A review by kiwi_00
You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience by Tarana Burke, Brené Brown

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

This did more to help my mental health than any other self-help book I've read especially the last essay, it helped me to give myself grace and understand that there is nothing inherently wrong with me. Do I need to change my behaviours? Yes, but I do not need to be perfect. It was interesting to learn and reflect upon the ideas that white supremacy and the policing of respectability politics can only work through shame and how love is needed not only as an emotion but as a framework to organise/ combat white supremacy and fascism. 
When talking about mental health or abuse, people tend to focus on statistics and graphs to show what's happening. There is never a focus on the visceral reaction to what individuals are experiencing, how people feel, and how they act even if it may seem 'crazy'.
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