Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience

by Brene Brown

Hardcover, 2021

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Random House (2021), 336 pages

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Business. Psychology. Nonfiction. Self Help. HTML:#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER � In her latest book, Bren� Brown writes, �If we want to find the way back to ourselves and one another, we need language and the grounded confidence to both tell our stories and be stewards of the stories that we hear. This is the framework for meaningful connection.� In Atlas of the Heart, Brown takes us on a journey through eighty-seven of the emotions and experiences that define what it means to be human. As she maps the necessary skills and an actionable framework for meaningful connection, she gives us the language and tools to access a universe of new choices and second chances�a universe where we can share and steward the stories of our bravest and most heartbreaking moments with one another in a way that builds connection. Over the past two decades, Brown�s extensive research into the experiences that make us who we are has shaped the cultural conversation and helped define what it means to be courageous with our lives. Atlas of the Heart draws on this research, as well as on Brown�s singular skills as a storyteller, to show us how accurately naming an experience doesn�t give the experience more power, it gives us the power of understanding, meaning, and choice. Brown shares, �I want this book to be an atlas for all of us, because I believe that, with an adventurous heart and the right maps, we can travel anywhere and never fear losing ourselves.� *Includes a downloadable PDF of illustrations from the book.… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member Michael_Lilly

I just finished listening to Atlas of the Heart, by Brene Brown. It is a valuable and cogent book.

Brown has a great deal to say about language and emotions, nearly all based on her extensive studies of how people use particular words to express emotions. Her ideas were nearly all new to me, and

while I would not say I agree with her on everything, it is all interesting and worth considering. I listened to an audio book version in which she is the reader, and she adds asides to the text during her reading. I am going to let the ideas rest for a few weeks then will read it again as an ebook or paper book — something I don’t do often.

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LibraryThing member jepeters333

In Atlas of the Heart, Brown takes us on a journey through eighty-seven of the emotions and experiences that define what it means to be human. As she maps the necessary skills and an actionable framework for meaningful connection, she gives us the language and tools to access a universe of new

choices and second chances—a universe where we can share and steward the stories of our bravest and most heartbreaking moments with one another in a way that builds connection.

Over the past two decades, Brown’s extensive research into the experiences that make us who we are has shaped the cultural conversation and helped define what it means to be courageous with our lives. Atlas of the Heart draws on this research, as well as on Brown’s singular skills as a storyteller, to show us how accurately naming an experience doesn’t give the experience more power, it gives us the power of understanding, meaning, and choice.

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LibraryThing member mktoronto

Unlike her previous book, she uses graphics to break up all the text and it works very well. Most of the book is defining different emotions, as her research showed that part of the problem is that we don't properly define what we are feeling. I found myself thinking a lot about how I relate to

others as I read this. I definitely will be using this material in my own work.

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LibraryThing member witchyrichy

Atlas of the Heart by Brene Brown was an introduction to emotions, a full range that gets beyond the "happy, sad, mad" that most people mention when asked to describe their various emotions. There are some 90 or so, grouped together in families of 5 to 10. Brown uses her extensive data sets to

tease out the similarities but, more importantly, the differences between emotions like jealousy and envy or happiness and joy. Her final grouping is the most jarring as it traces how hatred can be turned into disgust which, when focused on other groups of people, leads to dehumanization. The book takes an upbeat approach with comic strips, hand illustrated charts and full page pull quotes.

I have only read one other Brown book--The Gifts of Imperfection--and I enjoyed her irreverent style of presenting her research. She is a qualitative researcher who love to tell the stories she encounters. But, she is also able to take all the data and organize it in a way that supports the bigger picture.

I have a couple other Brown books on the shelf and may move them closer to the top of the TBR.

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