Hello, I'm Jennifer. I help sensitive, intense womxn resolve somatic trauma and come home to their bodies by writing what their bodies hold.
I graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelors in English from the University of New Mexico and have half a Masters in Creative Writing from Hollins University. I've been a trauma-informed Somatic Writing Coach for 7 years, offering private coaching, self-paced writing courses and intimate writing circles.
I completed my Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy Certification with The Embody Lab in February of 2024, and am honored to be an Ambassador for them: you can get 10% off your enrollment into any of their programs by using my links and code JENNIFER.
I'm sensitive, intense and passionate about honoring what our bodies have been through and what they hold.
Let's write our stories and feelings together. Let's reclaim our voices and heal our lives.
Together we'll come home to our bodies and finally find celebration in being who and how we are.
I am an introvert who's blood runs thick with flowers and feeling.
I write to feel connected with myself and not necessarily to publish, though I have self-published two books: Dark Pretty, my memoir of awakening to myself as an INFJ empath and victim of covert narcissistic abuse, and Pretty Piece of Flesh, the short story collection written as my honors thesis in college. One of the stories from that collection, Foie Gras, was a runner-up for the prestigious Missouri Review Editor's Prize; the collection itself praised by Judy Reeves as "a beautifully written, gorgeously devastating collection of short stories."
It took me a long time to be able to appreciate my highly sensitive, chronically reactive body, and it was a hard journey to undertake alone.
To heal all the stories and narratives that had been projected onto me, that I absorbed so easily as an empath. To release and integrate trapped trauma energies from my body, to learn boundaries, understand and be fiercely protective of my sensitivity without losing my softness. Or while reclaiming my softness. Now I help deeply sensitive womxn find and cultivate the same in their bodies. My private coaching supports you to heal your story so deeply that you'll feel your creative spark returning. You'll feel peace inside and love toward your body - a shift that changes absolutely everything.
The more sensitive you are, the more it matters that you choose to work with someone who understands what it's like to be you.
Over the last five years, I have developed a framework for embodied processing and trauma resolution that pulls elements of somatic trauma integration, IFS parts work, Somatic Experiencing and journaling, and weaves them into an intuitive process I call Body Writing - a process as gentle as it is powerful.
Whether you want support writing your memoir or healing somatic trauma, I offer private coaching packages for both. Working with me is an intimate, highly personalized experience; I meet you where you are, support and guide you into where you long to be.
Currently enrolling clients for May 2024.
Training & Qualifications
In addition to university and a lifetime spent writing, I have written fiction and memoir with Judy Reeves (A Writer's Book of Days), and have attended writing workshops with Janet Fitch (Paint it Black, White Oleander) and Tom Spanbauer, founder of the Dangerous Writing method.
In addition to the experience of being a highly sensitive cptsd survivor and living with chronic conditions most of my life, I am a Certified Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy Coach through The Embody Lab.
Within that certification, I studied Embodiment, Polyvagal Theory, Internal Family Systems and Parts Work, Complex Trauma, Somatic Psychology, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Post-Traumatic Growth and more.
If you're interested in this certification (which I can't recommend highly enough), use my code "JENNIFER" for 10% off your enrollment.
I have also completed the Master Workshop "Healing Trauma with Dr. Peter Levine" in 2023.
What my clients say:
"Before working with Jennifer, I felt heartbroken, disconnected and lost. I'd spent years doing exercises from self-help books, energy work, journaling, but felt I was just going in circles with my growth. During our first session, she helped me access my anger and I was finally able to stand up for myself. I looked in the mirror after that session and saw light in my eyes for the first time in a long time. After working with Jennifer, I feel aware of the beauty around me, and the world feels friendlier and safer. I'm coming home to my body. Owning myself. I see my future before me now with a heart full of hope and excitement." Jessica M.
"Jennifer is incredibly intuitive and so full of wisdom. She's an amazing listener and has incredible insight into what being a highly sensitive woman is. I had epiphany after epiphany during our sessions. THANK YOU, Jennifer. I'm so grateful I found you." Skye B.
"Jennifer is the best coach I've ever, ever come across. Or had the privilege to work with. And that is saying something. She's been able to help me process things no one else has ever got close to." Eleanor L.
