Living Out Loud with Brianna

Unveiled & Revealed with Bri ENCOURAGING YOU TO LIVE OUT LOUD BOLDLY AS YOUR MOST AUTHENTIC SELF The Courage to Be Alone: Reclaiming Your Own Company Last week, I shared the hard work of moving from Scapegoat to Survivor. I shared in my prior issue how I drew a line in the sand, choosing to take radical responsibility for the codependency cycle in my marriage -- including the painful truth of how my enabling had harmed both my ex-husband and myself. Eventually, I discovered that the invisible...

Unveiled & Revealed with Bri ENCOURAGING YOU TO LIVE OUT LOUD BOLDLY AS YOUR MOST AUTHENTIC SELF Radical Responsibility: The Bold Antidote to Codependency Welcome to the first issue of my 6-week series: Reclaiming Your Bold Life. I'm starting with the most essential, and often the hardest, concept: taking radical responsibility for our role in codependent cycles. Codependency, at its heart, is an addiction to a person or a pattern where our self-worth and happiness are disproportionately tied...

Unveiled & Revealed with Bri ENCOURAGING YOU TO LIVE OUT LOUD BOLDLY AS YOUR MOST AUTHENTIC SELF Over the past six weeks, I’ve shared with you how I am in a shift of moving beyond the rules, expanding the view of God, unraveling Community, reclaiming inherent worthiness, and Awakening Radical Self-Trust. Now, at the end of this series, I want to talk about what it feels like to stand on this new ground. I’m no longer in a box. I no longer feel the pressure to perform or to earn my worth. I've...

Unveiled & Revealed with Bri ENCOURAGING YOU TO LIVE OUT LOUD BOLDLY AS YOUR MOST AUTHENTIC SELF Last week, I talked about community and how traditions can sometimes make you feel excluded. This week, I want to get to the heart of what this entire journey has been about for me: worthiness. So many of us, myself included, have lived under the burden of "if/then" theology. It's the idea that if you do this, then you will be worthy. If you pray enough, then you'll be heard. If you follow the...

Unveiled & Revealed with Bri ENCOURAGING YOU TO LIVE OUT LOUD BOLDLY AS YOUR MOST AUTHENTIC SELF Last week, I discussed the box I felt I was living in -- the one with all the rules and conditions. (Some made by me, and some I felt put on me.) This week, I want to share what happened when I started to open the lid and look outside the box. For a long time, the names I used for God were tied to my religious upbringing -- both as a Catholic, as a child, and then solidified as a young adult in...