As 2014 comes to a close, I like to gather up all the posts I shared here at Be Your Own Beloved over the year that explore the core message I share here: Seeing Yourself with Compassion which of course includes body acceptance, healing our relationship to our self-image, cultivating self-love and self-care and talking openly about...
Oh that made me happy seeing y’all go out of your comfort zone and share your smiles be they silly or subtle! We’re going to dig in a little more today into how to make peace with our smiles as there are really two different approaches we can take to smiling in a photo: posed...
It happens every so often, that a photo still catches me off guard and sends me back into that tailspin of self-criticism. In fact it just happened this week. Last Sunday I ran a 10km race here in Vancouver called the Sun Run. Me and 45, 182 other people take over the downtown and do...
I think some of my favourite posts here on the blog this year were the steps I made in my own self-acceptance & self-love path….what I loved about each of these were that they happened when I most needed them to (and least expected them to) but all of them felt like really big progress...
So, this afternoon I went out for a run. It was that perfect kind of fall weather…sunny but cool and I know that so much of winter running is usually all about the rain so I wanted to savour the day. For the first time ever…I wore running tights. Now, after many years of being...