Learn This Revolutionary Approach to Loving Yourself in Photos

"The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often and unconscious, but still a faithful interpreter - in the eye." -Charlotte Brontë

 

Being a brand photographer, I know that most women aren't HUGE fans of seeing themselves in photos. Some squint and hem and haw, choosing just the right photos that they're not *too* critical of, and some simply can't even bring themselves to book a shoot with me or anyone else because they're too afraid they'll hate every single one.

 

It's more than just a sad truth, it's oppressive. This obsession with our bodies and needing to look as much as we can like the "default" body (aptly named by Sonya Renee Taylor) is keeping us from so much joy, so much abundance and goodness and aliveness. 

 

The problem is in this thought: I don't like my body, therefore I need to change my body. 

 

It's a natural thought, a natural progression - fix the thing you don't like, right? Change the thing that's causing you stress? But that only gets us so far. The closer we get to the default, perhaps the easier it is to be less self-conscious, but what are we actually CHANGING that's lastingly and overwhelmingly positive, compassionate and loving? As we age or as our botox fades, we're right back where we started, left with our negative thoughts about our bodies and obsessively trying to figure out a body-based solution.

 

But what if the real solution isn't body-based at all? What if, in fact, what we're judging and being so repulsed by in photos isn't actually *anything* related to our physical appearance? In this episode, I present the idea that what we're actually hating in our photos is the look in our eyes, the thing that's connected to our soul and our soul desperately trying to reach us saying, "Hear me. Be guided by me," and knowing that we haven't headed it in several areas of our lives and feeling like we don't know how to trust ourselves. And that, when we begin the soul-led path of intentionality and healing, we automatically begin to love what we see in photos of ourselves without ever changing a damn physical thing about us.

 

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In this episode, I discuss Sonya Renee Taylor's book "The Body is Not an Apology." Get it HERE.

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