Photographer. Author. Speaker. Coach. Educator. Activist. Body Image Educator.

 
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I work with individuals to help them understand how their body image biases and beliefs may be impacting their lives and businesses and how to move forward towards body and self acceptance.


In 2014, I started my boudoir career in an effort to showcase bodies like mine: fat bodies. I had looked around at the photography industry and realized that if people were photographing fat bodies, they weren’t showing them and to be honest - that kind of pissed me off. So I set out with the mission to disrupt the photography industry and start showing bodies of all shapes and sizes and in 2016 I launched my best selling Confident Curves posing guide which took the industry by storm and that’s when I realized that we didn’t need a new set of poses for fat bodies, we needed a new set of BELIEFS about fat bodies.

Despite photographing 1000s of glorious diverse bodies & stories, my work started to feel very “assembly-line”y and as a result, I became very unfulfilled - I knew my clients needed more than just “pretty” pictures. This was the catalyst I needed to go back to school and become certified in Applied Positive Psychology so I could understand more about the mindset behind body image to further help my clients. Little did I know, this information would help me work through some of my own self limiting beliefs around my boundaries, my self talk, my body, and ultimately, my business. This class + the realization that mindset is responsible for ALL of the feelings we have about our bodies and the treatment we think we deserve

As a Body Image Educator, I fuse these concepts with my photography experience to provide revolutionary learning opportunities for other creatives (usually the empaths) so they can work on healing their own body and self image issues, thus enabling them to live a life free of diet culture, imposter syndrome, and people pleasing so they can continue to do heart-centered work, authentically empowering their clients.

I also seek to empower as many people as possible through education in the form of writing (The Geode Theory, my blog, and instagram), speaking (Facebook lives, speaking engagements, and podcast), and photography.

Media Bio

Teri Hofford is a Body Image Educator, Photographer, and Author driven to help people challenge their body image biases & beliefs. Through curiosity, compassion and creative education, she encourages people to move towards body acceptance and self love.

After empowering thousands of humans through her boudoir photography, Teri experienced burnout at the height of her career and recognized the need for support for the givers and heart-driven creatives. In response to this need, Teri became certified in Applied Positive Psychology and started sharing strength based approaches with her community.

From this, Teri has expanded to create Beyond the Body: Mindset & Body Image Education, an education resource for photographers to help them diversify the types of bodies shown in the industry as well as build resilience and sustainability within their businesses, The Boudoir University - an education platform to uplift the voices of other marginalized creatives and create ethical standards for the genre of boudoir, Teri Hofford Photography - where she focuses on digging deep with each client and giving them a safe space to explore their body image, the Tough Love Teri podcast where she discusses topics from self portraits to creating sustainable mindset practices, and finally, BODY IMAGE BOOTCAMP (™) workshops - retreat style events that help women cope with their body image issues.

In addition to her own platforms, Teri has also been a featured educator and speaker for other prominent platforms such as: The Portrait Masters, Sue Bryce Education, The Milky Way Academy, The Unraveled Academy, and Tomayia Colvin Education.

Teri's main mission is to challenge and empower humans to shift their focus from constantly changing their bodies to changing their mindset, so they can start changing the world.

Teri is also the author behind the best selling book The Geode Theory: Chipping Away at Body Image and the mastermind behind the Sun’s Out Tum’s Out billboard campaign in 2018.

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SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

Confident Curves 2017
TedX Salon 2017
Confident Curves Vegas 2017
PPOC Saskatoon 2017
Babetown NYC 2018
Camp Do More 2018
Body Image Bootcamp Florida 2018
Body Image Bootcamp Mexico 2018
The Calm & The Chaos Calgary 2018
Body Image Bootcamp Calgary 2018
everyBODIES education OKC 2018
everyBODIES education Dallas 2018
MoMondays 2018
Camp Do More 2019
Body Image Bootcamp Toronto 2019
Do More NYC 2019
Do More Vegas 2019
Body Image Bootcamp 2019
everyBODIES Boston 2019
Balanced Life Experience Tradeshow 2019
Do More Vegas 2020
Conference & Chill panelist 2021
Clickaway At Home 2021
Body Image Bootcamp 2021
The Portrait Masters Shootout 2021
Unraveled Academy Outliers workshop 2021
Unraveled Academy Love Thy Selfie Workshop 2022
WPPI: The Boudoir Summit/Photowalk 2022
The Wedding Way Online Summit 2022
GraphiStudio Workshop in Milan Italy with Sue Bryce, Kara Marie & Teri Hofford 2022

IMAGE & WRITING PUBLICATIONS/FEATURES

Fabuplus Magazine
Unicorn Magazine
Upward Magazine
A Perfect 14 Documentary
GEEZ Magazine
Quiescent Magazine
Rangefinder Magazine
Vogue Italia
Chatelaine Magazine (online) Nov 2022

Interviews

CBC Radio One
CTV Winnipeg
Global Winnipeg
Art & Soul Podcast
Tribe Archipelago
Flourishing Families Podcast
Burnout Podcast w/ Caitlin Donovan
Confident Moms Summit
Your Life Unlimited Podcast
The Bod Pod (CBC) 2020
Swan Valley Star & Times 2021
The Babesment Podcast
The Shared Shutter Podcast
Art & Soul Podcast 2021
The Portrait System Podcast 2021
Coffee with Genny B Podcast 2022
The Art & Soul Podcast 2022