Bethanie Lunn

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Living bravely and adventurously.

One thing the pandemic has proved to us all is that change can happen, unannounced and it can happen at super speed. Though some fear change as it catapults you…

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October 12, 2020

1 Shirt Worn 5 Ways

I love a button down shirt but I never used to.  I used to think I couldn’t wear them due to my large bust – no one needs to see…

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April 21, 2017

How to try new things

Image Credit For as long as I can remember I have always enjoyed trying new things although, when I was a child, I was a notoriously picky eater. I wouldn’t…

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March 30, 2015
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  • Fashion,  Lifestyle,  More Inspiration,  Popular

    Four cosy (but not frumpy) looks.

    January 4, 2021 / No Comments

    If you follow me on Instagram, you’ll know I kicked off my new Style Sunday content yesterday. You get to choose the weekly theme and I recommend four different ideas and style picks based on that – for both your wardrobe and your home. First up for your wardrobe is your ask for cosy, comfortable but stylish outfits (that don’t make you feel frumpy). I don’t need to know the entire plot twist for 2021, I mean, none of us have any way of knowing. But if you want to know how to level up your look (and therefore how you feel), read on. Your four style picks 1. Co-ords…

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    Why ‘putting on a brave face’ is the wrong thing to do.

    October 26, 2020 / No Comments

    This girl (with the stepdad who looks a bit like Sylvester Stallone), could never resist playing up to the camera. I still can’t. I was always inquisitive and wanting to explore.  My mum told me that on a holiday to Hunstanton at the age of two, I decided I was bored in the Chinese restaurant where we all sat, so I got up from the table, opened the door myself and started walking down the street. It was only because my coat had a red hood that my sister spotted me and saw me walking nonchalantly away! I’m not much different now. I’ve always been pioneering too. I remember being…

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  • Brave Living

    My ice bath experience.

    October 17, 2020 / No Comments

    A month ago, I had a fire and ice experience led by Lisa Shabbas and it changed my life. Lisa is an ex military bodyguard who unplugged. The beast to being programme I took part in, held at Beach Box Sauna Spa in Brighton, sees you start with a swim in the sea, followed by an intense heat sauna sitting, before plunging yourself into a bath of ice cubes. Yes really. The method teaches you to breathe through fears and physical sensations, promoting strength of mind over matter and inner power. There was a small group of other women who joined me, each of us there for our own reasons.…

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    Living bravely and adventurously.

    October 12, 2020 / No Comments

    One thing the pandemic has proved to us all is that change can happen, unannounced and it can happen at super speed. Though some fear change as it catapults you into the unknown, or makes you feel out of control, I’ve always enjoyed change. I find it exciting; an opportunity to create or try something new. I’m addicted to trying new things. It gives me the sense of adventure that I seek in my every day. While I don’t see the pandemic as an adventure of course, I’m not writing off 2020 altogether like I hear so many people have. 2020 could be your year of opportunity. You could see…

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  • Fashion,  Featured,  General

    1 Shirt Worn 5 Ways

    April 21, 2017 / No Comments

    I love a button down shirt but I never used to.  I used to think I couldn’t wear them due to my large bust – no one needs to see a gaping peephole to my cleavage and shirts are not supposed to do that.  It is only with age (and thus experience of wearing clothes, getting it wrong, and then finally getting it right), that I’ve come to realise the shirt is a wardrobe staple. BUT you need to go for high quality and part with the cash to get it – plus it will last you years which is a more sustainable option.  A well made shirt is such…

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    Let’s speak the truth about: ‘Baby Blues’.

    April 11, 2016 / No Comments

    I felt really embarrassed to publish this video and a bit frightened to.  Why? Well, in it – I’m laid bare, I’m feeling down, it’s just four days after giving birth and I look like SHIT. So why did I publish it? Well, I talk about the baby blues and my experience, how I felt after giving birth, all the changes your whole self goes through and what you can do to come out the other side. I desperately needed someone to tell me the truth, hug me tightly and say, ‘don’t worry – it’s all normal, it’s tough right now but it will get better’. All I could find…

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    Get cosy and hide from the rain with these ideas

    September 15, 2015 / No Comments

    Image Credit The UK weather has been so stormy lately with dark mornings, evenings drawing in from 5pm and a drop in temperature. Ever the optimist though, I do love autumn – it’s a beautiful season. When the leaves fall, the streets become lined with yellow, green and autumnal golden brown. when sunlight peeps through the bare trees while we get cosy in oversized coats outside and with large cups of cocoa inside. So in honour of snug season, here are my favourite ways to hide away and cosy up… Enjoy a hot drink – there’s something about a warming cuppa in a large mug that makes me feel comforted.  Team…

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    How to try new things

    March 30, 2015 / 1 Comment

    Image Credit For as long as I can remember I have always enjoyed trying new things although, when I was a child, I was a notoriously picky eater. I wouldn’t swallow the ‘bits’ in yoghurts because I didn’t like the texture. I chose not to eat meat for my love of animals and I must have been the only kid to prefer fruit to chocolate. It wasn’t that I didn’t like to try new things nor that I never had but instead- in trying new things – I learnt to know what I love and indeed, hate. I discovered variety and through that, my beliefs, and so I developed a…

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So thankful for today’s blue skies, bustle and v So thankful for today’s blue skies, bustle and vibrancy, the promise of atmosphere and good company 💖 #brightonlife
Just look at this amazing bunch of women who will Just look at this amazing bunch of women who will be joining me for a conversation on Womancipation: letting go of what no longer serves you.

When you let go of the shit that no longer serves you, you're putting boundaries in place that liberate you; creating space for what's meant to be.

From social conditioning to people pleasing, expectations to endless to do lists, suffering in silence and putting ourselves last, there is so much that women today feel they have to contend with, put up with and put on a brave face for.

THIS IS SIMPLY NOT TRUE.

You don't have to do anything you don't want to.

It's time to shut the door on the things in your life that don't make you happy, help you grow or serve you.

Join our frank conversation on International Women’s Day @clubhouse - as we move through the journey of the last 12 months, where we're all at now and what we can do going forward to challenge for change and design the life we know we deserve.

You'll hear from a mental toughness coach, a meditation coach, a stylist, a mind, body and movement coach and a transformation coach who all have one shared focus - a strong mind leads to infinite possibilities. 

Discover our winning formulas and let's womancipate ourselves.

When: Monday 8th March 2021, 8pm GMT
Where: Clubhouse (link in bio).
F E B R U A R Y Love was delivered in small does F E B R U A R Y 

Love was delivered in small does everyday. It always is if you know how to look for it.

Love for some of the most mesmerising skies I’ve relished in for a while- day and night. The kind that light up my soul and make me grateful to be alive. 

Love for birthday celebrations that lit up my soul once more with magical fun and the excitement that only children can muster.

The food of love. Literally. Heart shaped everything and little hands and imaginations making gifts to wish mummy happy Valentines Day.

Love for my family and friends and their love for me. You are my strength. I’d be lost without you. 

The love of and for my children. The two little critters that drive me crazy and push me beyond my limits but are also my world, my reason, my joy, my solace, my belly laughs, my energy, my purpose.

The love for myself. This I’m working on, but I’ve learned so much this last 12 months. Mostly, I know that it’s not selfish or low priority to put yourself first. It’s absolutely vital to look after number one! Nothing else works if you don’t. 

March brings my birthday and the beginnings of the world reopening. It delivers the first day of spring and lighter, brighter days for us all.
Hands up who feels like they’re a different pers Hands up who feels like they’re a different person than they were a year ago? 
 
There’s no doubting that we’ve all changed in some way since the start of this pandemic. Many of us have experienced trauma, transition, reflection, discovery and change. There is no escaping that. 
 
A huge part of our identity is our image, how we present ourselves, our style, what we wear and I’m guessing this has changed for you too. We’ve all seen and enjoyed the jokes about a suit jacket and shirt on the top half with PJ‘s or shorts on the bottom half to be ‘zoom ready’. 
 
We’ve all joined in the Dress Up Friday Instagram posts with celebrities going full on glam to cheer up the laid-back style we’ve all found comfort in. 
 
But I also hear an emerging new conversation that, although the hoody is here to stay, there are some of us who are getting a little bored of loungewear and feeling dragged down with our moods because we’re kind of over wearing the same thing, doing the same thing, feeling the same way. 
 
So it’s time to inject some life, vibrancy and personality back into our wardrobes and to be frank, back into our lives. 
 
This is why I am hosting a ‘find your (new) style’ class on Instagram live on ✨Tuesday 16th March at 7:30pm.✨I’d love you to join me.
I’ll be sharing more on the class soon but just mark the date in your diary for now and I’ll be gathering your questions ready for the day so I can answer as many of them as possible with some strong, sassy and kind people joining me as guests. 
 
This look I’ve posted here is my transitionary style. It takes the comfort of leggings, a hoody and a T-shirt (which has somewhat become the uniform for many of us over the last 12 months), but adds a little bit more glam with details like a blazer, biker boots and chandelier earrings. 
 
My photographers are my two kids (aged 7 and 5), and they always get me to do a random pose at the end. The result of their art direction is at the end, ha haaaaaa.👈🏾👈🏻👈🏽
 
We will be talking about whether this style is here to stay, whether we want it to be, and if we wanna glam up again, as well as how we can reintegrate ourselves - and our new identities - back into society.
Happy 5th birthday Sass. A journey through time ( Happy 5th birthday Sass.

A journey through time (so far). You arrived in two hours. I was working on my laptop (standard), ignoring the fact that I was having contractions. Your dad called our friend Lucy - in place to take your brother and dog when I went into labour. ‘She thinks it’s Braxton Hicks,’ he told her. ‘Dude, you know how hardcore your Missus is, she’s likely to be in labour, I’m coming over’. And with that, off they went and out you came! Boom. A whirlwind labour, a tornado experience, an entrance that said, ‘I’M HERE WORLD. RECOGNISE’. 

Well my darling, how could we not. 

Today, you are a fireball synonymous with your arrival.

You live your name.

You are so brilliantly individual and bright, an absolute ‘fruit loop’. You love to make people laugh and act the clown to raise a smile. 

You sing all the time, strumming on the guitar making up your own lyrics. You sing about loving people and unicorns.

Your favourite food is peanut butter, you love mixing it with chocolate spread. You’d eat it straight out the jar and finish it if I let you. 

You adore your brother, you look at him with such love despite him also being the source of your arguments. Though you tease each other and it drives me mad, I know you’ll always be there for each other. After more news of changes to come, I saw you two holding hands in bed when I came to check on you. You fell asleep that way. I love that you are close.

You’re a pleasure to be close to Sass. You’re fun, kind, zany, honest, original, fiery and strong. Watch out world.

Go get ‘em tiger. Never lose your zest. 

Happy birthday my darling girl. xxx
Sharing the love for these two heroes today. They Sharing the love for these two heroes today.

They’ve experienced all the changes each one of us have this past year, but then an extra layer of epic changes on top of that, with more to come.

And yet they still try, they still find the fun, they still smile, they still move forward, they still shine.

‘Kids are resilient’, they say. They are but they’re also vulnerable; rightly turning to us for guidance and stability. While I will always hold them up and be their rock, honestly...they’re actually mine right now. 

Thank you kids for teaching me to embrace my own vulnerability and move forward with a smile anyway.
J A N U A R Y It’s usually a shite month anywa J A N U A R Y 

It’s usually a shite month anyway let alone with the extra layers brought by the pandemic. So for many of us, January was possibly the hardest month yet.

It was for me.

Personally this has been my hardest month in a very long time. I’ll share more when I’m ready, so to pass on my learnings to help others, but I’ve had to dig deep for this one.

I believe that when someone is suffering and challenged, you get the real measure of them in those times. 
 
I’ve chosen to find the light in the small things and adjust day by day, step by step...

When you’re climbing a mountain, it’s natural to collapse under the air pressure but then, if you keep on breathing and adjust to the climb, your mind opens up to the tranquility in the triumph.
To all the parents shouldering the pain so you can To all the parents shouldering the pain so you can just see your kids smile. To those home schooling and dashing between devices, answering questions, taking note, trying to work in between, or during. Taking deep breaths when they shout, ‘Muuuummmmm?’ For the 20th time. 

To those going to work in a crisis and those staying at home alone. To the people feeling lonely and scared and dark.

To the kids who only part understand why all this happening, trying to adapt to change, learning to go digital, not seeing their friends, not seeing their family, not going to soft play, no to this, no to that...and soldiering on anyway. 

To everyone simply putting one foot in front of the other, collapsing one day, rising up the next. Riding the corona coaster and trying our best. 

I see you.
I am you.

The up and down you feel, that I feel, it’s warranted. It’s natural. 

And there is always:

H.O.P.E
Hold
On
Pain
Ends
I run a members club, @ittakestits that seeks out I run a members club, @ittakestits that seeks out and champions your inner brave, helps you shake off the sh*t that is holding you back, and get out of your own way, so you can ask for what you need, and then go out and get it.

Swipe for more info 👉🏼👉🏽👉🏾👉🏿

The founding members are a small small group of incredible women who have joined me on quite the adventure so far! 

We’ve moved from the magic of reminiscing as we relive a childlike sense of fun, to doing a lot of intense self discovery and self development work, based around our values.

We are now working on our visions for the year, developing a mental toughness to make this happen and ensuring that our values i.e. what is important to us, is reflected in our every day.

We recently welcomed a special guest to our monthly gathering, @sarahruddercoach - the mental toughness coach. 

Sarah has been a huge influence in my life and is the person who introduced me to @brenebrown showing me that vulnerability is the glue to all our emotions. 

Try to lock vulnerability away because of the fear of it, and essentially you look away all the other emotions. You dull down your light. You stop feeling and guess what? You grow vulnerable again. 

Let vulnerability in, let it embrace you and realise that it’s actually a strength, and you will transform the way you live, love, parent and lead.

As the group moves forward, we are taking our visions and questioning, ‘how much of our desires do we already have?’ ‘The way we want to be, feel and be perceived – are we that already?’ There is some soul-searching to do. 

What i’m showing them is that all the power we need to achieve what we wish is within us, in fact it has always been there. We just have to strip back the layers and unbecome everything we are not. 

Peel the onion, I dare you.

I’m opening the doors at the end of January to welcome the next five members of It Takes Tits. If you want to feel stronger or just more like you… Whatever that is, join a group of people to feel connected and less lost. Or, if you just want a boost or need something that makes you feel alive again, then DM me or leave a comment and we’ll get the show on the road.

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