July 9, 2014 Today, this is what courage looks like … /// {{Wondering what’s going on here?? Almost a year ago, I found myself on bad terms with the person in the mirror. So I made a commitment: every day for forty days, I’d take *one* photograph of my body that I could honestly see […]
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Same Body, Second Glance: Day Seven
July 7, 2014 Open to this day and wherever it leads… ❤ /// {{Wondering what’s going on here?? Almost a year ago, I found myself on bad terms with the person in the mirror. So I made a commitment: every day for forty days, I’d take *one* photograph of my body that I could honestly […]
Same Body, Second Glance: Day Four
/// {{Wondering what’s going on here?? Almost a year ago, I found myself on bad terms with the person in the mirror. So I made a commitment: every day for forty days, I’d take *one* photograph of my body that I could honestly see as beautiful. Want to follow my journey? Start here.}}
Same Body, Second Glance: Day Three
July 3, 2014 Beauty for today … ❤ /// {{Wondering what’s going on here?? Almost a year ago, I found myself on bad terms with the person in the mirror. So I made a commitment: every day for forty days, I’d take *one* photograph of my body that I could honestly see […]
Same Body, Second Glance: Day Two
July 2, 2014 Yesterday, I shared my commitment to take a single daily photograph of my body that I could honestly see as beautiful. Today, I found the beauty caught in early morning light stabbing through the blinds… ❤ This post is part of a series. To start at the beginning, click here.
Same Body, Second Glance: Day One
July 1, 2014 Friends: more than a decade ago, I accomplished the hardest thing I have ever done when I recovered from a longtime eating disorder. Since then, my relationship with my body has been like too many marriages of about the same age: healthy, but not always happy. Content, but not always joyous. Over […]
Same Body, Second Glance: A Bold Attempt to See Myself Anew
A few days ago, I promised to unveil a new project today … One that was vulnerable. One that scared me. This is it. * Almost a year ago, I found myself in a kind of a rut. I’d been recovered from an on-again, off-again eating disorder for more than a decade by then. I […]
Breaking Silence
I’ve been quiet for more than a week here — maybe you noticed. I needed that time to step away … to sink into silence. Sometimes I need silence the way so many good green things need winter — maybe you know what I mean. Not long ago, I mentioned that I’ve been mulling a new project […]
An Honest Prayer …
Oh Lord, teach me to see this town with loving eyes … when the snow lies clean on every limb, and when it clogs the sidewalk, soot-scuffed black. when I am surrounded by ones I love, and when I am trudging the white trail alone. when I am surrounded and still alone — give me love, then most […]
The Way of Escape
You find yourself in a windowless room — the walls crumbling plaster, gray. (I know this because I am there too). You don’t know how long you’ve been there, but you know it’s been a long time, because there’s a hunger in the back of your eyes: for color, light — carmine, sun-yellow, cobalt. Your body is stiff, hunched, the bones nearly bent. The ceiling is […]