Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It's the fear that we're not good enough.
Brene BrownRead
I'm not a parenting expert. In fact, I'm not sure that I even believe in the idea of 'parenting experts.' I'm an engaged, imperfect parent and a passionate researcher. I'm an experienced mapmaker and a stumbling traveler. Like many of you, parenting is by far my boldest and most daring adventure.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Parenting is a challenging journey where there is no perfect guide, just personal experience and growth.
In this quote, BrenΓ© Brown emphasizes the complexity of parenting and suggests that it involves learning through experiences rather than relying on self-proclaimed experts. She shares her own identity as an engaged but imperfect parent, highlighting that the journey of parenting is an adventure filled with challenges and opportunities for personal growth.
Themes
ParentingExperiencesGrowthJourneyImperfect
In practice
Example use cases
Using this quote in a parenting workshop to emphasize the importance of authenticity in parenting.
More from Brene Brown
All quotes βI think our capacity for wholeheartedness can never be greater than our willingness to be broken-hearted. It means engaging with the world from a place of vulnerability and worthiness.
Brene BrownRead
Men walk this tightrope where any sign of weakness illicits shame, and so they're afraid to make themselves vulnerable for fear of looking weak.
Brene BrownRead
I hesitate to use a pathologizing label, but underneath the so-called narcissistic personality is definitely shame and the paralyzing fear of being ordinary.
Brene BrownRead
I've learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.
Brene BrownRead
Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.
Brene BrownRead
Similar quotes
The family uses people, not for what they are, nor for what they are intended to be, but for what it wants them for- its own uses. It thinks of them not as what God has made them, but as the something which it has arranged that they shall be.
Florence NightingaleRead
My mother taught us to play baseball, to bake a cake, to play fair - she beat the living daylights out of us sometimes, and she loved us with all her heart; she taught her favorite poets, and there is no child care in the world that will ever be a substitute for what that lady was in our life.
Janet RenoRead
I'm proud of being a mother, a wife, a daughter, and a sister, and a lover and a friend We're all God's children.
Whitney HoustonRead
My father had many, many veterans over to the house, and the older I got the more I appreciated their sacrifice.
Steven SpielbergRead
My parents moved across the country so I could pursue a dream.
Taylor SwiftRead
I had a lovely, feral, free childhood - out and then come back when you're hungry or it gets too dark. I feel slightly cruel that I'm not offering my children the same.
Olivia ColmanRead