The Body Chronicles
- A 6 MONTH ART PROJECT TO HELP YOU {FINALLY} MAKE PEACE WITH YOUR BODY -
SPEND 6 MONTHS WITH ME HELPING YOU MAKE PEACE WITH YOUR BODY
Join me online for 6 months to create your own Body Chronicles art book. Using writing, photography, & other creative aspects that light you up, we are going to get deep into what it means to be a body and at the end of the 6 months, we will take everything that you’ve written & created and turn it into a glorious art book.
Photography
As a professional photographer, I am no stranger to the power that photography has on helping us truly SEE ourselves. We will be using photography as one of the main tools to create our Body Chronicles.
To kick off the year long journey, we are going to start with the month of January being focused on using your phone or camera to take self portraits. You will learn the ins & outs of how to use photography to SEE yourself. Throughout the rest of the year you will revisit your photography at least once a month to create a gallery of images that will make their way into your art book.
Writing
It wouldn’t be a Teri-course if writing wasn’t involved. Writing will be the second most used tool for your Body Chronicles because this is where the magic happens. The pen alchemizes the thoughts & feelings we have about our bodies into AHAs! and epiphanies that help us make sense of our relationship to our bodies & selves.
Taken from The Pleasure of Writing:
”When we write notes or ideas with a pen and paper, our brain engages in a more active process of encoding the information. This deeper level of processing allows us to retain and recall the information more effectively than when we type it on a computer.”
At the end of every month you will take photos or scan your hand-written words and these will be used in your final art book.
Art
Using paint, crayons, markers, embroidery, pencils, pens, and various other methods of creativity we will explore our relationship to our body - making the intangible, tangible. Through various questions you will be asked to connect to your inner artist and the important piece here is TRUSTING that whatever you choose is what was meant to be chosen. There is no right or wrong when it comes to art, but for those of us that grew up to believe there is RIGHT way to do things, this may be the squidgiest aspect of the entire project (which is important to the story!!)
Community & Accountability
Throughout the year you will be part of an intimate community of other humans working through their Body Chronicles. For the first month, we will get together once a week online via ZOOM and then every 2 weeks for the following 5 months. After that, we will focus on meeting once a month for the remainder of the year with your homework being delivered via email to your inbox. These calls will be recorded so in the event that you cannot make them, you will be able to access the recordings later on!
Just like any project, you will be excited to get started on this at the beginning of the year, but then life will take over and it may fall to the wayside. Our monthly calls are there to help us stick with it and keep it top of mind as we move through this thing called LIFE.
Body Image Education
Of course, the glue that holds this entire program together is the body image education that you will receive. Every 2 weeks we will have a 1 hour ZOOM chat where I go through the different facets that make up our body image and give you a new perspective on them. It will be this work that inspires the art, photography & writing prompts that you have for that week. As a body image educator for the past decade, I am bringing together all of my passions to help you create your own shift in the body image you have. When you create your own Body Chronicles book, you will have a better understanding of why you think the way that you do, how you continue to perpetuate old narratives and why, and what to do about it to move forward towards a more healthy & loving relationship with that bod of yours.
