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📘 '''''Rising Strong''''' is a nonfiction book by
== Chapter summary ==
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🔄 '''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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