DAY 3: EMERGING INTO THE IMAGE
HOW HAS IT BEEN EMERGING INTO THIS EXPERIENCE?
Today's prompt is all about emerging into the process and our photo using one of my favourite creative ways to take a photo. It's a great one to help us emerge a bit more into the photo and this experience. How has it been emerging into the experience as a whole far?
July 3, 2022: my anti-anxiety #medication once again knocked me out and I slept in this morning well past 9am. So I missed the regular live session of Aaron Doughty’s 21 Day Confidence Love Challenge, but I was up just in time to catch the bonus VIP session which was really good, especially the small breakout group session Doughty had us do, where we were able to more deeply share about the kinds of #stories we tell ourselves that inform each person’s own limiting beliefs. It was good to share, although my thoughts seemed to randomly pour out of me, almost incoherently like a passage from a James Joyce novel.
I USED THE WORD 'EMERGING' BECAUSE I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO LET OURSELVES EASE INTO THE PROCESS. WHAT ARE THE COMFORT ZONES YOU'RE NOTICING SO FAR?
Are you noticing that some prompts are more outside your comfort zones than others? If you find yourself coming up against a comfort zone, could you let yourself use a tool like this and emerge into the photo gently rather than push yourself and make it all or nothing? Can you think of any other times you let yourself stretch into an experience, step by step and let yourself emerge gently?
I’m struggling to write this post today. I feel a little empty inside. A little #depressed. A little #exhausted, which honestly, feels like an oxymoron. Usually I can #ramble on about what’s good and bad in my #life, but today, I’m at such a loss to find the #words.
Words.
Words.
I snapped this photo waiting for takeout today - the only meal I ate: a Five Guys bacon cheeseburger with green peppers, ketchup, lettuce, onions, mustard, pickles, relish, and tomatoes. I snacked on the #fries during my ride to my Mum’s, where we sat in the kitchen eating our burgers in #silence.
I did a few loads of laundry.
I did a few sessions of a Udemy course on @microsoft Word I’m doing. There was no ribbon when I first learned the program years ago. I’m also figuring out how to do things in Corel WordPerfect at the same time - some things are different but other things are the same.
I did a bit of organizing in the garage.
I listened to Shannon Kaiser’s new book RETURN TO ME which she recorded for SoundsTrue and Audible.
I wrote this while #yawning several times.
I want to #sleep but I toss and turn.
Today feels like SUCH a waste.
I feel hungover from the anti anxiety meds I took last night. The drowsiness is like a fog even 24 hours later. My doctor is set to call in the morning. So I’ll have to tell him this: I can’t function on these meds if all they do is put me to sleep. I did that well enough on my own without the meds during the day, thanks to my depression. I thought these meds were supposed to pick me up, not slap me down harder.
This post was originally posted to Instagram and Flickr.
184/365.
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Today’s photo prompt and reflective journaling questions for today was a part of the BE YOUR OWN BELOVED photo workshop challenge which is run several times throughout the year by photographer VIVIENNE McMASTER. It’s well worth signing up for, and doing alongside other participants. Note that there’s no requirement to share your photos outside of the group. You don’t even have to share the writing reflections with the group, let alone publicly as I do. It’s a very supportive and private safe space that McMaster provides.