Coffey Shoppe Photography and Birth Services

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Coffey Shoppe Photography and Birth Services

Documenting your life and moments. Supporting you during your pregnancy, birth and beyond. I believe that life is beautiful, so document it!

I created Coffey Shoppe because I love documenting life's moments and supporting friends and family during their transitions into familyhood. I believe that everyone deserves to have beautiful pictures of their families and births. And that every pregnant person and their family deserves support during their pregnancies, births and beyond.

04/25/2020

In the fall we planted a tulip test garden. It has been unexpectedly rewarding. I recommend.

09/29/2019

Fall is in the air! It’s amazing to watch it creep slowly down the mountains and into the valleys. Tracing the lines the green foliage and flowers took in the spring. I have always loved fall. Where I grew up it was the my beautiful season.

Do you have a favorite season? I hear some places don’t have the classic seasonal patterns. But I believe they still have their own special magic of transition.

08/06/2019

They invited me to weave and I made a hat. ⠀
With children, I find its best to accept any invitation to explore a new medium or learn a new game. You seriously never know what you might learn.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

06/30/2019

Something I have struggled to balance as a photographer are ‘expectations’ around what I should be posting in this space. ⠀
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“Only images captured with your dslr, otherwise no one is going to want to work with you”⠀
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I get this, I really do. But I don’t think the equipment I use is the only skill that I bring to the table as a photographer. I also bring my eyes, my mind and my heart to this work. How I see the world is what I love to capture. ⠀
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So I have decided, finally, after struggling with the decision back and forth for a long time that from time to time I will sprinkle in images I captured with my phone camera. I carry it with me more than my dslr and so sometimes, when the light is right, and the composition is calling, it’s just needs to be captured. ⠀
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06/21/2019

Moving house is always so challenging.⠀
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Our current house has limited natural light and I have been missing bright airy spaces. ⠀
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But there is a fondness and familiarity that comes with living in a place. It’s always bitter sweet to move on.⠀
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Hope everyone’s weekend is full of adventures but ordinary and extraordinary ⠀
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02/27/2019

Often times when a person finds themselves pregnant they embark on a journey of education to fill in the gaps that at one point in history were filled with collective shared experience of birthing. ⠀
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These books mainly focus on the individual experience and journey. They do not place the individual experience in context to other life experiences a person may have had that could in fact be informing their birthing (at least none of the ones I had read so far).⠀
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For example, How can that time in high school when you prepared for a big production of guys and dolls have anything to do with birthing a baby? ⠀
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Well stick with me for a minute, let’s say you were excited for your part, you had been waiting to be a part of the production since junior high! But suddenly you are overwhelmed, so many lines to memorize, stage positions, singing and dancing. It just feels like to much and that you will just collapse under the pressure. ⠀
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You finally confide in your Best friend ‘I can’t do it you say.’ Instead of saying ‘oh you’ll be fine’ they recount a story of their own fears and misgivings and how they over came them. And then they say ‘I will run your lines with you and we can practice the dances.’ Suddenly a ray of hope blossoms. You aren’t doing this alone, you aren’t expected too. From every practice moment, until you are up on stage and can see their smiling face in the crowd.⠀
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Whatever your story of doing difficult things you thought you couldn’t do at first and then did. Even when they didn’t turn out as you had hoped but you got up and kept doing the hard thing. You can do hard things, with support. ⠀
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That is how birth is too. It maybe a hard thing. Sometimes a scary thing. Just remember that you can do anything with good support. Build your dream team. And never stop doing the hard things.⠀
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02/05/2019

This is me.

Taken by my 7 year old. ⠀
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I had asked the children to sit in the lovely light so I could capture them in this right now. ⠀
After I took a few of him he said ‘now I will take one of you’ ⠀
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Taking intentional portraits is a current goal of mine. I do lots of documentary pictures for my family and others so this is something different. ⠀

What are some goals you have set for yourself this week to bring some variety to your days.
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01/08/2019

‘We are doing high fives with our feet!’ ⠀
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01/01/2019

Happy New Year! Welcome to the freshly birthed new year, full of possibility, hope and love! ⠀
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While we are all busy snuggling in and thinking with a little shaky awe about how we made it here, finally. I am reflecting on all that 2018 has brought me and what I plan and hope for this new year. ⠀
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2018 was the year a year of intuition and big change for our family. We moved states and I tried new mediums for this art of mine. ⠀
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2019 I have set some new business goals. I look forward to sharing new things in this space, growing a new project that I am very excited about and shooting more family films. ⠀
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Let’s work together and make some beautiful memories! Happy New Year!⠀
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12/31/2018

At the beginning of the year I chose a word or theme for my year. That word was intuition and boy did it take me to some very unexpected places. ⠀
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As the year winds down and I find myself looking forward and thinking of what next years word or theme might be, I can’t help be feeling a bit cautious 🤣⠀
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2018 has really shaken things up and I am grateful for my intuition, being there to guide and comfort me on unfamiliar roads.⠀
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Do you set intentions for your year? What techniques do you use to choose? Have you chosen a word/theme for 2019? ⠀
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12/04/2018

Self-care | birth workers often joke together about running on coffee. But often coffee doesn’t dent the surface of the bone deep exhaustion that can come from holding space for others. ⠀
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It isn’t the only profession that has this though. That’s why self-care is so important. It’s an art and can be deeply nourishing. ⠀
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Why am I telling you all this? Because whether you are a birth worker or a person who will birth or has recently birthed or is an empathetic individual, self care matters and making sure you prioritize things that fill your cup when it is low will make you a better partner, parent, friend and human all around. ⠀
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What’s something you do to nourish yourself?⠀
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