Love The Process!
Hey hey! I spent all last night looking at amazing self portraits on instagram, twitter and Facebook (tag yours with #fplphoto so I can find yours!). I’ve also been reading messages that talk about both the exhilaration and intimidation of self discovery.
It’s kind of like hopping into a time machine and revisiting adolescent angst, yes?! ha!
If you are following along on the 52 week challenge, then you’ll hit some road blocks…some of you already have. You may feel self conscious, a little afraid, a bit out of your comfort level. These are actually all great things, because it means you’re pushing and stretching yourself.
One of the things I wanted to do for myself was to learn how to hoop dance. Not hula hoop like I did when I was 7, but really groove with a hula hoop. It’s been 3 months so far, and I feel ridiculous still. What 39 year old hula hoops?! Well, I do. I’m not perfect and it’s not super graceful, but I went for it anyway. My other kids picked it up and now we all hoop together, which is so much fun!
When I was first starting, I watched a video by Safire called “Love The Process”. She made it as a kind of manifesto for her practice and her life, and I think it applies equally well to anyone trying to do anything:
I hope you are loving your process the last couple weeks. I’ve been loving seeing it happening for each of you who are on board with a more joyful, playful, free life. Don’t get caught up in the negative, fearful, self conscious feelings…just know they’re important in letting you know that you’ve hit something deep and need to stay there for a while. The more of those feelings you can release, the more space you’ll have for the good stuff to fill it back in.
Keep playing. Keep asking for what you need. Keep thinking about what you want. Keep seeing yourself for who you are. Love your process!
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I/ We did our self portrait day today…the picture taking was shared out between all four kids and I need to find the download cable in order to get them on FB.
Having had the kids follow me around for a day with a camera made me realise that I could never do a fly-on-the-wall documentary….and I’m not sure I can be brave enough to post the one of me having a pee that my three year old took!