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Hello,
I'm Jennifer
I'm a writer at heart turned trauma-informed Somatic Writing Coach. I help highly sensitive women rewrite the narratives trauma has left in their bodies so they can finally feel safe in their bodies and loving toward themselves.
I know what it's like to feel unsafe in your body.
I loved being in my body until trauma, ongoing emotional overwhelm and chronic pain took that away.
At a young age I developed pain in my body I knew was emotional, but I didn't know how to release my emotions or let go of what had hurt me. I became anxious, lonely in my depth and privately really self-loathing.
I longed for peace in my body. I wanted to be able to listen to my body instead of punishing it for constantly betraying me and oh my god did I want to feel compassion for it. I was brimming with suppressed emotional pain.
Even worse, like so many sensitive women, my mask was screwed on tight. I smiled a lot, with a life that looked beautiful on paper. Inside, though? My body was screaming.
For me it started here
Sweet, creative, boundaryless and sensitive. I was ballroom dancing all day and writing each night. Blissfully in my body and in love with my life.
I was willing to feel everything. In love with my body and self and I didn't care what anyone thought.
This was before my first experience with trauma. Before boundary violations, toxic relationships, being so sensitive and mind/body pain. Before I became anxious, heartbroken, rage-filled and separated from my body because I could not handle the stories and emotions it held.
For years I lived overwhelmed by trauma, stored stress and emotions I didn't know how to feel.
I felt so lonely in my sensitivity and depth that I held all this in silence, where it curdled and turned into self-judgement, self-loathing and dissociation from my body. The embodied, self-loving version of me was just gone.
I wanted her back, and devoted myself to reclaiming her.
I looked everywhere outside myself first, only to discover she couldn't be found in CBT therapy, self-help books, meditation, energy healing or yoga. She was bound up in the story I was afraid to go near.
I realized I needed to go into my body + reclaim my narrative.
MY APPROACH
Drawing on my life as a writer, I wrote my pain out intuitively. I wrote a memoir about my trauma and journaled from my body's point of view: both of which were so deeply healing, I began studying to understand why. I studied:
High sensitivity, somatization, expressive writing, the nervous system, embodied processing and trauma resolution, IFS Parts Work, Somatic Experiencing and somatic trauma integration.
Everything drew me back to writing.
But journaling was no longer enough. I had to bring my body on board. I had to allow my body to have its say.
Once I did this, all the stories and emotions my body held began to unravel. It became clear that so much of the pain I was living with that I didn't think I'd ever be able to heal from were just narratives - stories my body had created about what happened and why and how to protect me from it ever happening again...and narratives can be rewritten.
Which brings me here. I'm Jennifer.
I'm an HSP + empath with a trauma history, certified Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy Coach and Somatic Writing Coach and let me tell you: if I can find safety in my body, you can too.
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What my clients say...
Rebecca Heisterhoff
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 safe way to explore the tension that comes with trauma stuck in our bodies, and release stored energy. It's simple, it's powerful and it works. Working with her is healing in a tangible way that lasts.
M.J.
I have learned I can process my deep feelings without them overwhelming me. I've learned I can tolerate feelings I felt certain would destroy me. Jennifer's ability to hold space helps quiet the criticalness of my brain. Working with her is like being introduced to myself again as a new person, but seeing that they were always there.
Rachel K.
I have been working with Jennifer for several months and cannot praise her enough! Her sensitive, compassionate, gentle nature coupled with her thoughtful, insightful feedback – all provided in a deeply safe container – has helped soften my perfectionism. She's a gem of a coach and human. Wholeheartedly recommend Jennifer!
Alana T.
Jennifer has given me support in witnessing my truth. If you're feeling dubious about working with her, let me strongly encourage you to DO IT! Any discomfort you face will be met with her warm, fully accepting approach. Utilizing her process will greatly contribute to your long term wellbeing. It's like a 10 dollar investment for a million dollar return.
I understand what it's like to worry you're just too sensitive. And that you're alone in that.
You're really not. 💗 I know what it's like to hold a tangled up story inside you. I get what happens in a sensitive body that's been holding too much for too long (hello mind/body pain). And I know what it's like to crave a safety in your body you can rest in.
I healed by giving my body a voice and it changed everything.
It brought me here, helping sensitive women like you to somatically heal trauma and come home to their bodies through their words.
We are much the same.
I truly am much the same as the women I coach. My body also holds deeply entrenched narratives that try to keep me in pain.
I healed by rewriting those narratives in my body. I started allowing what my body needed to say. I got very clear about the stories causing my pain and addressed them.
I believe in creating a safe space where you can lay down your mask and we can heal the narratives causing your pain.
I'll help you write a new story in your heart and body.
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Layers of emotional pain have just melted away.
"Before finding Jennifer I felt clogged with emotion, weighted down with pain. I desperately needed to release something big and deep but could not identify what. I tried bodywork practices, talk therapy, EMDR, yoga, energy clearing – none felt strong enough to help me find that release for good. Working with Jennifer, layers of emotional pain have just melted away. Those I'm close to see me as a calmer, less reactive person.
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.
I'm not triggered by things I used to be.
"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. I'm not triggered by things I used to be and when I find myself bothered, I know what I need to do to process through the feelings.
No other individual has brought about healing in my life in such a short period of time, in such an effective way. If you're considering working with Jennifer, go for it. She will 100% improve your quality of life. She creates a safe, warm space that allows you to open up in your own time, while offering loving insights to help you along the way."
FELICIA K.
Fun facts about me
I'm a writer at heart who has self-published two books and like a client said about me once, I do celebrate writing with no holds barred. I'm an Aquarius sun, Cancer moon and Taurus rising. I love flowers, emotional honesty and iced Americanos with cream. I listen to music every chance I get – Tori Amos is my perpetual favorite.
I believe that crying and laughter are medicine. I believe Black Lives Matter. I support immigrants, women's rights and LGBTQIA+ rights. I'm a dog person but have lots of cat people in my spaces. And I invite you into my space if you share these values.
