If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief. ― Brené Brown

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Understanding the difference between healthy striving and perfectionism is critical to laying down the shield and picking up your life. Research shows that perfectionism hampers success. In fact, it's often the path to depression, anxiety, addiction, and life paralysis. ― Brené Brown

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Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen. ― Brené Brown

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The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It's our fear of the dark that casts our joy into the shadows. ― Brene Brown

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Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It's about the choice to show up and be real. The choice to be honest. The choice to let our true selves be seen. ― Brene Brown,

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Love hurts. There is nothing as painful as heartbreak. But in order to learn to love again you must learn to trust again.

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Change is painful. Few people have the courage to seek out change. Most people won’t change until the pain of where they are exceeds the pain of change. ― Dave Ramsey

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Change is painful, but nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don't belong. — Mandy Hale

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ulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness. ― Brené Brown

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If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can't survive. ― Brené Brown

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