Dearest tribe, Last night as I looked up at the blood moon lunar eclipse, I found the certainty I've been searching for. Over the last year, I've started asking myself the questions I ask of all of you: am I being true to my most authentic self? Am I spending my time cultivating joy? Am I caring for myself? When I started working on Fred and Far and The Self Love Pinky Ring in 2015, I was in a very different place. I didn't even know to ask myself these questions. Putting on my pinky ring, and making myself a...
It's 2019, and we're kick starting this year with a January Self-Love Challenge that links with our book, The ABCs of Self Love, which you can buy on Amazon HERE! "So many years of education yet nobody ever taught us to love ourselves and why it's so important!" With a new letter a day, learn how to be and love your most authentic self. Use our checklist to track your progress. School is now in session! Make a new year resolution worth keeping–new year, true you.
The ABCs of Self Love by Melody Godfred is now available on Amazon, (in both paperback and eBook versions!) and bonus, it is Prime eligible. Not only is it available in the US The ABCs of Self Love is available on Amazon sites internationally as well. Check your local Amazon site to pick up your copy. Here's a recent review: "Women of all ages should get this book, read it and share it with the women in their lives. I’m inspired by this simple novel not because of its easy reading and interactive chapters (actions you can really do at the...
On Thursday, December 6th our founder Melody Godfred will join 11,000 women at the Massachusetts Conference for Women, where she has been invited to speak on a panel about personal branding. She’s excited to share how self love is an essential part of defining your personal brand and transforming the way you’re perceived in the workplace and the world. The Massachusetts Conference for Women provides one full day of connection, motivation, networking, inspiration and skill building for thousands of women each year. Now in its thirteenth year, the sold out conference features keynote speakers including author Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray,...
We are proud and excited to partner with sheisme to bring you a collection of powerful necklaces for the holiday seasons. Founded by two Fred and Far community members, this incredibly inspiring brand aims to supply strength, connection, and pretty things for your mind and bod by developing products around emotions, ideas, and magic. The Collection features seven unique stones, each with a corresponding intention. Each necklace is available in 14k gold plate or Sterling Silver. Malachite (green) - Intuition Rose Quartz (pink) - Love Onyx (black) - Strength Tiger's Eye (gold) - Vision Pearl (white) - Calm ...
We've created this self love gift guide to make sharing our self love movement easy this holiday season. Whether you're shopping for a gift for yourself, or for someone you care about who deserves to love themselves first, we've got gifts for every budget and person. Self Love Gifts: $1 - $25 The ABCs of Self Love Our favorite gift for her this holiday season is The ABCs of Self Love by our founder Melody Godfred. Part education, part inspiration, and part workbook, this 100-page original self love book makes self love, self awareness and self care an instinctual part of everyday life....
Ariana Grande’s new single, "Thank U, Next," is good. Really, really good. Maybe even the best song of her career. And not just because of its infectious hook and uplifting melody. It is the perfect self love // gratitude anthem for our self love movement. After a very public broken engagement, and the sudden loss of her ex-boyfriend Mac Miller, it would have been very easy for her to come out with a traditional heartbreak anthem burning her exes. But instead of dwelling on the negative, Ariana handles loss on multiple levels with inspiring grace and self love, and shifts her perspective...
Each week, our Friday Feature celebrates powerful women from our sisterhood who share their magic with the world in unique and inspiring ways. A few weeks ago, we started a series celebrating women in our community whose passion and creativity have made them fierce entrepreneurs. These go-getters share their journeys, hurdles they've had to overcome, and wisdom they've picked up along the way, which we are so excited to be able to share. We are excited to introduce you to Christen, who owns and operates a women's fine apparel boutique in Massachusetts with her mother, Heidi, and sister, Heather. We are honored to have partnered up with these...
Halloween is interesting because it’s the one night out of the entire year in which being afraid is celebrated. For 364 days, we’re taught to brush our fears away, to be fearless, to act like nothing can spook us. This is of course a terrible mental health strategy, as to be fearless is impossible, and the more we try to get there the more inadequate we feel and the more we hide our true feelings and selves. Then comes Halloween. One night only. Be afraid, get validated! Enter the haunted house, leave with candy. What if we approached every day...
Earlier this month, street artist and activist Banksy made headlines and history once again with his latest performance art prank. After his famous work, “Girl With Balloon,” sold at auction for a whopping $1.4 million, a mechanism inside the frame went off, shredding the piece in an act of self-destruction. This stunt can have multiple meanings, as Banksy often uses his art to comment on such structures as capitalism, power imbalances, and corruption. Wrapped up in the Banksy frenzy ourselves, we started questioning art and its subjective worth. What makes art valuable? What qualifies as art? In what way can...
Each week, our Friday Feature celebrates powerful women from our sisterhood who share their magic with the world in unique and inspiring ways. A few weeks ago, we started a Boss Babe Friday Feature series, and chatted with multiple women in our community whose passion and creativity have made them fierce entrepreneurs. These go-getters share their journeys, hurdles they've had to overcome, and wisdom they've picked up along the way, which we are so excited to be able to share. We're especially excited to share Leanne Aranador, the founder of Ladoru, because she played an instrumental role in developing our brand as our first Art Director. Leanne worked hand-in-hand...
Make self love and self care part of your daily routine with our 30 Day Self Love Challenge Checklist. 30 acts of self love and self care that will transform you from the inside out and make choosing yourself and choosing happiness a delicious daily habit. In the past, we've done 30 day self love challenges with a designated challenge for each day, which for some led to feelings of pressure, disappointment, failure and wanting to give up when a day was missed. (Literally the opposite of what we were trying to accomplish). With this checklist, you can engage with the challenge...
