Brené Brown's Ten Guideposts for Wholehearted Living
Brené Brown has made it her life’s work to study vulnerability, courage, worthiness, and shame.
Her work is inspiring, interesting and immediately implementable.
Listen to and/or read what she has to say, and your days will undoubtedly be filled with more joy, ease, and flow.
She calls people who believe in their worthiness the Wholehearted and defines Wholehearted Living as:
Wholehearted living is about engaging in our lives from a place of worthiness. It means cultivating the courage, compassion, and connection to wake up in the morning and think, No matter what gets done and how much is left undone, I am enough. It’s going to bed at night thinking, Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn’t change the truth that I am also brave and worthy of love and belonging.
In her book, The Gifts of Imperfection, Brown offers ten “guideposts” for wiser, more wholehearted living:
10 Guideposts For Wholehearted Living By Brené Brown
These guideposts point to what the Wholehearted people ‘work’ to cultivate … and what they ‘work’ to let go of.
Cultivating Authenticity – and Letting Go of What People Think
Cultivating Self-Compassion – and Letting Go of Perfectionism
Cultivating a Resilient Spirit – and Letting Go of Numbing and Powerlessness
Cultivating Gratitude and Joy – and Letting Go of Scarcity and Fear of the Dark
Cultivating Intuition and Trusting Faith – and Letting Go of the Need for Certainty
Cultivating Creativity – and Letting Go of Comparison
Cultivating Play and Rest – and Letting Go of Exhaustion as a Status Symbol and Productivity as Self-Worth
Cultivating Calm and Stillness – and Letting Go of Anxiety as a Lifestyle
Cultivating Meaningful Work – and Letting Go of Self-Doubt and “Supposed To”
Cultivating Laughter, Song, and Dance – and Letting Go of Being Cool and “Always in Control”
Which one(s) resonate with you today?
Come back to these guideposts time and time again in order to live a life of joy and ease.
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