Body Chronicles by Teri
- A YEAR LONG PHOTO ART PROJECT TO HELP YOU {FINALLY} MAKE PEACE WITH YOUR BODY -
SPEND A YEAR MAKING PEACE WITH YOUR BODY
Over the course of 365 days, you and I will embark on an amazing journey which will be chronicled in a beautiful art book at the end of the year.
This journey will include:
*4 mini photo sessions designed to help you truly see your body
*Monthly journal prompts for you to journal (BY HAND!)
*1X month coaching calls to discuss your body image journey
*Art prompts to help you see your body in different ways
*The accumulation of all of your hard work & creativity compiled into a beautiful handcrafted heirloom book that chronicles your body journey. A one of a kind artful storybook that documents the tumultuous, truthful, and nevertheless beautiful, experience of having a body as a human.
Photography
We will schedule you for 4 mini sessions with me throughout the year (1 every quarter) to help you see your body as the magical being that it is. I will use my mastery as a portrait photographer to guide and pose you to help you see your bodies in ways that may be confrontational and beautiful. Photography is an incredible tool that can help us transmute our feelings and capture the truth of what is and that’s exactly what we will explore throughout the year.
In addition to the photo sessions with me, I will also send you my online course for Photography 101 & Self Portraits so you can get in the habit of documenting your own life & experience outside of our 4 sessions!
Writing
It wouldn’t be a Teri-experience if writing, curiosity & exploration weren’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!!)
