Becoming. Reclaiming and Redesigning Your Life.

My career with Massage Therapy began when I graduated from the Muscular Therapy Institute in Watertown, Massachusetts in 2007. It was a short lived career that ended in 2009 when I welcomed my first baby into the world and embarked upon my calling to be a stay at home momma.

In 2019, I found myself a single mom to three children and I was lost in my own personal story of heartache and overwhelm.

Re-entering the massage world after 10 years away, and not knowing how all the pieces would fit back together- balancing being a full time, single parent, commuting 45 minutes to work, and maintaining a household, and then hello COVID-19 just to add another layer to the complexity of all the things I had never imagined I would have to do all at the same time, and do it mostly alone... I knew women did it- I just didn’t see how they did it and maintained a level of sanity. There are so many moving parts and only so many hours in the day. How could I possibly manage?

Little by little I felt my Self drifting away further than I already had throughout the past decade, and the pieces that were left were frayed and raw.

On the outside, my survival mode kicked into high gear and to the world it appeared as if I had everything under control. Inside, I felt like my life was in a vice and my nervous system was hijacking my life. It dawned on me, that I had been living within this condition for most of my life. My daily headaches, that I was accustomed to since high school, were fierce. The pressure behind my eyes was blinding. I had this flighty tension in my chest and I was always on the verge of tears. My armor was building as I was doing my best to survive my circumstances. I was lost, drowning, and trying to be the strength for myself and my children. As I was pushing through every day, and I was breaking under the pressure. My daily experience was costing me my health, my peace, my hope. 

What already felt constricting, squeezed ever tighter. 

The summer of 2020, just when things felt like they were teetering on the edge of collapse, my sweetest friend  invited me into a  group coaching program. There were 3 participants- all of us young moms struggling to sort out where we belonged, and our coach, Laura Brown. I had an instant bond with her as she is from RI where I hail from, and she is old enough to be my mother, and having lost mine in 2017 to cancer, I was longing for a momma to take me in and hold space for me.

In this summer program, I was introduced to how I could take what I was hashing out in therapy, and figure out where I wanted to go from there. She helped me develop action plans for my life. These calls were where I was able to identify my mindset, what values truly mattered to me and learn how to implement boundaries to protect them. 

With these skills that I gleaned from bi-weekly calls, my life started to change.

I discovered that I had a voice and learned how to use it. I began to truly realize and believe that I mattered and that my experience was valuable, even if it hurt. I learned how to sit with my experience in a mindful way without it consuming me. I learned that investing in myself had a greater return than giving everything I had away to someone else. I learned how to listen to that Still, Small Voice guiding me on my path leading me to somewhere. I had no clue where at the time, but having been taught how to heed the cues, it was effortless to follow. 

By learning to live in my alignment, I discovered Bowenwork. It has become my passion in my bodywork that has far surpassed massage for me. I rediscovered love. I opened my very own private practice.

I began to blossom as a woman in ways I never thought possible because I decided it was time for me to RECEIVE. 

And with the encouragement of my very first coach, Laura, I was led to also become a coach and offer to others the incredible gift of selfhood that I had received. Sitting and holding space for clients is very natural for a holistic practitioner, and I also knew that I wanted to be able to do so in a way that was a full body experience. That led me to BodyMind Coaching with Laura Wieck. 

Embodiment coaching is bringing you full circle. It’s an invitation to settle in, and listen to yourself. To get curious. To go within yourself to find the answers that your very essence already knows.

I serve as a guide for my clients. I offer the education I received to help my clients understand their patterns. I teach them how to identify the sensations they are feeling, to notice the patterns of their physical pain with the stories they are sharing. I help them identify the correlations between them and help bring them to choice to move beyond. 

The way I have combined my sessions is very intentional. When we are stressed, we are often in one of 3 stages. We are either in a  Ventral Vagal state where we can meet the demands of the day easily and go with the flow, a Sympathetic State where the agitations of life are beginning to bear down on us where we experience stress in a slightly unmanageable way and we may feel anxious or a bit chaotic, or we are in a Dorsal Vagal state where we are extremely drained of energy, we have lost hope, and we are disconnected. 

Without the feeling of safety, it is very difficult to shift out of a Dorsal or Sympathetic state. Through Embodiment Coaching and Bowenwork, I am able to introduce you to the way you are uniquely able to find that safe ground and support you through your journey to understand your stress, how to move through it, and utilize skills to bolster you for the future by bringing you to safety.

This is the gift that I was given. This is the gift I extend to you. I sincerely look forward to our journey together.

Sincerely and with Gratitude,

Jenny