Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience

by Brené Brown

For children, it’s easy for everything to become a source of shame when nothing is normalized.

You assume that if no one is talking about it, it must be just you.

had magic powers. And I couldn’t talk about them or ask anyone what to do with them.

would have told you that I could predict the future. I couldn’t tell you what was going to happen in twenty years, but I could tell you with stunning accuracy what was going to happen in twenty minutes.

Maybe I couldn’t actually predict the future, but I did have top-level observation powers.

Oh, God. Do you not see this coming?

I didn’t feel smarter or better, just weirder and pained by the amount of hurt that we are capable of causing

one another. The observation powers were partly survival and p...

being able to see what’s coming doesn’t make it any less painful when it arrives.