The gifts of imperfection

Summary: Brown explores the psychology of releasing our definitions of an 'imperfect' life and embracing living authentically. In a world where insults, criticisms, and fears are spread too generously alongside messages of unrealistic beauty, attainment, and expectation, she provides ten 'guideposts' that can help anyone establish a practice for a life of honest beauty-- a perfectly imperfect life.

Record details

ISBN: 9780593133583 (hardcover)
Physical Description: print
xxix, 176 pages ; 22 cm
Edition: 10th anniversary edition.
Publisher: New York : Random House, 2020.
Copyright: ©2010
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Content descriptions

General Note:	"Including new tools to make the work your own."--Cover. "Welcome to your integration index", 22 pages following the numbered text, are blank for readers to develop their own "index" to pages and concepts they feel are important to them.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	10th anniversary note from Brené -- Preface -- Introduction: Whoehearted living -- Courage, compassion, and connection: the gifts of imperfection -- Exploring the power of love, belonging, and being enough -- The things that get in the way. Guidepost #1. Cultivating authenticity: letting go of what people think ; Guidepost #2. Cultivating self-compassion: letting go of perfectionism ; Guidepost #3. Cultivating a resilient spirit: letting go of numbing and powerlessness ; Guidepost #4. Cultivating gratitude and joy: letting go of scarcity and fear of the dark ; Guidepost #5. Cultivating intuition and trusting faith: letting go of the need for certainty ; Guidepost #6. Cultivating creativity: letting go of comparison ; Guidepost #7. Cultivating play and rest: letting go of exhaustion as a status symbol and productivity as self-worth ; Guidepost #8. Cultivating calm and stillness: letting go of anxiety as a lifestyle ; Guidepost #9. Cultivating meaningful work: letting go of self-doubt and "supposed to" ; Guidepost #10. Cultivating laughter, song, and dance: letting go of being cool and "always in control" -- Final thoughts -- About the research process: for the thrill-seekers and methodology junkies -- Integration index .