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Hello, I'm
Jennifer.
Highly sensitive and deep feeling, I am passionate about honoring what our bodies have been through and the stories and emotions they hold.
I'm passionate about that because I've lived nearly my entire life with my body being a source of and container of trauma.
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
In this place and at a loss for what else to try, I started writing, 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 completely, it became the foundation for the work I offer now.
In the years since, I've learned why this helped me when nothing else did: our bodies hold our stories as what somatic psychology calls open trauma loops: unfinished emotional responses our bodies never got to have.
And when we allow our bodies to have emotional responses on our page - as many as they need for as long as they need - we discharge stored stress and bring those loops to a close.
This is the gentle, layer-by-layer healing that the Body Writing™ provides. Inspired by the way weekly practice in my original Body Writers Circle has helped me heal a spectacularly broken relationship with my body and self, I created the Body Writers Studio.
From body onto the page
The science and nourishing magic of Body Writing™
Almost four years ago, when I was finally ready to stop writing alone, I curated a small group of deeply sensitive women to Body Write with me each week. That circle with those same five women has been writing together each week for the last three years and is still going strong.
The healing I have witnessed in each of these women over that time is a marvel. The healing I've received? Is nothing short of miraculous.
Body Writing is my signature process for giving your body a voice. Through simply allowing your body to respond to evocative prompts, it releases layers of stress energy from your nervous system.
And although it looks and feels like you're "just journaling" when you do it, you are actually Somatic Experiencing, embracing Parts Work and the medicine of Expressive Writing as proven by James Pennebaker, each time you put pen to page. ✍🏼💐
She witnessed my deep pain and did not flinch.
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.
JANE M.
Healing in a tangible way that lasts.
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 energy. It's simple, it's powerful and it works. Working with her is healing in a tangible way that lasts.
REBECCA HEISTERHOFF
Her energy feels like home.
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. Her energy feels like home.
NIKKI JORGENSEN-SHAY
She holds a light for you and helps you realize it's your light.
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.
A quiet and potent practice
Imagine a writing ritual that brings 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 you're okay on your page if you're not.
Picture a space where the brace of your body, the noise in your chest cavity and the armor around your heart can finally soften, more each week. Where the charge trapped in your nervous system can be written out without you needing to even know what it is, by simply responding to a curated prompt.
Where it's not about digging up trauma, but layered release. Learning to maintain presence with your body in ever more loving ways. Where with every writing, your body feels less like an enemy and more like a safe place you can live in and love. 💗
