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

by Brené Brown

Over the course of five years, we collected these surveys from more than seven thousand people. The average number of emotions named across the surveys was three. The emotions were happy, sad, and angry.

Stressed is being in the weeds. Overwhelmed is being blown.

Jon Kabat-Zinn describes overwhelm as the all-too-common feeling “that our lives are somehow unfolding faster than the human nervous system and psyche are able to manage well.”

It’s all unfolding faster than my nervous system and psyche can manage it.

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Anxiety can be both a state and a trait.

Vulnerability is not oversharing, it’s sharing with people who have earned the right to hear our stories and our experiences.

The grass actually does look greener on the other side, but that means nothing comparatively because it’s all perspective.

Disappointment is unmet expectations. The more significant the expectations, the more significant the disappointment.

research tells us that disappointment is one of the most frequently experienced emotions, and it tends to be experienced at a high level of intensity.

What expectations do you have going into this? What do you want to happen? Why? What will that mean to you?

Are you setting goals and expectations that are completely outside of your control?

Sometimes our expectations are realistic, clearly communicated, and self-aware.

“The near enemies depict how spirituality can be misunderstood or misused to separate us from life.”

I define spirituality as the deeply held belief that we are inextricably connected to each other by something greater than ourselves.

Her Netflix special, The Call to Courage, is the first filmed lecture by a researcher on the streaming service.