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A timely and important new booklet that problems everything we think we know about cultivating true belonging in our communities, organizations, and culture, from the main best-selling writer of Growing Strong, Daring Greatly, and The Products of Imperfection. "True belonging doesn't require us to change who we could. It requires us to be who we could." Cultural scientist Brené Dark brown, PhD, LMSW, has sparked a worldwide dialog about the encounters that bring so this means to our lives - encounters of courage, vulnerability, love, belonging, shame, and empathy. In Braving the Wilderness, Dark brown redefines what this means to truly belong in a day and age of increased polarization. With her hallmark mix of research, storytelling, and honesty, Dark brown will again change the ethnic dialog while mapping a path to true belonging. Dark brown argues that we're experiencing a religious crisis of disconnection and introduces four techniques of true belonging that obstacle everything we imagine about ourselves and each other. She creates, "True belonging requires us to believe in and participate in ourselves so completely that we will get sacredness both in being a part of something and in standing alone when necessary. But in a culture that's rife with perfectionism and pleasing, and with the erosion of civility, it's easy to stay quiet, conceal in our ideological bunkers, or fit in rather than show up as our true selves and daring the wilderness of uncertainty and criticism. But true belonging is not something we work out or accomplish with others; from the daily practice that demands integrity and authenticity. It's an individual commitment that people carry in our hearts." Dark brown offers us the clarity and courage we have to find our in the past to ourselves also to each other. Which path cuts right through the wilderness. Dark brown creates, "The wilderness can be an untamed, unpredictable host to solitude and searching. It really is a location as dangerous as it is amazing, a location as popular as it is feared. Nonetheless it actually is the area of true belonging, and it's really the bravest and most sacred place you will ever stand."
