VIDEO | Listening to shame - Brené Brown, PhD

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Listening to shame


Date: Mar-2012Minutes: 23:25
Listening to shame - Brené Brown

About the Author
Brené Brown, PhD is a research professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work. She has spent the past thirteen years studying vulnerability, courage, worthiness, and shame.

Brown is the author of three #1 New York Times Bestsellers: Rising Strong, Daring Greatly and The Gifts of Imperfection. Brené’s 2010 TEDx Houston talk, The Power of Vulnerability, is one of the top five most viewed TED talks in the world, with over 25 million viewers.

Brown completed her Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) at the University of Texas at Austin in 1995, followed by a Master of Social Work (MSW) in 1996 and Ph.D. from the Graduate College of Social Work at the University of Houston in 2002

[Sunfl0wer]

Wow! This was worth every minute!  Loved it all from beginning to end!

My favorite part, and where I learned the most, was her description of what shame is to a man versus a woman.  I want to admit, I often feel pride for being a more analytically minded female vs emotionally driven one. (Not too judgmental I hope, just was great in math in elementary vs writing) When I heard her begin to approach explaining the differences, I was skeptical and prepared myself to hear in both sexes stuff I greatly relate to.  I prepared myself to hear something I would greatly disagree with, as in my head, many things in life are not as sex specific as many claim they are. However, instead, it reminded me of the struggles of the men in my life, and honored their unique challenges with shame.  I loved how she gave this deserved attention.  Found this part especially, and the whole talk, quite powerful.

I will be saving and re watching this!
Was certainly worth my time
Her delivery, and style very enjoyable, and demonstrative of what she is conveying, pretty awesome!

[Graceinaction]

This video was great! I'm going to look up her other TED talk.
I am known to be pretty fearless, and I've never understood why. I just try things and I'm not scared of failure.
However my husband lives in fear of everything. Going into a restaurant he's never tried can trigger a rage. Not right away, but his anxiety skyrockets and he can't enjoy himself. By the time the experience is over it's like he needs to explode to release all that tension.

I'm beginning to connect the dots between shame and vulnerability and how it relates to his rages and anxiety. It's really good information to have!

[DeltaBravo]

Great Video,
Thank you much for posting.
Interesting to see how EMPATHY comes out again and again as the solution.
I am very grateful to you for sharing this and definitely worth watching multiple times.

[Dignity&Strength]

Love this Ted Talk! It was shown at our local women's shelter domestic violence survivor's support group last year.  I loved seeing it again here.

[JNChell]

“All powerful folks don’t need checklists.” My T mentioned Brene Brown. I mentioned Ted Talks. We found some happy common ground.

[Star0009]

thanks! I just watched both her talks... .so helpful for personal growth.

[JNChell]

She’s quite amazing, isn’t she Star?