Category: expression

• Alternative storytelling #10

  

  We exist among an array of colors, yet sometimes our (personal) world can feel so dark. Take a look around and you’ll see that you a part of vibrant, diverse, synergetic, and beautiful world.

  Sami Zabner

  September 18, 2022

  animals, art, empowerment, expression, mental health, motherhood, nature, ocean, paintings, photography, plants, rainbow, sun, trees

  animals, art, blue, colors, diversity, duck, earth, green, life, mental health, mushrooms, nature, orange, parrots, photo, photography, photos, poetry, purple, rainbow, red, symbiotic, yellow

• Alternative storytelling #9

  

  The color green is all around; giving us life and nutrients and security. It carries the vibration for growth, health, and rebirth.

  Sami Zabner

  September 17, 2022

  expression, motherhood, mushrooms, nature, ocean, photography, plants, rocks, sun, trees, woman

  anxiety, birth, blogging, death, depression, duality, earth, edges, fire, green, landscapes, life, mental health, mushrooms, mycology, natural, nature, ocean, photo, photographs, photography, photos, plants, poetry, rough, soft, terrain, texture

• Fight, flight, or freeze

  

  I’m relentlessly tossed around in the rush of a wave pool (constructed by my own choices) begging for the machine to turn off. Lifeguards watch from the sidelines, mistaking my fearful face with a face of adrenaline. I want to get out. I can’t gain my footing even though the ground isn’t far from my…

  Sami Zabner

  September 16, 2022

  2022, body acceptance, empowerment, expression, kindness, mental health, motherhood, nature, trees, woman, yoga

  anxiety, birth, blogging, death, depression, drown, duality, emotional, kindness, life, mental health, mood, motherhood, movement, ocean, photographs, postpartum, rebirth, relatable, respect, waves, woman, woman poetry, womanhood

• Limited language

  

  There are times when I want to claw my skin off.  Not necessarily to get rid of the skin that I wear but more so to release what I feel is trapped inside.  I have found that words cannot properly express what it is that I’m trying to convey, and because of that I feel…

  Sami Zabner

  September 14, 2022

  2022, empowerment, expression, kindness, mental health, motherhood, nature, photography, trees, woman, yoga

  2022, animals, anxiety, birth, blogging, breathe, death, depression, duality, earth, emotional, emotions, iamwoman, life, mama, mental health, motherhood, movement, nature, poetry, postpartum, pregnancy, rebirth, relatable, story, woman, woman poetry, womanhood

• Boundaries

  

  I never knew of boundaries when I was younger.  That word didn’t really exist in my vocabulary.  Our family, and close knit community, was seemingly nonchalant and carefree about boundaries (or lack thereof). In fact, I’m not sure I even heard that word (used in such a context) until I was in my 20’s and…

  Sami Zabner

  September 12, 2022

  art, body acceptance, empowerment, expression, mental health, woman, yoga

  anxiety, birth, breathe, death, depression, duality, earth, expression, iamwoman, life, mental health, motherhood, movement, nature, poetry, postpartum, pregnancy, rebirth, relatable, respect, rough, woman, woman poetry, womanhood

• Alternative storytelling #8

  

  In all honesty, I am speechless when it comes to trees. Enjoy these pictures of trees in the Pacific Northwest & happy Sunday. **all photos were taken by me**

  Sami Zabner

  September 11, 2022

  animals, empowerment, expression, kindness, mental health, nature, ocean, photography, plants, rocks, sun, trees

  animals, anxiety, arboretum, big giants, blogging, death, depression, duality, earth, green, life, mental health, natural, nature, Oregon, photo, photographs, photography, photos, pnw, poetry, redwood, rocks, rough, snow, soft, terrain, texture, tree, tree lover, trees

• Alternative storytelling #7

  

  Rocky terrain. **all photos were taken by me**

  Sami Zabner

  September 10, 2022

  animals, art, empowerment, expression, kindness, mental health, nature, ocean, photography, plants, rocks, wolf

  anxiety, death, depression, duality, earth, edges, green, poetry, landscapes, mental health, mountains, mycology, natural, nature, ocean, photo, photographs, photography, photos, plants, respect, rocks, rocky, rough, soft, terrain, texture

• Life after birth

  

  When people talk about their birth story occasionally you’ll hear a resentful tone in their voice. They might speak of their labor being too long, or maybe there were too many interventions for their liking, or it was too painful, or the epidural didn’t take, or the Pitocin made it too intense, and the list…

  Sami Zabner

  September 8, 2022

  2019, 2020, 2022, art, birth, body acceptance, breastfeeding, empowerment, expression, mental health, motherhood, nature, woman

  2019, 2020, 2022, animals, anxiety, birth, blogging, breath, breathe, daughter, death, depression, duality, earth, emotional, emotions, fire, horse, iamwoman, kind, kindness, labor, labyrinth, life, mama, mental health, motherhood, movement, mushrooms, nature, passion, photography, plants, poetry, postpartum, pregnancy, rebirth, relatable, release, story, travel, twloha, woman, woman poetry, womanhood, yoga

• Alternative storytelling #6

  

  The ocean series.

  Sami Zabner

  September 4, 2022

  animals, art, empowerment, expression, mental health, nature, ocean, photography, rescueanimals, sun

  animals, anxiety, blogging, depression, duality, earth, life, mental health, movement, nature, ocean, ocean animals, photographs, photography, photos, poetry, woman poetry

• Selfish comfort

  

  She hit her head really hard the other day and I was reminded of those intrusive postpartum thoughts that were oh so very present in the fresh weeks/months after birth. The thoughts that reminded me of how fragile life is and how little I trust myself to keep her alive. When she was an infant,…

  Sami Zabner

  August 31, 2022

  2022, body acceptance, breastfeeding, empowerment, expression, mental health, motherhood, woman

  animals, anxiety, birth, daughter, depression, duality, emotional, emotions, labor, life, mama, mental health, motherhood, postpartum, pregnancy, rebirth, story, woman, woman poetry, womanhood