Anuschka Rees

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Beyond Beautiful by Anuschka Rees

The Curated Closet: A simple system for discovering your personal style and building your dream wardrobe

@beyondbeautifulbook

Another little sneak peek at @beyondbeautifulbook. Do you ever feel Instagram-inadequate? What types of posts trigger that feeling the most for you?⁣
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Here comes number five our Beyond Beautiful Baby Steps – super concrete things you can do to improve your body image!⁣⠀
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THIS WEEK'S BABY STEP: Put your own own ability to fully experience the world over what others see when they look at you. Stop wearing bras that dig into your skin, jeans that almost cut off your circulation, and skirts that leave you wobbling from point A to point B. Decide that you're no longer going to make yourself wear spanx, heels that make the balls of your feet feel like they're on fire after two hours, fabrics that feel bad on your skin, that you have to readjust constantly, or anything else that you want to rip off your body as soon as you get home. ⁣⠀
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WHY THIS HELPS YOUR BODY IMAGE: As women, we grow up with this idea that discomfort, even pain, is just the price we have to pay for looking chic, feminine, and put-together. Of course, all of that discomfort costs major energy and keeps us from being able to fully enjoy the moment. But what's even worse: Each time we wear uncomfortable clothes for aesthetic reasons or even just to conform to a social norm (such as wearing heels for evening events), we reinforce our own belief that how we are perceived by others is more important that our own well-being. When we stop wearing uncomfortable clothes, we accomplish the opposite: we tell our subconscious that our ability to fully experience, enjoy, and interact with the world is what’s key. If we can wear cute clothes while doing that, fine. But our well-being comes first.⁣⠀
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Do you regularly wear anything that's actually pretty uncomfortable?

We love this photo by @billie and the caption: "Grow it, comb it, shave it, braid it" ⁣
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The last time I posted something about body hair I got a DM from someone who applauded me for "wanting to get women to stop shaving their body hair". But that's not actually what I'm trying to do. If you want to shave your body hair for whatever reason, that's cool. If you don't want to shave ever, that's cool too. The point is that I think women should be able to decide what they want to do with their body hair on a day by day basis without fearing social repercussions. And to be able to skip their usual hair removal routine when they're extra busy or just don't feel like doing it - without then feeling like they need to "hide" their non-perfectly-smooth bits. Just like men are free to shave their body hair, but then are free to also just let it roam again without having to worry about people thinking they are ungyhienic or feeling uncomfortable.⁣
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#normalizebodyhair #shavewhenyoufeellikeit

#normalizebodyhair

GIVEAWAY ALERT! 🎁 It's the 14th, so exactly one month until Beyond Beautiful finally hits the shelves! To celebrate (and because we can't wait any longer) we're giving away two copies EARLY! To enter, make sure you're following @beyondbeautifulbook and tag a friend in the comments. If you win, we'll send both of you your personal copy of Beyond Beautiful this week! ⁣
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The giveaway is open internationally and for 24 hours only! For extra entries you can tag multiple people, but in separate comments. The winner will be selected randomly and announced tomorrow in our story. Good luck! 🤩🤩🤩⁣
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Disclaimer: This giveaway is not sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with Instagram. ⁣
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#giveaway #bodyneutrality #bookstagram #effyourbeautystandards

#bodyneutrality

"The first time I felt I was inadequate in my body was maybe in 5th or 6th grade. I was going through puberty and my hair was starting to get curly and my legs were long and I looked different than my petite, blonde classmates with stick straight hair. ⁣
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I resented my curly hair and wore it slicked back in a bun everyday. I was even more self conscious about having curves in the "wrong" places. I had a slight tummy and dreaded wearing a bikini even though I loved going in the ocean. I remember sitting on my bathroom floor sobbing and doing sits up and slathering on self tanner trying to change the way my body looked in a bikini before going to a friend's beach party. ⁣
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It wasn't until maybe 8th grade that I learned that my looks could give me power - especially over boys and I started to use it. I think that's how my belief formed that my worth was in the way I looked. It's taken me such a long time to unlearn that belief and I'm still doing it today. That's why I'm so passionate about promoting my @dontcallmepretty message."⁣
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Thanks to @aly_nagel! The founder and all-round boss lady of @dontcallmepretty kind enough to share her personal story. Why not go check out the page if you haven't already!😉⁣
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#effyourbeautystandards #bodyneutral #dontcallmepretty

It's here! The fourth instalment of the Beyond Beautiful Baby Step series which offers super concrete tips to help you improve your body image😊. ⁣
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THIS WEEK'S BABY STEP: Just say no to selfie-objectifying. What's that? Well, we're glad you asked! Selfie-objectifying is a genius term coined by the equally genius ladies from @beauty_redefined to describe how many of us take selfies these days: by taking tens (sometimes hundreds) of photos from slightly different angles, lighting combinations, poses and facial expressions, and then scrutinising each photo in detail, before eventually crowning the best, most flattering photo of yourself. ⁣
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To be crystal clear, it's not the selfie that's problematic... it's the objectification that so often goes with it. It's one thing to quickly take a snap of yourself, maybe double check it just in case you have spinach in your teeth and then upload it. It's a whole other thing to spend half an hour in a cramped up position, fixate on minor differences in your expression and nitpick yourself to the ground, all for the purpose of managing how OTHERS see you. ⁣
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WHY THIS HELPS YOUR BODY IMAGE: Every time you fuss over a photo for fifteen minutes, you are quite literally training yourself to self-objectify – to evaluate yourself from a purely aesthetic perspective, as if you were looking at yourself from the outside. That third-person perspective is not natural, it's been taught to us and the degree to which we use it is one of the strongest predictors of a negative body image. When you learn to JUST.TAKE.THE.PICTURE, you tell yourself: "You know what, whether this one picture of me is bad or meh or great is actually not that important, because what I look like is not that important" – a much better lesson don't you think? ⁣
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Do you think you are sometimes guilty of selfie-objectifying? We'd love to know. ⁣
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#bodyneutral

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