movement from an emphasis on self-esteem to an emphasis on self-compassion. And as a person of faith, I find this to be a movement toward a more substantial understanding of the human person. A leading and influential researcher and popularizer of this idea is Dr. Brené Brown, a research professor at the University of Houston’s Graduate College of Social Work. What Brown and other social researchers are telling us is that we’ve worked so hard to gain approval and esteem that we’re now crushed under