How to Overcome your insecurities Face your fears -Meet the NEW YOU
“Be Visible and Thrive” was the title of The Emerging Pearl show, which was about how, we (women) find comfort in “hiding” and being invisible, how we fear of being in the spotlight keeping us stuck in the shadows.
As one of the top womens portrait photographer in Portland, Oregon I was asked to be one of the expert on the “Be visible and Thrive” episode of the Emerging Pearl TV show and discuss why women avoid being photographed and why they hide from the camera.
And if I want to be brutally honest, I was so scared once I committed to the taping. All insecurities came to the surface and talk about THE subject of why women hide from the camera… was paralyzing!
BUT I also knew that saying NO because of my very own insecurities would make me a hypocrite! So I knew that I had to walk the walk, I HAD TO talk the talk!
So when I said yes, and committed to the process and knew that there was NO turning back…. you know what happened? I stepped up to the challenge! I showed up for ME!!!
…and when the taping was over I was ON TOP OF THE WORLD!!!
What a dis-service it would’ve been to myself if I had chosen the easy path. You know the one that keeps us all comfy and feel secure. If I had stayed within my comfort zone as Laura Handke,Transformational Voice Teacher, put it in the video.
I have done something that I would’ve never thought I would ever do, I’ve stretched my own limits to a new height and my norm became a new level of norm. I have experienced a new me!
THAT is exactly what I promise to women out there! To overcome their fear, to ignore the voice in their heads and trust me, trust the process!
One of my client reached out to me and shared:
” I hide from the cameras if I can help it. If I do try to take a picture, Ill take a 100 before I settle on one that doesn’t make me look quite as heavy or old. I usually cry when someone else takes a picture and they post it on social media of me and beg they remove it.”
What happened next? We met for a coffee. we talked, we connected. She got to know me, I got to know her and she put all her trust in me to guide her through the process and face her biggest fear! I assured her to show her a a side of her she hasn’t seen in a long time or maybe even never met before at all!
She did not only LOVE the images after, she has felt so incredible about pushing her very own bounderies,
Another client wrote:
“Your beauty session was a big part of my journey towards accepting & loving myself! Thank you for such an incredible gift!”
Or speical client also wrote:
“I looked into my own eyes and I saw the past …”
So I want to invite YOU on a fearless journey of self discovery! It’s in itself an act of LOVE, a precious gift to YOURSELF!
Please reach out to me for a chat, to meet over coffee and just have a conversation. I’d love to hear from you!
Click here to watch the full episode of Be Visible and Thrive by The Emerging Pearl Featuring me, Edina Clagett (Beyoutiful Portraits), Dawn Hartwell (Social Media Expert) & Laura Handke ( Authentic Expressions).
