Help Me See - Living Through Seeing

The Art of Self Healing with Meleah Rose

The parallels between the art of somatic self healing & the art of photographic practice runs deep. This conversation truly excited me. "With over 6 years of experience in the mental health field, Meleah has worked with diverse populations, including those facing severe mental illness, domestic violence, suicide, and grief & bereavement. When she lost her job & became bedridden with chronic illnesses in 2020, she found herself feeling stuck and frustrated with traditional talk therapy modalities. Desperate for relief, she went on a journey of exploring alternative healing methods, such as breathwork, nervous system regulation, and somatic practices and found healing that she was unable to find in 7+ years of traditional talk therapy & went into remission. After completing her Masters in Clinical Psychology in 2022, she decided to walk away from the conventional therapy system and follow her instinct to guide therapists and wellness leaders on their OWN transformative paths, using the same holistic and alternative healing modalities that helped transform her mental, emotional, physical & spiritual health. Her mission is to foster a revolution of ethical renegades who will pioneer the next wave of embodied, authentic & connected leaders to cultivate deep change and healing in the world."More from Meleah:https://www.instagram.com/meleah.roseshow notes:The real reason why we are tired and what to do about it | Saundra Dalton-Smith | TEDxAtlantaMore from Bianca:www.biancaleamorra.comBook Your NLP Breakthrough Session Meditations for Photographic Artists: https://insighttimer.com/biancaleamorraFree weekly coworking: PHOTO yogaMonthly Membership: Nostalgia, Now.IG: @biancaleamorrahttps://www.instagram.com/biancaleamorra/

When Action Must Precede The Vision

It's all fun and games until your waffling indecision gets decided for you.Today's episode is about the relief & pain of no longer having an option, what it means to serve powerfully in a photo session, & how sometimes we must act off feeling along- without a clear vision or proof in sight.For Photographic Artists:JOIN THE WAITLIST FOR MY UPCOMING PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTIST COURSEFor anyone in search of meaning through their daily life photo taking:MANIFEST YOUR MEMORIES: HARNESS YOUR LIFE VISION THROUGH INTENTIONAL PHOTOGRAPHYMore from Bianca:www.biancaleamorra.comBook Your NLP Breakthrough Session Meditations for Photographic Artists: https://insighttimer.com/biancaleamorraFree weekly coworking: PHOTO yogaMonthly Membership: Nostalgia, Now.IG: @biancaleamorrahttps://www.instagram.com/biancaleamorra/

Living Your Truth: The Highest Form of Generosity with Author & Business Mentor Amber Lilyestrom

What happens when you get a poet & a photographic artist in a zoom room?  tears. some laughs. more tears. (the really good kind though)Amber Lilyestrom is a branding strategist, business mentor, author/poet, keynote speaker- the list goes on. She is a beloved coach of mine and I am honored to bring this conversation to you.Amber has shown me how fully stepping into your own truth is not only a catalyst for living your wildest dreams, but it's also the most generous thing you could do for others. We dive deep into how to uncover choice in our days, what it means to put down what you no longer need to hold, & what reflecting on her upbringing through the photographic lens has shown her.More from Amber-https://amberlilyestrom.com/Paddle Home: poems & passageshttps://www.instagram.com/amberlilyestrom/For Photographic Artists:JOIN THE WAITLIST FOR MY UPCOMING PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTIST COURSEFor anyone in search of meaning through their daily life photo taking:MANIFEST YOUR MEMORIES: HARNESS YOUR LIFE VISION THROUGH INTENTIONAL PHOTOGRAPHYMore from Bianca:www.biancaleamorra.comBook Your NLP Breakthrough Session Meditations for Photographic Artists: https://insighttimer.com/biancaleamorraFree weekly coworking: PHOTO yogaMonthly Membership: Nostalgia, Now.IG: @biancaleamorrahttps://www.instagram.com/biancaleamorra/

Distilling My Photographic Flow State & What Blocks It

This month in our membership "Wholeness" is our intention.  There's so much value in recognizing the different parts of yourself but there's also a deep and profound beauty in standing in the wholeness of you. YOU are where all of the nuances, complexities, and oftentimes conflicting parts come together in an entity that has a completely unique, unrepeatable lens.  What might happen if you stood in the knowing of your wholeness in your daily life? Not operating with an emphasis of constant striving, efforting, and not enoughness, but grounding in your wholeness while loosely holding your curiosity for growth and expansion?By zeroing in on my flow state in photo sessions, I was able to isolate the #1 thing that distracts my ability to enter flow in other areas of life.More from Bianca:www.biancaleamorra.comBook Your NLP Breakthrough Session Meditations for Photographic Artists: https://insighttimer.com/biancaleamorraFree weekly coworking: PHOTO yogaMonthly Membership: Nostalgia, Now.IG: @biancaleamorrahttps://www.instagram.com/biancaleamorra/

Finding What Helps You Thrive

A candid conversation with personal growth coach Katie Dragos around what's incredibly frustrating & beautifully exciting in uncovering choice in your days & how you live your life.The video we chatted about-Life Lessons from the Dancing GuyMore from Katie-https://katiedragos.com/https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cheers-mama/id1672073204FREE GOALS WITH SOUL SUMMIT: Grab ticket here!More from Bianca:www.biancaleamorra.comBook Your NLP Breakthrough Session Meditations for Photographic Artists: https://insighttimer.com/biancaleamorraFree weekly coworking: PHOTO yogaMonthly Membership: Nostalgia, Now.IG: @biancaleamorrahttps://www.instagram.com/biancaleamorra/

When You Can’t Escape a Moment: Painful Simplicity in Your Life & Craft

*trigger warning- discussion around dog loss and the meaning of photographic work as it relates to loss.Do you want to see what is important to you? Look at your photographsDo you want to see what you’re afraid of? Look at your photographsDo you want to see what’s missing? Look at your photographs Do you find yourself searching for something that isn’t present in your current photographs? Look at (the absence of) your photographs Your photographic practice is a modality for self discovery, presence, & living an intentional life. The part of you that knows you want to take a photograph also shows up later when you are witnessing the photographs you’ve taken.  You are accessing a higher consciousness. The camera is a tool that invites both a neutrality & a heightened emotional response to a situation at the same time.  It distances and also draws you in.  You can see so much more clearly and also everything kind of blurs.   It’s going so high in the sky that everything seems still.  It’s accessing a part of you that has the ability to witness your life with the wisdom & scope of a bird’s eye view yet with the intensity of being so deeply inside of a moment that you almost forget to breath.    I think most of us undermine the power of this experience because it’s just too easy. It’s effortless & natural.  How could something so profound be so simple?  “I noticed this enough to take a photograph.”  It’s so pure.  you don’t need to cognitively know why you took the photo. or what it means.  you just let yourself pause long enough to feel something. and if you give yourself another pause at some point, I bet you would find that you actually do know what it means and why you took it.   most of us do this every single day. take a photo.  yet we constantly search for answers outside of ourselves when we already “wrote down” all we need to know.  Your photos show you what you see.   Being aware of what you see keeps you awake to your life & gives you the power to intentionally choose more, different, or the same.More from Bianca:www.biancaleamorra.comBook Your NLP Breakthrough Session Meditations for Photographic Artists: https://insighttimer.com/biancaleamorraFree weekly coworking: PHOTO yogaMonthly Membership: Nostalgia, Now.IG: @biancaleamorrahttps://www.instagram.com/biancaleamorra/

Remember with Author, Photographer, & Mentor Melinda Edwards

This episode is a conversational journey through creative flow, reflection, motherhood, & connection. A level of gorgeous truth that just sears into your soul.Melinda has created her business around experiences that bring her love, joy, curiosity, creativity, and connection. Photography, writing and mentoring conversations are her spaces to explore with curiosity and creativity in a container women clients enter into with their own curiosity and openness to see themselves.  She has created from a  foundation of mothers and women having space to be. TO BE. And for herself to study life, mothers, and what she offers the world with her own wisdom and knowledge.  Her business and life is exactly how she creates it and she is creating it one step at a time understanding; as women we have multiple facets,  to honour each one, and to understand everything is reflected back- everything. More from Melinda here-Melinda's book: Remember - words for the beautiful mess that is motherhood is available here1:1 Mentoring conversations are hereUse the code GIFT to download Clarity the workbook - for women in creative business. She can be found on Instagram here. FREE SUMMIT April 4-6th: The Power of You More from Bianca:www.biancaleamorra.comBook Your NLP Breakthrough Session Meditations for Photographic Artists: https://insighttimer.com/biancaleamorraFree weekly coworking: PHOTO yogaMonthly Membership: Nostalgia, Now.IG: @biancaleamorrahttps://www.instagram.com/biancaleamorra/

The Deeper Responsibility of Photographing a Family with Childhood Photographer Carly Mitchell

For whatever reason, the distinction of nice vs kind has stuck with me ever since I was made aware of it. As someone that loves to comfort and make people happy, it's something I purposely check in with myself on.  Being nice is so much easier than being kind. Being nice satisfies this moment. Being kind is doing something that may feel uncomfortable or scary in order to act in what you believe to be the highest good for another. That's what I feel when I think about saying "yes" to an initial ask/client inquiry & pushing back, giving context, and helping someone see a more enduring possibility they may not have considered.When Childhood Photographer Carly Mitchell wrote a blog entitled "We were together, I forget the rest: On Family Photo Session Locations" on the importance of really considering  family photo session locations, I knew I wanted to chat more. In this conversation, Carly & I chat about true responsibility in photographing a family, making intentional choices in the work/offerings you create, and what is behind the heart/human of it all.More from Carly:https://www.carlymitchellphotography.com/https://www.instagram.com/carlymitchellphoto/Show Notes:Free Weekly Co-working Space: PHOTO yogaMore from Bianca:www.biancaleamorra.comBook Your NLP Breakthrough Session Meditations for Photographic Artists: https://insighttimer.com/biancaleamorraFree weekly coworking: PHOTO yogaMonthly Membership: Nostalgia, Now.IG: @biancaleamorrahttps://www.instagram.com/biancaleamorra/

Closing Your Eyes To See: Using Fear as a Security Blanket

Are you using your fear as a security blanket?And if not “fear”, can you substitute a feeling that you struggle against but if you really stop to think about it, you might be the one grasping onto it?I had a crazy revelation during a visioning NLP process.For so long I have felt shackled to fear- as if it was an anchor holding me down against my will.But through this exercise I realized that I have been holding onto fear for dear life. Keeping it as close as possible because letting go of it felt like letting go of my identity and the most important relationships in my life.I realized that for me, fear is love.Fear means love. Fear is “doing your due diligence”. It means you care enough to think 147 steps ahead of where you are to consider and anticipate any harm that might occur and be proactive in the way of steering the ship to avoid it. To protect my loved ones and myself.What I truly did not realize until 2 nights ago is that subconsciously, it felt like letting go of fear was betrayal to those I love most. Ouch. It hurt to see this.And you know what pisses me off?How fucking obvious it all is to me now. But more than being pissed at missing something that now feels obvious and somehow instantly turned something from a scary ambiguous mount everest into a rolling hill on the countryside- I feel relief. excitement. empathy & compassion.My whole life of this dynamic- my relationship with this word/feeling/state.Demystified. Dismantled. Decoded.By sitting down, getting still, and closing my eyes to see.During this particular moment I had a guide walking me through this visualization NLP process, but I have had other truly powerful experiences that helped bring so much clarity to me. What was the common thread?Me.Sitting still. Closing my eyes. And becoming present to a vision I always had/have/will have.Listen to this week's episode to hear more about this and some questions to ask yourself if this resonates with you.notes-sign up for my upcoming free workshop here- The Help Me See Visioning WorkshopDo you identify as an intentional photographic artist? Here is the waitlist for my upcoming course- Your Bigger Picture, For Intentional Photographic Artists More from Bianca:www.biancaleamorra.comBook Your NLP Breakthrough Session Meditations for Photographic Artists: https://insighttimer.com/biancaleamorraFree weekly coworking: PHOTO yogaMonthly Membership: Nostalgia, Now.IG: @biancaleamorrahttps://www.instagram.com/biancaleamorra/

Seeing Synchronicity

Do you notice signs in your life?Do you downplay them?Do you get freaked out by them?This episode is about being awake to synchronicity and contemplating why we feel the urge to downplay “coincidence” in our lives.If you love this conversation and want to dream into enjoying your vision in 2023 with me, sign up for my upcoming free workshop- The Help Me See Visioning WorkshopDo you identify as an intentional photographic artist? Here is the waitlist for my upcoming course- Your Bigger Picture, For Intentional Photographic ArtistsMore from Bianca:www.biancaleamorra.comBook Your NLP Breakthrough Session Meditations for Photographic Artists: https://insighttimer.com/biancaleamorraFree weekly coworking: PHOTO yogaMonthly Membership: Nostalgia, Now.IG: @biancaleamorrahttps://www.instagram.com/biancaleamorra/