DOODLE VIDEO #4: GO SIT ON MARS (and other ways to snap out of a pissy mood)

July 26, 2018.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Hello, Friends! This is my favorite one so far! What tricks do you use when you’re caught up in your brain thoughts? Would love to hear!

creative diarrhea.

April 25, 2018.Reading time 4 minutes.

In hindsight I should have made the word “DIARRHEA” in cursive. Because. Y’know. It flows better. I DIGRESS. I imagine that if you’re a human and you’ve read a book ever, you’ll have heard of “creative block” or “writer’s block.” People go on friggen’ RETREATS and pay DOLLARS to push through this stuff. I used to […]

Day 287 of 365: just do the damn thing.

April 6, 2018.Reading time 2 minutes.

I know I’m here to speak. You could ask 15 year old Jen, 25 year old Jen, or yesterday Jen what she’s here to do, and the answer would be something along the lines of: “write, speak, and teach.” Except there’d be progressively less passive aggressive attitude as the age of each Jen increased. I […]

Day 270 of 365: feel the suck. get the prize.

March 20, 2018.Reading time 5 minutes.

My boyfriend is a generally happy person. He lives his life in the middle numbers on the 1-10 scale. That’s kind of his base level of existence. When I get in wonky places, he’s able to easily snap me out of them. He’ll call me on my shit if I’m having a pity party, or […]

Day 262 of 365: the importance of “the dark night of the soul”

March 12, 2018.Reading time 5 minutes.

I’ve heard that a dark night of the soul is when all our worst fears manifest… And we live through them. And, just like a character in a movie, we are challenged to rise from the ashes and flourish into a better version of ourselves. For years, my primary fears were external… And ego-based. My […]

Day 253 of 365: feeling awful? i got this. feeling balanced and calm? WHATTHEFUCKAHHHH.

March 3, 2018.Reading time 8 minutes.

I don’t know what the hangup is in my brain land about feeling okay, or feeling balanced, or middle of the road. I know how to navigate the extremes–I’ve lived most my life doing the electric slide back and forth between them. But this sense of ease? It feels like a threat to me. […]

Day 251 of 365: to feel different, I have to be different

March 2, 2018.Reading time 11 minutes.

Oh dear lord, the shit show I got myself into over the last week. So I was in Sedona, having an amazing vacation with my amazing cousin, and then I got triggered. Some ass hat tour guide was showing us vortexes and she thought she could hold space for emotional healing and: A. At no […]

Day 249 of 365: cutting ties, and holding on for dear life

February 28, 2018.Reading time 4 minutes.

I hate that I struggle with suicidal shit sometimes. I really, really do. For a long time I didn’t. It was like an old friend to me. Now it’s more like a black hole… Or a magnet that attracts all my joy and flushes it. I haven’t wanted to write about it because I’m too […]

Day 105 of 365: hindsight and humility and ouchy realizations

October 3, 2017.Reading time 11 minutes.

There was always a certain kind of person I despised. I considered them “bad” people, heartless people, selfish people, and so on. These were the folks who would take advantage of kind, giving humans; the folks who broke hearts without warning or explanation; those who made everything about them and flew the victim flag way up […]

Day 104 of 365: feelings are life’s cheat codes

October 3, 2017.Reading time 5 minutes.

I’ve mentioned The Desire Map in a couple other posts. It’s a rad book by Danielle LaPorte. She also teaches a facilitator training program, and there are people around the world who are leading badass Desire Map workshops, helping connect folks with how they truly want to feel. The gist behind the program is that, […]