Vanessa | Edina, MN

Images by Emmerlee Sherman

"I want my story to be that I am beautiful the way I am.  Perfect does not exist.  I don’t have to compare myself to others.  That I am ok just the way I am.  And that feels really good.  It feels healthy and happy and peaceful."

From Vanessa:

"My old story was that I was not good enough.  I was inadequate because I was not perfect.     

I want my story to be that I am beautiful the way I am.  Perfect does not exist.  I don’t have to compare myself to others.  That I am ok just the way I am.  And that feels really good.  It feels healthy and happy and peaceful.   

I never realized how many negative feelings I had about myself.  I think that is what is behind all of the exercising, a feeling of not being good enough.  That scares me because I didn’t even realize it was there."

-- Vanessa

Images of Vanessa by Emmerlee Sherman.