July 16, 2014 Shadow and light … ❤ /// {{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 […]
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Same Body, Second Glance: Day Fifteen
July 15, 2014 I put my camera on a very long timer today and just gave myself some time to be. I love how this shot turned out. It feels totally natural to me. And beautiful … ❤ /// {{Wondering what’s going on here?? Almost a year ago, I found myself on bad terms with […]
Same Body, Second Glance: Day Fourteen
July 14, 2014 Let’s talk, for a moment, about the hard parts. The portions of our bodies that are difficult to accept. The picture I’m sharing with you today is a picture of my knees. They’re a little strange, as far as knees go. If I stand with my ankles together, they point slightly toward […]
Same Body, Second Glance: Day Thirteen
July 13, 2014 Meditative Sunday afternoon … ❤ /// {{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 […]
Same Body, Second Glance: Day Eleven
July 11, 2014 I hesitated to post this one, but I’m going for it, because it represents victory to me. I look at this picture and I see a body so different from the one I once idealized — different even than the body I once wore, with its hard lines and sharp edges. I’m […]
Same Body, Second Glance: Day Nine
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 […]
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 […]