Boudoir Photography and Body Confidence: A New Way Women Are Healing
Release Date: 11/25/2025
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info_outlineWhat if the very thing you were taught to hide was actually the doorway to more confidence, power, and freedom in your life and business?
Most women don’t avoid boudoir because it’s “naughty.”
They avoid it because they’ve been trained to be small. Quiet. Contained.
To check the “good girl” boxes and pretend their bodies are something to fix instead of something to celebrate.
If you’ve ever felt like your body was something to fight, tolerate, or hide… this episode is going to shake something awake in you.
Episode Summary
In this powerful conversation, we dive into the deeper meaning behind boudoir photography and how it can shift a woman’s confidence, body image, and inner power.
We talk about cultural conditioning, shame around women’s bodies, the “good girl” rules we inherited, and how reclaiming your sensuality impacts the way you lead, love, and run your business.
You’ll hear why boudoir has nothing to do with being thin, perfect, or sexy-for-someone-else… and everything to do with owning your story, your body, and your voice.
We also explore body neutrality, generational belief systems, and the way feminine power actually works in real life.
What You’ll Hear in This Episode
➡️ How boudoir photography became a life-changing awakening
➡️ Why most women are holding beliefs about their bodies that aren’t even theirs
➡️ Why “good girl energy” is the fastest way to stay small
➡️ The real reason women feel disconnected from sensuality
➡️ How body neutrality might be more healing than body positivity
➡️ What boudoir reveals about shame, power, desire, and permission
➡️ How stepping into your sensuality impacts your business and leadership
➡️ The most beautiful part of feminine power that no one teaches us
Key Takeaways
📌 The way you think about your body isn’t truth.
📌 Confidence doesn’t come from your size. It comes from your self-permission.
📌 Most women don’t need to love their body. They need to stop hating it.
📌 Sensuality is creative power, and most women have never been taught how to hold it.
📌 When a woman sees her body as a miracle instead of a problem, everything in her life shifts.
Why This Matters for You
How you see your body shapes how you show up in every room.
If you feel small, you lead small.
If you believe you’re “too much,” you start shrinking yourself.
If you carry shame around sensuality, you block desire… and desire is the fuel of feminine business.
You can’t build a spacious, aligned, feminine-led business while fighting the very body that runs it.
This episode isn’t just about boudoir.
It’s about reclaiming a part of yourself that you’ve been taught to ignore.
This Episode Is For You If…
✔️ You’ve tried to feel confident in your body but nothing sticks
✔️ You grew up with “good girl” rules that still shape how you see yourself
✔️ You’re tired of shrinking, pleasing, or playing small
✔️ You want to feel safe expressing desire, power, or sensuality
✔️ You want a business that flows with who you are, not who you’re “supposed” to be
✔️ You want to step into feminine leadership without losing yourself
Meet Liz
Liz Hansen is the owner and photographer at Chicago Boudoir Photography, a studio that empowers women to feel confident in their bodies, relationships and lives. Liz opened her commercial studio in 2018 and has since photographed more than 2,000 women. She has been featured on the TEDx stage, on National Public Radio and with the Association of International Boudoir Photographers. Liz holds a BA in Art and an MA in Education. She lives in the Chicago area with her husband and two teenage daughters.
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