Be Here Now With Jen

07/27/2025

Dear friends,

This is your final invitation to join us for The Shape of Stillness — a 7-day immersive online nondual embodiment experience designed to help you attune to the stillness already within you.

We begin this Sunday, August 3rd.

Through gentle embodiment practices, subtle breathwork, and the nondual meditation of the Realization Process, we’ll spend each morning together learning how to rest more deeply in our bodies and perceive life from a grounded, open awareness.

This is not just about being grounded, although that is part of it; it is more than that. It’s about waking up to a stillness that we move through — a foundational presence, or as Dr. Blackstone says, “fundamental consciousness,” that heals, clarifies, and restores the more we align in balance with it.

Each session is live on Zoom from 10:00 AM–12:30 PM ET, August 3–9, and you’ll receive access to all recordings, meditations, and supplemental practices.

What to expect:

✓ Daily guided Realization Process meditation and subtle body work

✓ Trauma-informed support and a grounded, experienced teacher

✓ Practices to deepen embodiment, clarity, and connection

✓ Community without pressure, just encouragement to become more YOU.

Whether you’re a seasoned practitioner or just beginning to sense that there’s more to you than the stress you carry… this immersion is a homecoming.

16 Core Continued Education Credits available through LPCA-GA

You can read more and register here:

👉 https://www.beherenowmindfulness.com/shapeofstillness

Stillness is not something you earn. It’s something you remember.

Let’s remember together.

Warmly,

Jennifer

Be Here Now Mindfulness

www.beherenowmindfulness.com

07/24/2025

Kintsugi is a Japanese mending art of repairing broken pottery with gold. I have cultivated it into a way to teach healing.

I have been teaching my workshop: Turning Wounds Into Wisdom since 2017, and it is time now to pass the torch. I have compiled all of my trade secrets into a beautiful, custom 50-page workbook that gives you the exact tools for you to run your own Kintsugi workshop.

6 CE Credits (LPCA-GA)

If you are interested in becoming a teacher trainer please visit my EVENTS page on my website: www.beherenowmindfulness.com
For more info and to connect.

07/23/2025

Save your spot!
August 1, 2025 is our next First Friday.
8:00am EST online from the comfort of your home.

Start your month with embodied connection to Self.

Can’t beat the cost: it’s FREE!
But registration is required to get Zoom Link.

Details and Registration: www.beherenowmindfulness.com then navigate to the EVENTS page.

❤️

07/23/2025

Is Stillness Hard for You?

If the word itself conjures up thoughts, emotions, energy, you’re not alone.
“I don’t have time to be still.” “I feel guilty if I sit down to read or do nothing.” “There is too much to do.”

For some nervous systems, especially shaped by trauma or chronic stress or habitual avoidance, stillness doesn’t initially feel safe. It can feel like being frozen, shut down, or stuck. Like a pause before something bad happens. So we might look still, but we are on alert. If this feels true, you’re not alone.

But that’s not true stillness. Stillness—real stillness—is alive. It supports movement and breathes. It is not the absence of motion, but the ground from which natural motion arises.

In my upcoming retreat: The Shape of Stillness, we will not force, contrive, or chase stillness in our body or mind. It is not an ideal state or something we are trying to “achieve.” We, instead, are attuning to a stillness that is already there, already in us and outside of us. We are uncovering it under layers of conventional habit and survival organization.

When we attune to stillness, everything moves freely, unhindered. Movement becomes graceful, fluid, and not frantic. Thoughts, emotions, blood, cells, circumstances move through us easily. Effort softens, and everything organizes more clearly.

The Shape of Stillness
August 3-9 Online 10-12:30 EST
A 7-day immersion to help you settle into embodied presence—and move in your everyday life from there.
Head to the EVENTS tab at www.beherenowmindfulness.com

07/22/2025

Check out my new post on What happens when faith becomes diminished? And, when our rituals become reflexive? The Word is a meditation on the slow erosion of meaning. This piece isn’t about losing religion; perhaps it’s about noticing what was already gone, but you decide.

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https://jenfinch.substack.com/p/the-word

07/20/2025

The first official Kintsugi Teacher Training was underway this week… and it’s already gold.✨

Amanda .lpc.ryt was one of the first participants in the pilot training.
lpc.ryt is not only a seasoned therapist but now a certified Kintsugi practitioner whose talent, calm presence, and precision with this craft are next-level. Her work speaks for itself (swipe to see), and we can’t wait to see the workshops she’ll be offering soon.

Crafty. Clear. Grounded. Amanda embodies the essence of what this work is about. Beauty from the broken, strength through mending with fierce compassion and dedicated self inquiry.

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If you’re curious about becoming a Kintsugi teacher or attending a future workshop, head to the Events section of my website www.beherenowmindfulness.com and scroll to Kintsugi Training. I would be happy to train your group.
Let the mending begin. 💛

Also be sure to head on over to and follow so you can see all the lovely work these amazing individuals are doing!

07/19/2025

Dear colleagues and fellow seekers,

If you’ve been holding it all together for everyone else lately, this is your invitation to let yourself be held.

The Shape of Stillness is a live, online retreat I’m offering August 3–9, designed for clinicians, healers, and conscious professionals who long for deep rest, not just in the body, but in the very ground of being.

Rooted in the Realization Process, through subtle somatic meditation, gentle embodiment practices, and real-time teaching, we’ll slow down enough to remember what doesn’t need doing, fixing, cajoing, healing, or helping. We will discover what’s already whole and unfragmented.

This retreat is grounded in the Realization Process, Bowen’s Systems, and trauma-sensitive, nondual practices. It’s ideal for therapists, educators, and practitioners looking to reconnect with their own essence while earning 16 CE credits. (LPCA-GA)

Live on Zoom

August 3–9 | 10:00 AM – 12:30 PM EST

All sessions are recorded and included. 100% Live attendance is required for CE Credits.

To register and learn more,visit here in direct link: https://www.beherenowmindfulness.com/shapeofstillness

Or go to EVENTS at www.beherenowmindfulness.com

Reach out with questions.

With warmth and stillness

Jen

07/16/2025

Introducing the new Kintsugi Teacher Trainer Experience.

I just finished a 50 page manual giving away my trade secrets of running my Kintsugi: Turning Your Wounds Into Wisdom Workshop since 2007! If you can believe that😳

I will be testing on a small pilot group of willing participants tomorrow. It won’t be perfect, and it can only improve from there. That is a key take away Kintsugi gives us.

If you would like to train your group, please reach out and contact me.

jencfinch@gmail.com

Oh, and check out my new insta account

Intended to create a compassionate community through smashing stuff!

07/16/2025

One of my old mentors and greatest influencers, Dr. Murray Bowen, often talked about “keeping one’s psychological ‘shape.’” I didn’t really understand that below an intellectual idea or concept until I came to Dr. Judith Blackstone’s nondual embodiment work.

In my upcoming immersion program, I have combined these two practices.

The Shape of Stillness is a week-long online retreat rooted in the Realization Process, designed to help you experience deep rest, embodied presence, and inner spaciousness; and Bowen’s Systems Theory, cultivating the psychological idea of “keeping your psychological shape.”

What this means is that many of us, especially as children, shaped ourselves around certain others, we either learned to shrink ourselves, and disappear, or we had to expand ourselves to match the intensity of someone else without being absorbed in them. The ways we cater to others are often subconscious, and we continue to hold these shrinking or expanding characteristics today, even in very subtle ways. When we continue to contort ourselves around our environments and others in our environments we tend to lose ourselves, and our sense of self.

I have noticed this patterning is quite particular in those who have chosen frontline caretaking jobs. Whether you’re a clinician, caregiver, parent, teacher, or simply someone in need of reconnection, this space is for you. Come take up space, and then learn to hold onto Self.

We meet live online August 3–9, 2025, from 10:00 AM to 12:30 PM ET daily.

16 core continuing education hours (LPCA-GA) are available for licensed therapists and counselors.

You won’t be asked to rehash your story or push through discomfort. Instead, we move gently. We create a safe container where your nervous system can exhale. Where you can soften the hypervigilance and find new ground inside yourself.

This retreat is especially meaningful for professionals who hold space for others. In a field that often demands your everything, this is an opportunity to tend to yourself.

Learn more and register here:

👉 www.beherenowmindfulness.com

07/14/2025

One of the many things we work on in my classes/retreats is disentangling from others “stuff.” We go beyond traditional methods of “boundary setting,” and literally free ourselves from what we thought and felt we were responsible for.

This can be hard to do without feeling a backlash of guilt, shame, selfishness, or rude perspectives of “not my problem.” So we work gradually and slowly also disentangling ourselves from all of that, too.

Our emotions often flare up when we are over-extended and under-supported. But the truth of the matter is it is no one’s fault but our own. So begin gently asking with compassionate inquiry. Questions such as: What boundary got crossed? What need is unmet? Where are you doing too much for others at your own expense? What part of you has been silenced or taken advantage of?

If we look underneath our over-caretaking there is often grief, depletion, or buried resentment.

Join me for my upcoming weeklong RP Retreat August 3-9, live online: The Shape of Stillness and let’s peel off layers of conditioning. Go to events page: www.beherenowmindfulness for details and registration.

07/07/2025

🌿✨ The Shape of Stillness Retreat ✨🌿

What if stillness wasn’t something you had to chase or practice or strive for between moments of chaos?

What if it was who you already are, just waiting to be remembered?

Join me for a week of gentle unraveling, quiet presence, and coming home to the depths within you.

🗓️ August 3-9, 2025
💻 Online via Zoom 10:00-12:30 pm EST
16 Core Continued Education Credits LPCA-GA Approved

This is an invitation to soften the edges, rest into your own being, and find the unshakeable ground beneath it all.

🔗 Learn more and register at beherenowmindfulness.com

💛 Spaces are limited. Come as you are.

07/03/2025