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With personal experience of the chaos and complexity to exist throughout motherhood, companionship and caregiving, Jennifer’s ongoing work is that humanity knows peace. The kind that begins within and echoes throughout generations to come. She is certified as an Ayurvedic Postpartum Doula specializing in grief and bereavement, an Integrative Life Coach for parents, a birth worker mentor; and, she is a contemplative author/memoirist and spiritual guide.
I can speak firsthand to the challenge of loving ourselves as well as we love the world, darling soul. And, we’re worth it.
Throughout the span of her career from veterinary medicine to today, Jennifer has spent thousands of hours holding sacred experiences that change us and the ways that we move through the world. Her expertise includes maternal-child mental health, loss and grief/bereavement, complex trauma (including medical & spiritual trauma), chronic pain and illness, recovery, reparenting and more.
Jennifer is passionate about interfaith communication, allyship, feminism as an access point to human rights and (in general) simply loving our neighbors well. She is a committee member of the AZ BIPOC Equity and Access group for Postpartum Support International & she holds a seat on the Board of Trustees for her Unity Spiritual Community. Her words have been published on Love What Matters, Moms Beyond & in Raising Arizona Kids Magazine and on countless blogs as a ghostwriter. In 2022, Jennifer released her first children's book Bliss & Blue based on the true story of raising a brilliantly neurodivergent child with joy.
She is currently a graduate student in spiritual direction through Unity Worldwide.
Nicole Heighway Photography, 2023
Jennifer has been married to her husband Scott for 15 years. Together, they raise two miracle kids on a tiny piece of Hohokam & O’odham desert land with more rescued plants & animals than people. As someone who has been disability adjacent since childhood, Jennifer is an advocate for slow living. Which is to say, life varies from day-to-day! In her spare time, you can find J. expanding her home library, writing, painting, crafting herbal tinctures and teas & spending time (moving when possible) in nature. Especially with equine friends!