RISING STRONG LESSON 6: LIVING BIG
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Lesson Objectives
- Cultivate a deeper sense of compassion for yourself and others.
- Develop tools for boundary setting in order to work from a place of integrity and generosity towards the assumptions and intentions of others.
Reading Assignment – Rising Strong
This lesson is explored in Chapter 6, but reading Chapters 6-11 will be very helpful.
Note – the video is going to ask you to pause the lesson video to go get a pen and piece of paper. You may want to get them before starting!
Lesson Video – Living BIG
Video Questions
Think of a person you constantly find yourself judging – someone whose choices, values, and/or behaviors you find annoying or unacceptable.
Lesson Video – Living BIG Part 2
Exercise One – Boundaries, Integrity, and Generosity
Boundaries: getting clear on what’s okay and what’s not okay
Integrity: choosing courage over comfort; choosing what is right over what is fun, fast, or easy; and choosing to practice our values rather than simply professing them
Generosity: working from assumptions and intentions of compassion and grace
Think about the person you picked during the video. List 3-4 specific boundaries.
Barriers to Living BIG
- Perfectionism
- Fear of grief
- Sadness
- Fear
- Self-judgment
Video – Manifesto of the Brave and Brokenhearted
Manifesto of the Brave and Brokenhearted
By Brené Brown, Rising Strong
There is no greater threat to the critics and cynics
and fearmongers
Than those of us who are willing to fall
Because we have learned how to rise.
With skinned knees and bruised hearts;
We choose owning our stories of struggle,
Over hiding, over hustling, over pretending.
When we deny our stories, they define us.
When we run from struggle, we are never free.
So we turn toward truth and look it in the eye.
We will not be characters in our stories.
Not villains, not victims, not even heroes.
We are the authors of our lives.
We write our own daring endings.
We craft love from heartbreak,
Compassion from shame,
Grace from disappointment,
Courage from failure.
Showing up is our power.
Story is our way home.
Truth is our song.
We are the brave and brokenhearted.
We are rising strong.
Art Journaling Exercise
Journaling Instructions:
- Decorate and add color to your journal page. You can use the supplies you have available to get creative when completing and decorating this journal page.
- Find or take a picture that represents yourself in a natural, joyful state.
- Write a poem that starts with “I am.”
- This poem should describe who you are.
- What you stand for.
- Your values.
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