This year I’m going to be BRAVE.
Sometimes BRAVE means doing something brand new, sometimes it means doing that thing you’ve been putting off for months.
Every Sunday (or so) I want to post about something BRAVE-ish I’ve done recently – to keep myself accountable to actually DO something AND to remind you being brave is not always lion taming and hang-gliding.
Last week:
I helped out at a newborn baby photo shoot.
I realize for some people, this may be the coolest thing ever.
Me?
I’m not really a baby person. This was not my photography client and I didn’t even shoot any photos of the baby (just of the photographer working, really). I held my newborn nephew when he was a couple days old … but other than that? A year and a half prior held another friend’s couple-week-old. And that’s really it.
But I thought – here’s a chance to learn something. About photographing a baby. And handling a tiny little newborn.
(I learned that she gets them to sleep for the shoot with a little space heater and holding one hand over their head and one hand over their butt. Like magic).
So I spent my Saturday afternoon carrying a space heater from room to room, propping up a foam core board for reflection, trying to both be super helpful AND stay out of the way.
And I really liked it 
I love learning new things.
How fun! I can imagine that it must have been quite the experience!
I have been very brave as well this week. Yes I think I can say that. I’m not very good at showing my weaknesses. I don’t share my pain and sorrow that easily, learned at a young age that one should be strong and solid.
But this week I decided it is time for a new start. A new beginning in opening up and being true, to myself and the rest of the world. So I wrote a blogpost when I was hurting and sad and wanted to spill out all the pain inside. And instead of deleting it, like I always do, I posted it on my blog.
It felt truely liberating. Scary, but liberating. And somehow it only made me feel ten times as strong as before.
Being brave is kind of cool!
Karin:
That’s SUPER brave! I have a hard time with being vulnerable too … it’s always scary.
Good for you
That’s a cool trick! I guess we know more about your part time job now