You should read Brene Brown's books

You should. It could change your life. If you haven't read any of Brene's stuff, I won't be able to describe it to you in a way that will necessarily make you want to read it. She's a shame researcher and has done a lot of work around shame and vulnerability. See what I mean? I get if you don't *want* to read her stuff, but if you push through your own resistance to words like "shame" and "vulnerability" and to my pushiness, you will be grateful you did it.

Here's what will likely happen if you read one or more of her books:

• you will cry
• you will want to be be braver or more brave, either or both
• you will understand why you get crazy mad or sad about things that don't matter as much to other people 
• you will understand when other people react like that, at least more often 
• you will face your deepest fears
• you will want to have a more thoughtful way of communicating with other people
• you will want stop making wide and shallow descriptions about people as often
• you will laugh a lot because she's super funny
• you will have some good perspectives to help you be a better leader, friend, sibling, co-worker, etc.
• you might even be more honest and more of yourself
• you will find that she says a lot of things that connect to faith too
• instead of trying to fix other peoples' problems, you might be empathetic instead.

If you don't like reading, she has two TED Talks you can watch: THIS ONE and THIS ONE.

Brene Brown is probably why I started a blog.