I make sure that I fill my cup throughout the day by doing things I love. I typically start my day with journaling, fasted cardio, making myself and the kids breakfast, and doing my makeup.

If I’m in a mood, I twerk! There really is something to be said about dancing, twerking in general. It has been my go-to when I need to get my sacral energy into alignmnet.

I find creative and artistic release to be essential to my own mental and spiritual health, so I make sure I am creative throughout the day. I sing and makeup catchy songs that get my children excited. I make delcious meals to nourish us. I get excited about crafts and decorating the home.

Purging my home of things that no longer bring me joy, actually does bring me joy. Cleaning and releasing is essential for my happiness, especially since being a stay at home mom and entrepreneur.

It has taken some time for me to realize how necessary self care is for my own health, mentally, physically, spiritually. I pour into myself all day long, and this allows me to fully and consistently give from my overflow to those I love.

I have been thinking a lot about my way and my approach to boudoir. As time has passed by, I have to come to the realization that I began boudoir when I needed a to feel like myself again.

I begun my professional photography business in 2018, a month short of my son’s first birthday, as a means to do something just for me. About 4 months after starting my business, I ran a model call and completed my first boudoir photo session. I fell head over heels! One of the women I worked with was newly postpartum and had body insecuries due to new stretch marks and a few other things that only come with childbearing.

While working with her, I assured her that she was fine, even as a new model, a new mom, with a photographer that was new to boudoir, she was indeed in good hands. I watched her transform from allowing her insecuries take over to a woman in power, rocking her new body and enjoying who she was in that very moment.

So, who am I and why me? I’m Toria Germain, a wife, a mother, a woman who has lost herself in all things, while trying to be everything for everyone that I no longer could be me for me. I strongly believe in pouring into your own cup and giving only from your overflow. I also believe that women should shed whatever social norms they are handed that they don’t see themselves wanting to fit into, regardless of their roles or responsiblities.

I am a wife who shamelessly loves her husband. I am a mother who makes waffles for dinner while twerking. I am a friend who will tell you the truth. And, I am a woman who believes in the power of giving women the time and space to be exactly who they want to be, no strings attached.

I invite you to your personalized IGNITE boudoir session, where you will undergo a transformative experience to self discovery and self love. Book your session today.