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Hello, I'm
Jennifer.Â
Highly sensitive and deep feeling, I am passionate about honoring what our bodies have been through and the stories and emotions they hold.Â
I'm passionate about that because I've lived nearly my entire life with my body being a source of and container of trauma.
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I was born with a highly sensitized nervous system and a predisposition to chronic conditions made worse by stress. I have struggled with anxiety, mystery conditions, feeling too deep and too sensitive, a highly reactive nervous system and a sense of instability in my body since day one. And I carry a story of complex trauma.
I'm also a writer at heart. I have always felt more comfortable on the page than I do talking. I have always liked and needed the experience of taking off my smiley, people-pleasing mask to write things out of my body the way I truly feel them.
In the wake of a massive trauma in 2015, feeling so dysregulated and full of pain I could barely stand to be in my own skin, I turned to writing. And that was the choice that changed everything.
Gabor Maté says the essence of trauma is a disconnect from the self. Writing is how I have brought myself back, and how I maintain loving connection with myself.
Dissociated and hating my body
Because it felt like a crime scene
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From this place, at a loss for what else to try, I wrote about that trauma – but I didn't just write. I gave my body a voice on my page. I didn't filter what it wanted to say and I didn't censor my truth. Which healed me so profoundly, it became the foundation for the work I offer now.
In the years since, I've come to realize just how layered true story healing is. Somatic trauma – that is, the unresolved charge of memories trapped in our viscera and nervous system, does need release. But it breeds narratives about how safe we are in our bodies that also need unravel and release. True story healing requires that we address both.
My Body Writing™ process allows us to do both these things: release charge and our held narratives through a nourishing creative practice. Inspired by the way my own practice has helped me heal a spectacularly broken relationship with my body, I created the Body Writers Studio.
From body onto the page
The science and nourishing magic of Body Writing™
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What is true for me, and for the deeply sensitive women I've written with in circle over the last four years, is we don't want our bodies to feel so full of trauma - but we recognize that they do.
Body Writing™ allows us to gently and easily give our bodies voice on the page. By simply allowing our body to respond to evocative prompts, it lets us write out emotional charge and integrate our held narratives, turning our stored stress and held pain into beautiful reclamation.
While it seems and feels as simple as journaling, Body Writing™ is grounded in evidence-backed science, integrating Parts Work, Somatic Experiencing and Dr. James Pennebaker's research on Expressive Writing.
She is the darkest of dark and the brightest of light.
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Jennifer is empathetic and caring but she is also so fucking kick ass at the same time. She encourages the whole range of emotions and celebrates writing with no holds barred. She is kind. She is funny. She is the darkest of dark and the brightest of light. And she genuinely cares. Not in a bullshit performative way but in the way someone does when they've faced their own pain and done the work.
If you're a highly sensitive person holding a lot, you scan for every sign that you're 'too much'. Not once throughout our work together did I feel in any way unsafe, unseen or unheard. She did not rush me. She witnessed my deep pain and did not flinch. Working with her is the greatest gift you could give yourself.
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JANE McGEOGHAN
Her energy feels like home.
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My experience with Jennifer is so much good. Her softness, her kindness, the safety of her space-holding and the intuition she brings to each individual. She is a beast of badassery and beauty. There's a delicate yet indestructible spirit about her...her energy feels like home.
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NIKKI JORGENSEN-SHAY
It's so rare to find someone this authentic to work with.
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Jennifer is the best guide. Not only does she have the experience and training to create a healing, trauma-informed space, but she does the work there with us, in the trenches, sharing all of our emotions and all of hers. It's so rare to find someone this authentic to work with; it's like a breath of the freshest air imaginable. I don't know what it is about Jennifer, but the people she attracts into her circles are the most amazing human beings on the planet.
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SARA FISCHER
You won't find a guide more gentle, capable and experienced than her.
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If you're highly sensitive and have carried stress and trauma responses for far too long, then Jennifer is the one to turn to. Her process is a safe way to explore trauma stuck in our body and release its stored energies. It's simple, it's powerful and it works. Working with her is healing in a tangible way that lasts.
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REBECCA HEISTERHOFF
She holds a light for you and helps you realize it's your light.
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Jennifer is a genuine badass. As a coach, she has a gentle but fierce strength and lovingly holds space while you excavate your depths. She holds a light for you and helps you realize it's your light. The light you thought for sure had died out and she's standing there at the end of the tunnel saying, "See? Isn't it beautiful?"
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JESSICA M.
A quiet and potent practice
Imagine being able to soften through giving your body a voice
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Imagine a writing practice that gives you true somatic release – where you don't have to lie about how it feels in your body and it actually serves you better to not pretend on your page that you're okay.
Imagine having this space – where the brace of your body, the noise in your chest cavity and the armor around your heart can soften, more each week. Where the charge trapped in your viscera + nervous system can be written out of your body by simply responding to targeted prompts.
This practice is not about digging up trauma; it's about layered release. Being able to inhabit your body in ever more present and loving ways. A practice where, with every writing, your body feels less like an enemy and more like a safe place you can live inside and love. đź’—
