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Today I celebrate Mother’s (Day) differently and tbh I celebrate mother’s every single day. Today I see mothers from a different place — from inside my own body, from the deepest and most powerful place there is: my womb.There’s a version of motherhood we see everywhere. Soft light. Beautiful bodies. Natural instinct. Quiet strength.And then there is the reality many women quietly live through. Probably our mothers did so, too.This past year changed my relationship to my body — and to being a woman — completely.After giving birth and during my breastfeeding journey, I developed a rare inflammatory breast disease that left me physically and emotionally exhausted for months.What started as “naturally” feeding my baby slowly became survival mode — surgeries, wounds, pain, medication, sleeplessness, fear, grief and the feeling of losing myself.I’m sharing this now not because I have fully processed it, but because I know how lonely it can feel while you’re inside of it.These images are difficult for me to look at. But they are my reality, my story, my scars and I call them my painting of motherhood. Motherhood opened me in ways I never expected. Not only into love — but also into exhaustion, vulnerability, softness, limits, healing and the deep need to learn how to nourish and protect myself, too in order to be a good mother.I share this because I wish more women spoke honestly about what our bodies sometimes carry in silence.And maybe because somewhere, another woman is searching for someone who understands. In all of this, we are not alone.I see you.“Only in a womb of a woman a (man) human being can breathe underwater.”Thank you Lovis @hautnah_shooting for capturing these sensitive truths of my motherhood journey and for holding space and making it beautifully visible. ❤️ by @lanilees

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When I had no clue that you are going to enter this world the very next day 💗🫶 ✨🐣#TB #preggybelly #preggyshooting #allinpink #mumlife #outfitinspo Thank you for this wonderful collaboration 📸 @anna_cottis by @lanilees

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FAM ❤️I don’t know the words to describe this feeling, it’s so much more and so much bigger.#family #love #youngfam #loveofmylife #motherhood #familyportraits by @lanilees

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A very sweet beginning of a new chapter as a student - Yoga TT with my favorite @originalfeelingsstudio - chapter one. Wow, I am so excited and happy for that great opportunity to level up to a new path in my life. Let the journey unfold - to fall forward, to step back to downward facing dog and to breathe. #tbc #yogatt #newpath #yoga #student by @lanilees

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Family - becoming parents and discovering who we are ourselves in it while living between places to settle down for what we want to call our home.NYC has become our ground to be, even we are not fully moved here yet. In between the sweet moments and the challenges I understood and feel grateful to be able to say that - HOME is US, you and our little boy, our Family, no matter the place.Proud and blessed for what we have already become. I love you ❤️ @felixglasmeyer NYC, Summer 2026 - tbc. by @lanilees

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Motherhood — return into my body.I always believed I had a strong connection to my body.I live in sync with my cycle, I listen to my intuition and I thought I knew how to hear its voice. Motherhood showed me there was a much deeper conversation waiting.For the first time, I could no longer ignore my limits.Becoming a mother left me with no capacity to keep saying yes when my body was saying no.No more:“It’s okay.”“Okay I’ll wait.”“Okay, maybe next time.”“Okay, I’ll do it myself.”An “okay” is simply not a yes.Motherhood revealed one of my biggest shadows:How much of my life I had spent pleasing, adjusting and carrying more than was mine.My body already knew.It spoke through exhaustion.Through pain.Through stillness.And eventually, I listened.Today I understand that our bodies often know long before our minds are ready to admit the truth.Motherhood didn’t just make me a mother.It brought me back into my body.And although that journey left scars, it also brought me home.The energy I used to spend leaving myself behind belongs somewhere else now.Back to me.🙏🏽Thank you @hautnah_shooting for holding space for my journey and for capturing it so beautifully.#motherhood #healing #mum #embodiment #woman by @lanilees

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I cannot believe what my eyes are watching - our morning routine has been updated and we have started potty training - thank you @kindsgut for making it playful and fun // Anzeige #kindsgut #pottytime #morningroutine #baby by @lanilees

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How is life going between walks, errands, diapers, naps and feeling yourself a little? #anzeige @themikutashop #themikutashop #streetstyle #mumstyle #ootd by @lanilees

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In my favorite @themikutashop / ad #happyfriday #outfitinspiration #themikutashop by @lanilees

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April 🌱.A year ago you only have been three months old, two years ago, love created life ❤️ I love you so. #happymum #happytohaveyou #baby #family #aprilmood by @lanilees

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True love exists. Never stop believing that it’s real. #mood #themikutashop #ad @themikutashop #ootd by @lanilees

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Today my hips move different, today I move with you, I move deep, I move with compassion and trust. Oh what a ride this is #motherhood #you #mum #ootd by @lanilees

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