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Category: Confidence, Healing & Body Image

  • She Didn’t See Her Beauty

    She Didn’t See Her Beauty

    Sue came to me looking to see what the beauty they were talking about.  This is one of the side benefits, perhaps the defining benefit of boudoir or beauty photography. Your mind can’t argue with the evidence.  An image held from when you were young, flavoured by comments taken too personally for someone so young.  …

  • “Take The One With The Smile . . .”

    “Take The One With The Smile . . .”

    A Calgary Boudoir Photographer’s Insight Into Why the Most Popular Image Isn’t Always the Right One—for Her Her boudoir photo shoot was incredible! She daringly exposed the full range of her personality. She got bolder and more vulnerable than she believed she could. She is pretty excited to select images for a book, but even…

  • It’s Your Spirit – Not Your Age

    It’s Your Spirit – Not Your Age

    Frankie is the poster woman for this idea: that it’s your spirit—not your age—that defines you. At 70, she’s both young at heart and a wise soul. She greets each day with a grin and a touch of wild abandon. But behind that smile is a deep well of strength shaped by years of personal…

  • From Heartbreak to Healing: Boudoir After Divorce

    From Heartbreak to Healing: Boudoir After Divorce

    Divorce can shake your foundation, any breakup does.  Even when it’s the right decision, the transition leaves many women feeling untethered. The familiar roles have shifted, and the mirror can start to feel like a stranger.  It can be so many things at once – liberating, disorienting, painful, often oddly peaceful. What, is rarely talked…

  • 15 Ways Your Boudoir Photo Session Will Change Your Life!

    15 Ways Your Boudoir Photo Session Will Change Your Life!

    If you are curious about a boudoir or nude photography session you may have heard it can be life altering. From the raves of the over 5,200 women that I have photographed, I can tell you it changed their lives. There are a lot of positives to a boudoir photo shoot that can shift your…

  • Body Embracing VS Body Celebrations

    Body Embracing VS Body Celebrations

    When we distill the essence of why women come in for a boudoir or nude photography session it is these two reasons.  They want body embracing and all that goes with that, like empowerment, confidence, body love, and perhaps seeing their own beauty or its level for the first time.  Or it is Body Celebration…

  • I Have Walked On Fire!

    I Have Walked On Fire!

    I have walked on fire. I believe in the benefits of breaking through comfort zones. My boudoir and nude photography clients experience the rush of breakthroughs in every session I do.  I admit I’ve gotten used to it; I still love it.  Emily, though, had not seen it. She was assisting me with a water…

  • What Would My Kids Think?

    What Would My Kids Think?

    I am a mother.  I am a role model to two growing and changing girls.  I tell them every day that they are beautiful, that they are radiant, how wonderful they are.  I encourage them to grow . . . to learn . . . to challenge themselves.  They are the light of my life.  I want…

  • Every Woman Is A Warrior

    Every Woman Is A Warrior

    Some Really Embrace It! The 1950s stereotype of what a woman should be has been replaced with a more empowering vision of what she could be. Boudoir and Nude portraits of women were not a thing yet. Today’s woman is complex, dynamic, and unapologetically a warrior. Can you imagine how a Calgary studio like Inner…

  • Can You Be Too Old for a Boudoir Session

    Can You Be Too Old for a Boudoir Session

    Can You Be Too Old for a Boudoir Session Spoiler – It’s a Myth! There is no age when you are too old for a boudoir session. Here are some stories to my point. First, on her 70th birthday, Verona came in for her first boudoir session. I have photographed Verona and her family for…