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Book Review: 'Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead'

By Inman News Feed

Add Comment | Comments: 0 | Posted Sep. 11, 2012

explore the ascendancy of shame in our society, and how to combat it;
offer readers systematic guidance on how (and why) to deactivate the defense mechanisms and emotional armor most of us have constructed over our lifetimes precisely to avoid being vulnerable;
and provide rich, new frameworks for creating engaged cultures and fostering wholeheartedness and connection in our families, workplaces and communities.

"Daring Greatly" is a book of a few intellectual sparks and a-ha moments, and a few dozen of those deep seismic paradigm shifts, i.e., those moments when you feel like the sentences you just read are causing the tectonic plates of who you always have been and how you always have lived to grind into a slightly different formation, one that frees you from fear and worry and anxiety and control freak-ishness and begins to position you to experience the risks of vulnerability and open you up to the highest heights of human connection, dream fulfillment and joy.

Tara-Nicholle Nelson is author of "The Savvy Woman's Homebuying Handbook" and "Trillion Dollar Women: Use Your Power to Make Buying and Remodeling Decisions." Tara is also the Consumer Ambassador and Educator for real estate listings search site Trulia.com. Ask her a real estate question online or visit her website, www.rethinkrealestate.com.