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The gifts of imperfection : let go of who you think you're supposed to be and embrace who you are : 10th anniversary edition

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  • Running Time: 04:31 hrs
    Narrator: C. Brené Brown
    Publisher:
    Hazelden, 2010
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.
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    Running Time: 04:31 hrs
    Narrator: C. Brené Brown
    Publisher:
    BC Libraries Cooperative, 2024
    Note: This book was produced with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

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    2010
    Summary:

    For more than a decade, Brené Brown has found a special place in our hearts as a gifted mapmaker and a fellow traveler. She is both a social scientist and a kitchen-table friend whom you can always count on to tell the truth, make you laugh, and, on occasion, cry with you. And what's now become a movement all started with The Gifts of Imperfection, which has sold more than two million copies in 35 different languages across the globe. What transforms this book from words to effective daily practices are the 10 guideposts to wholehearted living. The guideposts not only help us understand the practices that will allow us to change our lives and families, they also walk us through the unattainable and sabotaging expectations that get in the way. Brené writes, "This book is an invitation to join a wholehearted revolution. A small, quiet, grassroots movement that starts with each of us saying, 'My story matters because I matter.' Revolution might sound a little dramatic, but in this world, choosing authenticity and worthiness is an absolute act of resistance."

    Contents:
    • Introduction: wholehearted living
    • Courage, compassion, and connection: the gifts of imperfection
    • Exploring the power of love, belonging, and being enough
    • The things that get in the way
    • Cultivating authenticity: letting go of what people think
    • Cultivating self-compassion: letting go of perfectionism
    • Cultivating a resilient spirit: letting go of numbing and powerlessness
    • Cultivating gratitude and joy: letting go of scarcity and fear of the dark
    • Cultivating intuition and trusting faith: letting go of the need for certainty
    • Cultivating creativity: letting go of comparison
    • Cultivating play and rest: letting go of exhaustion as a status symbol and productivity as self-worth
    • Cultivating calm and stillness: letting go of anxiety as a lifestyle
    • Cultivating meaningful work: letting go of self-doubt and supposed to
    • Cultivating laughter, song, and dance: letting go of being cool and always in control.
    Original Publisher: Center City, Minn, Hazelden
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9780593215166, 0593215168