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The Riverstone Studio, 374 Union Mill, Peterborough, NH (2025)

04/10/2025

Life can be overwhelming and stressful sometimes and that stress can affect us all in different ways - but there are simple tools and practices that can help us feel calmer, more grounded and balanced….even amidst the chaos!

Join me for this class presented by next Wednesday, April 16 from 7-8pm on Zoom.

We will learn how stress shows up for us and leave with tools that you can use right away; tools and practices that help settle your nervous system, feel calmer, more balanced and help you hold the stressful moments in life with a little more ease…and maybe even find a little joy along the way too✨

This event is free. Pre-registration is required.

Register at https:/rivercenter.org/calendar OR
Find more information in the link in bio.

04/10/2025

Life can feel overwhelming and stressful sometimes and that stress affects us all in different ways. But there are simple tools and practical tips that can help us feel calmer and more grounded even amidst the chaos.

Join me for this class presented by next Wednesday, April 16 from 7-8pm on Zoom.

We will talk about how stress shows up for us and leave with tools that you can use that will help you settle your nervous system, find more balance and hold these stressful moments in life with a little more ease..:: and maybe even find a little more joy in the process!

This even is free, pre-registration is required.

You can register at https:/rivercenter.org/calendar. Or find more information in the link in bio.

04/08/2025

Hello!! It’s been awhile… I’m so excited to be back!!

When I sold my studio a year and a half ago, I let go of the space but there is still so much I carry in my heart; community, connections, the meaning and inspiration I found from every single person that came through the door.

I have spent this year continuing to feel inspired by those gifts. Following the path they have lead me on to create new work in my life that I never knew could bring me so much joy! Work that connects me with even more amazing people, teachers, healers and community builders.

This work helps create space to explore mindfulness and meditation and the tools it can offer you to guide you to joy, to clarity and authenticity and a deep sense of connection that comes from living a life that is aligned with who we really are.

This work is for everyone; whether you feel a little (or a lot) off track or overwhelmed by the day-to-day, or disconnected from joy, or just have a knowing that there is more to life than just going through the motions.

Or maybe you have found your joy and just want to cultivate more of it.

This work is not about fixing yourself, it’s about finding yourself.

It’s about slowing down and getting quiet enough to hear your own wisdom.

It’s about finding meaning and connection in the every day.

It’s about finding purpose and possibility.

Being human is hard work, it can be messy and complicated AND it can be so incredibly beautiful! But either way, we are not meant to do it alone… we need each other, we need community, especially right now!

If any of this resonates with you or you are curious to learn more, you can check out the link in the bio✨

I will be offering bodywork and one-on-one sessions in Peterborough (and soon in Dublin too!)

Local meditation and mindfulness classes.

Women's retreats in Maine .

And there are also lot's of free opportunities to drop in and learn more too.

Come try it out for yourself and see if it might just be the thing that brings a little more joy into your life too✨

🤍With love and light! ~ Jess

11/20/2024

Well… now what? Is what I have been asking myself for weeks now.

And the answer I come up with really depends on the roller coaster of emotion I happen to be on that day… anger, rage, disbelief, deep sadness, fear…. but eventually I always seem to land on love.

The answer is always love. More love. It may be overly simplistic and corny but I really do believe it’s a what we all need right now. It’s what the world needs right now. More love, less fear.

Over the last few weeks I have really leaned into my practice and my community. Knowing that that is where I can find more love right.

Tomorrow night I am offering up the space to come and be with communty, to come and sit in mediation, in quiet, in a sprinkling of mindfulness, to feel what love and community can feel like and how powerful that can be. No need to do anything, fix anything, solve anything…this is just a time to be, together, to feel less alone and more connected. To cultivate more love, for ourselves and the world around us💗

No experience necessary, all are welcome💞

11/05/2024

There are so many reasons why I am voting, but this one right here…is the most important❤️

10/23/2024

I am not a football person. Or at least that’s what I would have said when our youngest son decided he wanted to play football three years ago.

The first year he played I felt like a fish out of water. These were not my people, I felt so different from them. I felt far away from them. And to be honest, I didn’t try to get closer. I let those differences take up space between us. But to really see who people are, we have to be willing to lean in with curiosity, not pull back with judgment.

I probably stand on a different side of the aisle as a lot of the other parents, we probably have different things we are passionate about. But when we are sitting in the stands watching our kids play this game they love, we are all the same parent. The parent that shows up, the parent that supports their kids, the parent that cheers on the team, collectively holding our breath in hopes that they all come off the field in one piece. When you lean in, you see the commonality. And in that there is connection, belonging.

I over heard Simon’s coach at the end of practice one day giving the team a talk that went something like…

“you don’t play this game for yourself. you play for the guy to the right of you and you play for the guy to the left of you. One person doesn’t make a touchdown, it takes the whole team to make it down the field together. And the way we do that is by playing for each other, having each other’s backs”.

Honestly, I got a little choked up.. and I thought this is what we need more of in our world! We need coaches out there reminding us that the way we get down the field is not by doing it alone, but by playing for each other. Showing up for each other. Having each other’s backs… not just the people we see eye to eye with but every one. We really are all on the same team. There is always something that we have in common; we are human beings just trying to make it down the field. Every human deserves a team that has their backs.

I have to say, for someone who’s isn’t a football person I’ve gained an awful lot of insight and wisdom from the sport. Maybe I am a football person after all…

10/16/2024

Out daughter goes to school in Vermont and part her work job this fall is getting up before the sun to help milk the cows.

It’s fun and beautiful somedays, we get lots of pictures of beautiful sunrises and baby cows.

And some days it’s cold and hard and tiring.

And this is also how life goes. Sometimes we don’t really have control over which day is going to be which.

But we can start every day, no matter what, with intention. And sometimes that intention can help us get through the harder and heavier days with just a little bit more lightness and ease✨

and Joy! 😉🐄

10/01/2024

I fell off the wagon.

This past summer was busy. It was hard to keep up with every thing I wanted to. And my practice got set aside a lot of the days.

By the time the kids went back to school I felt like I had totally fallen off the wagon… and once you fall of the wagon it can be hard to get back on.

I got some great advice from one of my teachers, which was to start out small… even if you know you can go big. Starting small helps form the habit. Just because something is small, doesn’t mean it’s not impactful.

So I started out small. Little moments like sitting with a hot cup of tea became my practice.

We are human. We all fall off the wagon. Whether your wagon is exercise, eating well, taking a walk everyday, yoga, meditation… when we fall that’s ok, we just begin again! One small step at a time. No pressure, no judgement.

Here is the advice I got.

✨Start small.

Even one minute a day counts!

✨Attach whatever it is you want to start doing to an existing habit.

If you’re doing it anyway, you’re half way there!

✨Be kind to yourself.

Be your own biggest supporter!

It’s so much easier to do anything when that voice in our head is kind and compassionate not blaming and judgemental.

Life is messy, we are human. We will fall. It’s just a matter of getting back up and taking one small step. That’s what life is anyway….one small step after another❤️

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09/18/2024

It’s been a while since I’ve posted on Instagram…

Here is why.

I struggle with self doubt.

I struggle with a lot of things but this one can consume me if I’m not paying attention.

For me self doubt looks like this:

I have a little seed of a thought that gets planted.. usually it comes from me comparing myself to others…. something like “you’re not as good (smart, successful, busy, strong, worthy… you name it, fill in the blank) as that person. And if I’m not paying attention that seed gets planted, and once the seed is planted I forget that I don’t have to water it. I forget that I can choose to water a different seed… but I’m not paying attention so I water it any way.

And it then it grows.

Like I’m feeding it freaking miracle grow🌱

And it grows into a whole plant of swirling thoughts and stories🌿

Nine times out of ten, these thoughts are not even true. And yet, I choose to believe them. And even add a filter of judgment, shame, guilt to them… because now I’m really not paying attention.

And once I am in that swirling vortex of thoughts it’s really hard for me to get out.

If I am only focusing on that one seed of self doubt, of course it’s going to grow.

It took a bit of work to start paying attention to the other seeds I had planted but over-looked.

But what we pay attention to… will grow.

So, this is not to say that I’m back with all the confidence in the world… quite the opposite.

I’m back holding this little seed of love and compassion for myself. I am learning and re-learning how to care for it and how to keep paying attention to it.

💚 I stole this hat from my daughter this summer because I love this simple message ~ do good.

It’s a reminder that we can put things out in the world with the simple intention to just do a little good… maybe make one persons day a little brighter, or a little less lonely… or remind them which seed they want to pay attention to, which seed they want to water and nurture and love💚

03/27/2024

Radical Act: an action that takes initiative and courage. an action that takes us out of our comfort zone.

Sometimes loving ourselves is a radical act. Sometimes it does take initiative and courage. Sometimes it feels scary to love ourselves. Sometimes it feels selfish. Sometimes we feel unworthy of our own love. Sometimes it feels like we should be at the bottom of the list. It really can be a radical act to love ourselves. But it can also be transformative.

That seed of love is planted when we learn to listen to ourselves, trust ourselves and honor what we hear without judgment (a huge piece to the puzzle!) but with kindness and compassion instead (another huge piece!).

There are lots of ways that you can learn to do this. For me, I learned it through my meditation and mindfulness practice by learning to observe my thoughts, not be attached to them and not judge them. But instead love them.. all of them (the good, the bad and the ugly). Because they are all a part of me, all worthy of my love. This is how we love ourselves into wholeness.

And once I started to understand that, I could stop looking for love in other places. Because the thing is, sometimes you find it and sometimes you don’t. But you need love all the time… The Beatles had that right. And you are the only one that can do that for yourself.

It may sound overly simplistic and naive but I truly believe that when we love ourselves (the unconditional-no-matter-whatness-kind of love) it can change the world. Maybe not over night but one ripple at a time… that kind of radical love creates ripples that reach far and wide!

Give it a try, love yourself wholly and completely and unconditionally…and see what it feels like to be radical!

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03/25/2024

I will be offering this FREE 4 week class at the Dublin Community Center - The DubHub in April! Be in touch if you have questions or would like to sign up!

03/04/2024

I am the mother of three children, it is in my job description to worry.

I have gotten a lot better about worrying about the little things and even about the not so little things but the one I still struggle with is my kids.

I worry about them all the time. I worry about them when there might be something to worry about and I worry about them when there might not be something to worry about.

I don’t know if this happens to you but my mind always jumps to the worst case scenario….why can’t it just jump to the best case scenario?!

Because our minds get stuck in these old patterns we have created over time, they get stuck on auto-pilot.

We have a thought - we attach worry to it - we go on auto-pilot - we get stuck in the loop - again and again - and again.

Our brains just think they are being helpful… but we have to remind them that they aren’t.

I leaned this little trick from one of my meditation teachers and it has changed my worrying life!

When I notice I am stuck in one of these loops (they key to noticing is mindfulness!) I ask myself "is this helpful"? 99.9% of the time it‘s not!

By asking yourself, is this helpful?, you break the pattern and you get to choose if you want to keep worrying or if you want to change the narrative… choose the best case scenario instead.

It‘s not helpful to worry about something that may or may not not happen and if something does feel worry worthy, worrying still isn’t usually that helpful… mindful action is.

I have learned so many things through mindfulness and meditation that have created shifts in my life but this one has been huge!

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