LOVE YOU. Challenge - Light & Shadows
Face yourself. Be yourself. Love yourself.
Living within each of us is power - Power to manifest your ultimate desires and change your world with decision and action. Perhaps you’re already deep diving into meditation, workshops and mantras in order to harness the true you and dispel the doubt, fear and established belief patterns holding you back. Whether you’re doing the work or you’re just beginning your journey, this 5-day challenge is for you. For you to face yourself in order to love yourself.
Let’s be honest with ourselves - What’s your first thought / notice when you look in the mirror?
Is it the frizzy hair, maturity lines, shape or any other critique? Are you embracing yourself with the same compassion and love you bestow on others?
In this first LOVE YOU. Challenge - Light & Shadow, we’ll dig deeper into these questions through photography exercises, live streams and daily prompts.
The Photography Exercises:
No need for a professional DSLR camera, though you’re welcome to use one! For this challenge, you can use your phone camera and editing tools. We’ll be creating high contrast images. Ideally, if you do not have a phone / camera stand, I’d love for you to partner with someone so you’ll be creating portraits of another individual AND have your own taken. However, it’s not a requirement :)
We’ll go over:
The basics of using and diffusing light
Lens Distortion in phone cameras / DSLR lens
Basics of phone editing tools
Daily Prompts:
Join me for our discussions, overviews and explorations! Each day, there are additional prompts - opportunities for you to examine deeper into the areas of your life that you highlight for all to see AND the parts of yourself that remain hidden in the shadows.
Transparency:
I launched this challenge in the Spring of 2021. I designed this for people to begin the journey of self-love and becoming mindful of internal vocabulary. ALSO, I designed this for my own journey! Now, I find myself revisiting the challenge and find it more vital than ever. While I guided and participated a while ago, I’m revisiting it and will be working through the prompts for a second time.
You’ll notice I kept all my original content. That’s intentional - for me and for you to witness growth. To witness my transparent growth in self love and evolution of this LOVE YOU Challenge. For me, it’s not important to be perfect before stepping into the world and being all me….it’s important to begin, to step, to carve away the language and desires coming from voices outside myself & to rediscover my own voice, desires, self-love & unique power. I invite you to revisit the challenge as well even if you’ve already completed it….come back to it and work through the prompts / journaling (perhaps discovering new ones!).
Private Facebook Group:
I’m excited to meet each of you! Everyone signed up will have access to our Private Facebook Group - where all the photography exercises, live stream videos and prompts will live. You’ll have access to everything during the challenge and onward. This is also where you’ll post all your insights and photos! Remember - something inside is calling you to sign up and join this community through this challenge. There is no requirement to cheerlead others. This journey is for you. So show up & Face yourself. Be yourself. Love yourself.