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    Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
    Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
    Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
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    Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience

    Written by Brené Brown

    Narrated by Brené Brown

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    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In her latest book, Brené Brown writes, “If we want to find the way back to ourselves and one another, we need language and the grounded confidence to both tell our stories and be stewards of the stories that we hear. This is the framework for meaningful connection.”

    In Atlas of the Heart, Brown takes us on a journey through eighty-seven of the emotions and experiences that define what it means to be human. As she maps the necessary skills and an actionable framework for meaningful connection, she gives us the language and tools to access a universe of new choices and second chances—a universe where we can share and steward the stories of our bravest and most heartbreaking moments with one another in a way that builds connection.
     
    Over the past two decades, Brown’s extensive research into the experiences that make us who we are has shaped the cultural conversation and helped define what it means to be courageous with our lives. Atlas of the Heart draws on this research, as well as on Brown’s singular skills as a storyteller, to show us how accurately naming an experience doesn’t give the experience more power, it gives us the power of understanding, meaning, and choice.
     
    Brown shares, “I want this book to be an atlas for all of us, because I believe that, with an adventurous heart and the right maps, we can travel anywhere and never fear losing ourselves.”

    *Includes a downloadable PDF of illustrations from the book
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
    Release dateFeb 14, 2022
    ISBN9781984844262
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    Brené Brown

    Dr. Brené Brown is a research professor at the University of Houston, where she holds the Huffington Foundation Endowed Chair at the Graduate College of Social Work. She also holds the position of visiting professor in management at the University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business. Brené has spent the past two decades studying courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy. She is the author of six #1 New York Times best sellers and is the host of two award-winning podcasts, Unlocking Us and Dare to Lead. Brené’s books have been translated into more than 30 languages, and her titles include Atlas of the Heart, Dare to Lead, Braving the Wilderness, Rising Strong, Daring Greatly, and The Gifts of Imperfection. With Tarana Burke, she co-edited the best-selling anthology You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience. Brené’s TED talk on the Power of Vulnerability is one of the top five most-viewed TED talks in the world, with over 60 million views. She spends most of her time working in organizations around the world, helping develop braver leaders and more courageous cultures. In 2024, she was named as the executive director of The Center for Daring Leadership at BetterUp. She lives in Houston, Texas, with her husband, Steve. They have two children, Ellen and Charlie, and a weird Bichon named Lucy.

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    • 4/5

      Jan 27, 2025

      This is a difficult book to read cover to cover as it essentially amounts to a dictionary of emotion and experience. The research is complex and layered and each entry is a lot to digest.

      Still, this book is full of wisdom and insight. I found it challenging and illuminating. It's also not meant to be read through and then relegated to the shelf. I expect to find myself coming back to it for a refresher on different terms and concepts.

      My one criticism is that it's an extremely unwieldy book. It's heavy and glossy and oversized. A lot of that is due to the big quote splash pages with unnecessary art repetitive pull quotes. I think this was designed to a coffee table book, which was maybe the publisher's idea but is pretty unhelpful for a book that's meant to be a practical resource.

      I wish someone would publish a paperback pocket version that would be easier to reference.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5

      Mar 29, 2025

      This was a nice, more mature and less angsty romance than what I've been reading.
    • 4/5

      Jan 26, 2023

      Unlike her previous book, she uses graphics to break up all the text and it works very well. Most of the book is defining different emotions, as her research showed that part of the problem is that we don't properly define what we are feeling. I found myself thinking a lot about how I relate to others as I read this. I definitely will be using this material in my own work.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5

      May 5, 2022

      I just finished listening to Atlas of the Heart, by Brene Brown. It is a valuable and cogent book.

      Brown has a great deal to say about language and emotions, nearly all based on her extensive studies of how people use particular words to express emotions. Her ideas were nearly all new to me, and while I would not say I agree with her on everything, it is all interesting and worth considering. I listened to an audio book version in which she is the reader, and she adds asides to the text during her reading. I am going to let the ideas rest for a few weeks then will read it again as an ebook or paper book — something I don’t do often.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5

      Oct 2, 2022

      In Atlas of the Heart, Brown takes us on a journey through eighty-seven of the emotions and experiences that define what it means to be human. As she maps the necessary skills and an actionable framework for meaningful connection, she gives us the language and tools to access a universe of new choices and second chances—a universe where we can share and steward the stories of our bravest and most heartbreaking moments with one another in a way that builds connection.

      Over the past two decades, Brown’s extensive research into the experiences that make us who we are has shaped the cultural conversation and helped define what it means to be courageous with our lives. Atlas of the Heart draws on this research, as well as on Brown’s singular skills as a storyteller, to show us how accurately naming an experience doesn’t give the experience more power, it gives us the power of understanding, meaning, and choice.