The Body Confidence Workshop
This is a day to change how you FEEL about your body NOT how it looks!
You don't need to change your body just your mindset!
Body confidence is feeling good in your own skin, no matter your size, shape, or age. It's about accepting and loving yourself, just as you are. Whilst that might sound easy enough, achieving body confidence can be a real challenge.
We are bombarded by ‘New Year New You’ messaging at the beginning of the year, telling us how to fix our bodies and offering the latest diet and health regime as our rescue. It’s time to love your body you are in, because it’s incredible, at any weight, shape, or size.
What if you could stop worrying about your body and start being kind to it instead, what difference would that make to your everyday life?
I recent carried out a Midlife Body Confidence survey with 200 women and asked that question.
- 51% of women reported their lack of body confidence made a small impact which bothered them slightly
- 27% stated it made a significant impact on their everyday lives.
- 8% of women felt it made a large impact which stopped them taking part in lots of activities
- 4% said it left them feeling very negative about their lives.
I’ve been in that place where you put your life on hold because you’re waiting to lose that weight or shrink to a certain dress size, but it doesn’t have to be this way. Where ever you are on that scale how about learning how to embrace who we are right now and start being kinder to our bodies as they are today.
How freeing would that be?
This is a day to change how you FEEL about your body NOT how it looks!
Come and join professional lingerie model and body confidence advocate Rachel Peru and empowering boudoir photographer Helen Booth for a positive body confidence workshop.
Wednesday 29th March
10-4pm
Masque Photography
Suite 3, Sapphire House, 15 The Shambles, Wetherby LS22 6NG
What to expect?
- Interactive body confidence workshop session with Rachel Peru.
Looking at how we can change our negative narrative into more positive feelings about our body. Interactive activities and time to explore how we really feel about our bodies and how we can take positive action to changing our mindset. Creating a tool box to help transform and shift your perspective.
- Lunch and refreshments will be provided throughout the day.
- Empowering individual photo session with Helen Booth, including 1 solo and 1 group image with the option to choose more from your proof sheet.
- Clothing of your choice- We want you to wear makes you feel confident. Whether it’s a swimsuit and sarong, silk robe, white shirt, body suit, whatever makes you feel comfortable as well as pushing your boundaries a little!
- Finishing with a group shot, time to celebrate just how amazing our bodies are!
- Supportive and safe environment to explore how we feel about our bodies in a judgement free space.
- Small group of women only- (numbers limited to 8 max)
- Suitable for women who are tired of being told to fix their bodies but don’t know how to step away from it.
- A day full of love and support.
*Trigger warning
- This is a day to change how you feel about your body NOT how it looks.
- Not suitable for anyone that currently has or has previously had any eating disorders.
Who Are We?
Rachel Peru is a Silver haired curve model, body confidence advocate, midlife influencer, and host of the Out of the Bubble podcast.
Rachel has fully embraced her curves and her naturally grey hair. In fact, she has become famous for her silver locks and is flying the flag for misunderstood and misrepresented women everywhere.
She is passionate about showing other women, particularly those in midlife, that they are not invisible. Rachel broke barriers when she appeared in a ground-breaking Swimsuits for All campaign with Ashley Graham, and her career was launched from there.
After starting a new career in modelling aged 46, Rachel now champions women in midlife, inspiring others to step out of their comfort zone to become more confident by sharing other women’s’ stories on her weekly Out of the Bubble podcast. She is regularly seen in leading lingerie campaigns, and you may have spotted her in a Bravissimo shop window in 2022!
Helen Booth is a boudoir photographer with a beautiful light-filled top floor studio in the centre of Wetherby, West Yorkshire.
She has over 13-years of experience of making women not only look but feel incredible in their own skin. Nothing gives her the satisfaction like empowering women the way boudoir does, sharing the journey with all the amazing women she photographs and seeing the incredible impact it has. Helen brings out the best in women and shines a light on their unique beauty, so they can see themselves in a new light.
Rachel and Helen have worked on many shoots together and are both on the same mission to empower women to feel more confident in their bodies and to be able to celebrate their bodies, whatever age, shape, or size.
