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I am clearly excited for your call! However, I am taller now.

I am clearly excited for your call! However, I am taller now.

JEN dEAN PHOTOGRAPHY
207. 370.8131
jen@jendeanphoto.com
Portland, Maine
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72 Bridge St., Westbrook, Maine

 

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Hello my dears. I’m excited to begin to tell you about my new business. (Head over to @ingeniousalchemy and follow me there!) It has been over a year in the making and I have poured so much of my heart into it. 💫After 20 years as a photographer I have learned so much about women and the way that we see ourselves. This new course will be all about inviting women to identify the elements that make them up and guide them to find ways to embrace those aspects. To see themselves as the amazing beautiful geniuses that they already are. 💫You see so much goodness and beauty in others and it’s time to see it in yourself. It’s long past time I would bet. I recognize all the time a myriad of ways that not being able to SEE ourselves costs us so much from day to day! I’ve been holding safe space for women for decades and I’m ready to expand the way that I do that. 💫You can head to the website link in the bio (on @ingeniousalchemy ) and sign up for more information. And if you’re ready to talk to me more about it in detail let me know and we’ll schedule a call!
Here we is. 6 years ago at the start of kindergarten and the last day of 5th day. 💫 Couldn’t be more proud of this girl and her presidential outstanding academic excellence award!! (We won’t mention the two signatures at the bottom. 😂😬) We love all you guys!! Can’t wait to see you this summer. 🌞🌊 * * * * * * #childhood #5thgrade #kindergarten #award #academic #blonde #mylittlegirl #mygirl #mylovelygirl #daughter#daughterlove #babygirl #portlandmaine #maine #lastdayofschool
This photo sort of sums up everything right now. So much beauty. So many emotions. Life being both beautiful and emotional all at the same time. I’m not very good about being consistent here. The rules say that I’m supposed to post regularly, on time, and have something useful to say. And so sometimes I sit down at the computer and I gather photos and try to write some copy to go with them. But most the time it doesn’t work. What works is opening a photo like this and speaking from my heart. So here is my daughter. The one that I still sometimes glimpse out of the corner of my eye as a toddler. If you’re a mama you know what I mean. I mean that I blinked. I mean that sometimes I still expect her to not want to go anywhere without me while in reality I hear her voice from the other side of the house as she opens the front door after school and says “I love you mom I’ll see you later!”, before running off to the playground with her friends. She’s 11. She’s preteen and all tween. She’s finishing elementary school this week. And yes she still lays on my lap and snuggles with me when we watch TV. She still gives me 1 million hugs a day and talks to me non stop. But she’s moving on in so many ways. She’s so different. She made me a collage recently full of words that remind her of me. So a couple weeks later I did the same for her. And while looking for perfect words to describe how amazing she is I ran across this quote “If I keep her here, it’s like cutting off her wings.” I swear it was the universe reminding me of what I already know. My job in life is to raise a really wonderful human, and that means letting her go. So the reason I haven’t posted much lately is because I’ve been in grief. I’m in mourning. And I didn’t expect it to be this way. And of course I’m feeling shame because of all the judgments from myself and from a culture that doesn’t tell us the truth. I should be happy for her. And I am. I am. But doesn’t mean I’m not a bit heartbroken. All of life is tiny little deaths. And this is one. I hear you Glennon Doyle. First the pain, then the rising. I’m leaning into the pain of goodbyes to the little girl. I’ll rise to the next phase, I promise you, C
In Feb of 2017 Elizabeth was Ep 2 and told her story on The Gardenia Project podcast. When I asked her to do a follow up mini podcast she said yes, because my story feels so different now then when I told it 2 years ago. What she didn't quite understand then was that fear was still crippling her life and holding her back. Our stories can be healing if we allow ourselves to see that transformation can happen and we are given the opportunity to grow in the way we walk through those life lessons. Sometimes it takes a lot of time and space to figure that out. So this episode talks about what happens when we re-write our story from a new perspective. 💫👏 Listen on iTunes, Podbean, Spotify or my website jendeanphotography.com
💫My favorite part of working with Susannah is that she owns her beauty. She knows her worth and you can’t look away from from her confidence. 💫She just posted an image from this shoot and talked about her stretch marks and her curves. Markers of shame from our society but parts of her body that she loves. This is how we come out from under the weight that culture uses to keep us small and quiet. A society that tells us that we are less than. That we have to be a certain size or color or shape. 💫We OWN our beauty in all its individuality and imperfection. We relish it. We celebrate it!! That’s what my new course is all about, teaching women how to unlearn all the things we have swallowed down as truths. And how to see themselves as whole and perfect right now. 💫It’s going to launch this fall. If you want to know more message me to get on the sneak preview list. 👏💫
You know what’s radical these days? Loving yourself completely. You are going to be hearing a lot more from me on this coming up! I never tire of seeing the transition as it happens and having the gift of capturing self adoration be part of my world. My heart is always opened a bit more. I’m so excited to share what’s coming...#ia * * * * * * #beauty #brunette #woman #maineportraitphotographer #jendeanphoto #boudoir #lovewhoyouare #rightnow #createopenly #beyou #power #beauty #youmatter #joy #radiance #studiophotography #studioportrait #makeover #portlandmaine #mainephotography #mainephotographer #women #womenempowerment #womeninspiringwomen #womenempoweringwomen #portraitsession #celebrateyourself #ia #radicalselflove
🌟 Last week I became a rockstar. I signed up for @meganjowilson coaching course, Rockstar Camp, on learning to use my voice in the world and at the end I got up on stage and sang at the Portland House of Music. Over the eight weeks I added tools to my life on how to own my emotions (even the ugly ones like rage and grief), stop apologizing, brag about the things I’m proud of, and pay attention to what I find to be pleasurable in my life. These things are not new concepts. But I learned how to practice them on a daily basis. To get really clear with who I am and who I want to be in this world. It was definitely life-changing. 🌟I was terrified to get up on stage. We did not take voice lessons this course. That was not the point. And I definitely did not nail singing perfectly by any stretch of the imagination. When I first watched myself singing and heard it, I was mortified and cringing. I was so critical. And then I stopped and reminded myself what the whole point of getting on stage was about; being brave and doing something that felt scary. It was to prove to ourselves that we are strong and powerful. 🌟 So I watched it again and again and again. And then I laughed out loud. I finally found total joy in my performance and how much heart I gave it and how much fun I had that night. 🌟 I know the old demons will return, the ones that tell me I’m not enough in every way, in every aspect of my life. But I am stronger now. Much more prepared to fight them. To live up to my potential and see myself as the fabulous person that I know I am. This image from @laurynsophia (Lauryn Hottinger) will serve as a reminder! ♥️ 🌟 Thanks be to Megan Jo Wilson for following through on her vision to combine coaching and singing. I am forever changed. The effects will continue to ripple out with all of us who have stood on that stage with her. 🙏 🌟My next song is coming. And it’s fantastic. Not long now...