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I had a pretty incredible morning doing my Mentoring Session with the fabulous Kelly Rae Roberts and Beth Nicholls as part of their Hello Soul Hello Business course.

Those of you in the course will get to hear it at some point and the way that they invited me to see my business in some new ways was totally powerful in the moment and I know will have ripple effects in the way I see my business from this point on.

To be honest, I’ve been feeling mighty emotional throughout the session and ever since. It felt beautifully vulnerable and that these 2 women really see the potential in what I do in ways that I haven’t let myself see. I won’t share too much about the mentoring session directly at this point but one big thing I took from it was to invite ‘more of me’ into my business.

As well, I was reminded of why I do what I do.

Which is because only a half decade ago, I felt so incredibly lost in my life. So sad and with a loneliness that I knew no one else could fill up. Only me. By becoming my own best friend.

Photography as a whole came out of that and all the work that I do really is speaking to that woman, 5 years ago, who wanted to find happiness again. Who wanted to dream bigger than the mediocrity she thought she deserved. Who wanted to heal and to see the beauty in herself and in life once again.

So inspired by all that I’ve learned today in my Mentoring session, I felt called to let her, the me from 5 years ago, speak in the images.  This is especially for you reading this who are going through rough patches or struggling to see the beauty right now or you who have been through something similar.  We’ve got to trust that the biggest lessons come from the rough patches and indeed they make us stronger.