“Women are powerful, and I see them stifle this every. single. day…. Life is short. Rise up and step back into your awesome, innate power. You are compassion and creative force and divine life itself. You are a Goddess.” -Victoria Erickson
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
She’s been through hell and came out an angel.
You didn’t break her.
You don’t own that kind of power.
It’s called Diastasis Recti, and I found out today it’s a separation of the abdominal muscles. It’s what happens when a woman’s abdominal muscles have to move so far apart to allow for pregnancy that her other internal organs are barely hanging on by a thread. Read more HERE.
And it makes her even more beautiful, powerful, and life-giving.
The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes,
because that is the doorway to her heart,
the place where love resides.
“In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.”
― Rachel Carson
The gentle curve of the breast and hip combined with the fabric seemed to remind me very much of rolling sand dunes.
I always try to see what kind of mood I can get the images to portray, and sometimes it happens by accident. This time I got two.
This one seems to have a big of angst in it, as if she’s trying to tear away what’s holding her back.
And this one is just full of peace…
The model’s own words, “You’d be hard pressed to find even an inch of my body that isn’t scarred, stretched, or jiggling. But I AM BEAUTIFUL and no one can convince me otherwise. My body is all mine and it’s been through the wringer and now it’s more a work of art than its ever been.”
Woman as Art 