Coaching practices for Brene Brown Daring Greatly

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

  • There’s a thing I want to say or ask for, but I can’t make myself do it without knowing how they’ll take it first
  • I keep telling myself I’ll finally feel okay about myself once I hit the next thing
  • I have to tell someone something hard about their work and I’m dreading it, because every time I do it lands like an attack and they go defensive
  • After I mess something up, this voice says it’s not that I did a bad thing, it’s that I am bad
  • There’s a conversation I know I need to have

Practices that may help

  1. Daring Greatly, Made Practical
    Brené Brown’s Daring Greatly argues that vulnerability — showing up without guarantees — is the birthplace of courage, connection, and creativity, not a weakness to hide. The ideas come from qualitative, grounded-theory research on thousands of interviews rather than controlled trials, so treat them as well-grounded patterns from lived experience rather than experimentally proven effects.
  2. Choose vulnerability on purpose
    Show up and let yourself be seen when there is no guarantee of the outcome.
    Daring Greatly, Made Practical
  3. Practice wholehearted living
    Cultivate the sense of worthiness that lets you engage life from "I am enough."
    Daring Greatly, Made Practical
  4. Give and receive feedback with courage
    Sit on the same side of the table: feedback as a shared problem, not an attack.
    Daring Greatly, Made Practical
  5. Build shame resilience
    Recognize shame, reach out, and speak it — so it loses its grip instead of running you.
    Daring Greatly, Made Practical
  6. Develop emotional courage
    Choose discomfort deliberately when the values-aligned path is harder — courage is a practice, not a trait.
    Emotional Agility, Made Practical
  7. Rumble with the story you’re telling yourself
    Name the conspiracy your mind invents in a hard moment, then check it against the facts.
    Daring Greatly, Made Practical
  8. Shame Resilience, Made Practical
    Brené Brown’s shame resilience theory, derived from her grounded theory research, describes the capacity to recognize shame when it arises, move through it without letting it define behavior, and emerge with empathy intact. The core insight is that shame thrives on secrecy, silence, and judgment — and that named, shared, and empathically received shame loses its power to drive disconnection and self-destructive behavior.
  9. Own your story — including the difficult parts
    Shame loses power when you claim your own narrative rather than letting it define you from the outside.
    Shame Resilience, Made Practical
  10. Shame-attacking exercises
    Do something mildly embarrassing on purpose to prove you can survive and function through discomfort.
    Unconditional Self-Acceptance

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