Episode-by-episode discussion of Atlas of the Heart by Brené Brown — 87 emotions, what each one actually is, and the language that makes them easier to carry. Each episode takes one chapter and turns it into something you can use today. Part of The Burnout Podcasts.
4 episodes listed below. All 14 are on Apple Podcasts, free, no signup.
The places we go when the heart is open, and the risk that comes bundled with all of them. We cover Brown's definitions of love and trust, what betrayal does specifically, and why vulnerability is the entry fee rather than the weakness.
Joy is more frightening than most people admit. We go through foreboding joy — bracing for disaster in your happiest moment — plus the research connecting gratitude to joy, which runs in the opposite direction to the one people assume.
The places we go when we feel wronged. We cover anger as a signal rather than an end state, what contempt predicts about a relationship, and the specific reason Brown treats dehumanisation as the most dangerous item in the whole atlas.
The atlas closes by turning inward — pride, hubris, humility, authenticity, perfectionism — and then on what the whole map was for. We cover the self-assessment chapter and Brown's closing case that meaningful connection is built out of the language you have just spent fourteen episodes learning.
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More chapter-by-chapter shows: The Body Keeps the Score · No Bad Parts · Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? · Don't Believe Everything You Think · The Courage to Be Disliked · Stop Saying You're Fine
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