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Hello, I'm Jennifer.
I'm a writer at heart: award-winning author, trauma-informed somatic writing coach and INFJ empath. I am passionate about honoring what our bodies have been through and the stories and emotions they hold.
I believe our bodies hold our stories, and that resolving those stories brings deep somatic healing. Whether you seek peace in your body or you long to write your story true – welcome. I'm glad you're here.
Reclaiming ourselves on the page
Like me, you've probably been through a fair amount of trauma. You're a writer at heart too; by which I mean it's easier for you to write about your feelings than talk about them. Maybe you've written formally, maybe you've only journaled, or maybe you've completely lost your voice in the wake of trauma. That happens. I know.
Like me, you’ve probably also felt "too much" your entire life, with an internal landscape that feels vast, intense and overwhelming. You keep returning to the page because of you are a writer at heart – yet when you try and write your truth these days the words feel...unproductive. They don't bring you the peace you crave.
This gap between how you feel inside and the peace you can't find is what I call the wordless ache – the pain you're afraid to name, that something inside you believes you're not allowed to express – which then manifests as tension, anxiety and unexplained physical pain. Most highly sensitive trauma survivors have this.
Highly sensitive, trauma-surviving writers at heart, though? We can put words to this ache and heal. 💐
My Rare Bridge
Where Literary Craft Meets Deep Somatic Recovery
I sit at the intersection of two worlds that rarely speak the same language: high-level literary craft and the deep, tender world of trauma recovery.
I've studied and written with Janet Fitch (White Oleander) and Tom Spanbauer, founder of the Dangerous Writing method. I've also been runner-up for The Missouri Review Jeffrey E. Smith Editor's Prize. I know what it takes to write a narrative that bleeds and sings.
But I also know what it's like for your body to feel like a crime scene. For your sensitivity to be a source of ongoing trauma. I believe that living in a highly sensitive body is a traumatic experience.
The healing magic is to be able to ground in your body and affirm your own self – despite that truth and your history. To find peace by resolving your wordless ache so your nervous system can calm, your story can heal and you can live in loving relationship with your body and self.
Achieving this for myself led me to create my Body Writing™ framework.
And now it's been seven years of helping clients like you achieve this also: the embodiment of a beautiful new narrative from your pain. 💗
A Predictable Structure of Safety
The 4 Pillars of Body Writing™
The best thing about Body Writing is how deep we can go, and how much true, somatic resolution we can bring you, working at the pace of your nervous system.
To ensure that you always feel safe, and that you build your capacity for these things through our work together, we follow these pillars, always:
Grounding:
We start by helping you ground in your body – so you can feel safe exploring your body's layers without fear.
Interoception:
You'll learn to attune to/be with the sensations, vibrations, and intense emotions on your inside without becoming flooded by them.
Body Awareness:
Together, we'll find exactly where trapped emotional charge and unprocessed trauma energies are held in your tissues.
Expressive Writing:
Once found, we give those tissues and your inner parts voice. First, for somatic processing and release, then to plant seeds of self-affirmation to take root inside you and bloom in the space we made. 💐
The Path We Follow
What It Actually Looks Like to Resolve Your Wordless Ache
Through a combination of my intuitive guidance and the pillars of Body Writing, we resolve your held stories in gentle, intentional layers: moving through what I visualize as your body as an upside-down triangle:
Layer 1: The Top Soil (Your Body's Present State)
This is how you feel right now: the present state of your heart and body. Through guided, gentle conversation here, we find our entry point.
Layer 2: The Mid-Layer (Sensations + Memory)
Gradually, we deepen. A single physical sensation leads us to a held emotion, which unlocks a specific, trapped memory.
Layer 3: The Root Cause Story (Somatic Processing)
Venture through enough layers of sensation + memory and a Root Cause Story will emerge: we use the Body Writing framework to release, process and help you integrate that story so it loses its activating charge.
Layer 4: Resolution (Internal Bloom)
Through our work resolving your Root Cause Story, we expand your capacity to feel peace in your body – to receive my affirmation and ultimately, become the grounded and permanent source of your own. 💐
More helpful for me than years of therapy.
"Working with Jennifer feels light and safe, even when we explore the more painful layers of trauma my body needs to write about. Her process is a simple, powerful way to release stored energy. I had no idea working with her would be so magical; it has been more helpful for me than years of therapy. If you have carried stress and trauma responses for far too long, then Jennifer is the one to turn to. Try this and give yourself the gift of lasting release."
REBECCA HEISTERHOFF
I am finally finding some peace.
"As a survivor of childhood trauma, I have suffered my whole life from anxiety, depression, hyper-vigilance and a dysregulated nervous system. I have actively sought healing and relief in many different modalities, but Body Writing is proving to be the most effective. Jennifer provides a safe and empathic process for us to explore our dark places and release their grip on our bodies. I am finally finding some peace."
ANNE H.
Unshaming, self-blessing and bloom have been happening for me.
KORYN L.
Let's talk about your story healing:
Whether you seek peace in your body or you long to write your story true, there is absolutely a place for you here. Which path feels most wanted by you today?
Option 1. The Internal Bloom
Somatic mentorship for body peace and story resolution.
For the deep-feeling, highly sensitive woman ready to move from the pain of held stories into a grounded body and self-affirming heart.
→ Explore Somatic Mentorship
Option 2. Somatic Story Immersion
Write your body reclamation memoir.
For the sensitive writer ready to write her story for body reclamation, balancing deep individual mentorship with community co-regulation.
Coming soon 💗
Option 3. Somatic Story Map™ Deep Dive
Private, single-session intensive.
A two-hour deep dive to map your memoir through the sensations in your body.
→ Explore the Deep Dive
She is the darkest of dark and the brightest of light.
"Jennifer is, in the most compassionate and heart-felt way, guiding us all back to ourselves. She 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 authentic. She is funny. She is the darkest of dark and the brightest of light. She has created a wonderfully safe space for those of us who feel all the things all the time."
JANE McGEOGHAN
I feel so free and at peace with myself.
"Before working with Jennifer, I felt skeptical that I could ever experience the healing I needed. It felt impossible. By far the biggest issues I faced were self-hate and criticism, unhealed childhood traumas, resentment, rejection and feelings of unworthiness. After working with her, I feel so free and at peace with myself.
Jennifer is a genuine badass. 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?"
JESSICA M.
Helped me craft a much more embodied story.
"I have been working 1:1 with Jennifer for several months and cannot praise her enough. Her sensitive, compassionate, gentle nature coupled with her thoughtful, insightful and attentive feedback — all provided in a deeply safe container—has helped me soften my perfectionism and craft a much more embodied, somatically authentic story. She is a gem of a coach and human."
RACHEL K.
You will write the words to set yourself free.
"It's really hard to put the experience of working with Jennifer into words, but maybe it's best to simply say: if you allow her to guide you through her process, you will set yourself free. You will write and speak the words to set yourself free."
K.B.
My Somatic Story
The human behind the framework
Though there has been plenty to process around this and as a consequence of this in the years that followed, the events surrounding my first job at seventeen as a ballroom dancer are my Root Cause Story.
I have been venturing into my body's layers around this story for three years inside Body Writers, and have found more healing through that process than I've been able to for two decades prior. This also represents the story I long to write that inspired Somatic Story Immersion.
My Body Writing framework is a beautiful way to find peace in your body and embody self-love after trauma. ✍🏼💐
I’m an Aquarius sun, Cancer moon and Taurus rising who loves flowers, emotional honestly and iced Americanos with cream. I can be found most days with either earplugs or earbuds in — Tori Amos is my perpetual favorite listen.
I believe crying and laughter are medicine; I support Black Lives Matter, women's, trans and LGBTQIA+ rights. If you value depth, storytelling and your relationship with your body – welcome. Whether you're a dog or cat person, a storyteller or a seeker, I invite you to bring your whole, honest self to the page with me.
