I chose getting dressed.
Eight months ago, I was in a real funk. After having a baby at 40, moving abroad, and experiencing the lovely collision of postpartum and perimenopause, I felt pretty far removed from myself.
In an effort to feel better, I started looking for small ways to show up for myself again. Ways to become a more active participant in my own life instead of feeling like I was watching it happen around me. Ways to stop hiding.
I know it’s not exactly earth-shattering, but I started with getting dressed.
That one small decision slowly became a habit, and that habit started making room for others. Little things that helped me feel more like myself again.
Posting pictures of myself on the internet was terrifying at first. But something about allowing myself to be seen, over and over again, forced me to confront some pretty deeply ingrained feelings of shame. And slowly, in ways I never could have anticipated, I started to feel a little freer.
Which got me thinking.
What if other women could experience some of this too? The accountability, the encouragement, the strange freedom that comes from letting yourself be seen.
But without Cathy from HR or your teenager’s friends watching?
Because, understandably, not everyone wants to put their entire life on the internet.
And so I created this space. Welcome.
Elizabeth
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