It also helps us to communicate our feelings.Īll of this comes back to the crux of Brown’s research: connection. Additionally, a robust language base improves our ability to recognize and conceptualize emotions in others. Brown cites research demonstrating that creating a habit of labeling our emotions is associated with improved emotion regulation and well-being.
Throughout her research, she has found that many people lump complex, nuanced emotional experiences into three nebulous categories: happy, sad, and angry.īy building up our vocabulary around emotions, we can live richer lives. It’s also only available as a hardcover, which is fitting with its artistic details, it’s the kind of pretty tabletop book that you might prefer to flip through over time rather than read all at once.Īccording to Brown, many of us have limited language around emotions, and this hinders our ability to accurately pinpoint and describe the emotions that we are feeling. This idea forms the premise of Brown’s newest book, “Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience.” The book, which was released in late November 2021, features some pages that are entirely filled by a single quote. She shared a comment she had made as a guest on the Happiness Lab podcast: “It’s a huge part of the mythology around emotion that if we look it in the eye, it gives it power… the reality is, if we look it in the eye and name it, it gives us power.” I was scrolling through Instagram when a quote posted by Brown caught my eye. Brown also hosts two podcasts where she has talked to guests including Barack Obama, Oprah Winfrey, and Dolly Parton. She has shared her research with the world through ten books. Since then, she continues to prove herself to be a powerful storyteller. It remains one of the most viewed Ted Talks in the world. Brown first rose to fame when her 2013 Ted Talk, “The Power of Vulnerability,” went viral. She explains on her website that she wanted to learn about “the anatomy of connection.” Soon enough, Brown posited that you can’t understand connection if you don’t understand the way that shame can drive us apart from others, and the way that vulnerability can bring us together.īrown’s research has certainly struck a chord with people. However, Brown did not start out her social work education knowing that she wanted to dive headfirst into these hard-to-talk-about phenomena. She is known for her research around vulnerability and shame.
I am drawn to Brené Brown because she has spearheaded important conversations about aspects of the human experience that we might prefer not to talk about.īrown wears many hats: social worker, researcher, and professor. Febru| LIFE | By Mariel Zech | Illustration by Kira Schulist
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