Brown has collected some of her insights about vulnerability, shame resilience, and "Wholeheartedness". If these insights resonate with you, you will find much to chew on from how she has explored a variety of common human difficulties, in situations like the workplace, school, and parenting, and has found solutions in the form of embracing vulnerability and working constructively with shame.

The book is a little overstuffed and repetitive for my tastes. I found myself skimming paragraphs that seemed to be saying the same thing from chapter to chapter.

I also would have appreciated if she had shared more of her reasoning with us. It was hard to tell if she was really on to something or whether she had just fallen in love with a pet theory and was interpreting all of her experience using it as a guide. Brown frequently says things like "the data suggest" or "research shows" without giving us much insight into what the research or the data was. There's an appendix that concerns her research methods, but I didn't come away from it feeling very enlightened. Details were few and the process seemed at first glance to be very vulnerable to confirmation bias.

But the book is probably better read as a pep talk rather than an argument. If you find her theory persuasive, you will be given many examples of how people have applied it in various contexts and the benefits they have felt from having done so.