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2021 Recap!
I enjoy looking back + seeing all the progress I’ve made over the year. It helps me realize that I did in fact actually do things + work toward my goals.
Sometimes my brain likes to tell me that I’ve done NOTHING + gotten NOTHING accomplished, that I’ve wasted the whole year.
Does your brain do that to you too?
Maybe looking back through your year to see all that you’ve done will benefit you too!
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- Took lots of walks at parks
- Hiked in the mountains as much as possible
- Helped my sister Gemini move
- Reconnected with AD
- Went to a wedding
- Made new friends
- Cried a lot
- Had some of the most painful menstrual cramps of my life
- Visited/traveled to:
- Durham/Raleigh NC
- NC mountains
- DC
- PA
- Cleveland OH
- Microdosed mushrooms a few times
- Took a voice lesson
- Saw the Van Gogh immersive exhibit
- Learned about my ancestry
- Got tested for STIs
- Learned about my HSV1+ status
- Helped out at the local camera store
- Went to the mountains with my dads side of the family
- Got vaccinated
- Finalized my name change!!! I am SO excited about this!
- Tattoo appointment almost every month (finished outlining + started color… vlog post about all this coming soon!)
- Went camping with a friend
- Journaled every day
- Did energy practices almost every day
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- Redid/updated my website
- Created a welcome automation for my newsletter
- Taught Self Portraits for Self Discovery + Connection workshop for The Light Factory
- Created Self Portraiture for Self Discovery + Connection ebook + Inspiration + Planning workbook
- Created + shared Queer Nature slideshow
- Applied for a residency + didn’t get it (practice failing to get closer to accomplishing!)
- Facilitated peer support sessions
- Quit social media!!! Thank you Leonie Dawson for helping me feel like this was even possible!
- Filmed for Nudism.TV (with my family!) for 4 days
- Worked on meditations with Jenna + Lior
- Photoshoots:
- Facilitated virtual nude gatherings: March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October (total of 8 gatherings)
- Facilitated a first look at self portraits members only event
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- Became an LLC
- Got a business bank account
- GBTL events: Jan, Feb x2, March x2, April x2, May x3, June x2, July, August, September (total of 15 events!!!)
- GBTL met up in person to create + facilitate backstage pass
- Many many meetings + video chats + text messages behind the scenes
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- Explore More Summit 2020
- Sales Star with Leonie Dawson
- Marketing Without Social Media with Leonie Dawson
- Black Friday Training with Elizabeth Goddard
- Intersex Period Pandel Discussion with Crystal Hendricks, Mari Wrobi, Nick Manchester, Yezenia León Mezu, + Sean Saifa Wall
- Identity + Representation Panel Discussion with Roarie Yum, Jade Wilson, Paige Wilson, Deitric Robsinon-Miller, Kiah Glenn, + John Robinson-Miller IV
- Breathwork For Aliveness with Jennifer Patterson
- Emotion Mapping with Dawn Serra
- Boundaries Class with Luna Dietrich
- Live Your F*ck Yes Life Summit (non monogamy + polyamory) with Amanda Katherine Loy, Chad Spangler/polyamfam, Leanne Yau/polyphiliablog, Ebony/Marjani Lane, + Jess Levity/remodeledlove
- Women Race + Class by Angela Davis
- The Language of Emotions by Karla McLaren
- We Will Not Cancel Us by adrienne maree brown
- Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett
- My Grandmothers Hands by Resmaa Menakem
- I Hope We Choose Love by Kai Cheng Thom
- Evolution’s Rainbow by Joan Roughgarden
- Rebloom by Rachael Maddox
- Seven Thousand Ways to Listen by Mark Nepo
- Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson
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New vlog + 2 photosets + BTS videos!
NEW PHOTOS, WHAAAAT?! I’m actually doing a few photoshoots + seeing PEOPLE again?!
It feels kinda weird, + I need a lot of along time before + after, but/and I’ve really been enjoying slowly + intentionally beginning to put myself out there creatively again. Very selectively choosing when I’m available to others + when I need time for myself. Not pushing or striving, just going with the flow. I’ve really been leaning into slowness + rest + it feels good!
• a nude vlog
• 2 photosets
• 4 behind the scenes videosI wanted to at least share SOME of these wonderful images with EVERYONE!!!
I am continuously reminded of the importance of connection.
Connection with self, loved ones, community, nature, + spirit.I hope these images help you visualize connection + remind you of the ways we are all interconnected. ❤
Rachel + Hendrix double exposed with Zion
Meredith lakeside at a nature preserve
Click here for the entire roll of Rachel + Hendrix + Zion
Click here for the BTS videos with Rachel + Hendrix
Click here for the entire roll of Meredith
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Meredith, Rachel, + Hendrix
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CAPTION FOR THE VIDEO ABOVE:
Hi friends! So today I wanted to tell you about the photos that I took in the last couple of weeks. I actually had 2 photoshoots in the last few weeks + I’m very excited + happy with how the photos turned out!They were fun photoshoots, both outside, both with people I haven’t created with before, local to Charlotte, which was cool.
The first photoset I took was with Meredith at a nature preserve in the area + we found this really great rock that was heart shaped if you looked at it from higher up, so we took a bunch of photos on those + then some other places nearby. It was beautiful + wonderful + it was fun to hang out. Also there was sadly a lot of trash on the trail + that made me sad so I picked it up + threw it away. They had trashcans, + most of the trash was outside of the trashcan. I don’t know if there was a raccoon or something that got in there, but I put it back in the trash. Things like that, I’m just going to do it. So that was with Meredith, it was fun hanging out with her.
The next shoot that I had was with Rachel + she brought her little baby, 8 month baby I believe, Hendrix with her. He was super cute. We shot here in the back yard, right over there. My mom helped, she babysat off to the side, when we were shooting. They hung out on a blanket in the yard, + we were in the makeshift mini studio thing we put together. That was really fun, we did double exposures with Zion National Park. They all turned out so amazingly. At the end we did, maybe the last 5 or 6 photos, included the baby! The very last photo we took is the one of her kissing him + it’s my favorite of the whole roll.
Ok yeah that’s what I wanted to share with you, I’m excited to share them with you + I hope you like them as much as I do! I love you!
Rachel + Hendrix
Meredith
Click here for the entire roll of Rachel + Hendrix + Zion
Click here for the BTS videos with Rachel + Hendrix
Click here for the entire roll of Meredith
(Password link below)