Brené Brown helps people find their way to each other.
"In surveys taken by 7,000 people over five years, Brown, the sociology professor turned best-selling author and leadership consultant, and her team found that on average people can identify only three emotions as they are actually feeling them: happiness, sadness and anger. For Brown, who made her name by illuminating the finer contours of humans’ emotional landscape, this is not nearly enough. So, in Atlas of the Heart, she sets out to map 87 different emotions, pointing out the distinguishing features of each."
"...Brown believes the ability to precisely name feelings is a crucial skill, especially in days of division. 'If we want to find the way back to ourselves and one another, we need language,' she writes, 'and the grounded confidence to both tell our stories and to be stewards of the stories that we hear.'”
Book Review: Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience