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Living Out Loud with Brianna

You get one life, so you might as well make it count. My weekly newsletter, "Unveiled & Revealed with Bri," is your go-to guide for ditching the need for external approval, and how to embrace your most authentic self. Get ready for emotional-healing practices, tips, and challenges that will inspire you to live out loud. Let's rewrite your story together, shall we?

Reclaiming your Bold Life: The 'Perfect Angel' Lie -- Healing Your Inner Child to End Codependency

Unveiled & Revealed with Bri ENCOURAGING YOU TO LIVE OUT LOUD BOLDLY AS YOUR MOST AUTHENTIC SELF I've decided that for Issue 5 of this series, instead of talking about Creating Your Personal Energy Protocol this week, there is something else I need to talk about first: Healing Our Inner Child. Healing Our Inner Child to Break the Codependency Cycle Our codependent patterns are often rooted in our childhood. The beliefs we formed about love, worthiness, and safety as children can unconsciously...

Reclaiming your Bold Life: My 12 Non-Negotiables of Healthy Love

Unveiled & Revealed with Bri ENCOURAGING YOU TO LIVE OUT LOUD BOLDLY AS YOUR MOST AUTHENTIC SELF Last week, I confronted the deep-seated fear of being alone, realizing that solitude is a spiritual breakthrough essential for reclaiming your inherent worth. By separating from the chaos and choosing yourself, you build the foundation of recognizing yourself as a whole, autonomous person. Now the crucial test: As my autonomous self, what kind of new relationship is worthy of my authentic whole...

Reclaiming your Bold Life: After 21 years of Marriage I Traded the Fear of Being Alone for Solitude

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...

Reclaiming your Bold Life: Scapegoat or Survivor of My Failed 21-Year Marriage?

Unveiled & Revealed with Bri ENCOURAGING YOU TO LIVE OUT LOUD BOLDLY AS YOUR MOST AUTHENTIC SELF Scapegoat or Survivor? Responsibility vs. Blame After recognizing codependency in our past, the line between healthy self-reflection and destructive self-blame -- or scapegoating -- gets dangerously blurry. I wrote last week about taking radical responsibility as a core component of bold living, but it’s crucial to understand what it is and what it isn't. In a codependent relationship, the lines...

Reclaiming your Bold Life: What My 21-Year Marriage Taught Me About Codependency

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...

The Honest Truth: Taking Radical Responsibility to Reclaim Your Life

Unveiled & Revealed with Bri ENCOURAGING YOU TO LIVE OUT LOUD BOLDLY AS YOUR MOST AUTHENTIC SELF I want to start this next 6-week series with a deep breath and a hard truth. For years, the story I told myself about my failed relationships with my parents, friends, and then my marriage was simple and safe: "I was too sensitive and they were the problem." Specifically, in my failed marriage, I heaped the majority of the blame on my ex-husband's poor choices. It’s an easy narrative that...

Unlearning, Unveiling, and Unbound: A Bold New Landscape

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...

Unlearning, Unveiling, and Unbound: Awakening Radical Trust

Unveiled & Revealed with Bri ENCOURAGING YOU TO LIVE OUT LOUD BOLDLY AS YOUR MOST AUTHENTIC SELF Over the past several issues, I’ve discussed moving beyond the rules, expanding the view of God, unraveling Community, and reclaiming inherent worthiness. This week, I want to connect all of those threads to a topic that was once terrifying for me: learning to trust myself. For so long, I was taught to seek guidance from outside sources: from religious leaders, from specific texts, and from the...

Unlearning, Unveiling, and Unbound: Unearthing Inherent Worth

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...

Unlearning, Unveiling, and Unbound: The Unraveling of Community

Unveiled & Revealed with Bri ENCOURAGING YOU TO LIVE OUT LOUD BOLDLY AS YOUR MOST AUTHENTIC SELF If you've been following along, you know I’ve been talking about letting go of old religious labels and expanding my view of God. This week, I'll share about something that goes hand-in-hand with this transformative journey: changing community. Religious communities, with all their traditions and shared beliefs, are designed at their core to make one involved with it feel like they belong -- And...

You get one life, so you might as well make it count. My weekly newsletter, "Unveiled & Revealed with Bri," is your go-to guide for ditching the need for external approval, and how to embrace your most authentic self. Get ready for emotional-healing practices, tips, and challenges that will inspire you to live out loud. Let's rewrite your story together, shall we?