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Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others

I remember reading this quote from Elie Wiesel years ago and it’s become a practice for me—even when I’m enraged or afraid: “Never allow anyone to be humiliated in your presence.”

Brené Brown • Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience

Our systems, institutions, leaders and narratives about who and what we are — our lack of compassion and limited definitions of what a valued member of society is — are failing us. They have been failing us for quite some time

Stephanie Dinkins • Afro-Now-Ism

“I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration, I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations

In this place of transition - a place that feels disorienting, confusing, messy - we need to be learning from each other, plural in the possibilities we generate, and willing to let go of those mental frameworks that are no longer serving us well.

Sophia Parker • Emerging Futures at JRF - Two Years In, the Story So Far

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Brené Brown • A coragem de ser imperfeito: Como aceitar a própria vulnerabilidade, vencer a vergonha e ousar ser quem você é (Portuguese Edition)

Because so many time-worn systems of power have placed certain people outside the realm of what we see as human, much of our work now is more a matter of “rehumanizing.” That starts in the same place dehumanizing starts—with words and images.

Brené Brown • Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone

What person who does what this woman does has not been there? How I admire them and cherish them. I see them each day, serving in a variety of ways, dealing with the heartbreaking realities of the poor: frustration; violent transference; physical and mental sickness; rejection; police harassment; loneliness; hunger for food, friendship, and purpose