Brené Brown's Blog, page 6

I continue to be overwhelmed by the violence, trauma, and sheer magnitude of the Israel-Hamas war. I’m deeply connected to the Jewish community, and I want the people I love and care about to know that I see their fear and hurt and that I support them. As a fierce supporter of human dignity, I want the Palestinian people who are also in pain and fear, and who continue to struggle for basic freedoms and self-determination, to know that I support them.

Below are my beliefs and thoughts on the I...

Unfolding

My mom died on Christmas morning. Our family has spent a lot of time together over the past few weeks, holding tight to each other and our shared memories, assuring one another that everything is going to be OK, and confirming that absolutely nothing is going to be OK.

The last time we were with my mom, late on Christmas Eve, we took turns telling her our wishes for her. My wish was that she would soon be at the best honky-tonk in heaven, playing dominos with my grandmother, Molly Iv...

Ten years ago, Brené started the Daring Interview series on her blog. It quickly became one of our favorite features. Now, we are relaunching the series and adding in a few new questions, including some from the late James Lipton, host of Inside the Actors Studio, and Smith Magazine’s Six-Word Memoir.

It was 12 years into living in Paris, France, that Ajiri Aki realized she had changed. She was a different person from the one who had been living on the hamster wheel of busyness working in the...

Creativity is a paradoxical pursuit: The craft of making requires vulnerability and a certain kind of tenderness or openness to the world around us. At the same time, putting our work out in the world today can take a shit ton of courage and tenacity. This is a space to shine a light on the folks who are straddling these tensions and making us all a little better with their art. —Brené 

Kathie Sever’s career path has been a roundabout one: She went to art school to study oil painting, wor...

Creativity is a paradoxical pursuit: The craft of making requires vulnerability and a certain kind of tenderness or openness to the world around us. At the same time, putting our work out in the world today can take a shit ton of courage and tenacity. This is a space to shine a light on the folks who are straddling these tensions and making us all a little better with their art. —Brené 

“Squat ‘n’ Gobble.” Those words — aglow in bright-orange neon and backdropped by an equally luminescent out...

Ten years ago, Brené started the Daring Interview series on her blog. It quickly became one of our favorite features. Now, we are relaunching the series and adding in a few new questions, including some from the late James Lipton, host of Inside the Actors Studio, and Smith Magazine’s Six-Word Memoir.

In 2015, at the age of 35, Kate Bowler was married to her high school sweetheart, busy caring for her baby son, and teaching at Duke University’s Divinity School. Then she was diagnosed with sta...

Ten years ago, Brené started the Daring Interview series on her blog. It quickly became one of our favorite features. Now, we are relaunching the series and adding in a few new questions, including some from the late James Lipton, host of Inside the Actors Studio, and Smith Magazine’s Six-Word Memoir.

Many years ago, when I made the decision to go to law school and eventually practice law, there were several legal luminaries who helped inspire the kind of attorney that I one day hoped to be. ...

Ten years ago, Brené started the Daring Interview series on her blog. It quickly became one of our favorite features. Now, we are relaunching the series and adding in a few new questions, including some from the late James Lipton, host of Inside the Actors Studio, and Smith Magazine’s Six-Word Memoir.

It started as a hobby in the summer of 2014. A fun food-and-fitness blog, with Alex Snodgrass covering food and her sister, Madison, taking care of the fitness. The Defined Dish , they called it....

Ten years ago, Brené started the Daring Interview series on her blog. It quickly became one of our favorite features. Now, we are relaunching the series and adding in a few new questions, including some from the late James Lipton, host of Inside the Actors Studio, and Smith Magazine’s Six-Word Memoir.

Thebe Magugu is a designer based in Johannesburg and the founder of a luxury fashion brand that bears his name. Born in Kimberley, a small mining town in the middle of South Africa, Thebe is dee...

For many members of Gen Z, social media platforms like TikTok have become surprising gateways to the world of literature. Enter Hailey Colborn, founder of the Hot Literati, a digital community for “hot, cool, well-read people” that invites curious readers to celebrate literature and practice reading with a reverence for the beauty of words. By sharing short-form content like one-sentence book reviews (“Nick Carraway surrounded by Manic Pixie Dream Girls”; “Beowulf if it was about motherhood in s...