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| Writer | Brene Brown |
| Category | Self Development |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House |
| Publish Date | 2021 |
| Pages | 449 |
| File Size | 8 MB |
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I am not a sentimental keeper of things. Maybe it’s because I come from a long line of people who hold on to everything—every receipt and photo and old department store box. From the time I was in my early twenties, I often had the unenviable task of packing up the houses of relatives who could no longer live at home or who had died.
If the movie montage version of this chore exists, I’ve never experienced it. It’s miserable. First, no one in my family is going to admit that they might, at some point, get sick or die. My people die with a look of defiance on their faces and shit in every drawer.
This leaves me and my sisters packing, crying, cussing, and using every single tool we’ve learned in therapy to resist turning on one another when we’re exhausted. That’s actually the only time we laugh—when one of us says, “I wish I could take out my rage on y’all,” and the other two, without even looking up, say, “Yeah. Same.”
There is nothing sweet about packing up. It’s hard physical work and an emotional minefield. Do I keep it? Do I trash it when no one is looking? Should I feel bad? Am I bad? Maybe I should box it all up and let my kids deal with it when it’s their turn? As far as my own stuff goes, I was Marie Kondo before Marie Kondo was cool.
Atlas of the Heart PDF