Featured Client ~ Jessie Marianiello

Featured Client: Jessie Marianiello, pet portrait artist

Blog: Diary of a Self Portrait
Website: Stray Dog Arts
Etsy Shop: Stray Dog Arts
Etsy Shop: Patch of Sky

What are you creating in the world?

Hopefully, I am creating a space for love and happiness.  My medium is paint.  My subject is dogs.  This has been such an unexpected turn in my life!  I never knew I would be doing this, until it happened.  When painting dogs, I sometimes I feel like my heart might burst from sheer amounts of love and joy.  If I can convey that feeling in a portrait and then pass it on to the next person, I feel like I am doing my best and truest work in the world.

How has working with Jamie helped?

Working with Jamie has helped me in countless ways.  Where do I begin?!  Jamie helped me get started on this path to becoming a full time artist nearly 2 years ago.  That was when I first started working with her.  I came to our first phone call with a vague idea of what direction I was headed in.  What Jamie came to the phone call with was an incredible amount of motivation, support, and an unwavering belief in me.  She was exactly what I needed. She nudged me forward over and over again.  She celebrated every single big and little success.  She laughed with me and let me cry and helped me to open up space within me–the space I needed to make room for hope and growth and discovery.  Through both the highs and the lows, Jamie has been there every step of the way.  So much of the work I’ve done with Jamie has been internal.  It is stuff that no one else could do for me–but I do give Jamie credit for speeding up the process!  I call on the things I’ve learned in working with her on a regular basis.  After all, growing never gets done.  Jamie has a gift–one that I am so grateful to have experienced.  I can’t imagine a better coaching experience.

What have you learned about yourself?

I have learned to pay attention to the beliefs that are holding me back and how to create a space that will allow me to move beyond them.  My favorite work with Jamie has been learning about the power of visualization.  There are always so many ways to look at a situation.  Working with Jamie has helped me learn how to take a step back from fear, to breathe, and to allow myself to be embraced by a loving universe–one that is always there for me, when I make myself available to it.

What would you like to celebrate?

I would like to celebrate HOPE and BRAVERY.  I’ve come to the conclusion that hope has the power to change everything.  Combine with hope with bravery and WATCH OUT, WORLD!  When we create space for hope and show up for bravery–anything is possible.  Every single one of us has access to that–and I think that’s definitely worth celebrating!

Listen to what Jessie has to say about Circe’s Circle… (a new circle starts September 15th)

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