RISING STRONG LESSON 6: LIVING BIG

• Cultivate a deeper sense of compassion for yourself and others.
• Develop tools for boundary setting in order to work from a place of integrity and generosity towards the assumptions and intentions of others.

 

Reading Assignment – Rising Strong

This lesson is explored in Chapter 6, but reading Chapters 6-11 will be very helpful.

 

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Note – the video is going to ask you to pause the lesson video to go get a pen and piece of paper.  You may want to get them before starting!

Lesson Video – Living BIG

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Lesson Video – Living BIG Part 2

 

Boundaries: getting clear on what’s okay and what’s not okay

Integrity: choosing courage over comfort; choosing what is right over what is fun, fast, or easy; and choosing to practice our values rather than simply professing them

Generosity: working from assumptions and intentions of compassion and grace

Manifesto of the Brave and Brokenhearted

By Brené Brown, Rising Strong

There is no greater threat to the critics and cynics

and fearmongers

Than those of us who are willing to fall

Because we have learned how to rise.

With skinned knees and bruised hearts;

We choose owning our stories of struggle,

Over hiding, over hustling, over pretending.

When we deny our stories, they define us.

When we run from struggle, we are never free.

So we turn toward truth and look it in the eye.

We will not be characters in our stories.

Not villains, not victims, not even heroes.

We are the authors of our lives.

We write our own daring endings.

We craft love from heartbreak,

Compassion from shame,

Grace from disappointment,

Courage from failure.

Showing up is our power.

Story is our way home.

Truth is our song.

We are the brave and brokenhearted.

We are rising strong. 

Journaling Instructions:

• Decorate and add color to your journal page. You can use the supplies you have available to get creative when completing and decorating this journal page.
• Find or take a picture that represents yourself in a natural, joyful state.
• Write a poem that starts with “I am.”
  • This poem should describe who you are.
  • What you stand for.
  • Your values.

Lesson files

Exercise One – Boundaries, Integrity, and Generosity	Manifesto of the Brave and Brokenhearted	Download – Integrity
Download – Can’t Rise on the Run	Story Rumble Glossary