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ninakeller 's review for:
You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience
by Tarana Burke, Brené Brown
Enjoyable collection of stories under the umbrella themes of shame and vulnerability.
I read Brene Brown’s Dare to Lead a few years ago, and did not love it, but appreciated and connected to the idea of releasing the tough veneer ever-present in toxic work cultures in favor of modeling and normalizing expression of a range of healthy human emotions. This collection’s responses to these ideas is enlightening.
My favorites within this curation were:
The Wisdom of Process by Prentis Hemphill (on queer black experience)
Love Lifted Me: Subverting Shame Narratives and Legitimizing Vulnerability as a Mechanism for Healing Women in the Black Church by Tracey Michae’l Lewis-Giggetts (On feminism as an antidote to shame perpetuated in the church)
Never Too Much by Marc Lamont Hill (on toxic male masculinity’s bad effect on black boys)
Filling Every Page with Joy: Rewriting Trauma and Shame by Kaia Naadira (on overcoming internalized shame about sexual abuse)
Where the Truth Rests by Tarana Burke (on self talk as a healing tool in coping with anxiety associated with trauma)
I read Brene Brown’s Dare to Lead a few years ago, and did not love it, but appreciated and connected to the idea of releasing the tough veneer ever-present in toxic work cultures in favor of modeling and normalizing expression of a range of healthy human emotions. This collection’s responses to these ideas is enlightening.
My favorites within this curation were:
The Wisdom of Process by Prentis Hemphill (on queer black experience)
Love Lifted Me: Subverting Shame Narratives and Legitimizing Vulnerability as a Mechanism for Healing Women in the Black Church by Tracey Michae’l Lewis-Giggetts (On feminism as an antidote to shame perpetuated in the church)
Never Too Much by Marc Lamont Hill (on toxic male masculinity’s bad effect on black boys)
Filling Every Page with Joy: Rewriting Trauma and Shame by Kaia Naadira (on overcoming internalized shame about sexual abuse)
Where the Truth Rests by Tarana Burke (on self talk as a healing tool in coping with anxiety associated with trauma)