I Thought It Was Just Me: Women Reclaiming Power and Courage in a Culture of Shame pdf

布蕾妮·布朗 博士是休斯顿大学的研究教授，她在休斯顿大学担任社会工作研究生院赫芬顿基金会捐赠主席。 她还在德克萨斯大学奥斯汀麦库姆斯商学院担任管理学客座教授。 布蕾妮·布朗 在过去的二十年里一直在研究勇气、脆弱、羞耻和同理心。 她是六本《纽约时报》畅销书的作者，并且是两个屡获殊荣的 Spotify 播客的主持人。Brené 的书籍已被翻译成 30 多种语言，她的书名包括 Atlas of the Heart、Dare to Lead、Braving 荒野、崛起、勇敢和不完美的礼物。 她与塔拉纳·伯克（Tarana Burke）共同编辑了畅销选集《你是最好的东西：脆弱性、羞耻韧性和黑人经历》。布蕾妮·布朗 关于脆弱性的力量的 TED 演讲是世界上观看次数最多的 TED 演讲的前五名之一，观看次数超过 5000 万。 布蕾妮·布朗 是第一位在 Netflix 上拍摄讲座的研究人员，2022 年 3 月，她在 HBO Max 上推出了一个新节目，重点介绍她的最新著作《心之图集》。

I Thought It Was Just Me: Women Reclaiming Power and Courage in a Culture of Shame pdf 布蕾妮·布朗

An affirming, revealing examination of the painful effects of shame—with new, powerful strategies that promise to transform a woman’s ability to love, parent, work, and build relationships.

Shame manifests itself in many ways. Addiction, perfectionism, fear and blame are just a few of the outward signs that Dr. Brené Brown discovered in her 6-year study of shame’s effects on women. While shame is generally thought of as an emotion sequestered in the shadows of our psyches, I Thought It Was Just Me demonstrates the ways in which it is actually present in the most mundane and visible aspects of our lives—from our mental and physical health and body image to our relationships with our partners, our kids, our friends, our money, and our work.
After talking to hundreds of women and therapists, Dr. Brown is able to illuminate the myriad shaming influences that dominate our culture and explain why we are all vulnerable to shame. We live in a culture that tells us we must reject our bodies, reject our authentic stories, and ultimately reject our true selves in order to fit in and be accepted.
Outlining an empowering new approach that dispels judgment and awakens us to the genuine acceptance of ourselves and others, I Thought It Was Just Me begins a crucial new dialogue of hope. Through potent personal narratives and examples from real women, Brown identifies and explains four key elements that allow women to transform their shame into courage, compassion and connection. Shame is a dark and sad place in which to live a life, keeping us from connecting fully to our loved ones and being the women we were meant to be. But learning how to understand shame’s influence and move through it toward full acceptance of ourselves and others takes away much of shame’s power to harm.
It’s not just you, you’re not alone, and if you fight the daily battle of feeling like you are—somehow—just not "enough," you owe it to yourself to read this book and discover your infinite possibilities as a human being.