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Caroline & Yasmin

July 8, 2018

Yasmin ~ My body... Uncomfortable, happy.


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I love my eyes, my back.

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Being a mum has had a big effect on my body... my breasts have changed and under my eyes.

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I'd love to be able to embrace my body and see it in a new way... it would be lovely.


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I often saw my mum's body when I was growing up. I think she's beautiful. She has a beautiful body.

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Caroline ~ My body... Older, useful, comforting, sexy,


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My daughter and I hug every day, I watched her give birth to both her babies... I see her most days and give support on a practical level, which will mean giving her girls a cuddle or a carry.  I play with them and massage their legs when they are achey. I hold her when she cries and we hold each other when we laugh from our belly’s.

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I never really had any female figures in my life to teach me how to appreciate my beauty as a woman. I was very unaware and awkward as a teenager, I never realised I needed a bra until a girl at school told me I should wear one. I was surrounded by my cousins by the age of 15 who were all gorgeous and I felt even worse about my body. As I grew older all I ever really wanted was to be a mum. And so when, at 23, it finally happened I started to feel in awe of my body. Look what it had done for me! Look what it was able to create!

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Raising them just filled my heart with joy, every day. But when your kids grow up and leave home, no-one really talks about that part of motherhood. I wasn't prepared for that. I found that I couldn't really function without that role... I was lost for a while. It's been a process and I'm getting there. I am so fortunate to have beautiful grandchildren and that my kids are close and want me to be part of their lives.


No-one really talks about that part of motherhood. I wasn't prepared for that.


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I am now finding balance, as a woman, mother and grandmother.

I feel that my body is a wonderful vessel that has given me so much.


I am so grateful to Caroline and Yasmine for being so open and sharing their hearts with me. Working with them gave me the most beautiful insight into a layer and dynamic of motherhood that interests me so much and seems so far away while we are in the throws of parenting young children.

 

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