By Brene Brown
Random House, 2021. 296pgs. Nonfiction
In Atlas of the Heart, Brown takes us on a journey through 85 of the emotions and experiences that define what it means to be human. As she maps the necessary skills and lays out an actionable framework for meaningful connection, she gives us the language and tools to access a universe of new choices and second chances - a universe where we can share and steward the stories of our bravest and most heartbreaking moments with one another in a way that builds connection. Over the past two decades, Brown's extensive research into the experiences that make us who we are has shaped the cultural conversation and helped define what it means to be courageous with our lives. Brown's extensive research, as well as her singular skills as a researcher/storyteller, helps to lay out an invaluable framework that shows us that naming an experience doesn't give the experience more power, it gives us the power of understanding, meaning, and choice.
This is a beautiful book! I feel like it's almost more of a coffee-table book with it's larger size and full-page color pictures and quotes. I like how the emotions are grouped together. I have never made the connection how some emotions can feel so different but actually be coming from the same root. This book helped me understand myself better and have more empathy for others.
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Five years ago, Lauren Martin was sure something was wrong with her. She
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irritability. It wasn't until a chance encounter with a (charming,
successful) stranger who revealed that she also felt these things, that
Lauren set out to better understand the hold that these moods had on
her, how she could change them, and began to blog about the wisdom she
uncovered. It quickly exploded into an international online community of
women who felt like she did: lost, depressed, moody, and desirous of
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By Vivek H. Murthy
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