Meri Brown is a television personality, entrepreneur, and one of the original women featured on TLC's long-running reality series Sister Wives.
The show began by documenting the daily life of a plural family made up of one husband, four wives, and 18 children. Over more than a decade on television, viewers watched the family navigate marriage, parenting, faith, relocation, changing relationships, and, eventually, the unraveling of the family structure they had worked to build.
But no television show could ever capture the fullness of Meri's story.
In the Season 6 premiere of Created Worthy, Meri takes us beyond what viewers have seen on screen and shares what it has been like to repeatedly process some of the most difficult experiences of her life in front of millions of people.
Meri opens up about growing up in a plural family, marrying at 19, navigating infertility and miscarriage, questioning her value in a culture centered around motherhood, walking through the end of her marriage, and discovering who she is beyond the roles she was once expected to fill.
Danielle and Meri also talk honestly about grief, bitterness, shame, safe relationships, creative processing, personal development, and the emotional journey that inspired Meri to create the Worthy Up movement.
This is not simply a conversation about reality television.
It is a conversation about what happens when the life you once knew begins to fall apart, and when you finally give yourself permission to believe it might actually be falling into place.
If you are rebuilding your identity, walking through loss, or learning how to believe in your own worth again, this episode is for you.
No matter what you have been through or what season you are in right now, YOU are Created Worthy.
Content note: This episode includes conversations about infertility, miscarriage, grief, divorce, and difficult family relationships.
ABOUT MERI BROWN
Meri Brown is an entrepreneur, public figure, and original cast member of TLC's Sister Wives, a reality television series that began by following the lives of a plural family with one husband, four wives, and 18 children.
Meri grew up in a plural family and entered her own plural marriage at 19 years old. Over the years, millions of viewers watched her navigate infertility, motherhood, changing family relationships, public scrutiny, and the eventual end of the marriage and family structure that had shaped much of her adult life.
Outside of television, Meri has continued the deeply personal work of rediscovering her identity and building a life rooted in authenticity, personal growth, and inherent worthiness.
She is the founder of Worthy Up, a movement and community created to help people embrace their stories, recognize their value, build meaningful connections, and move toward the lives they know they are capable of creating.
THE EPISODE RUNDOWN
✨ What Meri has learned from watching her life unfold on television
✨ How filming, interviews, and watching episodes air created multiple opportunities to process difficult experiences
✨ Learning to embrace both the deeply sincere and salty, snarky parts of yourself
✨ Growing up in a plural family and intentionally entering a plural marriage at 19
✨ The story behind Sister Wives and what Meri wishes people understood beyond the television edit
✨ Infertility, miscarriage, and questioning your worth in a culture centered around motherhood
✨ Why anger, sadness, jealousy, and bitterness do not need to become sources of shame
✨ Loving the children in her family while still grieving the babies she could not have
✨ Meri's favorite creative processing practices, including nature, mountains, aspen trees, writing, drawing, and painting
✨ The emotional moment that gave birth to Worthy Up
✨ Why worthiness is not something another person can give or take away from you
✨ What Jamie Kern Lima's book Worthy reminded both Danielle and Meri about sharing similar messages
✨ Why there is room for more than one voice at the table
✨ Finding safe people who will help carry hope when you cannot hold it for yourself
✨ Caring for your physical body while walking through emotional pain
✨ The reminder that both the highest highs and the lowest lows will eventually pass
ABOUT MERI BROWN
Meri Brown has shared much of her life publicly through TLC's Sister Wives, but her story extends far beyond what viewers have seen on television.
Through her own journey of loss, changing relationships, public scrutiny, personal development, and rediscovering her identity, Meri has become passionate about reminding others of their inherent worth.
She is the founder of Worthy Up, a movement and community centered around personal growth, authenticity, connection, empowerment, and the belief that every person's story matters.
CONNECT WITH MERI BROWN
Official Website:
https://www.meribrown.com/
Worthy Up:
https://www.worthyup.com/
Join the Worthy Up Community:
https://www.worthyup.com/join-our-community
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/therealmeribrown/
Watch Sister Wives on TLC:
https://www.tlc.com/shows/sister-wives
RESOURCES & LINKS MENTIONED
Worthy: How to Believe You Are Enough and Transform Your Life by Jamie Kern Lima:
https://amzn.to/4wDRZEc *affiliate link*
Tom Hanks' "This Too Shall Pass" Reflection:
Meri's reference appears to be from The Hollywood Reporter's Actors Roundtable featuring Tom Hanks, Robert De Niro, Jamie Foxx, Adam Sandler, Adam Driver, and Shia LaBeouf.
Watch the full conversation:
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9u6mjo
CREATIVE PROCESSING ACTIVITY
Creative processing is simply activating your creative mind to process a certain intention.
Your creative process does not need to look artistic or produce something impressive. It might look like writing, painting, drawing, reorganizing your home, building a spreadsheet, having an honest conversation, or taking a phone-free walk beneath the trees.
The value is not found in the finished product.
The value is found in what becomes clear while you create.
Further Processing Questions:
- What part of yourself have you believed you needed to hide, separate, or apologize for?
- What might change if you allowed every honest part of yourself to belong?
CONNECT WITH DANIELLE DAMRELL
Danielle Damrell is a creative speaker, Certified Life Story Coach, and the host of the Created Worthy Podcast. She helps people process their stories, reclaim their voices, and lead with clarity, creativity, and courage.
Website:
https://damrellcreativeco.com/
Created Worthy Podcast:
https://damrellcreativeco.com/podcast
Danielle's Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/danielledamrell/
Created Worthy Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/createdworthypodcast/
Created Worthy Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/createdworthypodcast/
Listen and leave a review on Apple Podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/created-worthy-the-life-stories-podcast/id1572230854
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You are Created Worthy.
Produced by Danielle Damrell Creative Collective, Inc.
