Jennifer is an experienced psychotherapist in the Atlanta area who has dedicated the past decade res
01/29/2026
Kintsugi reminds us of something we already know but often forget:
nothing meaningful is made without pressure, fracture, or time.
In this training, we will slow down and listen to the break. We will learn how to guide others in this beautiful healing art without bypassing the hard parts.
Kintsugi isn’t about making something pretty.
It’s about learning how to find strength and wholeness when something cracks—and discovering that repair can carry dignity.
This training is for therapists, teachers, healers, and creatives who want a tangible, embodied way to work with resilience, loss, transition, and restoration.
✨ Certified Kintsugi Teacher Training Friday February 13, 2026
9:00am to 5:00pm
In person/ East Cobb / Marietta, GA
6 Core Continued Education
Details at beherenowmindfulness.com
01/29/2026
Lately, I’ve been noticing how much of my language thins out when my experience intensifies. When my internal states begin to shift faster than my language can track, my self-report becomes imprecise and definitively unreliable. I start to narrate too soon.
I jump to conclusions. Irritation or whatever arises binds itself to thought, and suddenly the story and feelings feel airtight and stapled together. But none of it is actually true in that moment. It’s based on a false conclusion.
If 2+2=5 then everything after that is going to be built on an incorrect foundation.
I have found the key for me is to NOT label anything. Labeling doesn’t “tame it” in my experience. It just holds my brain tighter and then my thoughts fuse with emotions and the whole system amplifies.
This morning’s meditation went something like this:
Settling into quiet (I slept well).
A thought about recent news and my life events last week.
Irritation, then sadness, then anger.
My dog Muggsy farted on me.
Irritation spikes—there’s no room—does anyone respect anyone anymore?
Feelings pile up. Looping begins. Certainty hardens. More feelings…feelings…feelings..not having them…drowning in them…looping back to iron clad thoughts all based on 2+2=5.
Quit and exit meditation.
When I drop all the labels, something works, something shifts. I just feel energy moving. Thoughts as energy. Emotions as energy. De-label and I can somehow get back to the basics of essence arising. It’s all just a somatic experience and proof that I am alive. And sitting here. Feeling life and breath. No storyline and the system begins to reorganize on its own. And once again everything moves freely. As it should.
In the absence of words, what are you actually sensing in your body and mind right now? Can you get beneath the explanation, the narrative, the labeling and just let all that energy move with non-attachment? Can we let go of our grip on it.
As my teacher, Dr. Blackstone instructs,
“It will all still be there…but we can let go of our grip on it.”
01/27/2026
Hello Everyone,
Registration for my 2026 cohort of the Certified Kintsugi Teacher Training is now open. If you’re looking to create a clear niche, strengthen your offerings, or bring Kintsugi into your work, I’d love for you to take a look.
When: Friday, February 13, 2026, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm ET
Where: Colab Community Properties: 541 Village Trace, NE, Building 11A, Marietta, GA 30067
This is a one-day certification training.
Lunch break provided; lunch is on your own. Numerous local options are within walking distance.
Early registration is encouraged; space is limited to 8 participants for a curated expert-level experience.
6 Core Continued Education Credits are available and approved through LPCA-GA (Support local boards💪)
This training is designed for therapists, educators, and facilitators who want to work with Kintsugi not just as a metaphor, but as a teachable, embodied practice that translates meaningfully into therapeutic and healing communities.
Participants receive:
A complete materials kit to support confident teaching
A comprehensive 50-page instruction manual
Access to a professional community that supports the development and visibility of your offerings
Enrollment is intentionally limited to support depth, dialogue, and skill development.
Warmly, Jen
01/20/2026
Good Morning Everyone,
This is Last Call for my upcoming In-Person January Mini-Retreat.
***Registration closes Friday, January 23 to allow for thoughtful preparation and care for the group. Late registrations cannot be accepted.
Realization Process In-Person Mini Retreat
📍 The Heal Center | 270 Carpenter Dr. Suite 500 | Atlanta, GA
🗓 January 29 – February 1
Full Schedule:
Thursday 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm ET
Friday + Saturday: 9:00 am to noon; 1:30 pm to 4:30 pm
***Registration closes Friday, January 23 to allow for thoughtful preparation and care for the group. Late registrations cannot be accepted.
Whether you are brand new to meditation—or have been practicing for years—the Realization Process offers a distinctive grounding path and stabilizing way in.
The Realization Process, created by nonduality expert Dr. Judith Blackstone, is the most precise and effective work I’ve encountered in decades of clinical, somatic, and spiritual training. Rather than asking the mind to settle itself, this work begins with the body. When the body is gently inhabited, the mind naturally organizes, attention steadies, and a natural sense of balance and confidence emerges as something you feel, not something you try to achieve.
For beginners, this is often the most accessible entry point into meditation: grounding awareness in the body creates immediate stability and support.
For experienced meditators, the Realization Process deepens practice by bringing awareness out of abstraction and into lived, embodied somatic experience. By meeting the subtle field of consciousness directly, we develop coherence and confidence from the inside out.
It’s designed for those who feel drawn to depth and honest inner work within a small, supportive group. It’s not for everyone. But for the right people, it tends to be life-altering.
01/19/2026
Listen, I am not against parts work. At my age I am not against any of it. My motto is: “all the boats are good, just get in one, and it will eventually take you to your next boat.”
But what I’m increasingly noticing in clients who arrive after extensive parts work is that certain aspects of that approach can unintentionally limit further healing. There is often a reluctance to loosen identification with parts and move toward a more unified sense of self. What can emerge instead is a continued fragmentation, with certain protective aspects becoming overly relied upon. Even addictive.
Parts work is essentially a modern rebranding of ideas that are age old. While it can be useful as a map, offering language and a way to feel understood when nothing else does, there is no scientific evidence, outside of rare and severe dissociative conditions, that we are operating from multiple brains or separate internal operators. When a different “part” is activated, it is still the same nervous system, the same brain, the same body responding to different conditions.
Healing, in my experience, often deepens when the emphasis shifts from managing parts to inhabiting wholeness.
I have been teaching the Realization Process for 5+ years now and right from the start we engage our integrated wholeness. This is radical and transformative. It is a bottom up approach and where I diverge from a largely top down parts approach.
My approach is deeply integrative—grounded in ancient wisdom, informed by science, and guided by the innate intelligence of the body.
• We are not separate parts.
• The body carries what words can’t hold.
• Somatic experience reshapes the soul.
• Movement becomes meditation and steadies the mind.
• Awareness in perfect balance with emotion and physical sensations becomes medicine.
• Everything is connected. And nothing exists in isolation.
If you are ready to feel whole, then join us January 29- Feb. 1, 2026 for a mini in person RP retreat.
Visit the EVENTS page at www.beherenowmindfulness.com for details and registration.
01/12/2026
I spent years seeking healing through insight, discipline, therapy, and spiritual practice. Much of it helped—but none of it addressed the most basic problem: I had no lived experience of something stable enough to rest into. Everything still depended on effort.
What changed my trajectory wasn’t another technique or mindset shift. It was discovering and directly experiencing an internal field of stability that doesn’t require management. A space that can actually be felt, relied upon, and returned to—again and again—without strain.
You can call it consciousness, quantum field, dharmakaya, or nothing at all. My teacher, Dr. Judith Blackstone, calls it Fundamental Consciousness. But to me, names don’t really matter. What matters is that when this is known somatically—not as an idea, but as experience—there is a natural release of what the system has been carrying for years. Effort melts away, and you don’t need to force anything to drop, because there is finally somewhere real for it to go.
This isn’t about “letting go.” People don’t let go of what they don’t trust will be held. Until there is a felt sense of stability, letting go is mostly conceptual performance. Once stability is embodied, release happens on its own, and confidence follows. You stand confidently in your integrated coherence (this is not parts work—this is wholeness—finally).
This is the heart of the Realization Process, and it is the most precise and effective work I’ve encountered in decades of clinical, somatic, and spiritual training.
From January 29 – February 1, I’m hosting a small, in-person Realization Process retreat in Atlanta for those who are ready to deepen this work experientially. It’s not for everyone. But for the right people, it tends to be life-altering.
Over four days, we’ll explore subtle embodiment attunements and differentiation as lived experiences—how to inhabit your body with more coherence, and how a spiritually grounded sense of self naturally follows. This work isn’t about achieving something. It’s about discovering what’s already there, powerful, confident, stabilized and unflappable.
This retreat is open to all—no prior meditation or Realization Process experience required. It’s designed for those who feel drawn to depth and honest inner work within a small, supportive group.
Realization Process In-Person Mini Retreat
📍 The Heal Center | Atlanta, GA
🗓 January 29 – February 1
Full Schedule:
Thursday 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm ET
Friday + Saturday: 9:00 am to noon; 1:30 pm to 4:30 pm ET
Sunday: 9:00 am to noon ET
If you’re curious or feel a subtle yes, I’d love to connect.
More details and registration: www.beherenowmindfulness.com
01/10/2026
Come sit with me.
Mini-retreat on the Realization Process.
January 29- Feb.1, 2026
In person at The Heal Center Atlanta
The Realization Process (RP) is a gentle step by step embodiment program cultivating inner connection, compassion and confidence. Created by Dr. Judith Blackstone, nonduality teacher. It is a gentle pathway to spiritual awakening and psychological healing.
We work to uncover who we are. Underneath any constrictions, confusion, tension patterns, burnout, exhaustion or overwhelm. It is a homecoming.
This is a radical approach that goes way beyond any psychotherapy or somatic programs I have trained in. It is extremely expansive and holds stabilized space even as I keep going deeper and growing.
Be in touch with your questions.
Warmly, Jen
01/07/2026
✨ Happy New Year ✨
As the year turns, I’m offering something quieter—and deeper—than resolutions.
At the end of January, I’ll be hosting a small, in-person Realization Process Mini Retreat in Atlanta/Sandy Springs. This is a carefully held space for 6–8 people who want to slow down, come home to themselves, and explore what genuine confidence feels like when it arises from integrated embodiment.
Over four days, we’ll explore subtle embodiment attunements and differentiation as lived experiences—how to inhabit your body with more coherence, and how a spiritually grounded sense of self naturally follows. This work isn’t about achieving something. It’s about discovering what’s already there, powerful, and unflappable.
This retreat is open to all—no prior meditation or Realization Process experience required. It’s designed for those who feel drawn to depth, and honest inner work within a small, supportive group.
Realization Process In-Person Mini Retreat
📍 The Heal Center | Atlanta, GA
🗓 January 29 – February 1
If you’re curious or feel a subtle yes, I’d love to connect.
More details and registration: www.beherenowmindfulness.com
Warmly,
Jen
Please note: Be Here Now classes and retreats are not appropriate for those in acute crisis or experiencing suicidality.
01/02/2026
We each perceive the world differently, even when standing right next to each other. You don’t need to have a holiday with family to know that we can sit in the same room and each experience a different reality.
One of us might see rainbows, where another sees a dark cloud. One person might see a river to cross, where another perceives a treacherous landscape of uncertainty. One might feel breath while another is caught in thought or memory. The world does not arrive the same way to any two nervous systems.
This upcoming Realization Process retreat invites you into a living, expansive, multi-sensory journey that engages our sense of perception. Your experience will be unique but the foundational realization will be the same. We are oneness + separateness.
Through subtle, grounded practices, participants are guided to experience how perception and felt-sense shapes confidence, relationship, and self-trust.
This is an immersive bio-psycho-social-spiritual journey where self + confidence is revealed as a natural state when the body is inhabited. Each moment becomes an invitation to notice how you meet life, how you orient toward challenge, and how easily confidence arises when you hold onto yourself.
Think of it as an art exhibition you walk through slowly, where the medium is your own lived experience, and the discovery is how much fierce confidence is already here. Drawing from Jennifer’s two + decades career of somatic exploration and psychological background, she has developed this retreat especially for Compassionate Presence + Cultivation of Consciousness
Your curious journey is an artistic somatic exploration that transcends what we think we know about boundaries and engages all the senses.
Registration is open. Small, intentional group for support and deep work. www.beherenowmindfulness.com EVENTS page.
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When your mind is with your body, you are in the here and now. And if you meet this moment of awareness with curiosity, kindness and non-judgment, You are fully alive.
Be Here Now Mindfulness is dedicated to inspiring, guiding and connecting anyone who wants to explore mindfulness through both science and experience to enjoy better health, happiness, more caring relationships, and a compassionate society.
Be Here Now Mindfulness is based in Metro Atlanta and Marietta, GA founded by Jennifer Chase Finch, M.A., LPC, NBCC, Certified Mindfulness Instructor. I see mindfulness as a unique, practical and profound approach to social change, and my dedication to teach others in the community as a social innovation initiative. My classes and workshops promote individual wellness, healthy relationships, and a more mindful and compassionate community. Mindfulness is entering the mainstream and this presents an historic opportunity to transform ourselves, our children, our communities, our world.
MY MISSION
Be Here Now seeks to help connect the mindfulness community, taking research from the heroic efforts of the leaders in the field to all those new to mindfulness who seek to learn more. This site offers personal stories, news you can use, links to cutting edge research, practical advice, and insights that speak to anyone from novice meditators looking for guidance to corporate managers exploring new ways to cultivate workplace engagement and fulfillment. My classes and workshops teach effective techniques for mindful living, and are based in current neuroscience and psychology that points to their benefits.
Be Here Now Mindfulness offers innovative programs for children, adults, families, schools and businesses in the Marietta, and Metro Atlanta areas. My mindfulness programs help students cultivate attentional training and emotional regulation that can lead to a successful and happy life. My professional development offerings help reduce burnout and promote more effective, creative and insightful resolutions to conflicts and struggles within the work environment. I teach parents how to parent from a calm and compassionate place even amidst the chaos of raising children and balancing all of life.
With mindfulness, we have the capacity to change how we relate to the present moment. We have the power to choose how we respond. We can embrace our reality. We can live mindfully and consciously, instead of reacting from an ego run on auto-pilot that is making decisions from a fear-based, scarcity mentality. In this powerful ability to pause, we become more aware of ourselves, more aware of others and we develop greater compassion. From this cultivated mindfulness, we bring a more loving, healthy, peaceful, joyful and kinder way to living our day-to-day lives.
“Jennifer is an excellent and knowledgable instructor. She taught me how to be kind and loving to myself first and now I can parent my kids from a calm and compassionate place, even when they are pushing all of my buttons."
