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	== Introduction ==		== Introduction ==

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	📘 '''''Rising Strong''''' is a nonfiction book by research professor {{Tooltip\|Brené Brown}} that sets out a three-phase framework—“the reckoning, the rumble, and the revolution”—for getting back up after setbacks. First published in the {{Tooltip\|United States}} by {{Tooltip\|Spiegel & Grau}} on 25 August 2015, it extends Brown’s earlier work on vulnerability into a repeatable, practice-based process. The book blends qualitative social-science research with personal narratives and case stories from families, teams, and leaders to show how to own hard stories and write a braver ending. 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. On release, it debuted at #1 on the ''{{Tooltip\|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=6 November 2025}}</ref> It drew mainstream attention, including an ''{{Tooltip\|Oprah’s Super Soul Sunday}}'' episode titled “Rising Strong” on 4 October 2015 and selection as one of the {{Tooltip\|Greater Good Science Center}}’s Favorite Books of 2015.<ref name="OWN20151004">{{cite web \|title=Full Episode: Rising Strong with Brené Brown \|url=https://www.oprah.com/own-super-soul-sunday/full-episode-rising-strong-with-brene-brown-video \|website=Oprah.com \|publisher=Oprah Winfrey Network \|date=4 October 2015 \|access-date=6 November 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=6 November 2025}}</ref>		📘 '''''Rising Strong''''' is a nonfiction book by research professor {{Tooltip\|Brené Brown}} that sets out a three-phase framework—“the reckoning, the rumble, and the revolution”—for getting back up after setbacks. First published in the {{Tooltip\|United States}} by {{Tooltip\|Spiegel & Grau}} on 25 August 2015, it extends Brown’s earlier work on vulnerability into a repeatable, practice-based process. The book blends qualitative social-science research with personal narratives and case stories from families, teams, and leaders to show how to own hard stories and write a braver ending. 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. On release, it debuted at #1 on the ''{{Tooltip\|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=6 November 2025}}</ref> It drew mainstream attention, including an ''{{Tooltip\|Oprah’s Super Soul Sunday}}'' episode titled “Rising Strong” on 4 October 2015 and selection as one of the {{Tooltip\|Greater Good Science Center}}’s Favorite Books of 2015.<ref name="OWN20151004">{{cite web \|title=Full Episode: Rising Strong with Brené Brown \|url=https://www.oprah.com/own-super-soul-sunday/full-episode-rising-strong-with-brene-brown-video \|website=Oprah.com \|publisher=Oprah Winfrey Network \|date=4 October 2015 \|access-date=6 November 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=6 November 2025}}</ref>

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	''—Note: The above summary follows the {{Tooltip\|Spiegel & Grau}} first-edition hardcover (2015; ISBN 978-0-8129-9582-4).''<ref name="PRHBook">{{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 \|access-date=6 November 2025}}</ref><ref name="OCLC909776909">{{cite web \|title=Rising strong \|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/909776909 \|website=WorldCat \|publisher=OCLC \|access-date=6 November 2025}}</ref>		''—Note: The above summary follows the {{Tooltip\|Spiegel & Grau}} first-edition hardcover (2015; ISBN 978-0-8129-9582-4).''<ref name="PRHBook">{{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 \|access-date=6 November 2025}}</ref><ref name="OCLC909776909">{{cite web \|title=Rising strong \|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/909776909 \|website=WorldCat \|publisher=OCLC \|access-date=6 November 2025}}</ref>

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	🌍 '''Impact & adoption'''. ''{{Tooltip\|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 “{{Tooltip\|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=6 November 2025}}</ref> Related training built on Brown’s research—such as {{Tooltip\|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=6 November 2025}}</ref> Business media also discussed its implications for leadership culture; for example, ''{{Tooltip\|Fast Company}}'' argued for learning from failure in a 3 August 2015 feature tied to 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=6 November 2025 \|last=Rankin Naasel \|first=Kenrya}}</ref>		🌍 '''Impact & adoption'''. ''{{Tooltip\|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 “{{Tooltip\|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=6 November 2025}}</ref> Related training built on Brown’s research—such as {{Tooltip\|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=6 November 2025}}</ref> Business media also discussed its implications for leadership culture; for example, ''{{Tooltip\|Fast Company}}'' argued for learning from failure in a 3 August 2015 feature tied to 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=6 November 2025 \|last=Rankin Naasel \|first=Kenrya}}</ref>

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	== Chapter summary ==		== Chapter summary ==
	''This outline follows the {{Tooltip\|Spiegel & Grau}} first-edition hardcover (2015; ISBN 978-0-8129-9582-4).''~~<ref name="OCLC909776909" />~~		''This outline follows the {{Tooltip\|Spiegel & Grau}} first-edition hardcover (2015; ISBN 978-0-8129-9582-4).''

	🚀 '''1 – The Physics of Vulnerability.''' The chapter opens with “rules of engagement” that set a practical tone, beginning with a simple law: if we’re brave often enough, we will fall. Brown frames this as “physics,” not poetry, to underscore that courage and being knocked down are inseparable. She stresses that the same dynamics apply at work, at home, and in classrooms; we don’t get to subtract emotion because the setting feels professional. The map for recovery is threefold—reckoning with our feelings, rumbling with the stories we’re telling ourselves, and turning the learning into a daily revolution. Short vignettes show how ignoring emotion fuels blame, denial, or numbing, while naming it creates room for choice. The tone is plain and directive, with cues to get curious about bodily signals and thought loops. The throughline is personal accountability: own the feeling, then own the story you’re making of it. Together these pieces establish the operating system for the rest of the book and set up effects that ripple beyond the individual.		🚀 '''1 – The Physics of Vulnerability.''' The chapter opens with “rules of engagement” that set a practical tone, beginning with a simple law: if we’re brave often enough, we will fall. Brown frames this as “physics,” not poetry, to underscore that courage and being knocked down are inseparable. She stresses that the same dynamics apply at work, at home, and in classrooms; we don’t get to subtract emotion because the setting feels professional. The map for recovery is threefold—reckoning with our feelings, rumbling with the stories we’re telling ourselves, and turning the learning into a daily revolution. Short vignettes show how ignoring emotion fuels blame, denial, or numbing, while naming it creates room for choice. The tone is plain and directive, with cues to get curious about bodily signals and thought loops. The throughline is personal accountability: own the feeling, then own the story you’re making of it. Together these pieces establish the operating system for the rest of the book and set up effects that ripple beyond the individual.

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	📘 '''''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 narratives and case stories from families, teams, and leaders to show 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> It 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>		📘 '''''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. 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. The book blends qualitative social-science research with personal narratives and case stories from families, teams, and leaders to show how to own hard stories and write a braver ending. 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. 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> It 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>

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	== Background & reception ==		== 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>		🖋️ '''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. 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. 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" /> 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" />~~		📈 '''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" /> 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.

	👍 '''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" />		👍 '''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" />

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