Strike the Pose.

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Written By Jessica Gabrielzyk

Aline França is not just an image consultant. She is THE image consultant. So when she took it upon herself to photograph Parenting Unpacked and Maternity Abroad in the Netherlands, I knew I had hit the jackpot.

Aline is basically the Law Roach of the Netherlands. If you know who Law Roach is, you understand the weight of that sentence. If you do not, Law Roach is the stylist behind Zendaya and Céline Dion. The man responsible for some of the most iconic fashion moments of the last decade. That energy. That level. That eye.

So let us do the math.

If Aline is Law Roach, which book is Céline Dion and which one is Zendaya?

Maternity Abroad is Céline Dion. Iconic. A classic. Has been making people cry since before it was cool. Arrived first and set the standard for everything that came after.

Parenting Unpacked is Zendaya. The one everyone is talking about right now. Sharp, unexpected, shows up to every occasion in exactly the right thing, and makes you think about it for days after.

I stand by this analysis completely and I will not be taking questions.

Aline is in Chapter 19 of Parenting Unpacked by the way. She is an image and identity specialist and her contribution to the book explores exactly what happens to your sense of self when the context around you changes. She did not volunteer for the photoshoot any more than she volunteered for Chapter 19. But here we are. The books are in the Netherlands, in the best possible hands, and honestly they have never looked better.

If you want to read Aline’s chapter and everything else that happens when parenting meets identity migration, Parenting Unpacked and Maternity Abroad are available now on Amazon worldwide. 💛

Thank you Aline.

Jessica Gabrielzyk

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Jessica Gabrielzyk

Jessica Gabrielzyk is a Brazilian writer living in Switzerland. She moved there with her husband and daughter, who was three months old at the time and had strong opinions about the whole thing even then.

She writes about change.

The visible kind and the kind that happens inside a person, while everything on the outside looks fine.

Her first book, Maternity Abroad, explored what it means to become a mother far from the system you trusted. It has reached readers in more than fifteen countries across five continents. Parenting Unpacked, her second book, follows the experience of parenting through major life disruption, whether that's an international move, a career loss, a new baby, or a life that simply stops responding the way it used to. My First American Coloring Book was created to help toddlers engage with daily life in the United States through play and familiar imagery.

She is a member of SIETAR, the Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research, and the International Academy of Brazilian Literature.

She writes for the parent who is still inside it, getting through the day, and wondering somewhere underneath all of it who they are becoming.

When she is not writing, she is walking forty minutes uphill with a stroller, telling herself the exercise is the point.

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