(She is the author of three New York Times bestsellers, after all.) She also reminded everyone that they can shoulder their share of the burden of child abuse, big or small, so that one person doesn’t have to bear it all. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.” She also admitted how lousy she felt reading the comments on that now-famous TED talk in them she saw “everything she feared about her career,” and it sent her straight for a jar of peanut butter and a Downton Abbey marathon.īut they also led her to discover a speech Theodore Roosevelt gave at the Sorbonne in Paris in 1910, in which he said, “It is not the critic who counts not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. She continued candidly - and humorously - about her work studying vulnerability, courage, worthiness, and shame. She explained that she only does a couple of these talks a year, because the mission of the organization has to speak to her.
Once the purpose of the day’s event was firmly stated, Brown came to the stage. … Instead she is a survivor, empowered to walk in freedom.” Through therapy at DCAC, she “no longer lives as a victim of the abuse she’s suffered.
“While her peers have been memorizing state capitals and discovering what vinegar does to baking soda, she has endured abuse more heinous than many of us would allow our minds to imagine.” But their message ended with hope for her future.
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