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504 reviews for:
You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience
Tarana Burke, Brené Brown
4.56 AVERAGE
504 reviews for:
You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience
Tarana Burke, Brené Brown
4.56 AVERAGE
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
challenging
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
fast-paced
All the stories shared were relating to vulnerability, shame resilience, and the authors' experiences.
Such a moving book to read - multiple creators' stories/experiences.
Made me think about how one can share their stories but there will always be someone questioning that perspective and that experience.
Such a moving book to read - multiple creators' stories/experiences.
Made me think about how one can share their stories but there will always be someone questioning that perspective and that experience.
3.5 Stars for me, it was interesting but some of the stories I had to take a pause on. They either hit me in the feels or I had to rerun something in my head cause I couldn't believe what I read. Still a good book though.
I seriously almost underlined every paragraph in this book. There were so many essays where I saw myself, my family, my friends, my life and struggles. The places where I thought I was alone were framed in a way that helped me understand them and nudge me toward healing. I needed this book. I’m so thankful for this collection and can only hope that more books like this are written for Black people. While everyone may resonate with this book it truly felt like this was for me. I rarely revisit books but this is one that I will absolutely pick up again.
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
fast-paced
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
reflective
tense
slow-paced
This is a collection of many authors and speakers and so this is hard for me to review since it's so many voices and different writing styles. Overall, the stories and discussions are about important emotional work about shame and trauma from many Black writers and speakers.
Some parts were very difficult for me to listen to, which were parts about abuse and assault. Because some of the topics brought up difficult and painful feelings, I am not rating the book with a number of stars, to avoid bias. I think the stories and discussions around shame and Black experiences of shame, therapy, and emotions are important and that is a valuable book. But if I rate it from 0-5, I think I will be biased to rate it lower because of feeling emotionally triggered by topics, which is my own shit, and not about the quality of the writing or importance of the topics. It was emotionally a lot but I'm glad I read it.
I am writing this review to say- this book has important stories to tell, but it is emotionally intense at times, and heavy reading. I listened to the audiobook, and many of the stories are told by the author of that story, which is a great experience, to hear the emotion in their voice from their own story.
If you liked Unlearning Shame by Dr. Devon Price, you will like this book. If you like Brene Brown's lectures but think her stories are super unrelatable, you will like this book. (Brene Brown does research on shame and vulnerability but her life stories are not relatable to most people I know)
Some parts were very difficult for me to listen to, which were parts about abuse and assault. Because some of the topics brought up difficult and painful feelings, I am not rating the book with a number of stars, to avoid bias. I think the stories and discussions around shame and Black experiences of shame, therapy, and emotions are important and that is a valuable book. But if I rate it from 0-5, I think I will be biased to rate it lower because of feeling emotionally triggered by topics, which is my own shit, and not about the quality of the writing or importance of the topics. It was emotionally a lot but I'm glad I read it.
I am writing this review to say- this book has important stories to tell, but it is emotionally intense at times, and heavy reading. I listened to the audiobook, and many of the stories are told by the author of that story, which is a great experience, to hear the emotion in their voice from their own story.
If you liked Unlearning Shame by Dr. Devon Price, you will like this book. If you like Brene Brown's lectures but think her stories are super unrelatable, you will like this book. (Brene Brown does research on shame and vulnerability but her life stories are not relatable to most people I know)
I listened to the audiobook and absolutely loved it. I’ve always enjoyed Brené Brown’s work, but this collaboration with Tarana Burke brought a powerful and necessary intersectional lens to the topic of shame and resilience. The personal stories shared were deeply emotional without being centred on trauma in a negative way, which made them all the more impactful. The balance of vulnerability and strength throughout the book was beautifully handled. A must-listen for anyone interested in understanding shame and resilience through the lens of the Black experience.
Felt like it was Brene Brown using black women with the hardest struggles to gain profit.