Brené with Tim Ferriss and Dax Shepard on Podcasting, Daily Practices, and the Long and Winding Path to Healing

The narratives that control us, the stories we tell ourselves, shape our reality. And so often, we just take it as assumed that what we're thinking is true, it's accurate, it's a reflection of reality. So, 'don't believe everything you think,' I think, has some really profound implications for well-being, it has profound implications for performance, it has profound implications for everything since your entire experience of life is passed through this filter that we call the mind.

Regret can be a useful teacher and a spotlight that helps you identify things that you would benefit from doing or not doing. I would say, regret, to me, is a type of pain, and I think pain can really be a positive force for positive change.

If someone put a gun against my head and said, 'You got to choose one of all these tools in the toolkit for, sort of, mental, emotional stability & resilience,' I would also choose exercise—easily, not even a close second place.

Cold exposure, cold baths used to be prescribed at these various retreats for people suffering from depression ... Folks would be prescribed, say, two sessions of cold exposure per day, and that's just been lost over time in favor of kind of pharmaceutical intervention, which has its place. But the cold exposure is a game-changer. It's really a game-changer.

People often ask me, 'How do you know what to share not to share when it comes to vulnerability?' ... Everyone has their own line, but my bottom line is, if my healing is dependent on your response, I'm not ready to share it.

Most people take for granted that they're able to be honest with themselves, and in my experience, it's way harder than you think it is to be honest with yourself.

Shame is a forbiddable foe. It hates having words wrapped around it, and so it will do whatever it takes to make sure that it as an emotion is never languaged.

It's a pandemic level of people who have experienced sexual abuse. Any time you're at a four-top table, one of you there has experienced it.