Rising Strong

Key takeaways

• The Physics of Vulnerability
• The Reckoning: Getting Curious About Emotion
• The Story We Tell Ourselves
• Rumbling With the Truth
• The Revolution: Integrating the Lesson
• Research-Grounded, Not Just Anecdotal

• Write down the story you're telling yourself about a recent setback — then check it against the facts
• Identify one emotion you're 'hands up' owning rather than avoiding from a recent failure
• Take one small action today to reckon with, rather than avoid, a difficult feeling

Final takeaway

After your next significant setback, Brown recommends writing down, in full and unfiltered form, the story you're telling yourself about what happened — then deliberately examining which parts are verified fact and which are interpretation or assumption, beginning your own rising strong process directly.