I changed the title to "9 months of blogging" instead of "9 months of sharing" because as I read this title about to post I realized some might assume this could be a pregnancy announcement. It isn't. I wish. Soon I hope - but sadly now. We're coming up on almost nine months in which I have been blogging my journey into naturism - or at least nine months since I came up with the idea. Lots has changed since I was sitting on my bed just searching around the internet brainstorming - and more importantly I have spent a lot of time naked. A lot of the times we are naked for the sake of being naked. Sometimes I get naked for the sake of posting content - and a lot of times its a bit of both.
Jay has been home sick all week (not COVID - we just got his test results back late last night - just a man cold), but as such he has had some spare time. He decided to back up and reset his computer during all of his spare time (garage could have used a good cleaning - but I guess he was sick I can give him a break). He showed me all the amazing adventures we've been on over the years. Naked and Not. But yes, lots of nudity. He played a game where he scrolled the mouse - and we would bet on whether the photos the scrolling landed on would be naked or not. Good thing it wasn't a drinking game. But where I am trying to go with this - he spent the time to organize all of our naked adventures for me - and what I have noticed is there is a lot of photos I haven't posted yet - and even some stories and adventures I haven't shared either.
When I wrote lots has changed - I think a lot has changed with me and my mindset as well. In the last nine months - you can safely say I am pretty hooked on this whole nudity thing and the journey just continues to get more amazing. But what has changed is my mindset towards my body positivity. Looking through all these photos - I would only post photos where I felt the camera angle caught me in the most flattering of angles. Thanks to my own growth, and more importantly all the love and support of my followers - I have learned being naked - and the mindset surrounding it is very much accepting yourself, your body, and others and their body - as they are. Yes I am still taking steps to improve my body image - going to a personal trainer, eating right, etc. - but I am doing that to feel healthy (and prep for that baby conversation I started this blog with) - and not so much to ensure the photos of me sitting on a rock by the hot springs don't have an extra roll around my muffin top.
My mindset has also shifted significantly around posting more of my body. To my long time followers - remember when I would have to photoshop out nipples? Thanks to our first paint night - and the growth and confidence I've experienced over the last few months - I have evolved - and happy to share these out. Although just last night I was ranting to Jay about how I am self conscious over the size of my areolas - but that is a story for another day. They're just boobs, they're just nipples, they are just peperoni sized areolas - so what. Yes they are mine - but they are also beautiful - and happy to share. To be honest - when I sat down this morning to post - it wasn't going to be this long a post - it was simply to post this picture I had forgotten about that Jay found backing up our photos - and to write that I will be posting photo dumps over the coming weeks of all the extra photos of our past experiences. So apologies for any duplicates - but at quick glance of the file folder structure he used to back up the pictures for me - there are 30+ folders to post.
Thank you all to my amazing supporters - stay awesome - stay naked.