A Body Image Recommendation

alright ladies...and guys if you have any lady in your life...it's time for a body image recommendation.

get yourself photographed!...and i don't mean a couple of snapshots...i mean a portrait sitting!

if you are at all like me in the body image department, actually putting yourself in a situation where you are on display...having your beauty (or lack thereof, so you may incorrectly believe) captured...it can be a traumatic thought and/or experience. (i actually wanted to throw up my first time!...oh dear!)

but because there's freedom when we choose to walk through our valleys, i say 'go for it!'...let those wounds rise up, let healing waters flow over them...and actually see the "mountaintop" when it comes to your REAL and TRUE beauty. (screw the wrinkles, rolls or stretch marks!!!) :)

my body image was way out of whack for years! first, i grew so fast and was really embarassed by it. always taller than everyone else...always noticed because of it (or so i thought). second, i thought i was way too fat...began a series of bouts with starving myself. got really thin...unhealthily so...still felt worthless. (go figure!) third, because i was so sure of my ugliness, i tended to put myself in situations that only validated it. and i pretty much thought any opinion to the contrary a lie.

so i haven't always believed a genuine beauty was in there...nor have i always put myself in situations that affirmed that beauty or called it out.

but we can!

so, if you feel like it's time to get up outta 'ugly' and call out your beauty that IS there...how about a little step???...a portrait session!!!

i'll come with you! we'll have so much fun!