped me understand that control can also be an anxiety response. In addition to that so many great nuggets for my own personal growth, like the stories we all tell ourselves and how they should be our first drafts. Brilliant! Super short audio book and worth it.

Morning light on the patio with a reread of Rising Strong. It feels good to rumble with my story in such a lovely, peaceful setting. ♥️ Thinking of you, @LauraBeth

Thanks @RamsFan1963 for the tag!
1. “Tubthumper” for the tagged book.
2. Bookmarks I guess
3. Either unless the teen angst is unbearable.
#wondrouswednesday @Eggs

Engaging, thoughtful read. The examples of struggles are pretty tame, and Brown alludes to a difficult childhood which she doesn‘t actually talk about. (Which is a bit odd considering the foundation of her work is vulnerability.) BUT it doesn‘t make her overarching points less true. Def gave me a lot to think about.

In the middle of Rising Strong, and man this book is reading ME.

Fantastic read.

Every time I say yes to something, it‘s a no to something else

This was a great read about getting in the arena and learning to rumble. It really helps with perspective and reframing.

📖 Rising Strong & Ready Player One
💻 Rebecca Roanhorse, Penny Reid & Rainbow Rowell
📺 Romeo+Juliet, Raiders of the Lost Arc & Rear Window
🎼 REM, Radiohead & The Raconteurs
🎧 Radio Ga Ga
#manicmonday #letterR

Evening reading.

I love Brené with my whole entire heart, but she has written so much that I‘ve read in such a short amount of time and it‘s become really repetitive. So much so, I double checked my goodreads TWICE while reading this book that I hadn‘t already read this. However, her persistent narrative on vulnerability and bravery always finds a way to teach me something new, whether it‘s something about myself

#Privilege #QuotsyNov19 @TK-421

I really do enjoy her books and this one did not disappoint. 🤓

Great listen

I do want to read this

#strength

#soulseptember

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#audiobook
#cloudlibrary
#nonfiction2019

#audiobook
#nonfiction2019
#cloudlibrary

Spirituality....

Snuggled up in bed reading with the sweetest kitty in the world, my Ladybug.
Ladybug was recently hit by a car in our court and had to have surgery to remove the femoral head of her leg bone (femur) after it was dislocated from the accident. She is recovering very well. Being only 2 years old and having had major surgery 18 months previous to this on her ear drum, I think this kitty is showing us exactly what rising strong looks like.

"And today I proudly call myself a researcher- storyteller because I believe the most useful knowledge about human behavior is based on people's lived experiences."

Four of my 5-star reads in 2019 are by author‘s telling stories from their own life. Although Rising Strong is not technically a memoir it is filled with meaningful life lessons from Brene Brown‘s personal experience with her own family. If only I could go back in time to apply her advice and preface my conflicts with, “The story I‘m telling myself”.

Day17 of #JazzyJune with #MeaningfulMemoir @Eggs

After first seeing her on Netflix recently, I reserved a couple of Brene Browns books at the library, and they've come in!
Having a squiz while the kids swim today...

I've just finished The Handmaid's Tale this morning so feeling a little lost and empty, I hope this fills the gap :)

Finished Rising Strong today. First I‘ve read by Brené Brown. Found a lot of gems and inspiration. I would be interested in reading more of her work. Overlapped a lot with the class on Conflict Resolution I‘m taking right now.
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Excited to get back into some fiction though!

I was so into this book and had to put it down in order to focus on work readings and other readings but I am so excited to dive back in while drinking some wine 🍷 😀 📖 🐶

“I now recognize that people learn how to treat us based on how they see us treating ourselves. If I don‘t put value on my work or my time, neither will the person I am helping. Boundaries are a function of self-respect and self-love.”

As always, Brené Brown is freaking fantastic and totally kicked my butt. I almost feel bad about how destroyed this book got in its travels.

“Just because we didn‘t measure up to some standard of achievement doesn‘t mean that we don‘t possess gifts and talents that only we can bring to the world. Just because someone failed to see value in what we can create or achieve doesn‘t change its worth or ours.”

Anybody watch Brene Brown's netflix special yet?? i havent got to it yet

Book and coffee ☕️ 📚 😊

“Deep inside we know that being brave requires us to be vulnerable.”
Only a few pages in and I am hooked!🎣

I love her and miss her on Grey's Anatomy. Love that shes a reader.

Getting out of my comfort zone can be difficult. Starting small by reading a genre that I dont venture into very often. #risingstrong #embracevulnerability #leanintodiscomfort

Non-fiction is not my forte, and this book reminded me of that. However, the principles and research that Brené lays out in Rising Strong are invaluable. I see myself marinating on this book and possibly reading it again to see how I‘m applying her insight to my life.

“In fact, for most of us who rely on blaming and finding fault, the need for control is so strong that we‘d rather have something be our fault than succumb to the bumper-sticker wisdom of ‘shit happens.‘ If stuff just happens, how do I control that? Fault-finding fools us into believing that someone is always to blame, hence, controlling the outcome is possible. But blame is as corrosive as it is unproductive.” #somuchtruth

After a somewhat challenging week at work where I was placed in a situation that I wish I could have handled better and feeling defeated, I decided to pick this book up next. So far, so good. Especially loving this quote, as a perfectionist-to-a-fault: “Perfection is about the furthest thing in the world from badassery.” #preachtome

Reading this book while on a wee vacation from my life. Rented a Bach just for myself. The perfect place to recover from the arena and get myself back in the fight.

The middle is messy, but it‘s also where the magic happens.

In case ya‘ll didn‘t know- I fucking love a readathon.

And #25infive (its technically hosted on Instagram) is my favorite. Mostly because it‘s the only one I can feasibly finish.

So please see the books I wish to dabble in above.

*please note I said dabble as there‘s no way I finish this 800 page monster that is I am Pilgrim.

I heart Brene so much! Listening to her on #audio is like having a conversation with a good friend. This book is all about being able to move on from things that don't go our way and keep going! Brene's research is always on point and her writing style is so approachable and relatable. She's always so easy to understand too

Brown believes that "people do their best" in terms of how they behave toward each other. Apparently, Brown has never actually left her house. Brown then follows this ridiculous statement by quoting her husband, who said, "Do I believe that people do their best? No. But I need to believe that they do." And that right there is why I don't read happy horseshit, self-help books. Something isn't true? Ignore it and pretend otherwise. No thank you.