The myths this book challenges: Vulnerability is weakness. She continues to do research, lead trainings, and educate the public about leaning into discomfort in order to live more authentically. She has one of the top viewed TED Talks of all time, called The Power of Vulnerability. The author: Brené Brown’s name is practically synonymous with our contemporary understanding of shame, vulnerability, perfectionism, and wholeheartedness. “Oh my god, this is amazing! This is transformative! Listen to this passage…” These are four of those self-help books. “If only there were a way for me to get every person I’ve ever met to read this!” “I wish I could just stuff every word of this book into my head to have at the ready whenever it’s relevant.” I always know when I’m reading one, because I have to come up for air and say things to my partner like: These paradigm-changing books challenge things I thought to be true. But some of them shift the way I see the world, so that when I finish them I am never the same. A lot of these books are fluff – 300+ pages of words that make you feel empowered (or, depending on your disposition, roll your eyes) while you’re reading them but don’t really have a lasting impact on your life.Īs a therapist, I read a lot of books with their roots in the self-improvement field. Over 500 million dollars a year is spent on self-help books in the United States.

Monica and Phoebe, from the TV show Friends But do you know who takes our wind? Men! They just take it, all the time, because they are the lightning-bearers!” Oh, but there’s wind! And the wind can make us goddesses. It’s about how women need to be more empowered.

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