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Happy Friday, Beauties!✨

Happy Friday, Beauties!✨

To the child within us and the daughters beside us,

may you protect your peace as the sacred gift it is,

honor your loving heart,

and trust your inner wisdom as your guiding light.

To the child within us and the daughters beside us,

may you protect your peace as the sacred gift it is,

honor your loving heart,

and trust your inner wisdom as your guiding light.

Life is not always easy, but it is always worth living!

Celebrate the small moment,
the transformational ones,
and the in betweens!

Celebrate it all — this life is yours!

Life is not always easy, but it is always worth living!

Celebrate the small moment,
the transformational ones,
and the in betweens!

Celebrate it all — this life is yours!

March Beauty of the Month is Taryn Riddle!

Taryn, poet and author, writes honestly about the inner landscapes of healing, becoming, and the in-between spaces of life, offering a refreshing take on our current world.

Like Bridgett, Taryn grew up with a journal always in hand. A safe place to make sense of the weight of the beauty standards and body image struggles during her teen years.

Through Taryn’s studies in neuroscience and philosophy, her words remind us of the delicate ways our minds and bodies are connected, and that we’re all learning to move through life with a little more gentleness toward ourselves.

Link in bio to read!

March Beauty of the Month is Taryn Riddle!

Taryn, poet and author, writes honestly about the inner landscapes of healing, becoming, and the in-between spaces of life, offering a refreshing take on our current world.

Like Bridgett, Taryn grew up with a journal always in hand. A safe place to make sense of the weight of the beauty standards and body image struggles during her teen years.

Through Taryn’s studies in neuroscience and philosophy, her words remind us of the delicate ways our minds and bodies are connected, and that we’re all learning to move through life with a little more gentleness toward ourselves.

Link in bio to read!

These picks kept us going all week❤️‍🔥Which resonates with you?

These picks kept us going all week❤️‍🔥Which resonates with you?

New Substack: “Revisiting Harm Is Not the Same as Taking Responsibility”

When America’s Next Top Model aired in ‘03, I didn’t watch because I had been living in the same industry that the show glamorized.

But I did just watch the recent documentary that revisited the harm done without anyone truly taking responsibility for it.

The documentary could have been a moment to acknowledge that fame and reality tv was more protected than people.

It made me wonder why this documentary was made in the first place — especially when Tyra framed it as her chance to “finally say her part.”

Replaying pain without deep accountability doesn’t heal anyone. It just asks the people who were hurt to relive it again.

In my opinion, this was a very missed opportunity to tell the truth.

Comment 🔗 to get the article in your DM

New Substack: “Revisiting Harm Is Not the Same as Taking Responsibility”

When America’s Next Top Model aired in ‘03, I didn’t watch because I had been living in the same industry that the show glamorized.

But I did just watch the recent documentary that revisited the harm done without anyone truly taking responsibility for it.

The documentary could have been a moment to acknowledge that fame and reality tv was more protected than people.

It made me wonder why this documentary was made in the first place — especially when Tyra framed it as her chance to “finally say her part.”

Replaying pain without deep accountability doesn’t heal anyone. It just asks the people who were hurt to relive it again.

In my opinion, this was a very missed opportunity to tell the truth.

Comment 🔗 to get the article in your DM

Mom, what were you like in the ‘90s?

I was trying to figure the world out. I wasn’t completely grounded yet, but I always seemed to find a way to make things happen for myself.

I left home young and took care of myself. I was traveling the world, modeling, living in about eight different countries, and learning about different cultures.
Some days I felt incredibly confident… and other days it felt like I had none at all.

I fell in love a few times and had my heart broken a few times, too.
I was also beginning to educate myself about my body and holistic nutrition.
But mostly, I was just finding myself.

#90s

Mom, what were you like in the ‘90s?

I was trying to figure the world out. I wasn’t completely grounded yet, but I always seemed to find a way to make things happen for myself.

I left home young and took care of myself. I was traveling the world, modeling, living in about eight different countries, and learning about different cultures.
Some days I felt incredibly confident… and other days it felt like I had none at all.

I fell in love a few times and had my heart broken a few times, too.
I was also beginning to educate myself about my body and holistic nutrition.
But mostly, I was just finding myself.

#90s

Choosing to live with agency and respect, and to release the standards imposed on our bodies, is how we can reclaim our autonomy.
International Women’s Day, every day. 🤍

Choosing to live with agency and respect, and to release the standards imposed on our bodies, is how we can reclaim our autonomy.
International Women’s Day, every day. 🤍

Friday Favs are here, beauties! Let us know your favorite below!

Friday Favs are here, beauties! Let us know your favorite below!

Dear Body, I spent years trying to shape you, tame you, fix you. Now I am learning to listen.
✨
Dear Mind, You have raced ahead, planning, worrying, guarding. I am learning to meet you with calmness.
✨
Dear Spirit, I’ve been looking everywhere but here. Now I am turning inward, coming home.

Dear Body, I spent years trying to shape you, tame you, fix you. Now I am learning to listen.
✨
Dear Mind, You have raced ahead, planning, worrying, guarding. I am learning to meet you with calmness.
✨
Dear Spirit, I’ve been looking everywhere but here. Now I am turning inward, coming home.

Love yourself a little more today, tomorrow, and the next❤️

Love yourself a little more today, tomorrow, and the next❤️

Dear Body Coaching is coming soon. These 1:1 sessions with Bridgett invite you to reconnect with self-trust and body awareness — beginning with the simple act of noticing and thanking your body.

When we slow down and notice, the body remembers safety.

Dear Body Coaching is coming soon. These 1:1 sessions with Bridgett invite you to reconnect with self-trust and body awareness — beginning with the simple act of noticing and thanking your body.

When we slow down and notice, the body remembers safety.

It’s Friday! ✨ Here are a few favs that got us through the week!
Which are your favorites?

It’s Friday! ✨ Here are a few favs that got us through the week!
Which are your favorites?

We’re two months into 2026, and the year of the horse has begun. May this year invite you to return to your own becoming, root deeply in your truth, and trust your inner knowing.

Begin not by searching for something new, but by reclaiming what’s already within you, and leave the rest.

We’re two months into 2026, and the year of the horse has begun. May this year invite you to return to your own becoming, root deeply in your truth, and trust your inner knowing.

Begin not by searching for something new, but by reclaiming what’s already within you, and leave the rest.

We’re introducing Collective Beauty: a new editorial space on Substack created by Bridgett Brown and rooted in the voice and vision of Beyond Beauty Project.

Collective Beauty is a place for deeper reflection on body image, aging, identity, and self-worth. Where beauty is explored as experience, not expectation.

Through personal essays and thoughtful storytelling, this space invites a slower conversation. One grounded in care, curiosity, and the evolving relationship we have with our bodies over time.

Click the link in our bio to subscribe and join us at the beginning! ❤️

We’re introducing Collective Beauty: a new editorial space on Substack created by Bridgett Brown and rooted in the voice and vision of Beyond Beauty Project.

Collective Beauty is a place for deeper reflection on body image, aging, identity, and self-worth. Where beauty is explored as experience, not expectation.

Through personal essays and thoughtful storytelling, this space invites a slower conversation. One grounded in care, curiosity, and the evolving relationship we have with our bodies over time.

Click the link in our bio to subscribe and join us at the beginning! ❤️

We can’t ignore the heaviness of all that is going on, but we can slow ourselves down. Calm is contagious. Calm doesn’t mean we aren’t mad, sad, grieving, or eager for change.

But it can give us the space to do what we can to help, becoming part of the healing instead of adding to the chaos and harm❤️

We can’t ignore the heaviness of all that is going on, but we can slow ourselves down. Calm is contagious. Calm doesn’t mean we aren’t mad, sad, grieving, or eager for change.

But it can give us the space to do what we can to help, becoming part of the healing instead of adding to the chaos and harm❤️

Happy Friday Favs, beauties! Which are your favs👇

Happy Friday Favs, beauties! Which are your favs👇

They want you compliant. Quiet. Palatable. Thin so you don’t take up too much space.

But at Beyond Beauty Project, we know what that costs.

Conformity asks for control. And control is not care.

The world doesn’t need more women performing worthiness.

It needs women who are attuned, who trust their bodies, who define beauty by how it feels to live authentically and courageously.

They want you compliant. Quiet. Palatable. Thin so you don’t take up too much space.

But at Beyond Beauty Project, we know what that costs.

Conformity asks for control. And control is not care.

The world doesn’t need more women performing worthiness.

It needs women who are attuned, who trust their bodies, who define beauty by how it feels to live authentically and courageously.

We’re so excited to spotlight Zelda Elisco and her mission @strengthmarks ✨

Zelda’s creativity restores a sense of bodily agency, inviting women, men, and all people to honor the bodies they live in.

She’s an artist who has turned her lens toward body-empowerment activism. Honoring scars, individuality, and telling stories that challenge the narrow beauty ideals that have collectively shaped us all. We deeply appreciate the celebration of the lived experiences each person carries through her art.

Strength Marks is beauty, redefined.

Tap the link in our bio to read her full feature🤍

We’re so excited to spotlight Zelda Elisco and her mission @strengthmarks ✨

Zelda’s creativity restores a sense of bodily agency, inviting women, men, and all people to honor the bodies they live in.

She’s an artist who has turned her lens toward body-empowerment activism. Honoring scars, individuality, and telling stories that challenge the narrow beauty ideals that have collectively shaped us all. We deeply appreciate the celebration of the lived experiences each person carries through her art.

Strength Marks is beauty, redefined.

Tap the link in our bio to read her full feature🤍

How beautiful it is that your body was made just for you to live in

Through joy, change, grief, growth, dreams, and all the becoming in between

Your body is your body
You make the rules

How beautiful it is that your body was made just for you to live in

Through joy, change, grief, growth, dreams, and all the becoming in between

Your body is your body
You make the rules

These picks kept us going all week❤️‍🔥Which resonates with you?

These picks kept us going all week❤️‍🔥Which resonates with you?

Beyond Beauty Project was born from one simple truth: we all deserve to feel at home in our bodies.

I believe true wellness comes from the wisdom that already lives inside of you, not from society’s rules and expectations.

If we can slow down enough to listen to the sensations and signals our bodies speak, we can start to rebuild a relationship of trust and true self-love.

Because when we feel at home within ourselves, care becomes intuitive, sustainable, and supportive —naturally aligning with our physical, mental, and emotional well-being.

Xx,
B

❤️ Learn more at beyondbeautyproject.com or visit our linktree in our bio

Beyond Beauty Project was born from one simple truth: we all deserve to feel at home in our bodies.

I believe true wellness comes from the wisdom that already lives inside of you, not from society’s rules and expectations.

If we can slow down enough to listen to the sensations and signals our bodies speak, we can start to rebuild a relationship of trust and true self-love.

Because when we feel at home within ourselves, care becomes intuitive, sustainable, and supportive —naturally aligning with our physical, mental, and emotional well-being.

Xx,
B

❤️ Learn more at beyondbeautyproject.com or visit our linktree in our bio

Mother Earth is always reminding us to come home to our bodies again and again 🌊✨

Mother Earth is always reminding us to come home to our bodies again and again 🌊✨

Your presence speaks for itself, calming and intutively. Your heart carries a strength nothing can break. Let your warmth be your armor, and your compassion be your power✨

Your presence speaks for itself, calming and intutively. Your heart carries a strength nothing can break. Let your warmth be your armor, and your compassion be your power✨

Friday Favs are here, beauties! Let us know your favorite below!

Friday Favs are here, beauties! Let us know your favorite below!

Happiness is the kind of beauty you can’t edit, filter, or fade.
Beauty isn’t something your body performs. It’s what shines through you, from within, when you’re present, connected, and at home with yourself❤️

Happiness is the kind of beauty you can’t edit, filter, or fade.
Beauty isn’t something your body performs. It’s what shines through you, from within, when you’re present, connected, and at home with yourself❤️

Through all of the noise of “how to age”
the constant pressure to fix, freeze, or fight our bodies,
there’s a deeper truth asking to be heard.

A reclamation of yourself. Aging is a privilege. A becoming.

How has your definition of beauty changed throughout your life?

Through all of the noise of “how to age”
the constant pressure to fix, freeze, or fight our bodies,
there’s a deeper truth asking to be heard.

A reclamation of yourself. Aging is a privilege. A becoming.

How has your definition of beauty changed throughout your life?

💗 GALENTINE’S GIVEAWAY is CLOSED💗
Beyond Beauty Project x 80Muze

HOW TO ENTER:
1. Like this post
2. Tag your Galentines!! (they can win too!)
3. Follow @80muze & @beyond.beauty.project
4. Join the BBP email list – you’ll receive a DM with a link to subscribe when you tag a friend!
💕Bonus: Add this to your stories!

What you’ll get:
Dear Body Collection – journal, stickers & meditation
80 Muze large White No.17 bottle, along with a No.16 travel size

DEADLINE: Enter by February 12th / U.S. RESIDENTS ONLY
Winner announced on February 14th
$314 value‼️

To celebrate the value and importance of girlfriends, we’re showing gratitude for ones who make all the days (good and bad) a little more fun! The kind of friendships built on presence, trust, and the freedom to be yourself exactly as you are❤️

Good luck!
Cheers!
Xx, Bridgett & Amber

💗 GALENTINE’S GIVEAWAY is CLOSED💗
Beyond Beauty Project x 80Muze

HOW TO ENTER:
1. Like this post
2. Tag your Galentines!! (they can win too!)
3. Follow @80muze & @beyond.beauty.project
4. Join the BBP email list – you’ll receive a DM with a link to subscribe when you tag a friend!
💕Bonus: Add this to your stories!

What you’ll get:
Dear Body Collection – journal, stickers & meditation
80 Muze large White No.17 bottle, along with a No.16 travel size

DEADLINE: Enter by February 12th / U.S. RESIDENTS ONLY
Winner announced on February 14th
$314 value‼️

To celebrate the value and importance of girlfriends, we’re showing gratitude for ones who make all the days (good and bad) a little more fun! The kind of friendships built on presence, trust, and the freedom to be yourself exactly as you are❤️

Good luck!
Cheers!
Xx, Bridgett & Amber

Happy Friday Favs, beauties💓

Happy Friday Favs, beauties💓

Dear Body, You are the quiet strength that keeps going — holding, healing, and supporting me without asking for applause.
✨
Dear Mind, You are like a garden where my creativity flourishes when I
tend to you with patience.
✨
Dear Spirit, You are the steady current within me, guiding me when I’m unsure of the next step.

Dear Body, You are the quiet strength that keeps going — holding, healing, and supporting me without asking for applause.
✨
Dear Mind, You are like a garden where my creativity flourishes when I
tend to you with patience.
✨
Dear Spirit, You are the steady current within me, guiding me when I’m unsure of the next step.

She was never too much.
Never too sensitive.
Never asking for more than she deserved.

She was just a little girl carrying her curiosity into rooms that didn’t know how to hold it.
Learning to quiet herself.
Learning to adapt.
Learning to believe she was the problem.

But here’s the truth many of us are still unlearning throughout life:
You were never broken.
You were never “wrong.”

You simply hadn’t stepped into rooms and the arms of those who see your heart, honor your creativity, and make you feel safe being fully and authentically yourself.

But when you do
you stop shrinking.
you stop apologizing.
you can finally just be.
❤️❤️❤️

She was never too much.
Never too sensitive.
Never asking for more than she deserved.

She was just a little girl carrying her curiosity into rooms that didn’t know how to hold it.
Learning to quiet herself.
Learning to adapt.
Learning to believe she was the problem.

But here’s the truth many of us are still unlearning throughout life:
You were never broken.
You were never “wrong.”

You simply hadn’t stepped into rooms and the arms of those who see your heart, honor your creativity, and make you feel safe being fully and authentically yourself.

But when you do
you stop shrinking.
you stop apologizing.
you can finally just be.
❤️❤️❤️

What if the media celebrated who we are instead of who we “should” be?
Swipe through the covers we’ve always deserved. It’s time to redefine the spotlight. Which one is your favorite?

What if the media celebrated who we are instead of who we “should” be?
Swipe through the covers we’ve always deserved. It’s time to redefine the spotlight. Which one is your favorite?

These picks kept us goin all week❤️‍🔥Which resonates with you?

These picks kept us goin all week❤️‍🔥Which resonates with you?

When your energy feels stuck, it’s often an invitation to listen more closely within — to move, breathe, release, and allow what’s been held to find its way out.

Trusting your body is an essential part of healing when you listen to your inner voice. ✨

When your energy feels stuck, it’s often an invitation to listen more closely within — to move, breathe, release, and allow what’s been held to find its way out.

Trusting your body is an essential part of healing when you listen to your inner voice. ✨

Across the world, the body is honored as a part of nature and is met with remembrance, not correction.

Water teaches buoyancy, showing us that life is meant to be fluid.
Forests offer a return, where breath deepens, and the mind grows quiet.
Cold wakes us into the now, reminding us to be present.
Land reminds us that we belong, offering a sense of grounding.
Oceans move us in rhythm, not restraint.

Somewhere along the way, we were taught our bodies were problems to fix.

But nature doesn’t believe that story.

Across the world, the body is honored as a part of nature and is met with remembrance, not correction.

Water teaches buoyancy, showing us that life is meant to be fluid.
Forests offer a return, where breath deepens, and the mind grows quiet.
Cold wakes us into the now, reminding us to be present.
Land reminds us that we belong, offering a sense of grounding.
Oceans move us in rhythm, not restraint.

Somewhere along the way, we were taught our bodies were problems to fix.

But nature doesn’t believe that story.

Healing begins with meeting yourself with a new perspective.

Comment “Future Me” to write and begin rebuilding body trust from the inside out ✨

Healing begins with meeting yourself with a new perspective.

Comment “Future Me” to write and begin rebuilding body trust from the inside out ✨

Friday Favs are here, beauties! Let us know your favorite below!

Friday Favs are here, beauties! Let us know your favorite below!

You don’t need the whole map in front of you, just the courage to take the next step and trust yourself along the way.

If you haven’t read @ritualofheart feature, find the link in bio!

You don’t need the whole map in front of you, just the courage to take the next step and trust yourself along the way.

If you haven’t read @ritualofheart feature, find the link in bio!

We are excited to announce our first Beauty of 2026 is @jaynemattingly ✨

Jayne’s work centers on what she so powerfully names Body Grief: the quiet, complicated, and very real mourning that can arise when your body changes, when life takes an unexpected turn, or when the body you live in no longer mirrors the one you once knew.

She is a nationally recognized disability advocate, body image speaker, and author of This Is Body Grief.

What we most appreciate about Jayne’s work is how deeply human it is.

Having grown up with a mom in a wheelchair, I’m especially inspired by how Jayne gives language to experiences that are so often lived quietly and invisibly.

We’re honored to feature Jayne as our first 2026 Beauty of the Month, for her writing and art, and for her courage in giving language to experiences so many of us feel but rarely know how to name.

Tap the link in our bio to read her full feature💗

We are excited to announce our first Beauty of 2026 is @jaynemattingly ✨

Jayne’s work centers on what she so powerfully names Body Grief: the quiet, complicated, and very real mourning that can arise when your body changes, when life takes an unexpected turn, or when the body you live in no longer mirrors the one you once knew.

She is a nationally recognized disability advocate, body image speaker, and author of This Is Body Grief.

What we most appreciate about Jayne’s work is how deeply human it is.

Having grown up with a mom in a wheelchair, I’m especially inspired by how Jayne gives language to experiences that are so often lived quietly and invisibly.

We’re honored to feature Jayne as our first 2026 Beauty of the Month, for her writing and art, and for her courage in giving language to experiences so many of us feel but rarely know how to name.

Tap the link in our bio to read her full feature💗

To the child within us and the daughters beside us –
May we begin where we are, honor who we are, and remember: being true has and always will be enough. ✨

To the child within us and the daughters beside us –
May we begin where we are, honor who we are, and remember: being true has and always will be enough. ✨

✨ Here are a few favs that got us through the week!
Which are your favorites?

✨ Here are a few favs that got us through the week!
Which are your favorites?

New Year, same beautiful you!

New Year, same beautiful you!

Your potential is limitless 💖

Your potential is limitless 💖

What’s on your list? Let us know below ✨

What’s on your list? Let us know below ✨

Happy Friday and New Year, beauties!

Happy Friday and New Year, beauties!

By this time next year…
with intention,
with compassion,
with love —
If you allow yourself to witness the magic in every moment,
you’ll discover how presence and joy in even the smallest parts of your life can completely transform your world. ❤️

By this time next year…
with intention,
with compassion,
with love —
If you allow yourself to witness the magic in every moment,
you’ll discover how presence and joy in even the smallest parts of your life can completely transform your world. ❤️

Release. Surrender. Trust.
Make room for more. ✨

May this year open space for joy, worth, healing, and deep care.

Release. Surrender. Trust.
Make room for more. ✨

May this year open space for joy, worth, healing, and deep care.

Dear Body, Thank you for carrying me through every season. This new season, I will give you space to soften.

Dear Mind, I’m sorry you learned fear before you learned trust. We are rewiring this together.

Dear Spirit, I trust your guidance and walk in your grace.

Love, Me

Dear Body, Thank you for carrying me through every season. This new season, I will give you space to soften.

Dear Mind, I’m sorry you learned fear before you learned trust. We are rewiring this together.

Dear Spirit, I trust your guidance and walk in your grace.

Love, Me

Friday Favs are here, beauties! Let us know your favorite below!

Friday Favs are here, beauties! Let us know your favorite below!

‘New year, new you’ is a scam. There, we said it!

You don’t need a new version of yourself every January, because every step, misstep, and lesson you take throughout the year IS new growth.

Progress isn’t perfect, and that’s the beauty of it all✨

‘New year, new you’ is a scam. There, we said it!

You don’t need a new version of yourself every January, because every step, misstep, and lesson you take throughout the year IS new growth.

Progress isn’t perfect, and that’s the beauty of it all✨

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