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Some of my favourite images from a branding shoot

Some of my favourite images from a branding shoot I did with Alicia of @vitalityflowcolonics - we broke the session into two seperate days, did two locations and she got a super broad and versatile range of images that she can use to launch her incredible new Colonics business in Corrimal.

“I did a branding shoot with Kelly. I was so so nervous & unsure about doing the shoot, but I had a strong intuitive feeling that Kelly was the right one to help me get through that and allow myself to be seen. I was right!

My experience with Kelly was so incredible. We met at the beach at sunrise. She could feel my nerves & instead of telling me “it’s normal”, we sat down and she guided me through a meditation. Kelly helped me to acknowledge my feelings and reminded me that I was safe to take my time and return to my body and my intentions when things started feeling difficult!

The shoot was amazing. I felt calm, nurtured and seen. We chatted throughout and we laughed so hard.
This energy is almost tangible in the images.

When I received my images I was overwhelmed by how much I loved them. I can honestly say there isn’t a single image I don’t like. Perhaps that’s because each one takes me back to the feelings of that moment.

Thank you Kel, not only for seeing me but for capturing me in a way that allowed me to see myself in ways I’d never dreamed possible.”

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In “Remembrance” we are unpacking our unique H

In “Remembrance” we are unpacking our unique Heroines Journey (ten stage journey by Maureen Murdock that builds on Joseph Campbell's work). I would argue anyone would benefit from this inquiry regardless of how they identify.

The first two stages are separation from the feminine & identification with the masculine. Yes yes, the language isn’t perfect, it’s more nuanced but give me a break - I only have 2200 characters.

In these stages we see:

🌿 Disconnection from the body, soul & intuition

🌿 Devaluing of the mother and/or other women

🌿 Perfectionism & over compensation

🌿 Seeing ourselves only through the mirror of male attention

🌿 Putting males on a pedestal defining value through male definitions & seeing women as inferior

It’s way more in depth than what I can speak to here but it’s been slapping me in the face all the ways it matches my own experience.

I Shamed my body and ignored it’s messages.

I only listened to male bands, male musicians & sought out male teachers & mentors.

Particularly in yoga (if I am painfully honest) I unconsciously saw women teachers as inferior & not able to hold the same level of traditional integrity (this is still very predominant in my psyche & I have to actively remind myself this is programming & choose to see things differently).

How was I every going to let myself be a "good" teacher if I saw women teachers in this way?

Do you know I even (unconsciously) thought my class of students wasn’t “good enough” if there weren’t enough males attending. FARK!

Perfectionism ✅

Overcompensation ✅

All through my 20’s saying I preferred to hang with the boys & didn’t want to be like “other girls” ✅

Only being interested in the "mens work" on family bush holidays so i could fit in with the boys club ✅

I know I’m not done unpacking this, there will be many more things to come to light but I am so pleased to finally have the torch in my hand.

Now I am proudly someone who works with, values & honours women.

Learning to do the same in myself. Inviting other women to do the same.

It’s time to integrate, find wholeness, value the dance of the masculine, the feminine & everything in between.

📸 @brionygoodsell

Sharing a selection of images from some of my sess

Sharing a selection of images from some of my sessions with @the_rachael_rose - Rach has been a big supporter of my work both by booking me to capture her and her creations but also just in her unwavering encouragement as a friend and business mentor.

Rach is a doula, business mentor, writer, creative, mother, advocate for intuitive parenting and body acceptance. Her work is profoundly inspiring and I’m so grateful for her beautiful words in this testimonial.

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I have booked Kelly for lots of photoshoots, all different in theme! A body love shoot, pregnancy shoot, newborn/family photos, and for an event/business branding.

I love Kelly’s personality - she makes you feel calm and at ease, even if you’re nervous AF. She will charm your babies and children and make your awkward partner laugh.

I trust her style and direction and it is clear she has a gift and loves what she does. She is totally in her element behind the camera and that makes you feel like a rockstar.

When Kelly took images of guests at my body love event (clothed, down to nude) - I could see the visible difference between when the women walked in, vs when they walked out - and how being captured by Kelly made them FEEL beautiful.

Receiving the images only added to that confidence and self appreciation. Thank you for all that you do Kel, it’s definitely your heart work.

I will cherish my pregnancy and newborn photos with you forever. Both shoots were in my cramped and messy house, and backyard as construction site, while it was raining, and you managed to make them look magic because you captured our essence and our love, and that’s a special thing ❤️

When you wake up one day feeling bound in the dark

When you wake up one day feeling bound in the darkness.

Confronted by the fact someone or something outside of you has been leading the way.

You find yourself tangled in many things that aren’t yours, drowning out the guidance within that leads to what is.

All the dead ends you followed & trials you faced because you were disconnected from your body (your beacon of truth).

You were somehow convinced that your own authority was wrong, mistaken and something to be ashamed of.

Or it could just be you got distracted by looking to the external world for validation and direction.

Thinking it would give you the clues for where you needed to go or what you needed to do.

Yet the whole time the answers were inside of you. You just couldn’t hear them because you were tangled up in the noise of the world.

Until the day you decided to free yourself and listen for the music of your souls longing.

Yet, was this process of entrapment necessary?

Years of self abandoning taught you many lessons, and gently stoked the fire of longing inside of you until it raged within, gifting you the power to commence the great unravelling.

Feeling into every thread of the life you have built you slowly detangle yourself from each knot that doesn’t resonate with the great song within you.

It’s almost unbearably painful as the blood rushes back into those places the rope was cutting off the circulation to your life force.

You sit with it anyway, because you no longer wish to solely satiate or feel “good” in this moment.

Not anymore.

Now you want life, vitality, connection and most importantly truth.

With truth as your beacon and your song as your guide...

You are willing to forego comfort & cast off the weight of expectation & opinion, to set yourself completely and utterly...

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Muse: @artemisgirl_nbt from a photographic process I’m still developing that tells the story of our heroines journey in fairy tale like imagery.

Poetry & photography by me, inspired by stories most of us are all too familiar with. 💕

In an effort to get my feed looking like that of a

In an effort to get my feed looking like that of a photographers again, I’m going to share some of my favourite images from past sessions with a side of client appreciation.

Starting off with a bang from this incredibly fun, vulnerable and empowering session I did with artistic beauty @tegan.georgette

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“I did a photo shoot with Kelly when I was 12months post partum. I was struggling with my post partum body. Through my art I understand that every woman’s body is beautiful just as it is. Yet even as a woman who prides herself on body positivity, and is always preaching “Womens bodies are beautiful” I was struggling to see the beauty in my own through the changes of pregnancy & birth, like dropping of my boobs, stretch marks, soft belly etc.

I asked Kelly if she could capture me. I wanted to create some space in the way that I look at my body.

The process was beautiful.

I felt so comfortable and even though we had never met in person, she guided me so kindly and gently and held space for me. The process in itself felt really healing, magical and beautiful.

When I got to see the photographs there was definitely an element of confrontation, I was still struggling to see my body as beautiful but these photographs as time has passed (which has now been 2.5 years) I can only see beauty in them. It has been such an amazing journey from how I saw my body to how I see these photos now. They are such a prize to have and I will cherish them forever.

It was a really powerful & special experience and I highly recommend anyone doing this in their post partum period. At times I felt I was being a bit selfish for doing a photoshoot by myself at that point rather than having a session with my baby but I actually love that I did this. I absolutely love these images and I am so grateful for what we captured together.”

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