Growing up in an unstable home environment is an experience that usually leads kids to cut off their parents as adults. Their basic needs often went unmet, which meant they had to focus on surviving, ...

Without openness, we lose the chance to connect, to understand and to help. Brené Brown, a researcher whose work on shame and vulnerability has shaped how we think about emotional openness, explains ...

and when I stopped hiding in shame, I found community like never before. I decided that while I didn’t have to share everything with everyone — that’s not vulnerability anyway — I would no ...

To me, that is vulnerability. When I began to tell the truth about my life (and I don’t mean over-sharing or telling everyone everything, but rather the truth about depression and eating disorders and ...