Willow & Ash

04/29/2026

6 beautiful images I found in FB this evening.

Love light and the shadows
Jennifer

04/28/2026

No Yoga tonight 🥰🥰🥰

04/28/2026

I cannot say enough beautiful things about my friend and fellow Yogi, Beth. She’s a phenomenal therapist and Yoga instructor and has a passion for the sweet mommas and their babies. If you are a therapist and are interested in this specialized field of therapy, Beth is looking to grow her practice!!!!!!

✨NOW HIRING ✨

I’m looking for compassionate, reliable, and trauma-informed therapists and social workers to help continue providing quality services for perinatal mental health in our area! My referrals have been booming since I started and continue to boom. I am currently on a waiting list until I can get someone else in here with me, so please share with anyone you know that may be interested. I’d love to see our services expand for what we can offer the community!

I will provide:
✨ A beautiful, newly renovated, and fully furnished office space at a competitive price
✨ Perinatal Mental Health mentoring
✨ Access to a beautiful group space for groups and small yoga classes
✨ Licensing supervision if you are working towards your LCSW (after a board-approved contract!)
✨ Referrals/Networking

Please reach out to me through email with any questions or interest!

04/24/2026

IT’S FRIDAY!!!!

Let’s do this thing called life and go forth on the biggest adventure of our lives!!

Let us gather our energy, our coping skills, our creativity, our calmness in groundedness…. And scoop up all of the magic out there in the world….as we go forth and heal our own inner child parts and walk amidst the world.

Let us normalize resting when needed, nourishing our bodies when needed, hydrating when needing, peeing and pooing when needed.

Let us take the time to think through our options, choices, and consequences of our words, thoughts and behaviors.

May we have our joy and grief as instruments that create the music of our lives.

May our armor be laced with boundaries hard set that keep us safe and maintain our dignity.

May our anxiety become passion, and light the path in front of us toward the mystical mountain of the future…and may our depression become inspiration, and create the crossroads we have traveled behind us.

The call has gone out into the world….the souls are awakening and listening….slowly there begins within those ready a small shifting of knowing…a curiosity of what if……And so….the adventure begins.

Love light and the shadows
Jennifer

04/23/2026

Great resource for psychiatric medication management in Owensboro KY

04/22/2026

Yoga cancelled this evening. The weather is under me and I am not feeling well. See you next week!!!!

04/19/2026

My oh my how GUSS (God, Universe, Source,Spirit) shows up in the most amazing ways when we are quiet and still.

I have been thinking A LOT about boundaries this past week.

I have had several very difficult and tough conversations around boundaries this week with some people I love dearly. It was hard. It was exhausting. It was needed.

Caregiving is so hard, especially if it is not your calling in life. And I found myself at the crossroads of “what ifs” and “shoulds.” Hello anxiety!!!🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠

And so I had to have a very difficult and honest conversation with myself about boundaries. The answer presented itself….as it always does….and I didn’t like the answer. Not one bit.

And…..

The answer was truthful. The answer was honest. The answer was essential to my wellbeing.

So I did what I encourage clients to do: name and notice, lean into the uncomfortable, get curious and see what shows up.

I realized that my boundaries weren’t as firm as I needed them to be. I realized I had not expressed my needs as directly as needed. So……. I regrouped. I figured out exactly what I needed to say and made the need as clear as possible. Clear is being kind.

The people I had these difficult conversations with didn’t like my conversations either….they were however accepting and kind in return because they are safe people/ safe nervous systems for me.

And….I spoke my truth. I reset my boundaries and the aligned with my needs….and because I did “the work” the benefits were noticeable almost immediately. I felt my shoulders drop, I felt my body soften, I felt my stress begin to decrease and I felt space within to breathe more deeply. And this past week I noticed an increase in my energy, wellbeing and attitude.

The truth about boundaries is that we will be working on them for our lifetime because boundaries change just like us. We must be willing to revisit them and sit with them and figure out what kinds of change is required to meet whatever the need we have in this moment.

The truth about boundaries is that sometimes those we love most will not accept our boundaries and will actively say no. They may try to shame us, cajole us, manipulate us, and all the things to keep us unboundaried because it benefits them…to our demise.

In those moments it is our duty to ourself to understand and sit with the thoughts/feelings/sensations of:

💥what is the cost for putting myself first in holding the line/ boundary?

💥what is the cost for placing myself last in not holding the line/ boundary?

Sometimes there are no easy answers…this is truth.

Sometimes the answers require us to be brave and courageous…this is truth.

Each time we set a boundary it is for us….not the other person….this is truth.

We cannot dictate the behavior of others…we can request that the show respect, kindness and compassion, and they get to choose how they show up each day.

We can, however, choose our behaviors and if someone is not respecting our boundary it is our responsibility to hold the boundary…for ourself.

The more we honor our needs and boundaries, the better we feel physically and emotionally. The more space we have to manage our stress and honor our own spirit.

Love light and the shadows
Jennifer

04/19/2026

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month

CNN has uncovered a horrific horror scene that has garnered 62+ million views - an “online r**e academy”where men learn how to r**e women….drug them and where pics and videos of women being r**ed are traded like baseball cards.

This behavior is deplorable.

This behavior is disgraceful.

This behavior is despicable.

This behavior is preventable.

Women….we are giving birth to our oppressors…We need to teach boys how to love, honor, respect and cherish us.

Men…we need your divine masculine to cherish us, protect us and stand up against those men who would do us harm.

If you or someone you know is a survivor of sexual assault, please contact New Beginnings Sexual Assault Support Services - 270-926-7273. All of their services are free.

CNN exposes an online network of men encouraging each other to drug and assault their partners, and swap tips on how to get away with it.

04/18/2026

This TikTok is about a musician who plays the harp for those who are dying. His music is beautiful. His explanation of the death and dying process is also quite beautiful. I have watched several of his videos over the years. Music is such an important aspect of our lives and our culture. It is the biggest way to shift our nervous system and move toward Ventral which is a beautiful state of the place where we can rest, relax, create, dream, learn and problem solve. And so much more.

Music to usher one into the great cosmos is so ancient in tradition and very purposeful.

When I worked in the ICU as the Nurse Case Manager I witnessed and experienced death a lot. One of the most beautiful deaths I experienced was of an elderly man who was a musician. His entire family came to his bedside and they too were musicians. They played the most beautiful music all day until he took his last breath…and when the music stopped I knew the man had made his way home to return to the cosmos.

To hear their love and memories through their music of this man who was perhaps a father, grandfather, brother, cousin, uncle and more was one of the best days of my life working in healthcare…and for those who have worked in healthcare you know there are more sad days than beautiful ones.

I hope one day when I am old and withered with the stories of my life, that I too can have someone like this kind man in the video to be a part of my grand finale and help me move out of my worn out body and move into the collective of energy where I will be greeted and loved and welcomed home.

Love light and the shadows
Jennifer

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04/14/2026

Glitch in the Matrix today- no Yoga this evening. Apologies!!!!!

04/14/2026

💥💥💥 I am cancelling due to some unexpected family needs. Stay tuned…..I will reschedule.💥💥💥

This Saturday!!!!! We are continuing with our
2026 Educational Seminar
The Physics of Healing: Consciousness, Trauma and The Nervous System

Please join me on Saturday April 18th from 10am - 1130am for the continuation of Foundations of Quantum Theory and Consciousness. We are continuing in our year long educational seminar learning about all things meditation and quantum healing.

Dr. Joe Dispenza Meditation - Blessing of the Energy Centers 3.

This is a beautiful opportunity learn about Quantum Theory and consciousness while joining up with other regulated nervous systems and experience safety and connection, while you are learning how to meditate.

Meditating is not clearing the mind...rather it is returning to your breath and focusing your attention and awareness on the energy centers of your body - aka your Chakras.

Quantum Theory states: when our brains slow down and our breath and heart become coherent, then we can enter into another space called the Quantum Field where 5D exists and matter does not. We are pure energy.

Registration required due to limited space. So if you would like to attend please comment below or FB message me or call/text.

Meditation is how we nourish our brains and autonomic nervous system, and begin transcending healing.

Love light and the shadows!

Jennifer

04/12/2026

This is a hill I will willingly choose to die on, until my last breath leaves my cold body when I am in my 90’s.

PDA - pervasive drive for autonomy is a subtype of Autism and it is not well known in the United States.

I first started learning about PDA in 2020 when COVID happened. While I am not glad COVID occurred I am glad it gave me the opportunity to slow down and truly begin to see and understand the nervous system, Autism and ADHD.

PDA kiddos often look like defiant kiddos. Aggressive kiddos. Argumentative kiddos. Tantrum throwing kiddos. Inconsolable kiddos. They can also look like shutdown kiddos…although in my years of clinical experience I have only seen the more fight/flight explosive kiddos as shutdown kiddos are often overlooked.

In fact many have been labeled by the DSM as Oppositional Defiant Disorder and more. Truly. It is such a tragedy. At the heart of all of these behaviors that happen is intense and extreme panic and anxiety that becomes so overwhelming the only way to stop the panic and anxiety is to have a full on meltdown of volcano proportions.

At the root of PDA is the nervous system. The nervous system is fritzy and wonky and it is seeking safety and equalizing behaviors to allow their nervous system to be in the top position. Their nervous system has to have constant co-regulation and attention. Constant. Their nervous system perceives any demand as a threat.

So begin thinking about what are needs/demands we have in our lives? Personal hygiene, waking up, going to school, going to church, eating, talking to people, going to work, attending medical appointments, caregiving for older parents/ children/ pets, doing the laundry, cleaning the house, paying bills.

Their nervous system interprets needs/ demands as a threat….this is not conscious or purposeful. This is happening automatically.

So how do we work with such highly dysregulated nervous systems of PDA kiddos/ adults?

We use declarative language as the main form of communication. Instead of - (demand) pick up the trash on the floor and put it in the garbage - you might make a declaration instead and allow their brains a full 30-45 seconds to comprehend- (declarative language) I’m noticing trash all over the floor.

It’s time to brush your teeth and go to bed vs I wonder what needs to happen before your body is ready for bed?

Declarative language is leaving space for autonomy. Declarative language only works if:

❤️your tone + nervous system = non-demanding❤️

So parents, teachers, therapists- your nervous system has to be regulated first and that will be very hard because your nervous system is perceiving the demand and misalignment from theirs. ❤️❤️❤️

If there is even a HINT of frustration/ aggravation in any part of your body/ nervous system

“Just brush your damn teeth already…”

They will feel that. Instantly. Game over. 💥💥💥

So the true intervention is:
soften your body + slow your voice + release the outcome (yes, really) + deep breathing and allowing your body and nervous system to settle.

Declarative language is:

❤️lowering threat
❤️preserving autonomy
❤️inviting—not requiring—action

Here are some cheat codes for beginning with declarative language:

“I’m noticing…”
“I wonder…”
“Looks like…”
“Hmm…”

PDA kiddos/ adults need autonomy….so find ways to provide autonomy for them.

Love light and the shadows
Jennifer