When you’ve spent nearly a decade and a half working with women in various states of undress, in a very intimate space, exploring what it means to feel sexy and express that…
To feel confident in your skin…
To wear something you probably don’t ever wear normally…
To take time for yourself, like you probably never do because you’re so busy doing everything for everyone else…
You have her come in and celebrate herself, and she pauses.
She strips down and apologizes for her lines or her scars
as if they detract from any of her,
her beauty,
everything that she’s gone through,
these lines that tell her story.
You realize she’s not apologizing for who she is,
but rather the shame she feels for existing in a way that she was told is wrong.
These things that we all have, literally every one.
One thing I’ve known working with people,
every single human,
Every. Single. Human.
APOLOGIZES for their human-ness!
There’s nothing wrong with us,
There’s nothing wrong with who we are.
There’s nothing wrong with those lines or that jiggle or that curve or that bend.
What is wrong is what we’ve been told to believe about it.
Don’t apologize for your body.
Don’t apologize for existing.
Don’t apologize for taking up space.
Don’t apologize for being who you are!
There’s nothing wrong with you.
There’s a lot wrong with what you’ve been told to believe about you.
September 7, 2024
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