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Brooke Holliday Photography

Brooke Holliday is a lifestyle family, maternity and newborn photographer based in Tacoma, WA.

Brooke Holliday is a lifestyle family, maternity and newborn photographer with a modern school portrait and branding segment of her business. Brooke is based out of Tacoma, WA and photographs families in their homes and around the Puget Sound. Her intent is to capture the connection and love within each family that steps in front of her lens. Her work is film inspired and has a laidback and easy quality, focusing on capturing the joy and nostalgia of life.

10/08/2025

What You Can Expect From Me

* Emotional awareness and a mother’s intuition

* A quiet, grounding presence throughout our time together

* Sessions fully captured on film for timeless, artful imagery

* Honest photographs that reflect your truth, not a trend

* Clear communication and gentle guidance at every step

My sessions are slow, thoughtful, and entirely captured on film. Film invites presence. It’s not endless snapping, but waiting, witnessing, and honoring what’s real.

Because you don’t need more images, you need the right ones.

www.brookeholliday.com

09/05/2025

For me, film photography is all about the process. Slowing down, noticing, and creating with intention. My goal is not to take a thousand images in an hour. I focus on making every frame count.

That’s why I deliver 30–60 unique photos instead of leaving you with a gallery of similar photos to scroll through. Each image is thoughtful, intentional, and made to be enjoyed, not forgotten on a hard drive. Film keeps it simple, and that’s what I love most about it.

If this is the kind of experience you want for your family, let’s make it happen. Inquire on my website to start planning your session. www.brookeholliday.com

08/29/2025

I think I’m ready to venture back outside.

Figuratively, literally and in my business.

There’s been a sense of hibernation within me. A protection of peace. A bonding within myself.

A need to be cocooned in the 4 walls called home.

One thing that I’ve realized is that my art imitates my life very closely.

The last few years has been a transition in my own life where motherhood focusing on just my bond with my kids has almost become essential to me.

And I’ve started to emerge as a caterpillar does in a new form. Ready to explore the world with a new perspective.

Which is both exciting and scary. Taking that first leap. What will it feel like, how will it play out, what will people think.

But if not the risk, the alternative is stagnation. And as I sometimes have to remind myself in the sea of highlight reels…. We are all living this life for the first time. None of us know what we are doing.

And so in dramatic fashion, as is my birth right (leo). I am announcing that I am taking sessions in outdoor spaces again.

All on film, of course. 💅🏼

Booking fall now www.brookeholliday.com

08/06/2025

Have you ever been the victim of toxic positivity on social media?

You know what I mean

The messages that say “just enjoy every moment”
when you’re barely holding it together.
The glossy feeds that make motherhood look like soft light and endless patience.

It can leave you feeling like you’re failing if you don’t feel grateful all the time.
Like there’s no room for the real, messy, complicated truth.

But here’s what I’ve learned
motherhood is both.
It’s joy and exhaustion.
Love and frustration.
It’s the highest highs and the lowest lows sometimes in the same hour.

And I hope that when I share my struggles with parenting and motherhood,
it creates space for more moms to tell their truth.
Not the highlight reel.
The whole story.

If you’ve ever felt this way, drop a ❤️ or share one thing you wish people understood about real motherhood.

07/18/2025

I gained 50 pounds over the last 9 months.

I fell hard into hopelessness for myself because of the state of the country and the world.

I ate so much to numb my pain and to give myself the dopamine hit I so desperately needed.

I completely lost myself. I lost control. I lost my s**t. I lost my passion. I lost my optimism.

And even though there were glimmers of me. A fun share or a peek of joy. Some form of will to keep my business going, underneath I was just fighting to find a reason to even be here on social media.

I was retreating and consuming myself with too much negative reality. I am a deeply feeling person and often times that means that I gravitate towards the pain, sadness and anger in able effort to expose and release it.

But that also means that I can spiral with too much outer influence. And that is what happened.

I can report from the other side that I feel like I am coming back into right relationship with food and am not using it to medicate my pain. And as you may see going forward my face might slowly start to look less full and a healthier me will be revealed.

What I like to tell others that are going through hard mental or physical times is that it gets so dark sometimes but eventually you will come out the other side. We are stronger than we know and we will make it. Love and caring will win and we need to first show ourselves that kindness to truly make a difference in the world around us.

So love yourself harder today. 💋 xoxo

07/16/2025

For a long time, I’ve carried shame around the idea that gentle parenting wasn’t working for me. I’ve done the work. Therapy, journaling, gratitude lists, breathwork, morning routines, parenting courses. And still, I have big emotions. I yell. I cry. I sometimes say things I wish I hadn’t. My nervous system doesn’t always respond with calm. My defined throat expresses before I can filter it, and the guilt always follows.
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But here’s the truth I’m finally standing in: I repair. I circle back. I speak with my children, not at them. I explain, I apologize, I let them in on the truth of what it means to feel and to rupture and to come back together again. That is still gentle parenting.
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Today, I read something that cracked something open: the idea that our emotional expression isn’t a flaw to fix, but a part of our wholeness. That maybe our kids need to see us, really see us, not just when we’re regulated and glowing, but when we’re cracked open and still willing to stay close.
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I will no longer feel shame for who I am. My children do not need a mother who pretends peace, they need a mother who chooses honesty and comes back with love. I believe letting them witness my full self, even the fire, even the falter, is what will teach them how to navigate their own emotional landscapes.
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I choose vulnerability over perfection. Repair over repression. Connection over quiet disconnection.

07/14/2025

This is for the ones that struggle daily like me.

Parenting is hard.

Loving is easy.

Give yourself some extra grace this summer if you feel like you are hitting a wall every day.

There’s no shame in admitting that being a care taker is so challenging.

The village is gone and we are floating out here.

Love a little harder on them and yourself. You deserve it too.

07/13/2025

I am not defined by a photo.
I am not made more valuable by how polished or perfect I appear.

Because perfection doesn’t give me more worth.
It doesn’t make me more lovable.
It doesn’t make me more me.

The photos I treasure most aren’t the posed ones.
They’re the ones where I see my softness.
My strength.
My presence.
My humanity.

Photos connect me to something deeper
To the emotions I sometimes bury,
to the truth I forget when I’m moving too fast,
to the source of my love, my tenderness, my power.

They show me what I can’t always see in the mirror:
that I am whole.
That I am here.
That I am worth remembering, exactly as I am.

If you’ve ever looked at a photo and finally seen yourself in it, share this with a mama who deserves to be in photos authentically too.

07/09/2025

I will not let myself slip into oblivion.
Not into the numbness that tries to creep in when the world feels like too much.
Not into the quiet forgetting of my own body as I carry the weight of motherhood and the grief of a world unraveling.
Not into the endless scroll of tragedy, headlines, and opinions that leave no room for breath.

Because it’s all too much sometimes, isn’t it?

The news cycles. The school shootings. The climate. The politics. The injustice.
And then the pile of dishes. The snacks. The bedtimes. The crying. The needs.
Somewhere in between all of that, I’m supposed to be someone?
To feel whole and alive and passionate?
It feels impossible some days.

But I’ve learned this: I don’t have to disappear in order to survive.
I don’t have to harden or shut down or swallow myself.
Instead, I can make room for beauty and heartbreak.
For outrage and rest.
For grief and joy.

I can choose to come back to myself, again and again.
Through breath. Through movement. Through art. Through touch.
Through looking in the mirror and saying,
“I love you.”

Even if the world burns, I will not lose myself to the flames.

Give me a 🙌🏼 on the comments if you are with me!

07/01/2025

I didn’t become a new person overnight.
It happened in layers
In the nights I rocked them back to sleep when I thought I had nothing left to give.
In the moments I softened when I wanted to snap.
In the times I chose presence over perfection.
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Motherhood changed me.
It cracked me open and handed me a new version of myself I never saw coming.
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And with that came joy.
Joy in the new strength.
Joy in the depth of love.
Joy in knowing I’m still me, just more expansive now.
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If you’re in the thick of the shift, just know:
You’re not losing yourself.
You’re growing.
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Have you felt the shift too? Tell me what part of you motherhood has made more you.

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http://www.brookeholliday.com/

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