You know your body isn’t the problem.
So why do you still brace when you see yourself?
Lens of Love is a two-part, intimate experience for five women who are tired of meeting themselves as something to evaluate, manage, fix or hide.
Through honest conversation, body mapping, guided reflection, gentle movement, photography and a witnessed group reveal, you’ll encounter yourself through another lens, and leave with evidence that the story you’ve been carrying is not the whole story.
Thursday, September 24 • 10 a.m.–3 p.m. • Nashville, Tennessee
Thursday, October 8 • 6–9 p.m. CT • Live group reveal on Zoom
Both gatherings are essential parts of one Lens of Love experience.
Investment: $1,500 or three payments of $500
Five spaces available
You know that thing you do when you see a photo of yourself?
The immediate scan? The thing you find (that you always find.) The way your whole body tightens before you've even finished looking?
Maybe you delete it. Untag yourself. Zoom in. Pick yourself apart. Promise that you’ll be willing to exist in photographs after you change something.
Maybe you’ve become so good at staying behind the camera that there are entire seasons of your life with hardly any evidence that you were there.
Or maybe you’ve tried everything: the diet, the outfit, the angle, the filter, the injection, the surgery. And none of it changed the relationship you have with the woman looking back at you.
What if the problem was never what you were seeing?
What if it was what you were seeing it through?
You don't have a body image problem. You have a lens problem.
Most women learned to look at themselves through a lens they picked up so long ago they no longer realize they’re wearing it.
A lens that searches for what is wrong before it notices what is alive.
A lens that fixates on one feature and loses the whole woman.
A lens shaped by beauty standards, family, religion, relationships, loss, aging and every room that taught her how much space she was allowed to occupy.
Eventually, looking through that lens feels like looking at reality.
But it is still a lens.
If this only affected photos, you could just stay out of them.
But it doesn’t.
The lens follows you everywhere. It influences what you wear, whether you hit post, how much space you take up and what you believe a woman with your body gets to do.
You keep trying to change the woman in the picture while the lens keeps running the show.
The cost isn’t bad photos.
It’s all the ways you keep waiting to participate until your body is different.
Lens of Love helps you catch that lens in the act—so it can stop making your decisions for you.
This is not about teaching you to love every photograph.
It is about what happens before you’ve even finished looking - the moment you stop being a woman living inside her body and become an object under evaluation.
Lens of Love offers you another experience:
To be inside your body instead of standing outside it, grading it.
To notice what your body has been carrying without demanding that it resolve on command.
To be photographed without having to perform, perfect or prove.
To see yourself in the presence of women who are not searching for your flaws.
To gather new evidence - not that one photograph contains the objective truth of who you are, but that the critical story is not the only way you can be seen.
You do not need to become a different woman before you are willing to meet this one.
What Lens of Love Actually Is
Lens of Love is not a conventional photoshoot with a workshop added to it. It is a carefully held, two-part experience in which every element changes the way you enter the next one.
HONEST CONVERSATION
We begin by telling the truth about how we have learned to see ourselves -without fixing, comparing or rushing toward a more positive answer.
There is relief in hearing another woman say something you thought belonged only to you.
BODY MAPPING
Using life-size paper, words, colors, shapes and symbols, you’ll make visible some of what has lived internally: the stories, sensations, judgments, longings, protection and possibility connected to your body.
There is no artistic skill required. This is not about creating something beautiful. It is about giving form to what has been difficult to see.
GUIDED VISUALIZATION, JOURNALING & GENTLE MOVEMENT
You’ll be led through reflection designed to help you encounter different parts and versions of yourself with curiosity. Journaling gives language to what is emerging. Breath and gentle movement help you notice what happens when you are not posing, performing or trying to get it right.
PHOTOGRAPHPY
Then I photograph you—not to manufacture a prettier version of you, but to witness what is present.
That might be guardedness or openness. Stillness or play. Uncertainty, tenderness, anger, relief or something you cannot name yet.
There is no correct way to look transformed. You do not have to produce a breakthrough for the camera.
THE WITNESSED REVEAL
Two weeks later, we gather on Zoom and you see your photographs for the first time—not alone, and not through the familiar rush of private judgment.
You’ll have room to say what you see. I’ll share what I saw from behind the camera. The women who stood beside you in the experience will witness you again.
The reveal is not a bonus or an afterthought. It is where the experience becomes visible, where new language begins to form and where the evidence is anchored.
Why the Group Matters
Being seen by other women can feel like the most intimidating part of Lens of Love. It is also consistently one of the most meaningful.
You are not entering a room of women who have figured out how to love themselves correctly. You are entering a room of women willing to stop pretending that the way they see themselves is neutral or inevitable.
No one is there to evaluate your body, give advice or talk you out of your experience.
You will witness women whose stories and bodies are different from yours, and still recognize something shared. You will offer others a generosity that may feel difficult to extend to yourself. And when it is your turn to be seen, you will experience what it is like not to hold the whole lens alone.
“I’m not often in a space where women who don’t look like me are really being vulnerable with their insecurities. It was really like, ‘We’re all human.’”
-JamilaOne Woman’s Experience
Stacy enrolled in Lens of Love because she wanted to feel more comfortable being visible in her business.
What emerged was much more personal.
During the body-mapping practice, years of pregnancy-loss grief that had lived privately inside her became something she could see, touch and stand beside. She drew a heart-shaped womb. She gave external form to an experience her body had been carrying internally for years.
Her photographs documented visible movement within her particular experience. In her earliest frames, her shoulders were lifted, her hands were held close and her body appeared to be bracing. Later, there was more space in her posture, her hands and her expression.
The photographs did not erase what her body had lived through. They gave her another way to be with it.
“I originally signed up thinking it would be helpful for my visibility and my business. What surprised me was that Lens of Love was so healing for me in my own personal grief journey with pregnancy loss.”
Stacy’s experience is hers. Another woman’s photographs may hold stillness, resistance, softness, play or the very beginning of something she cannot yet name. Lens of Love does not require a dramatic before-and-after. Sometimes the soil is being turned. Sometimes a seed is planted. Sometimes something that has been growing for years finally meets sunlight.
All of those are movement.
I'm walking away with a deeper sense of witnessing of myself, my body, my story. And an experience of being witnessed by others in my full, integrated self — not just the parts I feel okay about sharing, but me. The light parts, the dark parts, the known parts, the hidden parts.
-Stacy, Lens of Love Spring 2026
Who’s Holding the Room?
I’m Liza Hippler - a photographer, speaker and self-perception guide based outside Nashville.
I have spent decades photographing women. My background in performance and improvisation taught me to read a room, respond in real time and leave space for what has not been scripted. Photography taught me how much a body communicates before a woman has found words for it.
Somewhere along the way, I stopped believing my job was simply to make women look beautiful and began understanding it as witnessing.
I built Lens of Love because I lived inside the conflict it addresses. I spent 30 years trying to fix the woman in the mirror, including getting breast implants to fill what I believed was missing. They did not change the lens I used to see myself.
Now I help women question the Three Lenses of Self-Perception™ and encounter the woman who was never the problem.
I will not decide what your experience is supposed to mean. I will pay attention, ask careful questions, photograph what is present and help hold open the possibility that there is more here than the story you arrived carrying.
This is from the first Lens of Love in 2023 - before the body mapping, before the somatic work, before the methodology had a name. It's evolved since then. But the core is the same: what happens when women stop trying to fix what they see and start questioning the lens.
What Your Lens of Love Experience Includes:
Before we gather
A simple welcome journal and handwritten note
Reflection prompts to help you arrive without trying to prepare a “right” answer
Guidance about what to wear, what to bring and what to expect
Thursday, September 24 • 10 a.m.–3 p.m. • Nashville area
A private, intimate group of no more than five women
Facilitated conversation and connection
Life-size body-mapping practice
Guided visualization and journaling
Breath and gentle somatic movement
Approximately 20 minutes of individual portrait and conversation time with Liza
Snacks and beverages
Closing and integration
The experience will take place at a private Nashville-area venue selected to support comfort, beauty and spaciousness. Exact location details will be provided to enrolled participants.
Thursday, October 8 • 6–9 p.m. CT • Zoom
Group reconnection and reflection
First viewing of each woman’s photographs
Space for your honest response—not the response you think you should have
Liza’s witnessing from behind the camera
Group witnessing and new perspective
Integration and closing
After the reveal
A curated digital gallery selected to hold the story of your particular experience
A photo display block with 10 photographic prints, a physical way to keep your images visible, rotate them and allow them to continue participating in the practice
The gallery is intentionally curated rather than tied to a guaranteed number. More photographs do not mean that one woman opened more, transformed more or did Lens of Love better. You will receive the images that meaningfully hold what was present in your experience.
INVESTMENT
$1500
Pay in full or choose three payments of $500.
Your place includes the complete two-part experience, preparation, your portrait time, the witnessed reveal, your curated digital gallery and a photo display block with 10 prints.
THERE ARE FIVE SPOTS AVAILABLE
If something in you recognizes this experience but wants to understand it or simply share something with me before deciding, we can absolutely have an honest conversation.
Lens of Love may be for you if…
You understand intellectually that your body is not a problem, but that understanding disappears when you see yourself.
You are tired of postponing visibility, photographs, clothing, pleasure self-expression or full participation until your body changes.
You can feel that the way you see yourself was shaped by more than your own conscious choices.
You want an embodied experience, not another list of affirmations you are supposed to make yourself believe.
You are willing to be honest in a small group without needing to perform vulnerability or transformation.
Something in you keeps saying, “I think I need this.”
Lens of Love is not…
A glamour session designed around hair, makeup, posing and producing an idealized version of you
A promise that you will love every photograph or resolve years of pain in one afternoon
Therapy, trauma treatment or crisis support
A space where you will be pressured to disclose experiences you do not want to share
A test of how open, healed, confident or self-loving you are
If you are currently navigating acute or recent trauma, severe body-image distress or an experience that requires clinical support, Lens of Love may not be the appropriate container right now. If you are unsure, you are welcome to talk with me before enrolling.
In Her Words
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the images were really touching. I felt my heart soften & open as I viewed pictures of myself in a variety of expressions, having fun & feeling a sense of freedom. They captured me.
Anne P.
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I felt like I could finally feel safe to be myself. It was the permission that I'd been waiting for in a photoshoot for so long to just be real. My best friend saw the photos and said, "Amber! It's YOU!"
Amber Z.
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I'm not often in a space where women who don't look like me are really being vulnerable with their insecurities. It was really like, "we're all human."
Jamila T.
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Lens of Love invited me to asses my perception of myself & meet myself right where I was. I was proud of responding to the invitation that was calling me out of my comfort zone.
Kristina A.
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I had the realization that there is worth, there is value, there is beauty in life beside a picture of a thing; it's not indicative of what's happening in a moment.
Alex K.
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It's been a huge piece for me in allowing my head and my body to match up with each other. It's been really difficult for me over the years with all the weight loss that I've had to see myself, who I am now, what I look like now.
Marilee C.
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Lens of Love helped me see where I am, how far I've come and also a bit of where I'm headed, the possibility. It's like a soul snapshot.
Jen C.
She’s already here.
You do not have to fix her before you are willing to see her.
Lens of Love
September 24 • 10 a.m.–3 p.m. • Nashville
October 8 • 6–9 p.m. CT • Zoom
$1,500 or three payments of $500
Five women
FAQs
Do I need to know what I want to work on before I arrive?
No. You do not need to arrive with a polished intention, a breakthrough you are trying to manufacture or a story you are prepared to share. The preparation prompts will help you begin noticing what is present. You decide what you disclose.
What if being in a group of women feels intimidating?
Many participants feel some apprehension about the group. You will not be required to disclose anything you do not want to share, and the room will be carefully facilitated. If group participation feels actively unsafe or destabilizing for you right now, a different form of support may be more appropriate.
Is Lens of Love therapy?
No. Lens of Love is a facilitated creative and photographic experience. It can be emotionally meaningful, but it is not mental-health treatment and does not replace support from a licensed therapist or healthcare professional.
What should I wear?
You will receive simple wardrobe guidance before we meet. This is not a styled glamour session, and you do not need to purchase something new. Choose clothing that allows you to move and feels connected to how you want to meet yourself that day.
Can I participate without attending the reveal?
The reveal is an essential part of Lens of Love, not an optional add-on. Please enroll only if you can attend both September 24 and October 8.
What if being photographed makes me anxious?
That does not disqualify you; it is often part of why women come. You will not be expected to know how to pose or perform confidence. We will work with what is actually present, at a pace that respects the group and your experience.
Can I do this privately?
Lens of Love is designed around the power of the group. If a group is not the right container for you, you may contact me about a separate private photography experience. It is not the same process as Lens of Love.
When will I receive my gallery & prints?
Your curated digital gallery and print-delivery timeline will be explained during the experience. Your photographs will not be released before the group reveal because encountering them together is an essential part of the process.
Private groups and retreats
Interested in bringing Lens of Love to an existing group or retreat? Contact Liza to begin a separate conversation about location, group size and custom delivery.