Your dreams aren’t too big.
They’re also not too small.
I used to turn my nose up at women who “only” wanted to be stay-at-home moms.
Then I envied them, thinking my life would be so much easier if I didn’t want to do five hundred things.
Now I’m just so much more content to walk my own path—twisty, turny, unpredictable, hard and take-your-breath-away exquisite, and to whole heartedly approve of all other mamas doing the same.
Am I good enough? Can I do this? Does this even matter?
The doubts that recycle for every artist are the same flavor.
As I’m talking to applicants for the love soaked retreat and mastermind I’m floored by the beauty of your dreams. In love with your potential. Enamored by the giving hearts you have, the desires to be there for your kids AND make photos that make you and your clients feel something deeper, and get paid. I just want you to consider one thing. Your ceiling can become your floor. When people talk about “leveling up” it’s like, what does that even meaaan? But when you challenge what you currently think is possible you open a window to the idea that maybe, just maybe you haven’t been dreaming big enough.
And if we want our kids to dream big dreams, it’s prob not the best for them to see us stuffing ours into a closet and saving them for “someday.” If we tell our kids, “you can do anything you want!”—they better see us doing it, full out, no apologies.
Sometimes the world-changer mover-shaker in me wants to shut down my needs–ever realize how needy we are as human beings? We need dinner and sleep and love and belonging and purpose and projects. Nothing needier than a tiny newborn baby to make you as a mother question, “do *I* reallly need to sleep/eat/etc?” But turns out it’s our neediness—the conglomeration of pesky vulnerabilities, desires, and chinks in our armor—that writes the very best love stories.
Yo yo yo if you want Brooke to photograph your family and you live in Southern California or you’re planning a trip here she’d love to chat with you! Drop her a line here + the human version of her will send you all the pricing + availability deets.
