Review: Rising Strong as a Spiritual Practice

Rising Strong as a Spiritual Practice by Brené Brown
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Lots of great spiritual and life advice. Audio CD on Brene Brown talking and Q/A's about her book Rising Strong.

Notes:
- Spiritual practice is doing something that is the feeling belonging and connected, arts, music, leading from heart, groundedness, be apart of something bigger than us
- We are hard wired for a story, we rely on stories for how, when, and why to protect ourselves. How we teach, express ourselves, gather, share of belongingness, how we connect with people
- Rising strong is getting up when you struggle
- Highly anxious ppl are high functioning, and usually the first born
- The reckoning - recognizes your emotions and why you have them.
- Emotional intelligence. - knowing your Emotions on a granularity level. Recognize and then articulate how you’re feeling.
- People that have trauma and wrote it down in a story heal mentally faster. If I write it you give yourself power, you’ve externalizer and got it out of you, it belongs on the paper.
- Think about a person that you clash with, just don’t get along with - what if god told you they are doing the best they can? What would you think then?
- In order for there to be forgiveness - something has to die. It’s about death and rebirth. Forgiveness is not altruistic it’s about detaching yourself from the perpetrator of hurt.
- “The sucks” - some things suck and we just have to endure the pain and continue on
- One of The worst things you can do with your kids is allow them to treat each other bad, don’t allow them to name call at all at home
- Kids need to feel like they belong at home and outside of school but most importantly at home. Don’t guilt or shame them.
- Walk your kids through the stories they make up (landmark) know the rackets/reckoning and go through the solution with them. Don’t allow them to talk badly about themselves.
- Emotional literacy - know what you’re feeling and why

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