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From the TED Talks- Brene Brown; The Power of Vulnerability.
There was only one variable that separated the people who have a strong sense of love and belonging and the people who really struggle for it and that was the people who have a strong sense of love and belonging believe they're worthy of love and belonging. That's it. The believe they're worthy...The one thing that keeps us out of connection is our fear that we are not worthy of connection.Here's the link to the whole talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/brene_brown_on_vulnerability.html
What they have in common was a sense of courage.... the original definition of courage, when it first came into the English language- it's from the Latin word "cor" meaning heart- and the original definition was "to tell the story of who are with your whole heart."
And so these folks had, very simply, the courage to be imperfect. They had the compassion to be kind to themselves first, and then to others, because, as it turns out, we can't practice compassion with other people if we can't treat ourselves kindly. And the last was they had connection- and this is the hard part- as a result of authenticity. They were willing to let go of who they thought they should be in order to be who they were.
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