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Hello, I'm
Jennifer.Â
Highly sensitive and emotionally intense, 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 sensitivity being a source of trauma.
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I was born with a highly sensitized nervous system – meaning I have struggled with mystery conditions, anxiety, feeling too much and feelings of instability and fear 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 like and I need the experience of taking off my smiley, empathic, people pleasing mask to write things out the way they feel in my body.Â
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 my writer self. And that was the choice that changed everything.
We do not have the luxury of swallowing our emotions. Giving our bodies voice through writing is a wellness practice as much as a creative one.Â
Dissociated, in pain and self-loathing
My body felt like a crime scene
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At a loss for what else to try, I wrote a memoir about that trauma, but I didn't just write. I gave my body honest voice on my page for the first time. Which healed me so completely, it became the foundation of my work.
In the seven years since however, I've come to realize how layered healing our stories is. Somatic trauma – that is, trauma that has become trapped in our body, does need release. But it breeds narratives about who we are and how safe we are in our bodies that also need release + rewriting. True story healing requires that we address both, through ongoing somatic practice.
Over the last three years, I have healed a spectacularly broken relationship with my body + self through weekly somatic writing practice – inside a circle of five women who've written together that entire time. Witnessing their healing and my own inspired me to create the Body Writers Studio. Our shared space is what defined and refined my Body Writing™ process.
Reclaiming Ourselves On the Page
How Body Writing™ Heals Your Story, Safely and Gently
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Body Writing is designed to respect the unique needs of your highly sensitized nervous system. We never force our way into the pain or darker stories you hold. Instead, we allow your body to show us where it feels safe to begin each session. By meeting your surface layers of story, tension and anxiety, we're able to uncover the deeper, hidden narratives just below.
This layered approach is why ongoing somatic writing practice is essential to healing your story. Safe trauma integration happens session-by-session. Pain stories and inner narratives untangle gently, guided by your body. The more you're able to give your body + parts voice, the more deeply you discharge trapped energy and can anchor in self-compassion and love.Â
While Body Writing seems as simple as journaling, it is grounded in evidence-backed science. It integrates Parts Work, Somatic Experiencing and Dr. James Pennebaker's research on expressive writing. You're not just journaling in my spaces. You're embracing a proven, compounding and trauma-informed practice to reclaim your relationship with yourself.
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, BODY WRITER & 1:1 CLIENT
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, BODY WRITER
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., BODY WRITER
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, BODY WRITER & 1:1 CLIENT
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., 1:1 CLIENT
The Magic of Healing Your Story
What Shifts When You Are Finally At Home In Your Body
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Imagine waking up and feeling peace in your body. Catching yourself saying something nice to your body in your head. Imagine the overwhelm and viscous self-judgement – gone. Imagine your chest pulling inward with a deep self-compassion if you even think about hating on yourself.
In this container, you'll shed the weight of old stories, and narratives that say you're responsible for everyone's feelings but your own. You'll become a woman who can notice, sit with and allow her emotions without panic or dissociation. Your body will become your safe place, sensitive as it is.
Imagine your nervous system, sensitized but more and more able to calm. Feeling a full heart when you think of yourself and everything you've been though – which you can, without feeling even the slightest bit haunted. This is the magic and the promise of my 1:1 somatic mentorship. ✨
