I’ve been feeling a little under the weather this week which means my writing brain is basically shut down. Go away head cold! So today here are 3 things I’d recommend giving a listen to give you a lift, some inspiration, and some fun:
Brene Brown’s Ted talks: Click Here.
Why do I recommend: because her work has changed the way I look at myself, the way I parent, the way I coach and how I interact with people every day.”Brené Brown is a research professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work. She has spent the past ten years studying vulnerability, courage, authenticity, and shame. She spent the first five years of her decade-long study focusing on shame and empathy, and is now using that work to explore a concept that she calls Wholeheartedness. She poses the questions:How do we learn to embrace our vulnerabilities and imperfections so that we can engage in our lives from a place of authenticity and worthiness? How do we cultivate the courage, compassion, and connection that we need to recognize that we are enough – that we are worthy of love, belonging, and joy?”
Bruno Mars’s New Album 24K Magic : Click here to listen. .
Why do I recommend: I just love that this album gets ya moving and reminds me of 90’s R&B. Chunky is one of my favorites! If you loved some Boys 2 Men or Bel Biv Devo back in the day, you will love this album.
- The Golden Compass : His Dark Materials Series: Read or listen on Audible.com.
Why I Recommend: Well to start my daughter is named after the main character in this book. She is strong, feisty, independent, and full of hope and love. All things I wish for my daughter. The story has mystery, adventure and an interesting take on our subconscious being outside of us in the form of an animal. It’s fun and well written. Give yourself an adventure!Summary from pubilsher:When Lyra and her daemon Pantalaimon decide to spy on a presentation her uncle, the commanding Lord Asriel, is making to the elders of Jordan College they have no idea that they will become witnesses to an attempted murder, and even less that they are taking the first steps in a journey that will lead them into danger and adventure unlike anything Lyra’s unfettered imagination has conjured up.Though she has been raised at the college in an atmosphere of benign neglect that has allowed her to become a half-wild child of the streets, Lyra soon finds herself apprenticed to the elegant Mrs. Coulter, and in possession of a strange device called the alethiometer, a “golden compass” that reads not true worth, but truth itself.
But truth is a precious commodity, and before long Lyra and Pan are running for their lives, the object of an obsessive hunt by mysterious forces who have been stealing children for dark purposes that no one understands. Lyra will need all her street-learned wiles if she and Pan are to survive.
An international sensation from the moment it was published, The Golden Compass comes to spectacular new life in this unabridged recording, narrated by Philip Pullman himself, with the support of some of the finest actors of the London stage.
I hope you enjoy these 3 things and if you have any recommends for me to listen to, please let me know and tag it #goodlistening.