Brené Brown Instagram – This book completely captured my heart. As I read it I thought back to a moment over a decade ago when I cried to my therapist, “Vulnerability is just excruciating.” She looked at me, smiled, and said, “Yes. It can be. It can also be quite exquisite.” Hanif Abdurraqib’s (@nifmuhammad) words are poetry and they envelop us and carry us from excruciating moments to exquisite moments in the most brilliant and unexpected way. The unwillingness to choose between the deeply human moments that give life meaning — the grief, the gratitude, the love, the rage, the beauty, the pain — is where genius and beauty happen. There is so much genius and beauty in this man and this book. Listen to our conversation on the new episode of Unlocking Us.