“It is not the critic who counts not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. It wasn’t until 7 hours later, when she googled just about every question relating to Abbey that popped into her head, that she stumbled upon the Teddy Roosevelt quote that would inspire her breakout book, Daring Greatly: The Quote That’s Come to Define Brené Brown’s Work: “It wasn’t worth it to me to step into my power…because I didn’t know if I could withstand the criticism,” Brené explained. She’d been trying to hide away from the real world. Armed with her three degrees in social work, Brené says she did the one thing she knew how to do to cope with the outpouring of negativity: eat peanut butter and watch Downton Abbey. Suddenly, she was faced with every worst thought she’d ever had about herself, only amplified-and all at once. “You can study shame, yet you are never prepared for the terrible stuff online,” Brené admitted. And it was those comments that she found herself caught in a shame spiral, wishing she could escape reality for a while. To date, it’s brought in more than 39 million views, racking up 2,041 comments. It’s something she experienced firsthand, after her June 2010 Ted Talk went viral.
(Because yes, they will happen, and yes, you will survive.)īrené describes shame as the feeling you’d get after walking out of a room full of people, and they all start saying such horrible, hurtful things about you that you don’t think you could ever walk back into the room and face them again. But Brené Brown‘s Netflix special, The Call to Courage, gives new words to help you understand the feeling, and a clear path to help you live with those moments in life.
Shame is a feeling we’ve all felt-and, once felt, never wanted to feel again.
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