Living at Ease: Sneak Peek

Vitaliy and I are absolutely thrilled to be able to do what we do. We had a dream and by the Lord’s grace, we are liv­ing it out. And…it…feels…good. But yesterday’s ses­sion brought it to a whole new level. I had this feel­ing on our drive home, the feel­ing when you know you were just in the pres­ence of some­one spe­cial. The feel­ing when you’ve learned some­thing that you hope you never for­get. But I just inter­nal­ized it and sat reflect­ing on our way home, etch­ing these feel­ings, thoughts and lessons into my mind. It wasn’t until we walked through the door and Vitaliy looked at me and said, “Today I feel priv­i­leged to do what we do.” I knew then that this ses­sion wasn’t just about what we gave our clients, but also about what we received from them. What a sat­is­fy­ing experience!

There were many rea­sons why the evening was spe­cial, but there was one aspect in par­tic­u­lar that truly spoke to me – it was Shan­non. Shan­non came to the ses­sion absolutely con­fi­dent about what she wanted to get out of these pic­tures. And no, I don’t mean she came with a list of every pic­ture she wanted to get. It had noth­ing to do with the exter­nal appear­ance, but it had every­thing to do with Shannon’s mind­set. Lead­ing up to the ses­sion, I shared some of my visions for this ses­sion with Shan­non. One that was very impor­tant to me was for our focus to be on Shan­non – there is a bond like no other between a mother and the baby in her womb and I wanted to make sure we cap­tured that. I also wanted Shan­non to have this time to shine. Like I’ve said many times, there aren’t many things more beau­ti­ful than a preg­nant woman. How­ever, I did imag­ine this could be hard for Shan­non because it seems a lot of moth­ers are not com­fort­able hav­ing the atten­tion on themselves.

But Shan­non com­pletely exceeded my expec­ta­tions. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a woman so con­fi­dent in her own skin, and yet hum­ble. I can see that her calm, easy going spirit sets the tone for her own fam­ily and encour­ages them to go through life with ease. These are two things that I strive for in my own life. See­ing these qual­i­ties and get­ting to expe­ri­ence them with Shan­non, left me with a peace and a hope to keep mov­ing towards this per­sonal goal in my life. Thank you, Shannon.

We have a few other posts com­ing before we share the rest of the images from this ses­sion, but here is a sneak peek from last night. I am con­fi­dent you will see the qual­i­ties I spoke of in this image.

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