tlmcclay 's review for:

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

5.0

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Listening to this as an audiobook added extra depth to the collection of heartfelt and often heart wrenching essays. Hearing most of the writers sharing their vulnerability, their shame, their life, and their blackness using their own voices was powerful. I highly recommend this for everyone to read and listen to as this so clearly depicts the consistent problems in America of systemic racism, white supremacy, mental health disorders and more but it also offered some suggestions and insight into fixing these problems. America is broken but maybe not unfixable if we can acknowledge the past and current harm whites are still putting on black persons, recognizing black humanity and our own white privilege and making efforts to heal our own mental health and make corrective systemic changes maybe we can have a better future for everyone... I hope.