friday faves.

1. country strong:  i saw it this week.  i mean... country music AND my main gal, gwynnie?  there was no way i wasn't going.

it's a flawed film, for sure... but i loved it all the same.   gwyneth paltrow is solid.  she could have stood to have gained 25 pounds to play the role but whatever.... and garrett hedlund?  dreamboat.  if the movie had been just him and gwyneth sitting there, reading magazines, i probably still would have stayed for the whole thing.



2. the power of vulnerability: today, i had an amazing conversation with a client of mine about this video, and about vulnerability and shame.  it's surprisingly extremely refreshing, cathartic and liberating to talk about one's own shame.   brene brown, the speaker in this video says it best, i think, when she says of shame: "we all have it... no one wants to talk about it, but the less you talk about it, the more you have it".  i'm grateful to have learned that today.



3.  (on a lighter note...) if i was buying myself a valentine's day gift, i would buy myself these, then i'd write myself a little country ditty about how awesome i am.

ah, hell, let's just call a spade a spade, i'd probably also give myself this little beauty:

4.  this picture of my friends' son made me smile a big, toothy grin.

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