Be Your Own Beloved Photography

I'm Vivienne McMaster. I'm a Photographer, Body Trust Provider and Trauma Informed Coach based in Sooke, British Columbia just outside of Victoria on Vancouver Island. 

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For the last 15 years I've been on a beautiful journey exploring the ways that being in images can be an ally in healing how we see ourselves.

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I started this journey at a place where I felt like photos were the enemy, that they were 'proof' of what my inner critic said. So I went on a mission to try to figure out how I felt about my body outside of what that critical voice. What I found was that this tool that I thought was an enemy could actually be my doorway to healing. I started on a journey to use self-portraiture as a tool for body acceptance and self-compassion building and it changed my life. Of course, I knew that if it could help heal my relationship to my body (which I had deemed unfixable) it could help others. So for the past 10 years I've been teaching Self-Portraiture & Body Acceptance E-Courses called the Be Your Own Beloved Workshops. 

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Alongside teaching people to use their own camera as a tool for body acceptance and compassion, I've been doing Portrait Work, using my own camera as a tool for helping you feel seen, feel valuable, feel visible in your own lives. I approach photography through a lens of Health at Every Size, Fat Acceptance, LGBT rights and Intersectionality. I am a Certified Body Trust Provider which helps me deepen my commitment to body acceptance and body trust in my work.

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Making you feel safe and seen is my focus in these portrait session. Allowing space for your relationship to your body, your gender expression, your self-expression. We'll break out of the expectations that are put on our body and identity and capture photos that let YOU shine for the person you are.

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Find out more about the Portrait Sessions here.

Find out more about the Be Your Own Beloved E-Courses here. 

Follow my personal journey of body acceptance through the lens here. 

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