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Brené Brown
2 essays feature or mention Brené Brown, newest first.
Why Old Pain Keeps Coming Back: The Pain-Body
Someone says one small thing and you go up like dry paper. We follow Tolle's pain-body through one whole round while Griff snaps at a friend over a loose chair joint. Michael Singer, David Hawkins, Bessel van der Kolk, Joe Dispenza and Brené Brown add their views along the way, and the post ends on what to do the next time the heat rises.
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What Is Shadow Work? Jung, Tolle, Brown and Singer Agree on This
Carl Jung called it the shadow. Eckhart Tolle calls it the pain-body, Michael Singer calls it samskaras, and Brené Brown finds it under shame. Here is the one mechanism they all describe, and a four-step practice for the next time a reaction is bigger than the moment.
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