Brené Brown quote: Women most often experience shame as a web of layered, conflicting, and competing social-community expectations. The expectations dictate who we ...

Women most often experience shame as a web of layered, conflicting, and competing social-community expectations. The expectations dictate who we should be, what we should be, how we should be.

~ Brené Brown ~

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