I first heard of singer/songwriter Caitlin Crosby when a kind follower from Twitter sent me a clip of Caitlin’s fantastic song “Flawz” for my post on inspirational women’s music video clips. If you haven’t seen the clip, you can see it here. It’s a gorgeous watch with lots of special, everyday, unique people starring in what is essentially a body image and self esteem love fest. What’s not to love about that?
Learning about Caitlin’s song also led me to her website – Love Your Flawz. I so admire Caitlin and Brie Larson for creating this site which they state is “a place to share all of your amazing, unique flaws. Our mission is to help all of us learn to love and embrace them…imperfect is the new perfect.”
I love every part of this site. The photo gallery is so wonderful. It’s made up of divine snaps submitted by people stating what they love about the unique parts of their appearance and selves, including the one above. Many of course would see things such as scars, wobbly tummy’s and braces as not being worthy of love, that, in the traditional sense, they are flaws. Love Your Flawz clearly disagrees with that notion – as do I.
In developing positive body image and self esteem, I believe we should shoot for the stars and learn to love all of ourselves. Not just our feet, or hair, or smile, or eyes. But all of us. On some days I know that can be a tall order – but it’s so worth working on as can be seen from some of the beautiful poems and emails people have submitted to the site. These are some of my favourites – “I have some stretch marks and cellulite, and i always thought that meant i was fat. but now, with help from you guys, i look at myself in the mirror and realize i’m not perfect. but that’s the way I like it” and “We were each created differently! EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US is unique and lovely” and “You are who you are. You should love yourself no matter what shape or size you are in. You are awesome. You are beautiful. You are YOU. Don’t ever forget that!” Could things be better written by a high paid author? Possibly not.
If you are inspired by Love Your Flawz as much as I am – why not submit your own photo, poem and inspiring quote. You can tell the world about how you are embracing your flaws here. The site and premise has inspired me to think more kindly and embrace my…stretch marks. They’ve been with me since I was about 13 years old and I suddenly grew C cups seemingly overnight. I think it’s about time!
What “flaw” that is a unique part of you do you think it is time to embrace?
Photo: Love Your Flawz Gallery
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This was truly lovely… I like how some celebs even got in on the movement. Everyone in the video was uniquely gorgeous… as it should be! Thanks for sharing!
Wow Julie..another great discovery!! How cool is 'love your flaws' – will definitely tweet and blog about them – such a cool idea, especially the communal blog! Thanks for sharing it! xx
i love this post and very much needed to see this today. thank you soooo much for your blog.
really, thank you~
I’m a new follower …It looks as if you cover issues that are important to me…Thanks..cynthia
hi julie
it's been awhile since i read this post, but i came back and read it again this week and felt so encouraged by it that i wrote a post about it and linked to the flawz video. i also wanted to tell you i have a link to your blog posted on my sidebar to let people know about your terrific blog! thank you again for all you do 
you are so inspiring and healing~~~