01/19/2023
I've been thinking about how to write this.... I don't want write a novel but there is kind-of no other way to do it.
Yesterday I got the email one of my images was chosen for 2022! So excited THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!
I submitted an image that I LOVE and I realize that everyone loves their images but this one was special to me. I have a few clients that I have grown close to after working with them. They have unique stories and I LOVE empowering them, it keeps me going knowing that I can help them in some small way.
She had come into my life, similar age, has a little boy close in age to mine, and she had beaten Breast Cancer! And she wasn't ashamed of it! She didn't hide it! She stood on her advocate box tall and proud and she rocked it!!!!!
She had chosen to have a double mastectomy and is a huge advocate for staying flat and loving herself and finding herself as a woman without having breasts. This was a big deal for her. She wanted to feel like a woman again. She wanted to do this shoot to show her strength, to show that she was still a woman, and to commemorate those that had lost their fight.
To say the least we were both crying by the end of her session. Fast forward to YESTERDAY!( I totally was not stalking the AIBP group daily waiting for results everyday when I finally got it). Not only did an image get picked but it was HERS. So I messaged her ASAP and she was crying!!!!
Yesterday was the 2 year anniversary of her diagnosis!!!!!! This meant SO MUCH to her!!! I had no idea! She had been having a long and rough day, reliving that in her head.
This was the universe telling her to breath, to remember HOW AMAZING SHE IS!!!!! And I couldn't agree more!
xoxo
Love you T!
Katie
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