Healing Us All : From Tragedy to Guiding Others to Self-Love

I founded ANGIE DAVIS over eleven years ago. It all started as a fun hobby that I loved. I photographed everything-families, seniors, weddings, and even freelanced for newspapers and magazines nationwide. In 2013, my husband, Brian, pushed me to follow my dream of being a fulltime photographer and quit my high paying corporate sales job. Having three kids to feed and two mortgages to pay wasn’t the best time to quit my job, so to say I was terrified is an understatement. I hustled twenty-four hours a day practically. In 2014 I opened my first brick and mortar studio specializing in weddings, seniors, and boudoir photography. Business and life were great, and my hard work was starting to pay off.

On October 11, 2015, we lost our youngest son, Kolton, in a car accident the day before his seventeenth birthday. Our lives came to a very traumatic halt. I was terrified I would never be able to pick up my camera again. How could I ever photograph another wedding knowing I would never see the day my son got married?

How could I ever photograph another high school senior knowing I wouldn’t get to go to my son’s graduation?

 

I lost my baby, and now I was going to lose my business.

I searched within my aching soul and prayed for many weeks about what to do. The answer finally came. I decided only to photograph boudoir sessions. I loved doing them, and they were my favorite sessions. I love seeing women leave my studio feeling beautiful, sexy, empowered and full of life after her session. I decided this was how I would try to heal my broken heart by healing other women’s broken hearts.

Several months into shooting only boudoir sessions, I realized I had a problem. Ladies were coming in for their sessions and complaining about how hard it was to find lingerie for their session, especially my plus-size clients. I decided to start bringing lingerie into the studio to help. I quickly realized that I love fitting women for lingerie, and it added to their joy of having a boudoir session, which added comfort to my heart as well.

My small studio quickly got crowded with lingerie and props. I needed a bigger studio. I searched for six months for the right location. I finally found the perfect spot, but it was  5000 square feet!

 

I had to have it, though, so I decided to add an actual lingerie store to the studio.

 

We opened the new lingerie store and boudoir studio on December 13, 2016. The store quickly morphed into not just a sexy lingerie store, but also a bra store. I learned how to fit bras and brought in bras in cup sizes A through O and band sizes 28 through 56.

I am thrilled that my little business is not only thriving but is helping thousands of women. I am so grateful for the healing and support I have been able to offer women over the years and also for the healing they have done to my own heart.

Hopefully, I will be able to continue to heal us all for a very long time.

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