Heart Behind The Womanhood Project

It’s been an ongoing journey for me, unraveling into the depths of femininity.

I was the girl, other girls, would pin down at sleepovers to try and put makeup on. It wasn’t that I didn’t like makeup, I loved it. I just didn’t grow up with sisters or women to help me in it and a father who felt absent in words and emotions. So when it came to it all, I was really alone and insecure in it. Not knowing where to even start, I shut down to it in general. Femininity. It felt too vulnerable. Too exposing. Too weak. I saw too many mean girls in my childhood, use their femininity to manipulate or control. Or women, who genuinely would put an effort in and then get their hearts played with and broken by boys. It didn’t feel safe. So I was the tomboy, who laced up her soccer boots and schooled all the boys at recess. I was the bully patrol at recess, where legitimately, girls would come to me if a boy was bullying them and then I would proceed to go beat said boy up. No lie, this was my childhood. Sounds a little crazy! haha But it is how my innocent heart responded to what didn’t feel safe. If you’ve ever watched The Little Giants, (shoutout —fav childhood movie!) I was Icebox.

As I’ve become older, stepping further into womanhood, this armor I put around my femininity has slowly fallen at the side. As The Lord in His kindness has been restoring safety inside my heart, like a flower, so have I begun to fully bloom into womanhood. To now, where after years of deep healing, heart work, therapy, many encounters with Jesus and woman coming alongside, helping lead me in my life —I feel like I’m finally just beginning to taste the depths and beauty of its gift.

Now, I am deeply passionate about what it truly means to be a noble woman, a wholehearted woman. What it was that God fully intended for woman when He created us from the rib of Adam. I’ve been pressing in, reading books, studying genesis, listening to podcasts. And it was when I began shooting specifically women—when the presence of God would rush in—releasing radical freedom in their lives, that I knew…I have to do something more about this.

So here I am, scraping the surface of something I feel deeply called to. Creating a lane, a space, just for women. This is me saying yes to what I am sensing from The Lord. This is me, burning to see women liberated and uncapped into the fullness of their expression.

Because there is liberation in discovering and stepping into the fullness of the radical beauty and infinite worth you posses as a woman. There is power in celebrating the beauty and worth of other women.