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Feeling Safe to be Seen?

8/22/2017

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I have kids in Elementary, Middle and High schools again this year, all respective "seniors". The innocence of kindergarten days are left for my growing grandchildren. Social Media is a territory that my mother couldn't have prepared me for in respect to the technology, but she (with the help of others) did equip me well with a heart to reflect my responsibility and value on this planet. 

Some learning curves are steep, aren't they? Learning our worth, our "being enough", embracing and BEing with our perfect imperfections are tricky. 

A friend wrote the following poem, sharing some thoughts on taking selfies. With school starting and my kids getting more deeply knit into networks, groups, and social pressures, I thought a valuable reminder of the compassionate space I want to "hold" for my kids ...and the parents that are walking in this hard season of navigating the ever changing social media scene. It's easy to get "off my map" and act from fears, comparisons or become uber sensitive and vigilant to the "rules" and tools instead of courage, trust, faith, hope, and Love.

I'm honored to have walked with clients through intimate moments as they learn that they're the only ones who expect themselves to be all things to all people and that they are, in fact, enough. As a sweet perk to my work, the lessons they're embracing further and deepen my own and so more importantly, increase the space they can hold for their children to learn too.

When I can look at mySelf with love and compassion, I can more easily hold that for my kids, their peers and the confused culture that is trying to figure this "all" out too. 

You are enough, Mom. I pray you know it....and that your kids will too.
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Posted On Instagram · November 1, 2016
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Self Portraits
.by Julie Wilson 

We Take Our Pictures
Because We Are Lonely
And We Have Not Been Seen
.
We Take Our Pictures 
Because We Are Beauty
But We Find It Hard To Believe 
.
We Take Our Pictures 
Because We Are Here
And It Feels So Damn Important 
To Document Our Being
.
We Take Our Pictures
Because Our Sadness Is Heavy
And Our Portraits Suspended 
Outside Of Ourselves
Lessens The Load 
.
We Take Our Pictures 
Because We Are Scared-
We Are Afraid Of Being Alone 
.
We Take Our Pictures 
Because We Are Sacred
We Are An Offering
And A Prayer For Grace
.
We Take Our Pictures 
To Pin Down Our Memories 
Vaguely Knowing That So Many
Have Evaporated Away
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We Take Our Pictures 
Because We Wonder
How Much Do They See?
How Well Do I Cover My Flaws?
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And We Keep Taking Our Pictures 
Because We Have Been Convinced 
Over And Over Again 
That We Aren't Quite Enough 
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