Imperfections Are A Gift
About every other year or so I reread Brene Brown’s book, The Gifts of Imperfection. I need this book to be tattooed into my mind. It is filled with nuggets of wisdom. If you haven’t read it, you need to go out and get it.
Brene Brown researches things like shame and vulnerability. She is a gifted academic but also a heartfelt person who metabolizes her data at a soul level and applies it to her own life. If you need another wise guide in your life, Brene is excellent.
I want to share a few quotes from The Gifts of Imperfection for you to ponder today:
On Wholehearted Living:
“Wholehearted Living is about engaging in our lives from a place of worthiness. It means cultivating the courage, compassion, and connection, to wake up in the morning and think, No matter what gets done and how much is left undone, I am enough.”
On Belonging:
“From gangs to gossiping we’ll do what it takes to fit in if we believe it will meet our need for belonging. But it doesn’t. We can only belong when we offer our most authentic selves and when we’re embraced for who we are.”
On Shame:
“Shame is something we all experience. And while it feels as if shame hides in our darkest corners, it actually tends to lurk in all of the familiar places, including appearance and body image, family, parenting, money and work, health, addiction, sex, aging, and religion. To feel shame is to be human.”
On Spirituality:
“Feelings of hopelessness, fear, blame, pain, discomfort, vulnerability, and disconnection sabotage resilience. The only experience that seems broad and fierce enough to combat a list like that is the belief that we’re all in this together and that something greater than us has the capacity to bring love and compassion into our lives.”
No matter what you’re facing today, I want to remind you that you are enough. Right now. At this very moment. It’s common to see our shortcomings and personality quirks as a curse, but they’re not. Our imperfections are a gift.
The more we can embrace our imperfections with loving-kindness and be honest about them with trusted people, our sorrow will decrease and our joy will abound.
Happy to be in your corner,
Tom
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