Discover the power of self-celebration through boudoir photography. In this post, I share how embracing your body and beauty, without needing validation from anyone else, can lead to deep empowerment and healing. It’s a reminder that your self-worth is yours to define—no one else’s.

When Connie first reached out to me, she shared with me, “I want to memorialize the woman I am becoming... in the midst of chaos comes beauty. That’s how I feel right now!” I loved to hear her say that, and I loved it even more that she wanted to memorialize her season of becoming with a portrait session.

Sarah’s mom Dione, first reached out to me expressing her desire to gift her daughter with a portrait session. When I spoke with Sarah, she shared with me that she was pregnant with her first child and she wanted it to be documented in a timeless way. I asked her to tell me what she was looking to discover about herself during our session and she said, “I'm not JUST pregnant. I'm still a young woman.”

I am thrilled with what Sarah and I created, and though it’s been a while since we captured her session, it makes me happy to be sharing it with you finally.

Sarah’s portrait session conveys stillness and love.

While she is with child, I still see her ✨

Hi, it’s been a while. Like a really long time. I don’t really know what happened here. But I can try to sum it up for you (and me).

Since I last shared a boudoir session on the journal, Alexandra’s birthday boudoir session — was in April 2021. I was in the thick of gaining back a normal workflow but truly not really normal since we were opening back up due to COVID shutdown and everyone wanted a session. I was super busy, life happened, and add the fact that I was four months into therapy and feeling hella vulnerable…

Approximately six months before her birthday, Alexandra (Sandy) reached out to me with a clear desire of gifting herself a boudoir session to celebrate her 40th birthday. During our creative and preparation stage of her boudoir session, I asked her, what are you looking to discover about yourself during and/or after your session? and she answered, “celebrating being comfortable in my own skin.”

Here’s a little secret, I LOVE creating by the water. With water, we nurture, pray, cleanse, and soothe. Those are just merely a few of the things water represent. Water is life. I have always found our relationship with water so mesmerizing, especially for Women. So every season shooting a boudoir session near the water is, somewhat, soul healing.