I ended last year feeling lost and this year quickly shifted into something I didn’t expect. Something that made that lostness feel like it made sense. This year I’m feeling a clarity of purpose that I’ve never felt. I think sometimes we naturally feel deeply lost or scared just before birthing something new, right? Of course that is hard to remember in the midst of the lostness.
I realized that I haven’t outright told you about this new path, though I’m sure you are seeing the changes in the courses offered and the new title of this site. The new path is all about being your own beloved and cultivating self-compassion through self-portraiture.
Something happened this February when I offered Be Your Own Beloved. There was something within me shouting ‘This!!! This is it. This is what you need to focus on. This is how you can be most of service in the world. This is your IT’. I just felt a clarity I had never felt really in my life let alone in business. For so much of my life I felt like I had no clue what my purpose was so to feel it, to feel a little taste of clarity kind of blew me away.
In these last few years of teaching e-courses it has been incredible to teach such a wide variety of classes. Everything from making videos to seeing photography through the lens of the chakras. A super wide range. So, its been a bit of a process to realize that by feeling so focused on #beyourownbeloved and truly be able to be of service through it, I needed to stop offering all the other classes. So this is what I wanted to tell you today.
It has been an honour to help people see that they can make videos and get past their fear of technology, it has been amazing to help people see that they are artists and photographers and explore self-portraiture through discovering tools of photography but I truly feel so clear that what really lights me up, what really feels like what I can most be of service in….is helping people see their own worthiness and help them bring more self-love into their lives through their cameras. That it isn’t about our cameras or our photography skill or how ‘perfect’ of an image we can get.
It is about telling our story.
It is about showing up in front of the camera seeking that self-love.
It is about resiliency.
It is about using the tools that might feel like the ways that negative self-talk may most be prevalent (like seeing images of ourselves) and taking the power back, reclaiming that tool as a way to cultivate self-love.
Its all about the love.
There are new classes coming, but they are all focused around self-portraiture, self-love and self-care and this feels really right.
So I wanted to share this with you in case you were awaiting the next Montage session or hoping the Chakra class was coming back (I’m even still on the fence about continuing to offer YAYOM…its my baby, my first born and I may still offer it but way less frequently than I have been). These courses may appear again in a self-paced or E-Book form though!
I hope you’ll join me in continuing to explore seeing ourselves with kindness through our cameras!