These are just some of the things I’ve learned over the years, that I can think of off the top of my head and these tips should hopefully provide you with a good starting point, so you can feel confident to style/shop for your boudoir session.

Get yourself on my calendar. You’re a tigress. You’re about to look like a snack. A photoshoot can be the ultimate way to indulge and invest in your own self-worth.

Yet my core values are the same - aid others in the building of self-confidence. Give them the power to climb (negative self-talk) mountains. Light their hearts on fire with JOY. Inspire them to adore themselves shamelessly…

I won't tell you that a boudoir shoot will change your life if I haven't heard my clients consistently tell me that it has helped them immensely. It really can be something that marks a turning point for you. A boudoir session can be (and I tell you this because this is the feedback I've received) a document that marks a positive shift or change in your life; the beginning of an empowered journey; a visual journal of when you decided to make a choice to really start loving yourself and embrace all that it means….

But in celebrating five years of my photography studio in this city (Vancouver BC, if you’re from out of town!), I also am ready to step up my game. How do I want to do that? I want to create better content - more content - where I can inspire you, and you can read a little bit about some tools to develop the self-love muscle which we all neglect with a regularity that feels like…

We're led to believe that there are a handful of different body types, a few molds you can fit into, and if you don't, for shame!! Then of course, there's the 'ideal' body type (I still don't know what that is, honestly), and that's like, the boogieman (hint: it's terrifying and it doesn't exist). Every body is different, and every body is unique, and every body is beautiful in its own uniqueness.

Recently, my life has been in a transition phase with lots of shifts and uncertainties, and with that, fear.

While in my mind I like to think I accept change gracefully and with excitement, I find the letting go quite difficult before I’m able to welcome the new. I’m sentimental, very sentimental, a bleeding-heart romantic. I get attached to people, routine, and familiarity; I think we all do…

Women so often separate themselves from the notion of confidence, treating it as though it’s black and white - either they have it, or they don’t. I’ve heard women say, about doing their own boudoir session, “I’m not confident enough to do that.”

I used to feel guilty about loving fashion and makeup. I thought spending money on those things was superficial and pointless. Even though they brought me joy, I felt like it was wrong that they did. Truthfully…

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Isn’t it wild we live in a society where we have to learn to love our bodies? I wonder when I learned to un-love mine. Do you know when you did? I think it’s gradual, like most things in life. The accumulation of body shaming in the media and the comments from women in our families on their weight formed the false conclusion for us as kids that some bodies are better than others…

Recently, I catch myself pausing before I speak or do; more and more I seem to choose the path of least resistance, the path where I’m safe from criticism. The other day I even hesitated to post a boudoir photo of myself because the “oh, what will they think” thoughts rolled in…

We're a few weeks into Spring, and I hope that for you spring breathes new life and possibility into your world. Opportunities for change, for growth, for a step forward and for a chance to let go of anything from a past that we need to let go of…

“Change is painful, Growth is painful But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong.” – Pat Moore

I don’t know how it’s April, but it’s April!

It can be argued that the only constant we have in our lives is change. Change is relentless, and we deal with it at every twist and turn in our day-to-day realities. It’s what makes life interesting and worth living, but also frustrating and challenging.

So we need a break! Enough with all the heaviness! I'm probably going a bit too deep these days, so I'm going to lighten it up a bit. Truth be told, I'm feeling more positive than I have in years, I seriously want to break into dance multiple times a day. Good thing no one sees that on my stories! Haha…

So we’re past the holidays now, and the days are getting longer but still it’s dark at 5pm, and spring can’t come soon enough. Winters, after the holidays, in Vancouver are always an odd time of year. These days, I’m so busy I can barely notice the weather or how quickly the weeks FLY by…

Via the work I do there is an alchemical process - a transformation. If I didn't "go there" and if I wasn't willing to "go there" then this work wouldn't exist…

You know those sayings about how things are ‘as smooth as silk’ or ‘she has the velvet touch’?

I was thinking about that a bit today, about how fabric and texture utilizes one of the most important of our senses; touch.

You know when you meet someone and you kinda wish you could be like them? Like, why can’t I be as caring, patient, womanly, and deeply compassionate? You meet a person and they inspire you so much; they epitomize femininity but also are just so nice…