Brené Brown

This is going to be taken away from me.

Something bad's going to happen to balance this out.

I'm gonna get sucker punched by pain if I let my guard down.

So I push away joy and that was the hardest part of my recovery.

I can tell you this, in our research, we found that over 90% of parents, while feeling a very overwhelming love for their children, immediately pictured something terrible happening to their children.

You're tucking a baby in at night.

You're overwhelmed with love and joy.

And then you immediately picture something horrible happening.

It's the same thing.

Tell me how.

I think joy for me would not be I'm having a good time.

That might be happiness or pleasure or something like that.

But real joy to me is... Like this weekend, I was with Steve.

It's so fun to say all three of the kids now that Ellen... Now I've got a new birdie in the nest with a son-in-law.

And we all went out on the boat.

It was a great day.

It was just fun.

And then I remember...

The kids, the older kids saying, we're going to head home.

And I was like, call me as soon as you get there.