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Snapshots of Courage: Overcoming Anxiety One Frame at a Time

Snapshots of Courage: Overcoming Anxiety One Frame at a Time

Snapshots of Courage: Overcoming Anxiety One Frame at a Time  Overcoming Anxiety: A Journey to Self-Love and Rediscovery through My Lens As a photographer, I have the privilege of meeting diverse people from different walks of life. Each one carries a story, a...

The Magic of Boudoir: Embracing Yourself as You Are

The Magic of Boudoir: Embracing Yourself as You Are

The Magic of Boudoir: Embracing Yourself as You AreHello everyone, Lindsay Rae here. Today, I wanted to share an inspiring journey that epitomizes the very essence of boudoir photography. The story of our client, Kate Fitzpatrick, beautifully demonstrates why you...

The Importance Of Loving Your Body As It Is

The Importance Of Loving Your Body As It Is

The Healing and Empowering Effect of a Boudoir ExperienceInvest in Yourself: A Boudoir Experience Testimonial Have you ever thought about investing in yourself with a boudoir photo shoot? For many women, this can be a life-changing experience that helps them overcome...

Embracing Authenticity: Finding Your Inner Spark Again

Embracing Authenticity: Finding Your Inner Spark Again

Embracing Authenticity: Finding Your Inner Spark AgainIn a world full of expectations and conformity, embracing your authentic self can be a powerful and transformative experience. Our themed mini boudoir sessions provide a sophisticated and empowering setting for you...

EmpowerMOM: A Mother’s Day Self Love Experience

EmpowerMOM: A Mother’s Day Self Love Experience

EmpowerMOM: A Mother's Day Self Love SaleAs a photographer, I've witnessed firsthand how women often find themselves conforming to the expectations of others. They seek validation and approval from those around them, and sometimes, they lose sight of their own worth...

Discovering Power and Self-Love Through a Self Love Experience

Discovering Power and Self-Love Through a Self Love Experience

Discovering Power and Self-Love Through a Self Love ExperienceEmpower Yourself with Self Love Experience Photography As a professional photographer, it is my passion to empower women to feel confident and comfortable in their skin. I strongly believe that everyone...

We Are Confusing Confidence with Happiness

We Are Confusing Confidence with Happiness

  We Are Confusing Confidence for Happiness   We must begin to understand that seeing someone as confident does not negate a struggle with mental health. Does it feel to anyone else as if 2022 has seen a rise in depression related deaths? Many which have...

AI Art is a Miracle for the Medical Aesthetics Industry

AI Art is a Miracle for the Medical Aesthetics Industry

Human psychology tells us that people want to see an ideal version of themselves. We want to see in the mirror how we envision ourselves in our heads. 

This image is now construed with filters, retouching apps and AI Art which is bridging an important and needed gap between reality and a fantasized ideal version ourselves. 

What happens when we try to filter ourselves in real life via actual medical procedures?  

Why host model calls if you are sold out?

Why host model calls if you are sold out?

Why would we host model calls when our regular sessions sell out 12 months in advance? As you know Self Love Experience prides ourselves on being trustworthy, honorable, and a safe place to explore your relationship with yourself. Part of that exploration often...

Wash It Away | Saratoga Springs | Albany | New York – Boudoir

Wash It Away | Saratoga Springs | Albany | New York – Boudoir

I like to explain our bodies to children by the example that our skin is like a bag that holds our organs and bones and will move and adjust as we use the bag and add and subtract from it and it all is natural and NORMAL. You can use a grocery bag as an example too and show how it moves as you adjust what is in it.

Head Held High | Saratoga Springs | Albany | New York – Boudoir 

Head Held High | Saratoga Springs | Albany | New York – Boudoir 

We exist, as a society, in a constant state of worrying about what other people think about us. We project our emotions onto others rather than reading their emotions for what they are. That’s how we get in our little emotional spirals. We assume what other people feel and what other people think rather than taking the time to empathize and actually try to feel how they feel. 

It comes from within | Saratoga Springs | Albany | New York – Boudoir 

It comes from within | Saratoga Springs | Albany | New York – Boudoir 

It’s not like you just wake up one day and are like, “Oh, my god, I love myself. Hey,” in the most whiny voice ever that we see online. It’s, “No, today, I like myself a little bit more. Today, I looked in the mirror and I saw my eyes and not my acne. Today, I stood naked in front of the mirror for five whole minutes and didn’t cry.” I’m up to 15 minutes now that I can stand naked in front of the mirror. You want to talk about self-love? I’m a person with a business on self-love and I am still doing the work daily.

Her Confidence Grew | Troy | Saratoga Springs | Albany | New York – Boudoir

Her Confidence Grew | Troy | Saratoga Springs | Albany | New York – Boudoir

When you can learn to look in thee mirror and just see yourself without the words of your past, you can start to see your potential. And you can start to find the parts of yourself that you like. Miss V got her first taste of that during her session. As the session progressed, her confidence grew and she found a new way to really grab onto her self-love.

Do Something That Scares You | Troy | Saratoga Springs | Albany | New York – Boudoir

Do Something That Scares You | Troy | Saratoga Springs | Albany | New York – Boudoir

It’s not the, Oh, I took sexy pictures. It’s the, I made the decision to do something that scares me. I made the decision to trust someone new and I made the decision to step outside of my comfort zone and confront my body in a way that I never have before. So I think that’s really what makes this as empowering as it is. It’s not just sexy pictures. It’s an entire experience that really comes together to help our clients take  that next step into themselves. A step into who they want to be and who they see themselves as, without anybody else telling them what that is.

The Dolce Viaggio Collection

The Dolce Viaggio Collection

A curated and luxe empowerment experience with award winning photographer and inspirational speaker, Lindsay Rae, also known in the media as The Body Image Activist. This will be an extremely limited and distinctive opportunity to have the founder of the Self Love...

The Founders Collection

The Founders Collection

The Ultimate Self Love Experience. An hour and a half of fine art boudoir photography at our private loft studio. Professional wardrobe styling session. 4 outfit changes (extra outfit change included!) Professional hair and makeup artist. Private in-person viewing to...

Media & Print

Media & Print

      Lindsay helps women overcome negative body image and low self esteem through Self Love Experience photography sessions. Stemming from a very difficult upbringing with a family on welfare to building a multiple six figure business selling her...

Black Friday Sale 2020 | Sign Up for Early Access Pass

Black Friday Sale 2020 | Sign Up for Early Access Pass

I am so stoked to be able to offer you wonderful ladies an opportunity to sign up for an Early Access Pass to our Annual Black Friday Sale! In 2022 we will now be offering fantasy sessions, on-location sessions, couples sessions, and mommy and me sessions to our...

A Line of Tshirts for Humans

A Line of Tshirts for Humans

“I feel like we should stop calling feminists 'feminists' and just start calling people who aren't feminist 'sexist' – and then everyone else is just human.” - Maisie Williams (aka Arya Stark from Game of Thrones) This line of shirts has been a...