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There will never be a "perfect" time to document your body | Boca Raton Boudoir Photographer

There will never be a "perfect" time to document your body | Boca Raton Boudoir Photographer

What if I told you that the body you view as "not good enough" right now will be the body you wish you had in 20 years?

What if you realized that the fact that your body is strong enough to dance with your children is more important than the fact that your stomach isn't "flat". 

What if you gave society, and what they've told you to value about yourself, the middle finger?

There will never be a "perfect" time to document your body. 

But, this version of you IS perfect and she's right where she's supposed to be. 

View her.

Accept her.

Love her.

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What makes me more beautiful than being a safe space for other women? | West Palm Beach Boudoir Photographer

What makes me more beautiful than being a safe space for other women? | West Palm Beach Boudoir Photographer

Then, I saw my friend’s story on social media. It was a photo of me holding her daughter. It read, “Get yourself a community where your kids are loved like family.”

I was jolted back into reality. 

The people I love the most aren’t looking at my insecurities. They are loving me in my strengths (and I have a lot of those). She feels safe with me holding her child. 

What makes me more beautiful than being a safe space for other women?

What makes me more beautiful than my husband wanting to slow dance with me in the kitchen?

What makes me more beautiful than my daughter asking me to sing that silly song again and we both belly laugh until we’re crying. 

Society has told me that my value is in keeping up my youthful appearance.

But, love has shown me that my being could never be dimmed by what the mirror reflects.

Women, look at your reflection in the eyes of those who hold you dear, not by what you tell yourself when you look in a piece of glass. 

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Art Is Inherently Selfish

Art Is Inherently Selfish

I talk a lot about my journey into boudoir.

How it started from a place of darkness and loneliness in my own life. A place of feeling invisible.

Photographing women, giving them a chance to feel seen and have a holistic experience, tricked my brain into thinking that I could give that back to myself. And, it worked.

It gave me the strength to make the changes I needed in my life to get to a place of wholeness and growth. Their bravery was a domino effect and mine soon followed. Okay, maybe a couple of years later, but it still followed and I know that these women had a lot to do with it. How could they not? By creating art with them, our stories were intertwined. I couldn’t tell my story without them and vise versa.

This leads me to my feelings on art being inherently selfish.

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An Artful Boudoir Session

An Artful Boudoir Session

“For so long, I felt like I had only thought about beauty from a man's perspective and trying to be what he must find beautiful or sexy. I realized I was starting to develop my own definition of beauty and a way of appreciating it, and wanted to be a part of creating artful images that reflected/communicated my sense of beauty... a woman's sense of what's beautiful, aware that my definition of beauty is passed down to my daughter. I needed to demonstrate more self love for my body exactly the way that it is.”

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