How to Navigate the Emotions You're Unwilling to Feel — Brené Brown?

You’re like a kid who hides under a blanket when you feel something big and scary, Brené Brown helps you learn how to face those feelings instead of running from them.

Emotions are like feelings that pop up inside you, sometimes happy, sometimes sad or mad. But sometimes you don’t want to feel them because they’re big, loud, or even scary, just like when you have to go on a slide and you're too scared to let go.

What Brené Brown Says

Brené Brown says that if you run from your feelings, they’ll keep coming back, like when you hide under the blanket, but the feeling doesn’t go away. It just stays there, waiting for you to notice it again.

But if you face them, even if you're a little scared, you can learn how to deal with them and feel better. It's like when you finally let go of the slide and realize it was fun all along!

So Brené Brown helps people stop running from their feelings, so they can grow stronger and understand themselves better.

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Examples

  1. A child avoids crying because they don't want to make their parent sad.
  2. An adult skips a meeting to avoid facing criticism.
  3. Someone refuses to talk about a past failure.

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