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''Rising Strong'' is a nonfiction book by researcher Brené Brown that outlines a three-phase process for getting back up after setbacks—**the reckoning, the rumble, and the revolution**.<ref name="BBsite">{{cite web |title=Rising Strong |url=https://brenebrown.com/book/rising-strong/ |website=brenebrown.com |publisher=Brené Brown, LLC |access-date=27 October 2025}}</ref> In the United States, the first hardcover edition was published by Spiegel & Grau on 25 August 2015 (336 pages), with a trade paperback following on 4 April 2017 (352 pages).<ref name="PRH2015">{{cite web |title=Rising Strong |url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/234211/rising-strong-by-brene-brown-phd-msw/ |website=Penguin Random House |publisher=Penguin Random House |date=25 August 2015 |access-date=27 October 2025}}</ref> In the United Kingdom, Vermilion released a paperback on 27 August 2015 (336 pages).<ref name="PUK2015">{{cite web |title=Rising Strong |url=https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/419687/rising-strong-by-brene-brown/9780091955038 |website=Penguin Books UK |publisher=Penguin Random House UK |date=27 August 2015 |access-date=27 October 2025}}</ref> First-edition identifiers include hardcover ISBN 978-0-8129-9582-4 (OCLC 909776909).<ref name="OCLC909776909">{{cite web |title=Rising strong |url=https://search.worldcat.org/title/rising-strong/oclc/909776909 |website=WorldCat |publisher=OCLC |access-date=27 October 2025}}</ref>
📘 '''''Rising Strong''''' is a nonfiction book by research professor Brené Brown that sets out a three-phase framework—“the reckoning, the rumble, and the revolution”—for getting back up after setbacks.<ref name="BBsite" /> First published in the United States by Spiegel & Grau on 25 August 2015, it extends Brown’s earlier work on vulnerability into a repeatable, practice-based process.<ref name="PRH2015" /> The book blends qualitative social-science research with personal narrative and case stories from families, teams, and leaders to teach readers how to own hard stories and write a braver ending.<ref name="PRH2015" /> Chapters move through the three stages—reckoning with emotions, rumbling with the stories we’re telling ourselves, and living the learning as a daily practice.<ref name="BBsite" /> On release it debuted at #1 on the ''Publishers Weekly'' Hardcover Nonfiction list for the week of 7 September 2015, selling more than 30,000 print copies that week.<ref name="PW20150907">{{cite news |title=This Week's Bestsellers: September 7, 2015 |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/bookselling/article/67983-this-week-s-bestsellers-september-7-2015.html |work=Publishers Weekly |date=4 September 2015 |access-date=27 October 2025}}</ref> The book drew mainstream attention—including an ''Oprah’s Super Soul Sunday'' episode titled “Rising Strong” on 4 October 2015 and selection as one of the Greater Good Science Center’s Favorite Books of 2015.<ref name="OWN20151004">{{cite web |title=Rising Strong with Brene Brown |url=https://www.oprah.com/own-super-soul-sunday/rising-strong-with-brene-brown_1 |website=Oprah.com |publisher=Oprah Winfrey Network |date=4 October 2015 |access-date=27 October 2025}}</ref><ref name="GG2015">{{cite web |title=Our Favorite Books of 2015 |url=https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/our_favorite_books_of_2015 |website=Greater Good Science Center |publisher=University of California, Berkeley |date=15 December 2015 |access-date=27 October 2025}}</ref>


== Chapter summary ==
== Chapter summary ==
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🔄 '''11 – The Revolution.'''
🔄 '''11 – The Revolution.'''

== Background & reception ==

🖋️ '''Author & writing'''. Brown is a research professor at the University of Houston; the book grows out of her long-running studies of courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy.<ref name="PRHAuthor">{{cite web |title=Brené Brown |url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/2021739/brene-brown/ |website=Penguin Random House |publisher=Penguin Random House |access-date=27 October 2025}}</ref> As a grounded-theory researcher, she developed the rising-strong method from stories gathered across settings—from Fortune 500 leaders and the military to artists, couples, teachers, and parents—and frames it as a daily practice.<ref name="PRH2015" /> She introduced the project on 9 April 2015 as “a book about what it takes to get back up” and about “owning our stories of struggle.”<ref name="BBNews2015">{{cite web |title=I Love Big Book News and I Cannot Lie! |url=https://brenebrown.com/articles/2015/04/09/i-love-big-book-news-and-i-cannot-lie/ |website=brenebrown.com |publisher=Brené Brown, LLC |date=9 April 2015 |access-date=27 October 2025}}</ref> The published model formalizes three phases—reckoning, rumble, and revolution—that guide the chapter flow and reader exercises.<ref name="BBsite" /> Around publication, national outlets discussed its relevance for work and leadership, including a ''Washington Post'' On Leadership Q&A and a ''Time'' interview that explored why “failure has to hurt” to produce learning.<ref name="WP20150820">{{cite news |title=Brené Brown’s guidance for the negative thinker in all of us |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-leadership/wp/2015/08/20/brene-browns-guidance-for-the-negative-thinker-in-all-of-us/ |work=The Washington Post |date=20 August 2015 |access-date=27 October 2025}}</ref><ref name="TIME20150910">{{cite news |title=Brené Brown: “We’re spit-shining failure.” |url=https://time.com/4029460/brene-brown-were-spit-shining-failure/ |work=Time |date=10 September 2015 |access-date=27 October 2025 |last=Aneja |first=Arpita |author2=Belinda Luscombe}}</ref>

📈 '''Commercial reception'''. ''Publishers Weekly'' reported that ''Rising Strong'' opened at #1 on its Hardcover Nonfiction list for the week of 7 September 2015, with more than 30,000 print units sold in its first week.<ref name="PW20150907" /> Subsequent Nielsen data on the PW site show the book on the Hardcover Frontlist Nonfiction list for at least 12 weeks that fall; for the week of 12 October 2015 it recorded 8,541 units that week and 166,336 year-to-date, with Highest Rank: 1 (7 September 2015).<ref name="PWNielsen20151012">{{cite web |title=Publishers Weekly Bestseller Lists — 12 October 2015 (Hardcover Frontlist Nonfiction) |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/nielsen/hardcovernonfiction/20151012.html |website=Publishers Weekly |publisher=PWxyz, LLC |date=12 October 2015 |access-date=27 October 2025}}</ref> The publisher also lists the book as a #1 ''New York Times'' bestseller.<ref name="PRH2015" />

👍 '''Praise'''. ''Kirkus Reviews'' called the book “an innovative one-two-three–punch approach to self-help and healing” and said Brown “gives readers the necessary tools to get up and try again.”<ref name="Kirkus2015">{{cite web |title=Rising Strong |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/brene-brown-1/rising-strong/ |website=Kirkus Reviews |publisher=Kirkus Media |date=3 June 2015 |access-date=27 October 2025}}</ref> ''Spirituality & Practice'' praised its framing of “rising strong” as a spiritual practice that can be cultivated.<ref name="SP2016">{{cite web |title=Rising Strong — Book Review |url=https://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/book-reviews/view/28234/rising-strong |website=Spirituality & Practice |publisher=Spirituality & Practice |access-date=27 October 2025}}</ref> UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center included the title on its “Favorite Books of 2015” list, highlighting its guidance for responding to shame with compassion.<ref name="GG2015" />

👎 '''Criticism'''. Writing from an evangelical perspective, ''The Gospel Coalition'' cautioned that the book’s raw language and lack of explicit Christian theology could be a stumbling block for church audiences.<ref name="TGC2015">{{cite news |title=Brené Brown on Rising Strong |url=https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/reviews/brene-brown-rising-strong/ |work=The Gospel Coalition |date=9 November 2015 |access-date=27 October 2025 |last=Nelson |first=Heather Davis}}</ref> In a long profile, ''The Guardian'' questioned aspects of tone and commercialization—calling the subtitle “schmaltzy” and the register “folksy”—and noted that some media dubbed Brown a “self-help queen,” a label she rejects.<ref name="Guardian2015">{{cite news |title=Brené Brown: ‘People will find a million reasons to tear your work down’ |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/nov/22/brene-brown-vulnerable-dont-suggest-she-is-peddling-self-help |work=The Guardian |date=22 November 2015 |access-date=27 October 2025 |last=Cadwalladr |first=Carole}}</ref> Trade coverage also situated the book squarely within self-help and leadership coaching, a positioning some skeptics view as simplifying scholarship for the mass market.<ref name="Kirkus2015" />

🌍 '''Impact & adoption'''. ''Oprah’s Super Soul Sunday'' devoted an episode titled “Rising Strong” to the book on 4 October 2015, amplifying its reach beyond the book world.<ref name="OWN20151004" /> Brown’s organization publishes a free “Rising Strong Reading Guide” for book clubs, teams, and individuals, supporting group study and workplace discussions.<ref name="BBGuide">{{cite web |title=Rising Strong Reading Guide |url=https://brenebrown.com/resources/rising-strong-truth-and-dare-an-introduction/ |website=brenebrown.com |publisher=Brené Brown, LLC |access-date=27 October 2025}}</ref> Related training built on Brown’s research—such as The Daring Way—offers facilitator-led workshops applying her courage-building and shame-resilience tools in clinical, educational, and organizational settings.<ref name="TDW">{{cite web |title=The Daring Way |url=https://brenebrown.com/thedaringway/ |website=brenebrown.com |publisher=Brené Brown, LLC |access-date=27 October 2025}}</ref> Business media also discussed its implications for leadership culture; for example, ''Fast Company'' argued that embracing failure is essential to learning, drawing on Brown’s work around the book’s release.<ref name="FC20150803">{{cite news |title=Brené Brown Wants You To Wallow In Your Failure |url=https://www.fastcompany.com/3048648/wallow-in-your-failure |work=Fast Company |date=3 August 2015 |access-date=27 October 2025 |last=Naasel |first=Kenrya Rankin}}</ref>


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Revision as of 15:12, 27 October 2025

"When we run from struggle, we are never free."

— Brené Brown, Rising Strong (2015)

Introduction

Rising Strong
Full titleRising Strong: How the Ability to Reset Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
AuthorBrené Brown
LanguageEnglish
SubjectResilience; Vulnerability; Personal development
GenreNonfiction; Self-help
PublisherSpiegel & Grau
Publication date
25 August 2015
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardcover, paperback); e-book; audiobook
Pages336
ISBN978-0-8129-9582-4
Goodreads rating4.3/5  (as of 27 October 2025)
Websitepenguinrandomhouse.com

📘 Rising Strong is a nonfiction book by research professor Brené Brown that sets out a three-phase framework—“the reckoning, the rumble, and the revolution”—for getting back up after setbacks.[1] First published in the United States by Spiegel & Grau on 25 August 2015, it extends Brown’s earlier work on vulnerability into a repeatable, practice-based process.[2] The book blends qualitative social-science research with personal narrative and case stories from families, teams, and leaders to teach readers how to own hard stories and write a braver ending.[2] Chapters move through the three stages—reckoning with emotions, rumbling with the stories we’re telling ourselves, and living the learning as a daily practice.[1] On release it debuted at #1 on the Publishers Weekly Hardcover Nonfiction list for the week of 7 September 2015, selling more than 30,000 print copies that week.[3] The book drew mainstream attention—including an Oprah’s Super Soul Sunday episode titled “Rising Strong” on 4 October 2015 and selection as one of the Greater Good Science Center’s Favorite Books of 2015.[4][5]

Chapter summary

This outline follows the Spiegel & Grau first-edition hardcover (2015; ISBN 978-0-8129-9582-4).[6]

🚀 1 – The Physics of Vulnerability.

🌊 2 – Civilization Stops at the Waterline.

📖 3 – Owning Our Stories.

⚖️ 4 – The Reckoning.

⚡ 5 – The Rumble.

🐀 6 – Sewer Rats and Scofflaws.

💔 7 – The Brave and Brokenhearted.

🎯 8 – Easy Mark.

♻️ 9 – Composting Failure.

💃 10 – You Got to Dance with Them That Brung You.

🔄 11 – The Revolution.

Background & reception

🖋️ Author & writing. Brown is a research professor at the University of Houston; the book grows out of her long-running studies of courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy.[7] As a grounded-theory researcher, she developed the rising-strong method from stories gathered across settings—from Fortune 500 leaders and the military to artists, couples, teachers, and parents—and frames it as a daily practice.[2] She introduced the project on 9 April 2015 as “a book about what it takes to get back up” and about “owning our stories of struggle.”[8] The published model formalizes three phases—reckoning, rumble, and revolution—that guide the chapter flow and reader exercises.[1] Around publication, national outlets discussed its relevance for work and leadership, including a Washington Post On Leadership Q&A and a Time interview that explored why “failure has to hurt” to produce learning.[9][10]

📈 Commercial reception. Publishers Weekly reported that Rising Strong opened at #1 on its Hardcover Nonfiction list for the week of 7 September 2015, with more than 30,000 print units sold in its first week.[3] Subsequent Nielsen data on the PW site show the book on the Hardcover Frontlist Nonfiction list for at least 12 weeks that fall; for the week of 12 October 2015 it recorded 8,541 units that week and 166,336 year-to-date, with Highest Rank: 1 (7 September 2015).[11] The publisher also lists the book as a #1 New York Times bestseller.[2]

👍 Praise. Kirkus Reviews called the book “an innovative one-two-three–punch approach to self-help and healing” and said Brown “gives readers the necessary tools to get up and try again.”[12] Spirituality & Practice praised its framing of “rising strong” as a spiritual practice that can be cultivated.[13] UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center included the title on its “Favorite Books of 2015” list, highlighting its guidance for responding to shame with compassion.[5]

👎 Criticism. Writing from an evangelical perspective, The Gospel Coalition cautioned that the book’s raw language and lack of explicit Christian theology could be a stumbling block for church audiences.[14] In a long profile, The Guardian questioned aspects of tone and commercialization—calling the subtitle “schmaltzy” and the register “folksy”—and noted that some media dubbed Brown a “self-help queen,” a label she rejects.[15] Trade coverage also situated the book squarely within self-help and leadership coaching, a positioning some skeptics view as simplifying scholarship for the mass market.[12]

🌍 Impact & adoption. Oprah’s Super Soul Sunday devoted an episode titled “Rising Strong” to the book on 4 October 2015, amplifying its reach beyond the book world.[4] Brown’s organization publishes a free “Rising Strong Reading Guide” for book clubs, teams, and individuals, supporting group study and workplace discussions.[16] Related training built on Brown’s research—such as The Daring Way—offers facilitator-led workshops applying her courage-building and shame-resilience tools in clinical, educational, and organizational settings.[17] Business media also discussed its implications for leadership culture; for example, Fast Company argued that embracing failure is essential to learning, drawing on Brown’s work around the book’s release.[18]

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References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named BBsite
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named PRH2015
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "This Week's Bestsellers: September 7, 2015". Publishers Weekly. 4 September 2015. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Rising Strong with Brene Brown". Oprah.com. Oprah Winfrey Network. 4 October 2015. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Our Favorite Books of 2015". Greater Good Science Center. University of California, Berkeley. 15 December 2015. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
  6. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named OCLC909776909
  7. ↑ "Brené Brown". Penguin Random House. Penguin Random House. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
  8. ↑ "I Love Big Book News and I Cannot Lie!". brenebrown.com. Brené Brown, LLC. 9 April 2015. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
  9. ↑ "Brené Brown's guidance for the negative thinker in all of us". The Washington Post. 20 August 2015. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
  10. ↑ Aneja, Arpita; Belinda Luscombe (10 September 2015). "Brené Brown: "We're spit-shining failure."". Time. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
  11. ↑ "Publishers Weekly Bestseller Lists — 12 October 2015 (Hardcover Frontlist Nonfiction)". Publishers Weekly. PWxyz, LLC. 12 October 2015. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 "Rising Strong". Kirkus Reviews. Kirkus Media. 3 June 2015. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
  13. ↑ "Rising Strong — Book Review". Spirituality & Practice. Spirituality & Practice. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
  14. ↑ Nelson, Heather Davis (9 November 2015). "Brené Brown on Rising Strong". The Gospel Coalition. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
  15. ↑ Cadwalladr, Carole (22 November 2015). "Brené Brown: 'People will find a million reasons to tear your work down'". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
  16. ↑ "Rising Strong Reading Guide". brenebrown.com. Brené Brown, LLC. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
  17. ↑ "The Daring Way". brenebrown.com. Brené Brown, LLC. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
  18. ↑ Naasel, Kenrya Rankin (3 August 2015). "Brené Brown Wants You To Wallow In Your Failure". Fast Company. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
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