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 as a woman or non-binary person in midlife, daring to claim more is a radical, revolutionary act in this overtly patriarchal climate. And you've fucking got this. We can do this together.
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. 🌟
(Let's!)
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 so been there.
As I made my way through my own messy, midlife passage, I felt the riotous ache and the paralyzing 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.
If this stirs you, it's time to claim your seat in the Midlife Emergence® Group Guidance program. Apply below for a chance to be a part of the next cohort, beginning after the new year.
a coach, thought-leader, and bestselling + award-winning author on a fresh approach to this stage of life I call Midlife Emergence®. I'm also a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), a Nationally Registered Art Therapist (ATR), a master-level Reiki practitioner, and a visual artist.
Making truth visible is a key theme of my life’s work.
My clients are people who were socialized as girls/women regardless of their current gender identification. They are people who were 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 coaching 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.
Midlife Emergence® is for those of us burning to shamelessly reclaim powerful parts of ourselves that social conditioning locked away.
I reframed 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 social, familial, and cultural expectations.
When I entered my forties, I rearranged my domesticated life due to an undeniable call to queer so many aspects of my life where I had previously acquiesced to a norm that no longer felt congruent. For me personally, this included living more fully into the fullness of my sexuality, my witchiness, my intersectional feminism, my pleasure-seeking nature, etc.
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 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 stage.
I wrote my book and created these offerings so you wouldn't need to walk this path alone.
The Midlife Emergence® Group Guidance Program will guide you through deep contemplations as you seek to become the freest version of yourself. I will invite you into self-inquiry practices as touchstones along your passage into the second half of your life. Dare to engage in soulful ways to explore questions about your own midlife journey in community with your peers. That is fire!
Throughout this program, we will blend accessible teachings, soulful practices, and self-discovery prompts (backed by 20+ years of psychotherapeutic experience & nearly 5 decades of humaning) to help you navigate midlife with all of your inherently gorgeous grit and grace.
The Midlife Emergence® Group Guidance program includes:
A welcoming care package
Before we begin, a personalized, midlife care package will be delivered to your doorstep! It includes a signed paperback copy of Midlife Emergence, a 60-card SoulSpace Oracle deck, and beautiful, sacred gifts to accompany you on your midlife journey! You'll also receive access to introductory materials to guide you into our time together with a solid foundation and open arms.
10 live group sharing circles
Meet with Jen + your Midlife Emergence® cohort with ten weekly, 90-minute, live video calls. The next cohort will begin in the new year, as soon as at least 8 applicants are approved. You can vote on a day/time for our calls on your group application at the link below, and the most popular will be selected. Live calls are where much of the deep connection happens, so please try to attend. If you have to miss one, don't worry - you will be sent a recording.
Self-discovery invitations
You'll have access to an easy, online interface to guide you through the various midlife themes. Each week, you'll be invited into journaling, creativity, movement, and personal rituals to illuminate your transformative passage at each step of the way.
Inclusive, private, online community
In our private community, you will be able to connect with your cohort of midlife sojourners to share what you're going through and support one another at all times -- between our calls and beyond these shared weeks.
The buddy system
You'll have the option to be paired with a member of your cohort with whom you can touch base throughout the program via any channel, frequency, and depth the two of you agree upon. (I can say from many personal experiences that this part is gold should you choose to engage in this way!)
Optional coaching upgrade
Infuse this program with personalized support by adding two 1:1 coaching sessions with Jen to occur during the program. Adding these on allows access to individual coaching at a reduced rate.
Midlife Emergence® 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
Midlife Emergence® has helped me in a critical time of self-discovery. When the pressures of caring for others (aging parents, partners, children, etc.,) feels so heavy, this program has helped me look inward, find my inner voice, nurture it, and move more deliberately toward the life I want in my second act.
-Courtney
Connecting and dialoging with others experiencing similar challenges of midlife has helped me normalize the experience and lean into the discomfort. It helps to feel that sense of belonging. Jen's prompts were a huge piece of integration for me. This program supported me to dig deep to reveal my most authentic self.
-Carson
This group was divine intervention somehow -- it saved my life, honestly. I felt seen and validated after experiencing Jen guiding our cohort through deep self-reflection using diverse prompts and live sessions of truth telling and reflection. I grew my self-acceptance and found a community of fellow travelers. I am not alone!
-Mary
This is an invitation to soulfully architect the second act of your life in a circle of support.
Count me in!
If you’re grappling with all the emotions, longings, and uncertainty of midlife, this is the compassionate circle of care you need.
In the 10 modules that make up this program, we'll explore the following themes (+ more!)
- Tuning in to the voice of your inner longing and acknowledging what she has to say
- 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
- Reclaiming your sovereignty and agency, identifying and asserting the values you want to abide by in your second act
- Exploring the space between your comfortable, familiar life and the enticing mystery of what is begging to unfold before you
- Embracing visibility and genuine, raw, vulnerable self-expression, even if it shatters others' expectations based on who you have been
- 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
- Compassionately working with the perceptions and projections others are bound to have when you undergo changes that impact their lives
- Acknowledging how your living in more authenticity ripples out to give those in your life permission to claim their truth
- Cherishing your ever-emerging, always-evolving form by creating and enacting your own personal rite of passage ceremony
- Visioning yourself in the second half of life and taking concrete steps toward living into that most inspired, whole, held, and free version of yourself
Midlife Emergence® was forged to offer a safe, spacious, inclusive container to honor your inner knowing.
To cultivate the unfolding 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.
Jen has danced the slow, intimate dance with the darkness and the mystery. Her familiarity with the contours of those places makes her the perfect ally in navigating the raw territory that awaits each one of us. She masterfully balances her deep dives with humor, play, color, and sensuality. If you have the chance to work with Jen, DO IT. You will be changed for the better.
— Katie
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