Tag: respect

• Alternative storytelling #13

  

  Faces of the renaissance fair in Deerfield Beach, Florida. *all photos taken by me*

  Sami Zabner

  October 1, 2022

  empowerment, expression, mental health, nature, photography, renaissance, woman

  autumn, blogging, equinox, fair, fall, gratitude, mental health, movement, natural, photo, photographs, photography, photos, rebirth, relatable, renaissance, respect, seasons, solstice, woman

• 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

• 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 #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

• Alternative storytelling #5

  

  When you touch the earth..

  Sami Zabner

  September 3, 2022

  2020, animals, birth, empowerment, kindness, mental health, nature, ocean, photography, plants, woman

  animals, bones, death, depression, earth, emotional, green, mental health, mushrooms, mycology, natural, nature, photo, photographs, photography, plants, poetry, rebirth, respect