Brené on Places We Go When the Heart Is Open from Atlas of the Heart

Hi, everyone. I'm Brene Brown, and this is unlocking us. Happy Valentine's Day. I'm not sure how legit of a holiday this is actually, but given that it is one, we thought we would do something special for you today. It's an extra episode of unlocking us, a bonus episode to celebrate Atlas of the Heart releasing an audiobook. I have to tell you two things about the audiobook. Where's Barrett? Come here, Barrett. Here. Present. Okay. Tell them how I feel about recording audiobooks. It's your most favorite thing in the whole world. Liar. It's so hard. I have never it's one of the hardest things in the whole world. Like, you can't just go fast. I had this great producer, Karen, and she's always like, slow down, especially, like, when I get to the end of a chapter or, like, it's almost like end of the book. Or the end of the book or it's time for me to go home for the day. I'm like, thank you. It's just I have such appreciation for the people who do it well, like, the people who read audiobooks. It's hard. So the two things I wanted to tell you, one, it's really hard, but it's also a labor of love. But the second thing is I had so much fun reading this one because I had some freedom to I mean, I stayed on course with the book, but I had some freedom to tell you some thoughts on some things that are actually not even in the book. And because it's a audio medium and there's pictures in the book, I get to describe the pictures, tell you kind of where I found them, why they're in the book, and then the audiobook actually comes with a PDF of all the illustrations. So I think it's a really good audiobook, and I'm excited about it. The next step that we're gonna share with you today is from chapter 10, places we go when the heart is open. Love, lovelessness, heartbreak, trust, self trust, betrayal, defensiveness, flooding, oh my god, flooding, and hurt. So I'm really excited to give you a first listen, and thank you so much. I know that a lot of times the audiobooks come out at the same time as the actual book release, which for us was, like, November 30, Atlas came out. Yep. I still so appreciate the support. It's still on the New York Times bestseller list, actually, along with DOTA Lead, which is fun. Yes. I couldn't do it because of the really quick timeline that we did. We wrote the book and got it published in. And so I wanted to read it myself, so this was the quickest we could get it to you. So happy Valentine's Day, Galentine's Day, however you celebrate today if you do. And I wanna also say thanks to Penguin Random House Audio for allowing us to exclusively share this excerpt from the audio …