Wellness Wednesday: TRIUMPHANT

About a year ago, I received my life coach certification as a way to help grow Model Behaviors, and I began working with a handful of clients. Women are natural multitaskers, and sometimes we can have so much going on that it becomes hard to put our dreams into action. Or, sometimes that little voice in our head fills us with doubt. Who do I think I am? I’m not good enough. I’m bound to fail. Life coaching enables the client to dissect these feelings and design their own change.

I couldn’t wait to get started and make a difference for others. I felt that I had so much life experience to share, but it’s really been the clients who’ve inspired me. I’ve learned more from them than I ever expected.

December 23, 2015December 21, 2015

Wellness Wednesday: TRIUMPHANT

This quote from Oscar Wilde takes me back to high school, where I had a case of single-white-female. Maybe because I was terribly awkward, growing six inches my freshman year. With frizzy hair, shorts worn at the natural waist, and high water jeans (before they were cool), I just couldn’t help myself. There was too much going on, and I didn’t know where to start. When I looked in the mirror, I wanted to be anybody but me.

December 16, 2015December 14, 2015

Wellness Wednesday: TRIUMPHANT

Imagine for a second that you’re a twelve-year-old girl growing up in an area of Pakistan where the Taliban has banned girls from attending school. Your family manages schools in the region, and you start a blog, writing under a pseudonym for the BBC about life under Taliban occupation and your belief in education for girls. The New York Times makes a documentary about your life, and Desmond Tutu nominates you for the International Children’s Peace Prize.

December 9, 2015December 7, 2015

Wellness Wednesday: TRIUMPHANT

Models are competitive. I wouldn’t necessarily say we’re this way by nature, but the business is designed to foster a survival-of-the-fittest mentality. Every job produced in the industry—fashion shows, commercials, magazine spreads, advertisements—has a specific type they’re looking for. Exotic beauties might come to mind when you think of a Victoria Secret model, but the majority of fashion work goes to the blonde-haired, blue-eyed girl. It doesn’t have anything to do with art directors or agents insomuch as it comes down to numbers. Consumers are more apt to purchase what the Caucasian model is selling. That’s it in a nutshell—meaning less work for others.

December 2, 2015December 1, 2015

Wellness Wednesday: TRIUMPHANT

As you may have seen in a few of our posts recently, Model Behaviors is currently in the process of our next revamp. It’s important to keep the site fresh and authentic—embracing the now—both internally and externally and as a community. Sharing our individual journeys makes us a stronger whole.

Each one of our Behaviorists has her own page with a collage that speaks volumes. The photos in those collages contain stories that tell of where they’ve been and where they’re headed. These pages are refreshingly honest, glimpses into our souls and who we are at the moment. Our theme words try to sum it all up. For the last few months, mine read Chapters. It was a nostalgic period in my life, leading up to Darlington’s birth. My greatest hits reel kept replaying in my head, and I knew after her arrival, nothing would ever be the same. Every experience in my life was preparing me for this—moment, chapter, role, truth—and after I held her for the first time, I knew. I was changed!