FAT + HAPPY HAS ARRIVED :)
Hello there and happy July! I hope this week finds you asking yourself what you want to create, whether it's for an audience or just for you. Your form of expression matters! I'm sipping Buckingham Palace tea this morning (you knew this fave would make it back into the rotation) and thinking about how this post has been a long time in the making. :)
I have wanted to create online content for a while. I didn't exactly know what it was going to be, but I had some fun ideas. And just like with anything creative, I start from a place of excitement and expansion inside my body. I get that buzzing little feeling when I'm in the flow of things and the possibilities seem endless and I'm thinking this is gonna be great!
And then time passes and I start to hear those little voices that tell me this has been done before. I don't have anything new to add. I don't have the discipline. I'll run out of ideas after two months. No one is interested. And on and on.
Damn those voices are a pain in the ass! I had them before I started this weekly newsletter, before I took my teacher training, before I went to acting school, when I asked myself if there was happiness to be found in a big body. Basically before I've done pretty much anything that mattered to me or pulled me out of my comfort zone, I've heard these voices, these insecurities.
But I've never been one to let myself be entirely pulled down by the voices that I know are ultimately coming from a place of fear. There's always been this spark inside me that says "this could work!" and I'm so so glad for that. I wouldn't be here, in month 7(!) of my weekly newsletter, connecting with you otherwise.
And I wouldn't be saying that FINALLY I am launching a Patreon called Fat + Happy!
Patreon is a monthly membership site where you support the creators you love and receive exclusive content in return.
I'll be offering yoga, audio meditation, adventure videos, roundup posts with what I'm loving, snail mail and more!
I am so grateful to the fat positive online creators in my life who remind me every day that life is there to be lived and that's not exclusive to people who look a certain way. I never thought my life would look this way and I'm thrilled to be living in the moment and excited for the future, without feeling like I have to be someone else. I want to share that excitement with you as I continue to walk this path of self acceptance in the pursuit of pleasure and joy.
If you want to spend a little more time in this world of living in your body and your life, in a way that CELEBRATES you, then click here and sign up for some Fat + Happy goodness!
As always, as you move through this week, remember to treat yourself and your body with love, respect and kindness.
Much love,
Helen xo