Reviews - You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience

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You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience

I’m very grateful for each author’s vulnerability and openness. I now know how hard it was and is for them and other black people. I hope our world will do better at creating a place where they can feel more comfortable to feel and be themselves.

mbejjani's review

4.0

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective

kabaoyang's review

4.0

hopeful reflective medium-paced

marcird's review

5.0

The primary audience is people of color but it sure seems like mandatory reading for all. My understanding of shame and vulnerability took on a deeper level. And the chapter by Prentis Hemphill was perfection.

shetterc4's review against another edition

4.5

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

brittlesreads's review

4.0

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

mikaelaw's review

5.0

This brilliant collection of essays expands the discourse on shame and vulnerability in centering Black humanity. The collection emerged in response to a lot of her Black readers finding Brene Brown's work hard to relate to. Just reading the opening quote from Toni Morrison's Beloved brings me to tears now, as I gather my thoughts and reflect on You Are Your Best Thing. I listened to the anthology and highly recommend hearing each author speak aloud their experiences that brought them to the page. Many of the authors spoke about their creative process, how to put their stories on paper, how to work with grief, claiming and honoring their gender and sexual identity, making meaning of vulnerability inside of white supremacy. It's a brilliant collection of essays – read it!! 5 stars.