You are electrified,
exhilarated,
tentative,
and terrified
The world will tell you that the quaking within is merely a “midlife crisis,” condescending to explain away the yearning that calls you to claim more, desperate to lull you back into a predictable pattern of doing your job, paying your bills, going through the day-to-day of relationship and parenting rituals. Rinse. Repeat.
To keep you bound to the “way things should be.”
Because daring to claim more as a woman in midlife is a radical, revolutionary act in this overtly patriarchal climate.
The crisis is theirs alone.
This is your metamorphosis.
This is your midlife emergence®.
Emergence is defined as the process of coming into view or becoming exposed after being concealed. It is the process of coming more fully into being, to appear, to become visible, to surface, to arise, to manifest oneself, to emanate.
Here, in this midlife passage, you feel disquieted, longing for a freedom that sings a siren song of the full richness of life waiting for you - just outside the walls that hem you in, keeping you cloistered, and confined to a prescribed way of being.
I've been there.
As I made my way through my own messy, midlife passage, I felt the riotous ache, the thirst, and the uncertainty.
I stepped into my own undoing, let it burn away all that did not serve me, and emerged as more fully myself -- more tender and more free.
I've learned to embrace my own constant becoming. And yours.
The next round of the Midlife Emergence® program begins in September 2023.Â
a coach, thought-leader, and author on the midlife transition. I'm also a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Colorado, a Nationally Registered Art Therapist (ATR), a master-level Reiki practitioner, and a visual artist. I'm also a queer mom to a non-binary teen and two magical cats (who love to be on Zoom with me.)Â
Making truth visible is a key theme of my life’s work.
My clients are women (and non-binary folks who also got infused with that "good girl" conditioning early on.) Each wants to peel back the stifling layers of identity they adopted early in life to reclaim the tender wisdom of their hearts. Most are recovering "people pleasers," having done all the “right” things, following our culture’s prescribed path to a good-on-paper life, only to sit across from me in our sessions, desperately wondering - “Is this all there is?”
I’ve spent the last 20+ years of my career guiding people in listening to, honoring, and acting upon their most authentic yearning, to embracing and embodying their most fully realized selves. Underneath their words, I clearly hear their soul’s longings -- each one unique and specific, but all harmonized in their aching for so much more.
Jen has truly found a path through the complicated tangle of life that can make it so hard to see (and be!) our true selves. I’m so grateful to have learned from her trailblazing.
— Peg
Midlife Emergence® is for those of us burning to shamelessly reclaim powerful parts of ourselves that social conditioning locked away.
I reframes the midlife transition as a midlife emergence® to make meaning of my own transformation during this time of life when I dared to reveal the raw, sometimes inconvenient truth of who I am. In the first act of my life, I had established a family, career, and persona that fulfilled the expectations of having been raised in a fairly conservative, repressed time and place.
When I entered my forties, I rearranged my domesticated life due to an undeniable call to explore my queerness and other seemingly subversive aspects of myself (my witchiness, my feminism, my pleasure-seeking nature, etc.) that I had previously been afraid to own.
After years of burning, a new way forward emerged. Using my own experiences, as well as decades of working as a psychotherapist and coach with those facing similar dire choices, I now midwife the modern woman through her unique, non-linear midlife passage.
As I made my way through my own midlife portal, I became a cartographer, charting the course, marking the waypoints, illuminating the universal signposts along this unique developmental passage.
I did this so you wouldn't need to walk the path alone.
Midlife Emergence® is an experience that will guide you through questions to consider as you seek to become the freest version of yourself. I will invite you into creative, self-inquiry practices as touchstones along your passage into the second half of your life. These are soulful invitations to explore universal aspects of your own midlife journey through theme-specific journaling, movement, art, personal ceremony, and connection with your peers.
Throughout this journey, we will blend accessible teachings, psychological tools, soulful practices, and self-discovery prompts to help you navigate midlife with grit and grace.
Click here to see what the Midlife Emergence® Group Guidance program includes.
Midlife Emergence® has helped me peel back the layers and reveal my truest self to help me understand what I want and need. The work is supported by a group of women experiencing the same struggles. To be seen, understood, and supported is truly powerful.
— Julia
Open testimonialsRead what other past participants are saying about their experience:
If you’re grappling with all the emotions, longings, and uncertainty of midlife, Midlife Emergence® is the compassionate circle of care you need.
In this program, we'll explore themes like:Â
- Tuning in to the voice of your inner longing - and acknowledging what she has to say
- Exploring the space between your comfortable, familiar life and the enticing mystery of what is begging to unfold before you
- Illuminating messages from your early conditioning, unwinding the patterns that no longer serve you in order to free yourself from the indoctrination that suppresses your deepest truths
- Embracing visibility and genuine, raw, vulnerable self-expression, even if it shatters others'Â expectations based on who you have been (& working with those perceptions and projections)
- Creating personalized rituals to honor and hold the grief of what needs to be released in order to welcome the rapture of all that is emerging
- Giving yourself permission to step into your yearning to become a more whole, more integrated, more authentic version of yourself
Midlife Emergence® was forged to offer a safe, spacious, inclusive container to honor your inner knowing.
To cultivate the unfurling of your most true self with loving intention.
To foster a community that will stand alongside you in the mess of becoming -- bearing witness, supporting your journey, and encouraging your unfurling into a more expansive YOU.
This is an invitation to soulfully architect your second act of your life.
I'm SO ready!
Midlife Emergence® has really helped me in this critical time of self-discovery. At a time of life when all of the pressures of caring for others (aging parents, partners, children, etc.,) feels so heavy and distracting, this program has helped me look inward, find my inner voice, nurture it, and move more authentically and deliberately toward the life I want in my second act.
— Courtney
Does this stir your soul?
If you're burning to dive in now, you don't have to wait for enrollment to open for the next round of Midlife Emergence®. Click below to schedule a free consult with Jen to learn about 1:1 midlife coaching.
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