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“The most courageous act in a world that is cruel and numb is to feel the pain and still choose to live with your heart wide open.” - James McCrae
How?
How do we see the ugly in the world around us and choose to create beauty?
How do we spread our art, knowing the very privilege it is to have the freedom to make it?
Read MoreArt has a way of healing and that’s been the common thread throughout my years of this work. While my reasons for being passionate about it might change and take new shape, my voice has always been for women. We need places to go where we feel seen. We need others to tell our stories so that we don’t get lost. We need gifts of silence in the day-to-day chaos. We deserve pockets of refuge in this vast existence.
Read MoreIn a world where people just want the smallest, simplest piece of you, how do you show them that you need each other?
So much of owning a small business is meeting the people who will “get” what you do and want to be a part of it. If you’re doing it right, it’s not even a huge number of people, just enough that trust your vision and want it for themselves. But, when you have one minute to listen to their story and one minute to tell yours, how do you connect?
I’m so tired of the small talk, “I’m a life coach, oh, you’re a photographer? I need some new headshots.”
We know you do so much more than just coach people. Do you know that I do so much more than take a few photos of people?
How do we get there? How do we find meaning in these short conversations?
Read MoreI saw something yesterday that said, “Write your own story”. How can those 4 words evoke so much inside of me? About an hour before reading those words, I discovered something I wrote when I was in the middle of my darkest year (2017). I had lost my dog, my grandfather, my uncle and my grandmother, all within a few months. I then asked my husband for a divorce. I was spiraling, but maintaining (it was only from having support from those around me). What I wrote on the pages of my journal was why it was so important for me to write my own story.
Read MoreCan a name stigmatize an experience?
I get people who say, "Oh, I don't think I'm the type of person to do a boudoir session. It's just not me."
Then, I tell them it will be an experience they can make all their own. “You can wear your favorite dress. You can wear nothing at all. You can be in the ocean or on a mountain. You can be rolling around in a bed or the dirt.”
I say it over and over and over…THESE SESSIONS ARE MORE THAN JUST NUDE PHOTOS OF YOURSELF.
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