Is your shell broken?

An open heart note to my friends who struggle with looking at themselves in the mirror…

When I took this photo I wanted to showcase my confidence and insecurity. I wanted to share the story of how my body is beautiful and still so, I struggle with the way it looks. My stomach is one of my biggest insecurities and I wanted to share what I feel in the inside, on the outside because sometimes it’s hard to express deep rooted pain into words.

My body and the size of it has always been a source of pain for me. It started when I was a child. Food was an outlet for me. It was a way for me to suppress my emotions as I wasn’t really able to express them. Food in many ways has been my best friend and confidant. I have been trapped in this vicious cycle for a very long time, and photography is a therapy tool I use to continuous ground myself and shift my perspective.

I have concluded that the mirror is only one perspective. It’s the perspective we see daily and its a very limited perspective, simply because we are physically incapable of seeing ourselves from any other point of view. (our eyes not able to move to a different location haha). I also discovered that many photos we see are perception shifts and that by manipulating shapes, we can also shift what we see. Yes, we can shape shift!

I studied until my eyes would become blood shot from watching class after class on posing, connection, body language, body shapes etc. because I understood that I had the power to exist in a photograph and NOT hate and dissociate from what I saw. And if I could have photos of myself and not hate them, I could teach others how to as well!

Knowing how to shape shift has helped me to stop missing out on experiences and opportunities, it’s given me the power and encouragement to know that my point of view is very limited and that so many others see different angles and sides of me, and I like those perspectives now that I have given myself the opportunity to experience them. I have learned that I don’t have to “wait” until my shell is a certain size to enjoy life, I can enjoy and appreciate my shell right now, and if there is something that bothers me, I have the power to change how I relate to it. Read that again.

I want to invite you to an opportunity to see yourself differently too. I want to share my shape shifting knowledge with you, but I will warn you… You may fall in madly in love with this side of yourself and get addicted to seeing the beauty in yourself. Many of my clients do which is what keeps them coming back for their bi-yearly “therapy session.”

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