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Rising strong
352 pages
A compassionate, research-backed roadmap for turning your greatest failures into your most profound moments of growth.
What it feels like
Reading this feels like sitting down with a deeply wise, fiercely empathetic friend who refuses to let you wallow, but also refuses to let you bypass your pain. The pace is steady and digestible, allowing you to absorb the heavy emotional lifting required to process failure, heartbreak, and shame. It balances rigorous psychological research with warm, deeply personal storytelling, creating an atmosphere that is both intellectually grounding and emotionally uplifting. The prose is conversational and accessible, stripping away academic jargon in favor of raw, relatable truth. It is the perfect companion for anyone standing in the wreckage of a setback, offering not a quick fix, but a courageous, wholehearted framework for getting back up and writing a new ending.
- Mood
- reflective
- uplifting
- grounding
- hopeful
- Tone
- earnest
- compassionate
- conversational
- encouraging
- authoritative
- Pace
- steady
- Themes
- the power of vulnerability · recovering from failure · emotional resilience · owning your story · courageous living
- The writing
- Warm, accessible, and deeply personal, blending rigorous qualitative research with relatable anecdotes and a conversational voice.
- The arc
- Moves from the discomfort of acknowledging failure and heartbreak to the empowering realization of how to process and grow from those falls.
- Who it's for
- Anyone navigating a setback, failure, or difficult transition who wants a grounded, compassionate framework for getting back up.
Content notes
- discussions of grief
- shame
- heartbreak
About the book
"The physics of vulnerability is simple: If we are brave enough often enough, we will fall. The author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Daring Greatly and The Gifts of Imperfection tells us what it takes to get back up, and how owning our stories of disappointment, failure, and heartbreak gives us the power to write a daring new ending. Struggle, Brene Brown writes, can be our greatest call to courage, and rising strong our clearest path to a wholehearted life"--
"With her 2010 TED talk on the power of vulnerability (over 18 million views), her bestselling books on the transformative gifts of shame and vulnerability, and her inspiring call for wholehearted living, Brene Brown has changed the cultural conversation. Her work has been embraced by Oprah Winfrey and corporate leaders alike making her a highly sought after public speaker. For Brene, the conversation about vulnerability and shame naturally evolves into a discussion of bravery--its origins, its catalysts, its chemistry. How we are brave. What constitutes bravery. What activates the impulse to be brave. And how to recognize where our own "hero's journey" begins--in the depths of failure, disappointment, heartbreak, and grief--and how, once we grapple with our story, we are able to rise from those depths and determine how we want our story will end"--
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