ナオミ・シマダのインスタグラム(naomishimada) - 9月19日 23時53分

today is the anniversary of @mixedfeelingsbook coming out into the world! So much has happened in the space of a year that I can almost not remember what this time moment in time a year ago felt like but one thing I do know is that from day one @sarah_raphael and I were adamant that the purpose of this book was to make people feel less isolated in their experiences, less ashamed and more liberated. The fact that I receive messages most days from someone saying that it’s moved them in some way makes me feel like in our small way we managed to do that. What I didn’t factor in when we started this book was how much of those feelings I wished for others is what I would gain for myself through the process of working on it.

The book planted so many different seeds of acceptance, change and possibility in me and continues to do so even post publication as I grow with it over time. I feel so much more liberated and generally just less attached to social media, almost like some kind of exorcism happened. Looking back I can see how it also really helped me prepare for this year by understanding where we cling to our own socialisation and investments in false narratives about who we should be and how we should be living, it made me brave. A powerful reminder that the process of doing can be so healing and gratifying and take you on journeys you could never imagine. So thank you to Sarah for starting this journey with me, thank you to everyone who’s bought, shared, spoken about the book and reached out to us it means the world. And to all the other beautiful humans who contributed to the making of it, this is your book too, hope you’re all finding space to heal in your own ways.

if you managed to read to the end s/o to my mangrove fam for the look, lol vid taken last year after carni :P Loving you always x

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