Dr. Brené Brown: On Holding Boundaries & Facing Our Fear

We hold on to the job or the relationship or the hope, the expectation, the dream because we don't understand the fear that's right under letting go of it.

A love affair with the thing, you're most afraid of, there's nothing more powerful than that.

Grit is 'this is about me' ... Grind is 'what will people think?'

Change is always or always includes a series of small deaths. And if we don't understand that grief is going to be a part of change and that loss is going to be a part of change, I don't think we can successfully evolve.

You got to befriend the fear. It's telling you something, probably trying to protect you from when you didn't have agency as an adult ... But what are you afraid of?

When we make changes and we evolve and we figure out who we are, I think that path always includes some grief.

I always ask myself when I find myself charging towards something over and over or running away from something over and over, 'What's the fear?'