Today our friend Anna King, Founder of People Hope, is taking over our Instagram account @thefreewmn. We’ve previously interviewed her on the site and am thrilled that she’s going to be…
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Right now, I simply can’t get enough of podcasts. The beauty of this platform is that there’s such an array of topics and conversations that you can tap into and learn…
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Hi Lorina! Can you tell us a bit about yourself and the story behind grâce belle? I have always been creative and was always around business people, but it wasn’t until…
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Mothering itty bitty vegetables from seed to harvest has been a strange desire on my bucket list for years. Carrots, with their knobby roots and wild stems, have always been a particular fancy of…
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Life does not always go as planned. That’s one of the most annoying statements of truth, ever. But it’s a huge dosage of truth. Even the best plans, fail. When you…
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It used to take me two trips inside from the car, after a trip to the library, to haul in all my new books. I’d stack them neatly in the corner…
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We’ve all heard it. The best way to really ‘find yourself’ is to go travelling. In the 7 years I’ve spent living abroad, I really don’t believe I ‘found myself’, but…
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“When I wake up in the morning, I make a promise to myself to have faith and courage in my heart and to remember anything is possible.” With a few clicks…
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Sometimes it’s hard to manage a schedule, and even harder to stay ahead of it. We have one to-do list piling on top of another and it can be overwhelming. However,…
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I was the foreign kid, an Australian in an American high school. I wiped my wet palms on my jeans as I waited for the teacher to return the marks of my…
![🌿 "While at work the other day, a middle-aged male guest asked me, “What sport do you do, Tayllor?” as his greeting, to which I responded “I ran track, the 400m.”⠀
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“Ah, my niece plays for [insert university name here], and I could tell you were an athlete, you have that look.”⠀
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I thanked him, and he looked surprised and said, “Most girls don’t like hearing that.” I said back, “I am proud of the body I’ve worked so hard for and what I have.”⠀
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It's comments like this that grieve me, the social constructs around athleticism and body types for both men and women, that a man would assume I’d be ashamed or embarrassed by my athletic body, because I'm a woman.⠀
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I believe that each of us is strong in our own way, and in those strengths, we should celebrate ourselves and each other." 💚⠀
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Words + image by our friend, @taylloralissa⠀
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Comment with a 💪🏽 if this message resonates with you. It sure does with us. 👏🏼 #thefreewoman](http://scontent-sit4-1.cdninstagram.com/t51.2885-15/s640x640/sh0.08/e35/c0.134.1080.1080/21433475_647588708770874_2380882191023341568_n.jpg "🌿 \"While at work the other day, a middle-aged male guest asked me, “What sport do you do, Tayllor?” as his greeting, to which I responded “I ran track, the 400m.”⠀
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“Ah, my niece plays for [insert university name here], and I could tell you were an athlete, you have that look.”⠀
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I thanked him, and he looked surprised and said, “Most girls don’t like hearing that.” I said back, “I am proud of the body I’ve worked so hard for and what I have.”⠀
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It's comments like this that grieve me, the social constructs around athleticism and body types for both men and women, that a man would assume I’d be ashamed or embarrassed by my athletic body, because I'm a woman.⠀
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I believe that each of us is strong in our own way, and in those strengths, we should celebrate ourselves and each other.\" 💚⠀
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Words + image by our friend, @taylloralissa⠀
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Comment with a 💪🏽 if this message resonates with you. It sure does with us. 👏🏼 #thefreewoman")
