Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution.

by Brené Brown

Rising strong after a fall is how we cultivate wholeheartedness in our lives; it’s the process that teaches us the most about who we are.

I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn’t change the truth that I am brave and worthy of love and belonging.

When we own our stories, we avoid being trapped as characters in stories someone else is telling.

Arenas always conjure up grandeur, but an arena is any moment when or place where we have risked showing up and being seen.

The Daring Way is a certification program for professionals in helping fields who want to facilitate my work. In our national training seminars, we use a three-day intensive model as our primary teaching tool.

They all know it as “the point of no return”—an aviation term coined by pilots for the point in a flight when they have too little fuel left to return to the originating airfield. It’s

“Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing we’ll ever do.”

We own our stories so we don’t spend our lives being defined by them or denying them.