Love Letter to Your Body

Having a photographer for a husband definitely has its perks! A few weeks ago, we took a trip to the local park to shot some new images.

I’d been feeling increasingly uncomfortable when I opened my website. The person that I saw in the pictures didn’t look, or feel like me. There was an innocence to her that I no longer felt. And it jarred with how I wanted to present myself to the world.

These images were taken back in the summer of 2020 and boy, has life happened since then! With Covid, homeschooling, the cancer diagnosis and subsequent death of my dad, 3 operations on people close to me, sleepless nights, career shift, energy prices…. well, these things leave their mark.

These new images (soon to be uploaded) look and feel like me. It's who I am now, at 45 years old. These years on the planet have taught me so much and it's there on my face and in my body. But I also feel it in the greater depths of empathy and compassion that I can hold to do my very best work with people who are suffering. People in physical pain with no idea where to go next, people who are simply navigating all the complexities of life and need a space where they are held, people who are stuck in their life because of things that have happened in the past. Maybe that’s why we say we grow older…

I know it's easy to get caught up in what's not good or perfect about your physical form. To feel the softening, loosening or sagging as a failing. To long for the shiny gloss of younger days. But that precious body is YOURS. It carries your one and only Soul. So here's just a little reminder from me, to send some love, appreciation, gratitude and tenderness to your dear body.

Wrinkles and all.