Tarana Burke is an activist, founder of the MeToo movement, and graduate of Auburn University at Montgomery. Time Magazine honored her work as a 2017 Person of the Year winner and then identified Tarana as one of Time’s 100 most influential people of 2018.
Brené Brown is a research professor at the University of Houston, and visiting professor in management at The University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business. Brené is a best selling author on shame research. In fact, I recently finished reading the 10th anniversary of The Gifts of Imperfection.
This book is certainly an amazing collection of 19 stories addressing shame resilience within black communities. In addition, each contributor’s story reveals how they overcame and triumphed. I found each chapter holding a unique voice, as diverse as each contributor’s experience. Indeed, the book culminates with the closing chapter, Where The Truth Rests by Tarana.
This books serves as an inspiration to our global world of what can be achieved. However, the road to identify, confront, and overcome shame is indeed possible.
This is probably the second most important takeaway, each contributor shows that regardless of the impact of shame upon their lives, they took multiple paths to succeed. Their paths indicate there are numerous paths, not just one.