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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.

August 17, 2022

Surround yourself with friends who help you say no

Who you surround yourself with matters. They should be supporting you in your journey of learning…

August 15, 2022

Take up more space and stop apologizing

It’s as if we are apologizing for our very existence, for whenever we need to tend to our own…

August 5, 2022

The power of meeting your older self

Have you ever seen a picture of yourself that you didn’t like? One that made you uncomfortable and…

July 30, 2022

How do you feel?

"How do you feel?" is a question you will hear throughout your time with me because how you feel is…

July 21, 2022

Photographing an artist

When we work together to create your branding images, I don't just place you somewhere and tell you…

July 13, 2022

How do we make an ask?

When we need to make an ask, we often get caught up in what words to use, how we sound, and our…

June 28, 2022

Are you afraid of monsters? A lesson from Stranger Things.

When we grow up feeling broken, it’s easy to think that monsters live inside us so we spend our…

June 20, 2022

Permission to grieve and be sad

You end up as an adult has a harder time letting go. We tend to hang on to things much longer than…

June 14, 2022

Heal your voice and help heal your soul

Womanspeak is a program designed to help heal your voice which helps to heal your soul.…

June 10, 2022

Healing through changing how we see ourselves

But the truth is, true and lasting change comes from not changing who we are but from changing how…

May 30, 2022

Face yourself because you are your greatest witness

Being willing to face ourselves is probably one of the hardest things we can do.

May 25, 2022

Learning to listen is part of learning how to speak

In WomanSpeak, as much as we learn to speak, we also learn to deeply listen in a practice we call…

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The shadows we see when the angle of the sun hits The shadows we see when the angle of the sun hits just right is so much like the shadows we carry inside of us. Sometimes they show up depending on the light and sometimes they are hidden but they are always there whether we see them or not. They are a necessary part of who we are, maybe trailing a little behind us but attached to us always.​​​​​​​​
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If we just pause and pay attention to the natural world around us, there are so many life lessons to be learned. #natureteaches ​​​​​​​​
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#naturelessons #wearenature #wearepartofnature #naturewonders #shadowshelf #shadowwork #shadowandlight #lightsandshadows
I recently finished Ocean Vuong's book, On Earth W I recently finished Ocean Vuong's book, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous which is a love letter to his mother full of vulnerability, pain, trauma and suffering but also so much love. In it, he had a quote that I really loved, "I don't want my sadness to be othered from me just as I don't want my happiness to be othered. They're both mine. I made them, dammit."​​​​​​​​
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I think when you grow up feeling othered for whatever reason, you learn early on to start othering yourself too. Othering teaches us to separate from ourselves, our bodies because it doesn't feel safe. Along with not wanting to be who we are, we learn to other our feelings too, trying to take bits and parts of us that feel more desirable and hiding the parts of us that aren't but that's not how it works. Picking and choosing only makes us feel fractured and broken.​​​​​​​​
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Learning to feel whole means owning all the parts of us and recognizing that one does not exist without the other because we are beautifully complex beings with a whole range of feelings and moods. It is the human experience and we can't experience it fully without embracing all of it.​​​​​​​​
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Feeling othered feels really awful. Let's not do that to parts of ourselves and instead learn to love ourselves as we are, no matter how others may feel about us. ​​​​​​​​
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#unconditionalselflove #selflovemovement #selfloveiskey #selfloveisimportant #radicalselflove #radicalselfacceptance
Remember to have spaces and experiences in your li Remember to have spaces and experiences in your life where you are surrounded by people who truly see and value you and love you for who you are.​​​​​​​​
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#community #intentionalspaces #intentionalfriendships
Easy beauty allows us to find joy and presence wit Easy beauty allows us to find joy and presence with very little work. 

#easybeauty #discoveryparkseattle
Introducing My Name Story - the why behind this pr Introducing My Name Story - the why behind this project as well as the women involved. Please watch with sound on to hear what this project is all about. 

My Name Story is a portrait-video project to explore the stories of our names at the intersections of race, ethnicity and gender on the themes of identity, belonging, and reclamation.

Thank you to @tatyanakurepina for the videography and all the participants @rya.wu.art @docleyva @annah_kim @liujeannie @ginaariko @siemnychhuon @artxinxin_

PLEASE SHARE this video and project far and wide and visit the link in bio @judyleephotography to learn more and get a preview of three of the women's stories. 

Thank you to @slip_galley for hosting the first three portraits. 

#mynamestory #aapistories #aapiheritage #nameorigin #immigrantstories #reclaiming #asianamericanvoices #aapivoices #aapiwomen #asianamericanwomen #aapiartists #namejourney
When this client first saw all of her images at he When this client first saw all of her images at her reveal, she was triggered and did not like them. But we worked together to see beyond her bodily response to uncover where those feelings came from and practiced looking beyond them. At the end of her experience, during her final video interview, she shared, "I am overwhelmed with love for myself, which I did not expect."​​​​​​​​
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While everyone has a different reaction to their images during their Transformative Portrait Experience, the intention is not to just see "pretty" pictures of yourself or "easy beauty" (although believe me, I see all the photos I present to clients as beautiful). It's to explore the depth and breath of you, the parts you may be familiar with as well as the parts you may not. ​​​​​​​​
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The work of practicing difficult beauty means finding the beauty in all the different parts of us, even the parts we don't like. It can help us develop more self-compassion, acceptance and love of ourselves and this can be transformative.​​​​​​​​
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If this is something that sounds like the right step in your journey, DM me to learn more. ​​​​​​​​
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