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You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience by Tarana Burke, Brené Brown

4.56 AVERAGE

lizblakewhite's review

5.0
This book is incredible. Every essay is brilliant, vulnerable, rich, and raw. The rare book that just felt like a privilege to read.

rlcourtney's review against another edition

5.0
These essays are outstanding. The introduction to the book indicates that this is written for people of color. I read it in an effort to educate myself and discover some new authors, as it is a collection of essays.
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runekeon's review

5.0
Some great and deep thoughts about shame. Very much in sync with what I have read about the state of the art in psychology and neuroscience. Great advice and insight from lived experience.
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chattycathy55's review against another edition

5.0
Amazeballs! Stories from a diverse group of black people on shame. Can break your heart a bit.

jeannelovescrabcakes's review against another edition

5.0
The best best best.

whitcam430's review

5.0
To give this book 5 stars feels like an insult. I started of a little hesitant seeing Brené Brown as one of the editors but the intro and then immediately starting to read the essays, I soon got over that hesitation. So many of these essays felt so important to my soul. This was one of those library check outs that I most certainly need to own. I also feel like I need two copies, one that I don’t mess up because I love to keep my books nice and one that I can highlight and make all kinds of notes and amxns in the margins! This is also one where I now have more authors to read!
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cdubbub's review

5.0
Important and eye opening essays
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sankofabibliophile's review

5.0
Powerful. Healing. Real. Three words to describe this work. This work was definitely made with love. I listened to it as an audiobook with the contributors reading their own essays. I HIGHLY recommend reading this book and I will be buying my own copy in the future.
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wellreadtherapist's review

5.0
This book was wonderful. I love how they selected African Americans from different walks of like to tell their stories.
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actbookshelf's review against another edition

4.75
adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced