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#1NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER - When we deny our stories, they define us. When we own our stories, we get to write the ending.
Dont miss the hourlong Netflix specialBren Brown: The Call to Courage!
Social scientist Bren Brown has ignited a global conversation on courage, vulnerability, shame, and worthiness. Her pioneering work uncovered a profound truth: Vulnerability--the willingness to show up and be seen with no guarantee of outcome--is the only path to more love, belonging, creativity, and joy. But living a brave life is not always easy: We are, inevitably, going to stumble and fall.
It is the rise from falling that Brown takes as her subject inRising Strong. As a grounded theory researcher, Brown has listened as a range of people--from leaders in Fortune 500 companies and the military to artists, couples in long-term relationships, teachers, and parents--shared their stories of being brave, falling, and getting back up. She asked herself,What do these people with strong and loving relationships, leaders nurturing creativity, artists pushing innovation, and clergy walking with people through faith and mystery have in common?The answer was clear: They recognize the power of emotion and theyre not afraid to lean in to discomfort.
Walking into our stories of hurt can feel dangerous. But the process of regaining our footing in the midst of struggle is where our courage is tested and our values are forged. Our stories of struggle can be big ones, like the loss of a job or the end of a relationship, or smaller ones, like a conflict with a friend or colleague. Regardless of magnitude or circumstance, the rising strong process is the same: Wereckonwith our emotions and get curious about what were feeling; werumblewith our stories until we get to a place of truth; and we live this process, every day, until it becomes a practice and creates nothing short of arevolutionin our lives. Rising strong after a fall is how we cultivate wholeheartedness. Its the process, Brown writes, that teaches us the most about who we are.
ONE OFGREATER GOODS FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR
[Bren Browns] research and work have given us a new vocabulary, a way to talk with each other about the ideas and feelings and fears weve all had but havent quite known how to articulate. . . . Bren empowers us each to be a little more courageous.--The Huffington Post

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This is a work of nonfiction. Nonetheless, some of the names and personal characteristics of the individuals involved have been changed in order to disguise their identities. Any resulting resemblance to persons living or dead is entirely coincidental and unintentional.

Copyright 2015 by Bren Brown

Illustrations copyright 2015 Simon Walker

Reading group guide copyright 2017 by Penguin Random House LLC

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Published in the United States by Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.

R ANDOM H OUSE and the H OUSE colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC.

Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Spiegel & Grau, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, in 2015.

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BMG Rights Management (US) LLC: Excerpt from In Spite of Ourselves, words and music by John Prine, copyright 1999 by Weona Music (BMI)/BMG Bumblebee (BMI). All rights administered by BMG Rights Management (US) LLC. All rights reserved. Used by permission of BMG Rights Management (US) LLC.

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L IBRARY OF C ONGRESS C ATALOGING-IN- P UBLICATION D ATA

Brown, Bren.

Rising Strong / Bren Brown.

Pages cm

Includes index.

ISBN 978-0-8129-8580-1 (paperback)ISBN 978-0-8129-9583-1 (ebook)

Self-actualization (Psychology) 2. Courage. I. Title.

BF637.S4B8118 2015

158dc23 2014010832

Ebook ISBN9780812995831

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Contents
A Note on Research
AND STORYTELLING AS METHODOLOGY

In the 1990s, when I began studying social work, the profession was in the midst of a polarizing debate about the nature of knowledge and truth. Is wisdom derived from experience more or less valuable than data produced by controlled research? What research should we allow into our professional journals and what should we reject? It was a heated debate that often created considerable friction between professors.

As doctoral students, we were often forced to take sides. Our research professors trained us to choose evidence over experience, reason over faith, science over art, and data over story. Ironically, at the exact same time, our non-research professors were teaching us that social work scholars should be wary of false dichotomiesthose either youre this or youre that formulations. In fact, we learned that when faced with either-or dilemmas, the first question we should ask is, Who benefits by forcing people to choose?

If you applied the Who benefits? question to the debate in social work, the answer was clear: Traditional quantitative researchers benefited if the profession decided their work was the only path to truth. And tradition had the upper hand at my college, with little to no training in qualitative methods available and the only dissertation option quantitative. A single textbook covered qualitative research, and the book jacket was light pinkit was often referred to as the girls research book.

This debate became personal to me when I fell in love with qualitative researchgrounded theory research, to be specific. I responded by pursuing it anyway, finding a few faculty allies inside and outside my college. I chose as my methodologist Barney Glaser, from the University of California San Francisco Medical School, who, along with Anselm Strauss, is the founder of grounded theory.

I am still deeply affected by an editorial I read in the 1990s titled Many Ways of Knowing. It was written by Ann Hartman, the influential editor of one of our most prestigious journals at the time. In the editorial, Hartman wrote:

This editor takes the position that there are many truths and there are many ways of knowing. Each discovery contributes to our knowledge, and each way of knowing deepens our understanding and adds another dimension to our view of the world.For example, large-scale studies of trends in marriage today furnish helpful information about a rapidly changing social institution. But getting inside one marriage, as in Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, richly displays the complexities of one marriage, leading us to new insights about the pain, the joys, the expectations, the disappointments, the intimacy, and the ultimate aloneness in relationships. Both the scientific and the artistic methods provide us with ways of knowing. And, in fact, as Clifford Geertzhas pointed out, innovative thinkers in many fields are blurring the genres, finding art in science and science in art and social theory in all human creation and activity.

I succumbed to fear and scarcity (the sense that my chosen research method wasnt enough) for the first couple of years of my career as a tenure-track professor and researcher. I felt like an outsider as a qualitative researcher, so for safety I stood as close as I could to the if you cant measure it, it doesnt exist crowd. That served both my political needs and my profound dislike of uncertainty. But I never got that editorial out of my head or my heart. And today I proudly call myself a researcher-storyteller because I believe the most useful knowledge about human behavior is based on peoples lived experiences. I am incredibly grateful to Ann Hartman for having the guts to take this position, to Paul Raffoul, the professor who handed me a copy of that article, and to Susan Robbins, who bravely led my dissertation committee.

As you read through this book, you will see that I dont believe faith and reason are natural enemies. I believe our human desire for certainty and our often-desperate need to be right have led to this false dichotomy. I dont trust a theologian who dismisses the beauty of science or a scientist who doesnt believe in the power of mystery.

Because of this belief, I now find knowledge and truth in a full range of sources. In this book, youll come across quotes from scholars and singer-songwriters. Ill quote research and movies. Ill share a letter from a mentor that helped me get a handle on what it means to get your heart broken and an editorial on nostalgia by a sociologist. I wont set up Crosby, Stills & Nash as academics, but I also wont diminish the ability of artists to capture what is true about the human spirit.

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