Kate Warren Photography

This past year I started to make a shift in the branding photography world and I honestly LOVE IT. To help other entrepreneurs build their businesses in the small way that I do means the world to me.

This week has felt heavy, hasn’t it? I wrote this the other night because I have found the magic that comes from journaling. Sometimes I get in the victim mode because I am a small business owner that is being greatly affected by the decisions being made from the peeps at the top, however, that vibration state is not where I want to be. I feel the feels, write that shit down and learn and grow from it. I remember that I have the power in my choices. I choose to regain that power and navigate my way through this sticky mess. Some days suck and some days are good. Take what can you, every day your best is going to be different.

Porch Sessions are comity back this Spring! Comment or send me a DM which one of these areas you’re interested in me coming to! Porch sessions are outdoors, properly distanced and best of all, I come to you!!

Hello everyone! I am letting everyone know that I am still open for business for the month of April. Commercial photography is allowed - this mean head shots + branding, anything to do with your business. These can be indoor or outdoor! I have decided to accept and keep retail photography sessions for this month as well. They will be primarily outdoor sessions. ... Small businesses are struggling right now, as I know everyone is aware of. No one should ever be telling us if what we do for a living is essential or not. What you do matters and your work is essential. No one shouldn't be telling us not to make a living regardless of what they think is important or not (mainly, what can they make the most money off of) If you have a session with me this month and wish to postpone your session, that is totally OK. Let me know :) If you wish to keep your session, then that is amazing and let's have some fun while we are doing it! Love you all.

this girl right here. I am beyond grateful to have chosen a career that allows me to follow my passions but also allows me to spend a lot of time with her. Time is fleeting and to know that she is almost 3 truly makes me realize how quickly time goes. We make the most of our days together, amongst everything going on, there is still life to be lived. Some days we snuggle and watch movies and some days we go on adventures. Every day looks different but everyday we make the most of it.

Can we just get back to having LIVE music again? K, thanks.

M O M M Y + M E sessions info will be dropping on Wednesday, March 24th for mini session date on Sunday, April 11th. The pre-booking email went out yesterday to those who sent me their email and if there are any spots left I will announce the details and times on social media in 2 days!

If you want to be on the emailing list for my Mommy and Me sessions I’ll be hosting on April 11th in the morning please send me a DM with your email. Details will be going out next Tuesday.

K, I’m ready for all the things in this photo right about now. Who is with me

Cuties I am beyond excited to be getting back to family sessions again. I am all booked up for this month but I am taking on bookings after Easter weekend

My almost 3 year old daughter keeps telling me to make good choices whenever she leaves for school in the morning and let me tell you, I have never been more proud to be her mother NAME THE MOVIE THIS LINE IS FROM

I still have 3 spots available for this mini session date. I will also be offering family photos during this time too :)

I AM DYING TO GET BACK TO WORK. I MISS DOING WHAT I LOVE. I am already booking branding + head shot sessions later this month and I am so excited. If you’r...e looking for a fresh head shot or need content for your business, send me a DM. I do have a couple packages to choose from. LOVE YOU ALL See more

Working with powerful Women has been something that I’ve truly loved doing this last year. There is something magical that happens when like-minded women get t...ogether and bring out the best in each other. I learn something after a branding session with another female entrepreneur, we often talk about the struggles and the upside of working for yourself. Everyone experiences different things and everyone is in a different season in their entrepreneurial journey. My job as your photographer is to really get to know you, to understand your business, vision and how you want to help other people. I quickly recognize what makes you feel good, what doesn’t and this allows me to help you feel your best. I’m here to help to tell even a little bit of your story through photographs. The photographs you’ll be using on your social media, your website, in your programs and marketing tools. I have grown to love business branding photography so much.

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Oh, hi there. I have some new faces following me recently so I thought I would (re) introduce myself. Hi, I’m Kate. And I am a serial entrepreneur. Let me see if I can quickly give you a run down of what I’ve been up to. Just joking, I know I can’t so grab a coffee and enjoy. I started my photography business in 2013, with no idea what I was doing but somehow have made a living off doing what I absolutely love to do. Doing photography full-time was never my intention. I... didn’t go to school for photography or anything art related. I do not have any formal training in photography + I am 100% self-taught. My dad being a photographer and instructor at Humber College in this field has helped me immensely and I am forever grateful for his guidance. I went to university (where my Brock U people, at?!) and I graduated with a BA in psychololgy. I originally took psych because I wanted to get into sports psychology ( I did a project in grade 12 on this topic and it really interested me and thought how powerful the mind could be in sports), after taking a few courses in my first 2 years I changed my plan and wanted to be a teacher...and then a social worker....and I’m sure a few things in between. But what it always came back to was that I wanted to help people, specifically children. There are a lot of reasons this is important to me that I can talk to you about at a different time if you wish to learn more but it became very important to me to work with children and kind of be an advocate for them and be a person that can trust to be themselves. I didn’t do this in the traditional sense (like being a teacher or social worker) but I did this in my own way, in a less authorative way. I began babysitting in my early 20s for dozens of families in this community in Toronto. When I Was 26 I started my own after school prgrams and summer camps, and I did that for 2 years. I was very close to starting my own girls empowerment program when I was 28, but we bought a house and moved out of Toronto before I could start that. My photography career took off in a way that I never expected when I moved to Hamilton and so my plans for my other passion was put on the back burner for a bit. When I became a mom, this desire to want to help was supercharged. I didn’t know it at the time but this is when my journey to Keep Them Wild started. The need to support new parents, support families with sleep and to help parents with toddlers + preschools make sense of them is what Keep Them Wild is all about. This work lights me up. I haven’t even properly launched (more to come in a couple weeks) Keep Them Wild and I wake up every morning excited to work on my programs. I am excited to help families in a way that can make this season of parents just a little easier. I want to create a community where we can help each other, I want to help empower parents + help parents empower their children. I am all about building each other up

Hi! It’s been awhile, hasn’t it? This is a reminder that I am available for commercial photography is allowed under the current guidelines. If you need photos for your business whether it’s head shots, product, content photos for your website or Instagram...I am open for bookings. ... I will be taking on a few more branding sessions than usual in February with the high volume requests so please, please, please get in touch if you’re interested. I’m looking forward to getting back to this!

Have you heard? I officially launched Keep Them Wild and I am so excited to be sharing content and programs under this umbrella of parental support from womb to preschool. I have decided to keep this account and Keep Them Wild separate so feel feel free to follow along over at @keepthemwild_ and tag any friends who you may like this content on their feed. ... This account is about support + empowering families If you want in-depth detail about my perinatal 8 class workshop I will be releasing soon please head over to Keep Them Wild. More information coming very soon. Photography updates will be coming later this week as I am starting to plan the coming months for bookings!

Essential oils + kids I have been using essential oils on my daughter since she was 4 months old. I don’t know about you but when I became a mom I was obsessed with checking labels for ingredients on everything I was putting on Nora. There were some brands that I thought were green and natural but later realized they weren’t. I know it’s not the end of the world but this was something that was important to me. I had heard of many people talk about essential oils before ...I had Nora but it was overwhelming for me and didn’t see how truly powerful they were until I started using them. Fast forward two and bit years and here we are, my house full of essential oil bottles, DIY linen sprays, facial toners, bath bombs, different roller bottles for literally almost everything. When I saw the immediate affect lavender had on my daughters diaper rash or the peppermint oil had for my TMJ headaches, I knew that these oils from plants and herbs were more healing than I thought. There is something to be said about plant wisdom. I understand there is a place and a time for modern medicine but I do love the fact that when Nora has an upset stomach SHE reaches for her tummy blend and rolls it onto her stomach herself. I love the idea of learning how plants can heal, because they really do. And I love the idea that my 2 year old daughter now asks for certain oils when she notices something off in her little body. And sometimes she just wants to use the roller bottles on her feet because it tickles, haha. I like feeling like I am in control of my own health and I love understanding how everything within our body is connected and when one thing is off it affects other areas. I love the feeling of empowerment especially with my health, which is something I never thought about twice before but is now the thing that I crave to continue to learn. It’s a gentle, simple integration.

Turning Mad Sad Who is with me in this season of parenting right now? Who is seeing their little ones have meltdown after meltdown after meltdown? It appears that they are losing their shit because you gave them their peanut butter toast with your right hand instead of your left; or that you asked them if they wanted to wear their (favourite) dinosaur shirt but more often than not their emotion cup has been filling up over some time and these meltdowns what appear to be o...ut of nowhere have been building up over time. What they end up getting really upset about isn’t actually what they are upset about. Does this make sense? When they hold on to big emotions and let it build up we often see a lot of angry behaviour from them. They are hitting or kicking or shouting more than they usually do. I notice when my daughter does this I need to sit with her, perhaps help her name these feelings but most importantly I need to make space for her to cry. What she certainly doesn’t need is for me to reason with her. Remember, these guys are a one-at-a-time creatures and developmentally cannot hold space for both the upset and to listen. I took a course through the Neufeld Institute last spring and one of the things that I learned was that we need to help our toddlers and preschoolers turn their mad emotions into sad. We need to let them have tears. Once I learned this I tried it out with my daughter and it was amazing what I noticed. She was at the age last spring where she was starting to talk but didn’t know too many words and how to communicate and I can only imagine how frustrating that is. When i saw her emotion cup getting quite full I would sit down next to her with my hand on her back and just kept asking, do you want to hit a pillow? answer was nodo you want to throw your stuffys? answer was no....do you want to cry? and she would look at me, with tears forming in her eyes and all I would say is It’s OK babe, cry if you need to and she did. And guess what happened after we made room for her tears? She felt better. She carried on and we went about our day in a better emotional state (both of us!)....until it happened again and we would just repeat

I hope you got to the spend the day how you wanted to yesterday. Whether you went to see your family or decided to stay home, I hope your Christmas was special. There was something so magical about waking up to all that snow yesterday morning, taking our time opening up gifts and just having a slow day. We didn’t know what to expect but we ended up spending the day exactly how we wanted.

The rest is just as important as the work. I find that the art of resting and taking time for yourself when you need to take a step back without quitting is tricky but essential. In previous years, at this time of year I am often so burnout, so exhausted, so done with my job that I sometimes feel like I just want to not ever do it again. Obviously, I wouldn’t quit but I would just push myself to the point of pure burnout and depletion. Every. Single. Year. Last year I had wh...at felt like anxiety attack (I don’t know how else to describe it) where I just broke down. I wasn’t taking care of myself, I wasn’t moving my body, wasn’t eating whole foods, wasn’t prioritizing quality sleep and most of all I wasn’t setting healthy boundaries. I know I am not alone here, especially being an entrepreneur, especially working in an industry that is often seasonal. I took 2 months off work after Christmas to regroup, to focus on myself and my family. I made a promise to myself that I would never do that to myself again. I made it a point to work in a different way, knowing that for the last 6 years I would get to the point of burnout. I used to take pride in that, I think our society values that more than rest, don’t you think? This year I have done something different. It was extremely hard for me to do, but I did it. I did not work myself so hard to the point of burnout. And I did it in a way that I was still taking on sessions that I have in the past but I changed the way I worked. I also did this in a year where I was forced not to work for almost 4 months. This took a lot of practice. Remember, the rest if just as important as the work. Let’s start prioritizing this. See more