I really wanted to like this book. I really, really did. I tried. It may have been that I listened to it on audio book, but I found it frustratingly circular and difficult to follow with the many generations named the same thing. I finished it in hopes it would get better, and toward the end, there was one line about literature being put into the freight train rather than up with passengers that made me smile, but other than that, I found very little redeeming in this book.

This book is truly fascinating. My inner skeptic makes it hard - very hard - to accept it as truth, but it is compelling and is making me reconsider long-held beliefs. I'm open to learning more, and that's something that could not have been said before cracking open this book. Regressive therapy is fascinating and I want to read more in this direction, both as a clinician and as a person. My only criticism - I felt Dr. Weiss's ego was a bit presumptive at times.

This book is super intense and it challenges your worldview and it is 100% worth every page. I'll definitely have to revisit it often to make rising strong a practice.

Ooooooooof. This book was heavy and intense and amazing. The stories Brene Brown uses to show us what the wilderness looks like, what collective joy looks like, what collective pain looks like, and why all of this is critically important are masterful and diverse. Strong back, soft front, wild heart indeed.

Amazing and authentic grief book. Honest, raw, and comforting.

This was an incredibly intense, captivating read. It didn't end the way I expected it to at all. There were a lot of tears, a lot of grief triggers hit at various points throughout the book, a lot of my feelings around grief echoed by characters in the book. And it was really, really good. It was powerful and it was raw and it rang true emotionally. And it was a hard read in a lot of ways, but most of the best books are.