I've seen this book recommended in many different places, and it had been on my list for years. But I think it really is built for a specific kind of person: someone with close ties to an organization looking to impact social change, especially those who are in leadership or management roles. If that sounds like you, I strongly recommend this. But even for myself (years of activism work, but moving to a new city means I mostly just volunteer doing housekeeping stuff for a local queer youth org), I felt like brown was often speaking to someone else, and not to me. 
 
That said, brown still does amazing work in this book. I really appreciate her use of quotes throughout this, and how much she draws on her own personal experience through this. Beyond all, I find brown shines the best when asking questions. Even when brown and I have very different answers to her questions, the asking itself is incredibly powerful since she has such a keen sense on what needs asking. Both in this book and her work elsewhere, it's always her questions that stick with me, and I've carried them with me ever since. 

That said, there were moments where brown diminishes her own work through this book that left me feeling kind of odd. This is especially true in her relationship to math and science, since she draws majorly on both throughout the whole book, yet she always makes distance between them and herself. This led to multiple moments of her drawing dichotomies between "sciences" and "spiritual" work. This might be okay for some, but I was disappointed since many of those that had recommended this book were people working on breaking down the false borders between those ideas. Working beyond this dichotomy is foundational for myself as well, especially in my work helping others. As a result, there are some sections where I had to do a lot of work to make this text useful and powerful for myself. 

At the end of the day, this book feels like the perfect book for some particular kind of people. If you think that's you, I strongly encourage you to read this. This book might not be a foundational piece of theory everyone needs, but it has sections that are resonant regardless of where you come from.