Be Yourself » Be Your Own Beloved – Vivienne McMaster

Changes are afoot.

I’ve been thinking about the evolution of E-Courses and of my business for a while now, jotting notes in my journal and brainstorming the long term plan for my business.

Never in all those notes did I expect to feel the urge to make a big shift in what is at the core of my business. In the big picture, in my ‘Be Yourself’ Business & Life Plan, it makes sense of course, but I’m having a big clarity moment on some changes I want to make in the business.

Hence the fear and excitement.

The knot in my stomach.

Feelings of ‘Who am I to’

and panicked urges to give up.

I know these feelings well and that they aren’t actually signs that I should pack it all in and stop. I know that they are clues that I’m pushing myself beyond my comfort zone, that I’m on the right track even though in the moment they sure feel mighty real.

So, I know this is a bit cryptic in terms of what is ahead and what changes are afoot. One thing I can indeed share right now is that I have been offering a super wide variety of courses in 2012 and while I have loved teaching them, I won’t be offering many of them in E-Course form anymore!

One of those is Light Hunters!

Yes, my beloved Light Hunters…I love light hunting fiercely and believe in the approach of this course and E-Book. I don’t plan to totally leave Light Hunters in the dust, but do plan to let it evolve as it needs to.

Which so far I know means that I won’t be offering it as a monthly E-Course anymore. But before the era of the monthly Light Hunters offering ends, I wanted to offer it up for the month of November.

For the November session I’ll be offering Light Hunters at a special rate. One that you define!

The suggested price for the class is $39 but I wanted to put it out there for its final month at a Pay-What-You-Can Rate. So, you get to define the rate you’ll pay for this session! You can pay the full price, or pay what you can! You are also welcome to gift the class to someone else if you’ve taken it already and want to spread the love!

The course includes 30 days of prompts in your inbox, each day starting November 1st. Participants can share their images in the course Flickr Group and on the last day of the month they receive the 36 Page E-book!

You can join in on the Pay-What-You-Can Light Hunting for November here:

Or find out more on the Light Hunters Page!

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She grabs shame by the scruff.

Yet speaks to it kindly.

Telling it that it is not welcome here.

And it is time to leave.

It listens.

She walks with confidence, learned slowly but

Now impenetrable,

Not egotistic,

Just a knowing of what she is worth.

She is still soft. She always was.

Naivity combined with street smarts.

Whimsy that can’t be stepped on.

Her softness was never lost.

She doesn’t keep her truth quiet.

As complicated and intricate as it is

She has finally found the words

To speak it.

She has taken all the words and sideways glances

That she once took as truth and rewove

Them into a learning that life as she knows it

wouldn’t have happened without them.

Perhaps she won’t stop being angry, maybe she will.

But her anger reminds her of the importance of

self-love, self-care

And defining your own worth.

She is not yet who I am.

Or perhaps she is but that I just can’t yet see.

So I’ll keep on turning the camera on myself.

Inviting her into the frame.

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This appeared this morning in response to a photo prompt I gave the Re-Writing the Story class yesterday. I’m experiencing this class differently than I’ve ever experiences one of my classes before….needing to take my own advice that I’m giving to the participants. I’m also so moved by their bravery, the way that they show up in their images and words in this class. So grateful that I get to cheer on and witness people showing up for themselves, taking control of their self-image through the camera and in turn, I get to dig even deeper into my own process of showing up for myself.

The Re-Writing the Story class is no longer offered but was a pre-cursor to the Be Your Own Beloved E-Course which explores a similar theme of creating new stories of how we see ourselves.

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Changes are Afoot {starting with a Pay-What-You-Can Sale}

Inviting her into the Frame