Rising Strong: The inspiring bestseller to help you create a life you love, from the author of Dare to Lead and The Gifts of Imperfection

Brené Brown

Aug 2015 · Random House

About this ebook

The powerful and inspiring book from the bestselling author of Dare to Lead and The Gifts of Imperfection, showing you how to have the courage to embrace fear, failure and vulnerability to create a life you love.

'Thanks to Brené Brown I learned how to be vulnerable’ Miranda Hart, actress, comedian, and bestselling author of I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest With You

‘A life-changing read’ Red Magazine

Struggle can be our greatest call to courage.

The physics of vulnerability is simple: If we are brave enough often enough, we will fall. This is a book about what it takes to get back up.

Building on Brené’s groundbreaking research on vulnerability and daring, Rising Strong presents an inspiring process to rise from falls, overcome mistakes and face hurt in a way that brings more wisdom and meaning into your life.

Walking into our stories of hurt can feel dangerous. But the process of regaining our footing in the midst of struggle is where our courage is tested and our values forged. Our stories of struggle can be big or small, but regardless of their magnitude or circumstance, the rising strong process is the same: We reckon with our emotions and get curious about what we’re feeling; we rumble with our stories until we get to a place of truth; and we live this process, every day, until it becomes a practice and creates nothing short of a revolution in our lives.

Rising strong after a fall is how we cultivate wholeheartedness. It’s the process that teaches us the most about who we are.

Written with Brown’s trademark mix of research, storytelling and honesty, Rising Strong is the powerful, personal and practical guide to embracing fear and failure and creating the life that we love.

Praise for Brené Brown

‘Brené empowers us each to be a little more courageous’ The Huffington Post

‘Practical and insightful’ Sheryl Sandberg, former Facebook COO and bestselling author of Lean In

‘Brené cuts through the noise and speaks to what makes us human’ Brigadier General Brook J. Leonard, United States Air Force

‘Brené has profoundly inspired our product leaders to design in and embrace vulnerability, rather than engineer it out' Danielle Krettek, founder, Google Empathy Lab

‘The master of hope’ Metro

Ratings and reviews

Brene Brown's work always amaze me on how much it make me question about myself and life. This book is no difference, if you need to read it and are up for the challenge this book will be life changing. This fulfills one of the are that did lack on Brene's work: if we are going to fail so much if we go into the arena, how we deal with the process of going back in? This book explore what she learned about this topic on her own Rising Strong Processes and what she learned about other people who do it or are struggling to do it. It is a must read for anyone trying to be more councious about ourselves and how to get better, not only to impact ourselves but also change our surrounds (change our World). I would recommend to first explore at least Daring Greatly Book from Brene first, but I have bias since it had such a impact on my life. To end this review, if you are curious and searching for answers in how to be a better self, finding yourself on those pages is a good step foward your goal, let's all keep going in challeging the 'tradicional' and transforming ourselves!

I loved this book. Easy to read and comprehend. It has been a eye-opener and was a perfect read just before I started the STEPPS (Systems Training for Emotional Predictability and Problem Solving) program.

I like the concept of rising strong. Our lives are full of challenges, in rising strong you begin to think about getting your life back in order stronger instead of disparity.

About the author

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 Professor of Practice in Management at The University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business. She is the author of six #1 New York Times bestsellers and the host of two award-winning podcasts. 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 Frisé named Lucy.