Cheyenne Lenea Studios

She is Mother.

Before she even was, she still embodies the mother she is becoming.

Gracious, instinctually caring, loving beyond a physical manner. She walks into a room and everyone can feel it.

She doesn’t just nurture her children. She nurtures the people around her, the spaces she enters, the energy she carries. She gives before she’s asked. She holds before she’s needed. She loves in a language that doesn’t require words.

And still - underneath all of that softness - there is a woman. With a story. With a becoming of her own.

She didn’t lose herself in motherhood. She found her.

This is who I photograph. This is who I see. Not just a mother - but the mother. The one who changed the whole line.

Comparison is a bitch. It taints every being of who we are, what we are capable of, and who we are becoming. As we scroll we can’t help but see ourselves as anything other than wrong.

Our minds are being molded into believe that our bodies aren’t good, our way of life is wrong, and we should shape into someone and something that we are not.

Maybe I should lose more weight.
Maybe I should color my hair like her.
Maybe my house isn’t big enough.
Maybe if I had better skin.
Maybe….

Truthfully, there will always be more “maybes”. But Maybe, just maybe if you were just YOU, you would love you too.

You are YOU for a reason. Be that reason. Love that reason. BECOME that reason.

I was nominated for Gulf Coast Woman’s 100 Successful Women to Know. 🥹 And I’m seriously so thankful.

I built this business and life as a military spouse, a mom of three, largely without a team or a roadmap. I has been anything but easy, tested me in ways I cant even explain somedays, and brought me to my knees of questioning more times than I’d like to admit. But the one thing that’s kept me going is my obsessive belief that women shouldn’t have to choose between the life they want and the work they love.

We can do both…. Success, entrepreneurial, and a present and dedicated mother in the messy middle of it all.

This recognition means more than I can explain. It’s proof that building differently still works and I’m right where I need to be.

Thank you for those who nominated me, those who have supported my journey, and those being part of this in anyway. Genuinely. 🖤