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hello there !


welcome to the authenticity project, a coming together of the mess that exists within my mind as i navigate this thing called life. a place for me to talk, truly talk about the things i wish more people spoke about. i hope that somehow my ramblings might make you feel a little less alone in the big wide world.

i’m sophie.

i design things. i take pictures. and i write…a LOT.

the journal…

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on devotion
on devotion

I stretch towards spring like a cat reaching for that patch of sunlight streaming in through the window. I yearn for it endlessly and yet it remains just out of reach. It’s in touching distance. I see pictures on Substack from people in other corners of the world documenting how spring has already arrived for them, earlier than here and it makes me ache. Here in Denmark, Spring is dragging its heels, we linger in the in-between.

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on giving yourself permission
on giving yourself permission

I have felt a deep yearning for the crispness of autumn recently. Summer has come late this year to Copenhagen, and with it I feel a kind of fatigue that I find hard to put into words. As much as I love the endless days of the summer months (when we are lucky to get them here), I find the novelty wears off quickly. Having grown up in rainy Scotland, I am not used to so many days of good weather in a row. I am sure many other Brit’s will attest to this feeling of ‘making the most’ of the weather whenever we are blessed with sun.

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on figuring it out together
on figuring it out together

I realised I’ve been hiding. Not just from the world but from myself as well. Somewhere along the way I got caught up in all the things I don’t have, or wish were different, and instead of having curiosity about what changes I could make, I dug the hole deeper and deeper until I could no longer see the light. It happens so easily, one day you are just acknowledging a frustration, the next you are embodying it. I allowed it to bury me because I forgot that I have a choice.

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on feeling all that is to be felt
on feeling all that is to be felt

I think Sundays are becoming my favourite day of the week. Since moving house, I've been able to truly prioritise the things that feel so meaningful to me that I have been unable to for a while. Working two jobs and splitting my free time between two different homes did not leave much space for consistency. I may only have one job and one home now, but I still have a plenty of feelings. I always will.

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on the making of meaning of this.
on the making of meaning of this.

“I'm trying to get through without only feeling like I am passing time.”

This line hit me, putting into words a feeling that I have felt for so long without fully understanding it. I think so many of us spend our lives just passing time without realising it. Held back by all these narratives we've collected about why right now isn’t the perfect time is to do any of the things that might bring us meaning. That this moment cannot be woven with magic and joy because of all our responsibilities that come from elsewhere. It's not our fault, not at all.

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on remembering where it all began
on remembering where it all began

It has been an incredibly long time since I picked up this notebook. I used to spend hours, once a week nestled within its pages, but somehow I was surprised at how many pages were filled with my words when I opened it back up this morning. I forgot how often I found my way here, sharing whatever truth was in my heart that day. I’m realising that the key for my not having shown up here for so long, most likely lies in the fact that I think I lost sight of why I truly wrote here at all.

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on coming home
on coming home

have not logged onto this site in a scary amount of time, have not felt able to for so many reasons. I didn’t really know if I had anything to say. I had been so proud of myself for the way I had been showing up here, as often as I did and for how long I kept it up for. But that pride has also kept me away for a long time too. I have been scared that if I did try to come here again and see if I had something I might want to share with you, that it might be short lived. That maybe I would not make it back here for a long time again.

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on forming your own definitions
on forming your own definitions
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Fearing gently
Fearing gently
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the latest snaps…

View fullsize before spring graced us with it’s presence. i love watching the city change week by week, the seasons rolling by and noticing different things each time i step out the door. that’s one of the things i love most about photography, the way
View fullsize i am so behind on posting these days, these photos from nordhavn were taken in early january...oops. despite having more photos than i ever have that i feel proud of and want to share, my tolerance for posting on here on the regular is the lowest it&
View fullsize my days at the moment seem to be revolved around chasing the light. finding those moments that glow with a golden iridescence and fill my heart with warmth. basking in the sunlight, watching in awe as the colours fill the sky with the rise of the sun
View fullsize i shared this one over on @the.authenticity.project but i enjoy it so much it’s going to live here as well. it’s been so inspiring seeing different areas of the city evolve throughout the seasons, the newness of it all is still to wear of
View fullsize i always think it’s funny how our moods and outlooks change day to day. i wake up never knowing how i’m going to feel, it’s like a nice little surprise every day. unless well, you know, i wake up feeling crappy. i believe we all hol
View fullsize today has been intense to say the least. after how perfect yesterday was, i felt a lot of pressure to continue riding the high of such a good day, especially seeing as the good weather has also continued. and yet i woke with a swirling seesawing of e
View fullsize today feels full of promise in the way only spring days can. warmth and light radiates from days such as this, more full of possibility than days of rain and darkness. these past few weeks i’ve naturally been waking up as the sun peeks above t
View fullsize i woke up feeling drained and tired, matching the energy of the grey skies that graced us with their unwelcome presence after two days of glorious sunshine. it was a reminder that some days literally aren’t all sunshine and rainbows and that so
View fullsize the sun was SHINING here today. it’s got me excited to experience another season here in copenhagen, somehow i’ve been here long enough to get two out of four under my belt. i realised the other day i’ve now been living here for ove
View fullsize i hadn’t picked up my poor camera in what felt like months until today and i’m not entirely sure why. i’ve been focusing on living more in the present, focusing my energy on the things that bring me back to myself and as a result i
View fullsize i’ve been fully in hibernation mode this last week or so, feeling a little low on energy and needing more rest than usual. the main reason is probably that i caught a cold but it might also have something to do with the fact that the energy of
View fullsize i didn’t think i’d ever say this but i miss being stranded in the middle of nowhere. i miss the lack of noise around me, the peace and stillness that comes with being in the depths of the countryside. i miss being able to choose when i wa

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