Boudoir Requires Radical Acceptance - NOT Perfection
As women, especially since 2016, many of us have been holding grief, rage, fear, and exhaustion in our nervous systems and still getting up every day to perform wellness, perform safety, perform okay-ness.
For a boudoir experience that celebrates your truth radical self-acceptance is the real foundation of it all.
Section 2 of the Love You Louder journal is dedicated to this exact truth: you cannot fake love for yourself. You can only meet yourself where you are, and choose not to flinch when you do.
Sounds cute in theory. In practice? It’s raw as hell.
Because radical acceptance means looking at the parts of yourself you’ve been trying to ignore and saying, “Yep. That’s me too.”
Boudoir and self-love begin with letting go: the power of Undoing
As women, especially since 2016, many of us have been holding grief, rage, fear, and exhaustion in our nervous systems and still getting up every day to perform wellness, perform safety, perform okay-ness.
But survival mode is not your natural state. And when we finally put that mask down? Whew Girl! The grief underneath can feel like a tidal wave. I’ve seen it in my studio. I’ve heard it in coaching sessions. I’ve felt it in my own bones.
That’s why Section 1 in the Love You Louder journal asks you to name what you're carrying, and what you're ready to drop.
The journal includes a Self-Love Baseline audit. It’s a no-BS look at how you talk to yourself, what beliefs you’re still gripping to, and what wounds still whisper “you’re not enough.” We ask ourselves:
What did I once believe that no longer serves me?
Where am I performing instead of feeling?
What have I outgrown?
Boudoir Is More Than Sexy;It’s a Revolution- Nc Boudoir Photography
Let’s be real, boudoir looks sexy. The lace, the poses, the lighting, the curves, the champagne. It’s easy to assume it’s all about the aesthetic. But if you’ve ever been in front of my camera, you already know the truth:
Boudoir is more than sexy, it’s a spiritual rebellion. It’s a radical act of coming home to yourself.
In a world that teaches women to shrink, hide, conform, and constantly question our worth, standing in your skin, unfiltered, unashamed, and fully present, is nothing short of revolutionary.
One time for the birthday chick, Go ahead if it's your birthday chick- Birthday Boudoir- Nine19 Photography Raleigh NC
Birthdays are always my favorite! I unapologetically force my friends to celebrate me for the entire month of August, because IM WORTH IT, okaaaay! Well, you’re worth it too! I love it when clients come to me to celebrate their bdays with a boudoir session! We party together and capture some amazing shots!
When All is Said and Done, You Will Believe God is a Woman-Birthday Boudoir- In Studio at Nine19 Photography- Raleigh NC
That SASS though! Happy birthday to this gorgeous woman! This Goddess wanted to celebrate (her and her partners bday too!) with a stunning boudoir session in studio here in Raleigh NC and .GURL. did she celebrate! I love a full figured woman who isn’t afraid to show what she is working with! So, much confidence and ALL the poses. She is proof that with another year of loving yourself, you get another year of being confident AF. Self love is the best love and although she had to work at it in the past, she made it and she so proud of who she is, her body, and these bomb ass portraits (as she should be, I mean, HELLO!)