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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. In this book, the author takes us on a journey through 87 of the emotions and experiences that define what it means to be human. As she maps the necessary skills and an actionable framework for meaningful connection, she gives us the language and tools to access a universe of new choices and second chances -- a universe where we can share and steward the stories of our bravest and most heartbreaking moment with one another in a way that builds connection. I enjoyed this book. I am an emotional person and find joy in talking about our feelings. The book discusses so many different emotions. Having a wide range of vocab to describe your feelings can help you understand why you feel the way you do. It can help others understand as well. The book give you tools. Brene Brown sets us up with a framework to help and guide us to create meaningful connections and being our authentic self. As someone who likes words that “indicate precisely what you mean to say” (to borrow a line from the Beatles song “When I’m 64”), I really liked this book. It digs into 87 different emotions and explains why it’s important to have a rich vocabulary to describe your feelings. The more tools you have at your disposal to describe how you’re feeling, the easier it is to figure out why you’re feeling the way you are and channel or resolve the emotions as necessary. The book contains short comics by Gavin Aung Than that tell stories to emphasize the points being made. I liked this enough to want my own copy to flip through. no reviews | add a review
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HTML:#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In her latest book, Bren Brown writes, If we want to find the way back to ourselves and one another, we need language and the grounded confidence to both tell our stories and be stewards of the stories that we hear. This is the framework for meaningful connection. In Atlas of the Heart, Brown takes us on a journey through eighty-seven of the emotions and experiences that define what it means to be human. As she maps the necessary skills and an actionable framework for meaningful connection, she gives us the language and tools to access a universe of new choices and second chancesa universe where we can share and steward the stories of our bravest and most heartbreaking moments with one another in a way that builds connection. Over the past two decades, Browns extensive research into the experiences that make us who we are has shaped the cultural conversation and helped define what it means to be courageous with our lives. Atlas of the Heart draws on this research, as well as on Browns singular skills as a storyteller, to show us how accurately naming an experience doesnt give the experience more power, it gives us the power of understanding, meaning, and choice. Brown shares, I want this book to be an atlas for all of us, because I believe that, with an adventurous heart and the right maps, we can travel anywhere and never fear losing ourselves. *Includes a downloadable PDF of illustrations from the book. No library descriptions found. |
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I have only read one other Brown book--The Gifts of Imperfection--and I enjoyed her irreverent style of presenting her research. She is a qualitative researcher who love to tell the stories she encounters. But, she is also able to take all the data and organize it in a way that supports the bigger picture.
I have a couple other Brown books on the shelf and may move them closer to the top of the TBR.