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Dianne asked this question about Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution:
Why is everyone loving this book? I don't get it? It doesn't seem like her best book to me. It's filled with stories about her and how she responds to life. Does this seem to fit for all of you?
Janelle I think you have to pick and choose how it applies to your every day life, and truly, this book has to come to you at the right time in your life. May…moreI think you have to pick and choose how it applies to your every day life, and truly, this book has to come to you at the right time in your life. Maybe you're not ready to ready it? I will admit there was a time in my life when I was caught up in my career, being the Super-Mom, wonderful wife, all encompassing adoring wife that I would not have even entertained such things. As I reflect back, I see those Shame Gremlins at every turn. When I lost my son, I was heart-broken and angy, when I lost my husband, devastated. I am embarking on a new road of discovery and it has not been all roses, as a matter of fact, quite painful at times. BEing vulnerable was never what I wanted to represented to co-leaders in my organization, to my family. After nursing my husband who passed away from pancreatic cancer for seven and a half months, people marveled, "Oh you are so strong!", "Oh you will get along just fine, I know you." But I wasn't strong, they didn't know me. I wanted to cry, be weak, have a pity party. It just wasn't fair that our wonderful family of four had whittled down to two in just a few years. But, the Power of Vulnerability and Rising Strong made me realize that life goes on and I will be in the arena, and I don't know the outcome, but I WILL live it to fullest.(less)
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by Brené Brown (Goodreads Author)
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