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secret time?

I took this business full time in 2024… and failed.

2024 was a huuuge year of growth for me. I made a lot of mistakes. I made a lot of decisions that didn’t benefit me or the business. I cried more times that year than I probably ever have. And at the end of 2024, I decided to go back to my career.

I felt like I had failed in every way. I was embarrassed, I lost my self-confidence, and I felt like I didn’t deserve a spot here in the photo world. I felt like I wasn’t good enough.

And then in 2025, I hit my breaking point. My job is very demanding, and trying to unlearn one center’s way of doing things and learn another center’s way left me empty. I was running on E for the better portion of the year. I was working nonstop, struggling mentally, and knew that something was physically wrong with my body - but doctors kept telling me I was fine.

Shocker - I wasn’t.

In October of 2025, after a fun little trip to the ER, we found a germ cell tumor completely flattening my ovary. I had to stop working out, I could barely make it through the work day, and I found out rock bottom had a basement. My body was telling me to STOP. I had been running a million miles a minute for two years, and my body was telling me it couldn’t keep living like I was. If I kept going down that path, I wasn’t going to like the person I would become.

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No more gym, no more photos, no more work. I quite literally spent my days leading up to surgery coloring and making crafts in bed. I turned my brain off and watched trash tv (If you watch any Bravo show, HIRE ME ASAP I’M BEGGING.) I read books that have been on my TBR since 2021. I went back to therapy - shoutout to my girl Danielle! And I turned everything OFF.

Surgery came and went, and while it was worse than we were expecting (tumor was the size of an orange and growing bone fragments… coolcoolcoolcoolnodoubtnodoubt,) having it removed was exactly what I needed. Did you know that pain and dopamine share the same neurotransmitters in your brain? When one is misfiring, the whole thing is off. Physical pain has a direct result on your happy chemicals. So while I was struggling to find my place in the world and in myself, I quite literally had this little alien using me as a host while it grew. No wonder life felt so unmanageable.

Now, that’s not to say that it was ALL the alien’s fault - I had taken on a lot of change in a short amount of time and wasn’t fully honest with myself about what that meant for my mental space. I’m glad I went full time in 2024. I’m glad I took the leap and made the mistakes that I did. I had a lot to learn about myself, what it meant to run a business, and how to find a good work-life balance that felt right for me. And I’m so, so happy that you’ve found me now - because we both deserve to be here.

so i stopped. everything.

now, i know where my space is - right here, with you.

No more hiding in the corner waiting for our turn to speak. We don’t stay in spaces that we don’t feel welcome in anymore. Those people who you call friends that show you every day just how little they care about you? BYEEEE. Those two years where I felt like I was losing friends, kept getting told no to every new opportunity, and was constantly asking myself WHY is this happening? That was God trimming away at my roses so they could fully bloom. I needed to cut off the toxic people in my life. I needed to stop chasing the high of more work. I needed to sit down with myself and see her. Love her. Appreciate her.

So now, I walk into rooms knowing I belong there. I enter conversations knowing I have valuable input. I do my work confidently because I know I am good at what I do. And I want to show you that that is the case for you too, friend. We both belong here. We both deserve to be here. Any race, sexuality, body, and person has a place here with me. I’m so proud of the little photo family I’ve created, and I’m so excited for you to be a part of it. Everything we want is at the tip of our fingertips.

It’s already ours, babe.

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