Brene Brown Quotes

I want to be braver and more honest about my life. When you're sexually abused, there's a lot of damage.

Shame derives its power from being unspeakable...If we speak shame, it begins to wither. Just the way exposure to light was deadly for the gremlins, language and story bring light to shame and destroy it.

I know people heal by being able to tell the story - the whole story.

You've got to express yourself in life, and it's better out than in. What you reveal, you heal.

Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot survive empathy.

People have a lot of shame and suffering around it and I felt that the best thing I could do was to share my experiences, which I have been doing for a long time, and let people know that of all the things that I've endured.

There is so much shame and guilt in our society, and I think it has deprived a lot of people from living fully. We are all facing battles... We've all had someone who has hurt us. So let's talk about it.

I love sharing my story. It's endlessly healing.

Speaking my truth. I think that's the number one thing, man. That's my 2018 mantra. Speak your truth, because you hold all that in, it's going to destroy you.

Growing up, I felt like I couldn't talk about certain things until I had the outlets to do so. Once you're able to be honest and say things as they are, it removes this crazy stigma and fear around it.

You're as sick as your secrets, and my whole life was a secret, so it's just... it's been really healing, and I've found a lot of inner peace by just owning everything and moving forward from there.

I used to think that if someone asked for help, they were weak. But the toughest thing I ever did was reach out and ask for help. And that was when I started to heal.

Working on this album has been very emotional and super personal, and creating this character 'Cry Baby' helped me deal with my own insecurities.

By the time I got to songwriting, I had been faced with a lot of troubles as a result of my own collective of trauma. I was someone who instinctively figured out that writing songs about the struggle helps you with the struggle.

If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can't survive.

Write the story that you were always afraid to tell. I swear to you that there is magic in it, and if you show yourself naked for me, I'll be naked for you. It will be our covenant.

You're not weak at all. Wounded, but that's nothing to be ashamed of.

I learned long ago that in order to heal my wounds, I must have the courage to face up with them.

I am so honored to be the vessel into which you pour this story of pain and strength.

When you can tell the story and it doesn't bring up any pain, you know it is healed.

I know how hard it is to live your life with your wounds exposed to heal other people

If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.

It took awhile for me to get used to speaking candidly about my own life. I got into it, and it turned out to be a wonderful experience.

Acting's not therapy, but it can be therapeutic.

In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the shame of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold.