A new People of the Second Chance campaign called “Labels Lie: Don’t Accept Them. Don’t Use Them.”
The campaign’s focus is on being liberated from the prison of societies’ labels. We don’t have to live with the shame of what people have said about us. We don’t have to accept these statements as our true identity.
These are the first 3 photos from the “Portrait Series” with many more to come over the next 3 months.
When we judge, label, diminish and criticize each other, this becomes the fuel for shame and guilt to fester in our souls. A label says we are unworthy, flawed and unacceptable.
Sadly we live in a society driven by stereotyping, gossiping, labeling and blame…and it is destroying us. Words like ugly, stupid, adulterer, addict, illegal, failure, ex-con, slut, fag and other dehumanizing labels are thrown around with no regard for how they damage.
It is time to talk about shame and the toxic labels we believe about ourselves.
It is time to be liberated from the lies of labels and experience the powerful truth of who we really are…Loved…Worthy…Beautiful…Accepted.
(Posted by Mike Foster via Jeremy Lang)
(via michaeltuckerr)
