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Judy Lee

Showing women their true selves through transformative portraits and events so they can live with more authenticity, intention and purpose.

March 31, 2021

April 2021 Events

Find out about the events happening in April designed to reconnect with your true self so you can live with more authenticity and purpose.

March 29, 2021

Podcast Episode Solo: Highlights from the Stories of Adversity & Resilience Event

This Solo Show features highlights from the event Stories of Adversity & Resilience held earlier this month in celebration of International Women's Day and Women's History Month. The speakers were all current students or graduates of the WomanSpeak Seattle program.

March 26, 2021

Have you been curious?

If you’ve been curious to come to an event, please do so with the assurance that it will feel like a safe space and you will be valued just for being you.

March 25, 2021

Do you shame your anger?

Anger is an emotion, much like any other emotion. It is energy that surfaces from our bodies and when we deny or shame it, it gets stored and then comes out in uncontrollable and damaging ways.

March 18, 2021

An anniversary!

Three years ago today, I had the grand opening party of my studio. There have been pivots, trying new things, learning experiences.

March 12, 2021

Where is your value?

The journey of life isn't about what's at the end... it's about how we show up for it and being present to experience the process.

March 1, 2021

March 2021 Events & Workshops

March is Women’s History Month and the 8th is International Women’s Day! Learn more about all the events happening this month!

February 26, 2021

Let’s Talk about Shame

I now understand how releasing all the shame I had been carrying empowered me to drop that false identity and allow my true self to finally emerge.

February 23, 2021

Advice from the Deep End Podcast Ep. 02: Finding Purpose & Feeling Stuck

Judy and Sharece dive deep on finding purpose and feeling stuck. Submit your question anonymously at https://bit.ly/2N25oVN. This podcast is hosted by Transformative Photographer Judy at judyleephotography.com and @judyleephotography and Artist & Coach Sharece at sha-rece.com and @maqet_practice.

February 17, 2021

Podcast Episode 19: Reconciling Religion & Connecting to the Divine

Jessica Wright and I have intentional conversation about religion, our wounding from religion growing up, connecting with our divine and what that means to us.

February 15, 2021

Reflections on Aging

She is the woman waiting to meet us, the woman we are all growing old to be, a woman whose lifetime of experiences has taught her to value herself and her life on the things that matter.

February 12, 2021

Advice from the Deep End Podcast Ep. 01: Introduction

Judy and Sharece introduce their new podcast, Advice from the Deep End, and share why they started it. Submit your question anonymously at https://bit.ly/2N25oVN. This podcast is hosted by Transformative Photographer Judy at judyleephotography.com and @judyleephotography and Artist & Coach Sharece at sha-rece.com and @maqet_practice.

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I hosted a workshop with @hannahexner this week wh I hosted a workshop with @hannahexner this week where we all looked at and processed our portraits and wrote poetry. During the workshop, I shared that poetry is just about getting to our truths and sharing them through words. It isn't about being a good writer or performing or worrying about what we or others think of it. It's about leaning into our feelings and getting to the soft center of our souls and writing from that space. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Several of the participants shared their poems with us and they were all beautiful. The thing is, the truth is ALWAYS beautiful, in whatever form it takes whether that is in words, a photograph or however you want to express your truth.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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The next time you want to express your truth, remember that it has inherent value because it comes from you and that it will, without a doubt, be beautiful. The truth is beautiful. Always.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Cherry blossoms in dappled, early evening sunlight Cherry blossoms in dappled, early evening sunlight swaying in the breeze. What a beautiful way to welcome in spring and the sunny and warmer days. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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When I was growing up, I remember feeling so loved When I was growing up, I remember feeling so loved by my parents but as I grew older and formed my own opinions and views of the world that were radically different from my far right religious parents, that love started to have conditions. Those conditions became a heavy burden I carried well into middle age because I was afraid to lose their love. Not too many years ago, I decided that I had to finally live life for me and choose to love myself most. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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I always believed love was a feeling and I would know love when I felt it and it would never go away. But life has taught me that love isn't always a feeling but an active practice and choice and that practice is all about choosing to accept ourselves exactly as we are. When we learn to do this for ourselves, we also learn to love those who are closest to us this way too. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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I've had to continually put this practice into action and am tested as a mom as I constantly catch myself creating situations for my children who might believe my love for them is conditional. My kids also call me out those times too saying things like, "I shouldn't have to do this to get your love" and I am grateful to them for that. It forces me to give them my unconditional love but also to give myself that same love too.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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In ways will you put into practice loving yourself exactly as you are? Not for only showing up as the best of you but those times when you are fallibly human and show up at your worst?⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Choose to love. It ALL starts with us.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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If you already subscribe to my newsletter "I Want If you already subscribe to my newsletter "I Want to Matter," which is how I started this whole journey in the first place, you received "Reconnect," a guide explaining all the pieces that helped me reconnect to my true self. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Now, with the expansion of my business to Branding and Mentoring for Soulpreneurs, I'm starting additional newsletter issues called "Grounded Soulpreneurs" to share in my business journey and all that I am learning from it. If you subscribe, you will receive the guide "Successfully Walking through the Sales Process" to help you approach potential clients in an authentic and aligned way. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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You can subscribe to either or both! Visit the link in my bio to subscribe and look out for the email with the download link and be sure to check your junk folder!⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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I started calling myself a Transformative Photogra I started calling myself a Transformative Photographer when a friend of mine saw a portrait I did of a mutual friend. I was pulled to studio portraiture by a calling although at the time, I didn't know why. My friend called my work transformative and I loved the term so started using it to describe my work. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Now, 4 years later from when I first dived head first to now, my work has evolved so much, along with my own personal journey which has served as its North Star. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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From wanting only to show women their light to shifting how I see beauty as complex and incomplete without our shadows... ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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From wanting the women I photographed to like their pictures to inviting women to dive deeper when they didn't and recognizing that's where the embodiment practice lives... ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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To looking to the quality of my work to determine my value to seeing that I was the one who was the source of my value all along...⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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I am an EMBODIMENT Photographer & Mentor. It's one thing to just say with our minds that we want to love and accept ourselves but another to fully embody this in your body and soul through the daily practice of accepting ourselves exactly as we are, shadows and all and recognizing that is the only way we will fully feel whole. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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I embody light and dark and everything in between. My intention is to empower you to feel the same. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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What a delight it is to walk through a rainshower What a delight it is to walk through a rainshower of cherry blossoms. My son would like to remind us of how we can experience the most intense delight from the simplest of things. All we have to do is be present for it.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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