Emotional alchemy

documenting transmutation

"You're too emotional."

"SMILE!"

"Don't get so upset."

As a woman who has been told these phrases many times in this life, I've dedicated my energy these years to studying and exploring emotions as deeply as they can possibly be FELT. With self and others.

And in my bootcamp of liberation and self-love, I've discovered the importance of accessing emotions at the depth of our human expression and BEING WITNESSED in them. There is so much POWER that surpressed emotions hold and that can be alchemized with awareness. This vulnerable and raw expereience is for the brave, to be captured... to show humanity what women are capable of.


BE SEEN

documenting transmutation

"You're too emotional."

"SMILE!"

"Don't get so upset."

As a woman who has been told these phrases many times in this life, I've dedicated my energy these years to studying and exploring emotions as deeply as they can possibly be FELT. With self and others.

And in my bootcamp of liberation and self-love, I've discovered the importance of accessing emotions at the depth of our human expression and BEING WITNESSED in them. There is so much POWER that surpressed emotions hold and that can be alchemized with awareness. This vulnerable and raw expereience is for the brave, to be captured... to show humanity what women are capable of.


BE SEEN

"This shoot was such a deep initiation. I was moving through so many layers of grief, dissolving timelines that never were, anger, frustration at God as to “why!?”… and I asked to be witnessed in it, to move through my process being seen and held in everything that was arising. It was the deepest medicine and gift. There was no plan for these images other than to simply move through the journey of being witnessed and fully expressed in my pain.. the intimacy of being seen in a state I had learned to hide for so many years, even from those closest to me. It was such an edge to ask to take up space like this. It was the liberation and expansion I needed in that moment. To know that I wasn’t alone. That I was not wrong. To have the somatic experience of knowing that all of me was welcome. Just as I was. In the dirt, in the snot, in the tears, in the spit, in the depths, I was welcome." - Lara

"This shoot had me scared to be captured in moments where I feel ugly but now I see how beautiful it is, to like and love my wrinkles - my feelings." - Tata