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Your selfie is a claiming of space
Whether it’s the tips of your toes or your whole body
Whether it’s unfiltered or wildly creatively processed
Whether it’s your first one or your 5000th
Whether you took 1 in the moment or 50
Whether you share it or keep it to yourself
Whether it’s with a phone or a fancy camera
Whether you went out of your comfort zone or not
Whether you get likes or comments or not.
Even whether you like it or not.
Because the more we choose to be the narrator of our own story.
The more we choose to take back the reigns of the stories we let define us.
The more we open our hearts to the person awaiting us in the photo.
The more we show up.
The more control we feel over the camera.
The more we are able to stand in our power.
Every selfie, your selfie, is an act of claiming space.
It is a moment you choose to create where you are in charge of how you see yourself.
Where you choose self-connection over the worry about people thinking you are ‘self-centred’.
Because it’s not self-centred to choose to see ourselves with compassion.
It’s a choice to hear our own voice again outside of our inner critic’s voice.
To see and hear our own voice of inherent worthiness again.
Photo by photo, we are claiming our voice again.
Claiming ourselves back from unrealistic standards of beauty.
Claiming space for ourselves to be heard.
Claiming compassion.
Reclaiming.
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