Dreamer Contact — Liv Photography

ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT FALL BOOKING!!!!🍂🍁
We have a few things brewing around here that I’m excited to tell you about, BUT we aren’t quite ready yet to tell the whole world (and no, it’s not a baby🙅🏽‍♀️😂). What I CAN say is that I only have 5 session availabilities left for 2018.
5 dates.
That’s it.
I wanted to give my internet friends a chance to get in on a photo session now before some of the changes start rolling out. If you’ve ever wanted to book me and maybe have put it off, now is the time.
So hop into my inbox or sliiiiide into those DMs to grab one of the last dates listed in my story.😘
(P.S. these cuties getting married on Saturday & I’m very excited🤗)

Let’s talk ANXIETY!😝
I’ve never considered myself an abnormally anxious person growing up. I got nervous, but my mental health struggles centered more around depression & trouble focusing/feeling antsy.
Last summer as I navigated my parents’ divorce, running a business full time, AND planning a wedding, I started to show some major signs of anxiety.
• I was always stressed out.
• I cried basically every day for about 6 months.
• I didn’t sleep through the night the month of my wedding.
• I struggled to relax or be in any kind of silence.
• I assumed every email or text I got was someone mad at me.
• I crumpled under anyone being disappointment in me or not choosing me.
• I lived in fear of money + food. Grocery shopping sent me into an anxiety attack.
😭
I felt real messy. A new kind of messy. A deep brain and heart level messy and heavy.
All I wanted, the simple little things, were to be perfect and to not feel pain.
Simple, right?😉
See, I asked a question about what holds you back from your dreams and several answers said anxiety. I. GET. THAT.
One time when building my new website, I had a major anxiety meltdown and tried to lock @calebalnes out of designing the site because I felt stupid & afraid. It was BAD. (Sorry, hun...😘) In fact, that was one of the most frantic, out of control, broken, and near manic situations my husband saw me in - and it centered around chasing a dream.
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My heart for healing, for wholeheartedness, & for dreaming has been birthed out of a place of a frick ton of pain.
If you feel too messy, incapable, unworthy, and afraid to go after the things God has placed on your heart, you are not alone.
I’m here with you. So is the God who goes by the name Immanuel, meaning “God with us.”
You don’t have to do this - this life & dreaming & thriving thing alone. I’d love to cheer you on, as imperfect as I may be. I want to learn from you too.
So how do YOU fight fear and walk in abundance?
For me, I go to counseling & surround myself with kind people who dream big & speak truth out loud & try to quiet my mind to hear God speak.💛

Hello sunset frolicking!😍☀️💃🏽
Last night kicked off senior season!! I’m so excited to hang out with awesome babes like @abby.zimmerman the next few months.
Growing up is tough. You are the one making life changing decisions and deciding who you will be. That’s both exciting and nerve wracking! I love this little opportunity to stop time and savor this season.
Then cheer you on as you take on the world! The best is yet to come.💃🏽

I don’t always post pictures of babies, but when I do, it’s definitely of my ridiculously cute nephew.😍

Spent Saturday night hearing about their passion for helping people and watching them make out.😘
When Yana told me that she met Will while working with immigrants & refugees at a Twin Cities nonprofit, I knew they were the kind of people that I’d love to hang out with. I love people excited about life and innovation and serving people and rocking their area of influence.
Plus, aren’t they dang adorable?!🤗

In these words, I find not only comfort in my grief, but conviction in my “Christianese.”
I’ve been reading the story of Job with new eyes since reading @eugenehpeterson’s intro in the Message. He said that Job’s friends had all the right answers, the best “wisdom” of their day... and yet they lacked the living reality of God - the mystery beyond all our simplified answers.
How often in the messiness of life do Christians try to find the perfect answer?
“Oh THIS is why you are suffering so much!”
“Well, you kind of brought this on yourself because of xyz...”
“Don’t worry! Everything happens for a reason!”
I call 🐃💩.
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If you’ve ever had a Christian (including myself) try to give you a perfect answer in the midst of your pain, I am so sorry.
I am sorry that we didn’t listen better.
I am sorry that we were concerned with our own agenda.
I am sorry that we heaped on shame.
I am sorry that we didn’t just say “I don’t know” and embrace the mystery of suffering, the unfairness of it, and simply cry with you.
I am sorry that we’ve tried to boil down an uncontainable God into cute phrases.
I am sorry.
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I am trying to get better - at being a safe place for the porn star and the pastor’s kid to wrestle and hurt and be human. I have a long way to go. Be patient with my humanness.
I’m just done trying to have all the answers. Instead, I want to have the questions. I want to be audacious with God and beg him to show up. Not in cliches or on paper - real and personal.
Who’s with me?

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