about me
I’m Jessi.
Married, Mother, and Maker of things from good food, to great stories that rose out of grave pain. I’m living a vastly different reality today than I once was. I think you’ll come to love that, because it means that the freedom which is available to me is available for you too. I’m lit up to show you what is possible when you come into contact with what is True about you.
where I was
This was me before:
Crippled internally
with depression, OCD, and 3 additional psychiatric diagnoses with an equal number of pharmaceuticals to manage them all.
Scared of my body and brain
with its seemingly random chemical expressions that had no rhyme, reason or especially cure.
Scared of God
and the terrifying chasm that existed between the beliefs of my heart and the beliefs I was told I had to adopt… or else.
Scared of life
after losing many people I loved and experiencing the kind of grief I thought might kill me. I felt stuck in a reality of torment that I wasn’t sure would ever end.
On the outside I looked like sunshine.
I did always feel that impulse of hope and positivity beaming through, despite how else I felt inside. It’s just that the “how else” eventually started to eclipse the light and I didn’t know if or how I could make my way back into the sun.
the turning point
and then, answers found me
It’s when the suffering really reached its peak (I can handle this, I can handle this… until I couldn’t) that I fully surrendered to answers finding ME. I clung to the knowing that there was something more available. And WOW was that a good gamble to take.
They say when the student is ready, the teacher appears. Mine showed up all at once: the teachers, the books, the practices and the people I needed, right when I needed them. I heeded the Universe’s call and said yes to every one. It was then that my internal (and therefore external) experience of life began to shift in ways that were better than I could have asked for or even imagined.
what changed everything
It wasn’t another protocol, another diagnosis or another medication. It was who I believed I was. For years I lived as someone broken: a problem to be managed, a person waiting to be fixed. When I stopped trying to fix that version of me and started meeting myself as someone already whole, my body, my mind and my whole life began to follow.
I didn’t become free. I remembered that I already was.
today
I understand my brain and body.
I am confident that every part of me – no matter how cringe (as my then 8 year old has been known to describe me) – makes complete sense. I have a relationship with my mind that heals me.
I can hold joy, pain and everything in between with more peace, compassion, and grace than I ever have. I am medication free, and have adopted an entirely new paradigm about mental health that is both empowering and sensible.
I have encountered the Divine in a way that continually frees me, and I feel safe to live, dream, love and play in this world.
“Healing is so much more than clearing our trauma. It’s about expanding into joy, pleasure, creativity, peace, ease, and freedom.”
What is available to me is available to you. It’s my literal heart and joy to be here to tell you this, until you know it for yourself.
xo, Jessi
how I see it
science and soul, in plain language
I come at this from a spiritual place, and I speak the language of the nervous system, neuroscience and parts work too. Here’s what I’ll help you understand.
It’s an identity shift, not a fix.
Most of us are working so hard to fix the version of ourselves we’re afraid we are. The real shift is remembering who you’ve been all along: whole, wise and Already Free. Then your body and your life get to catch up.
Your body isn’t broken. It’s protecting you.
The bracing, the loops, the shutting down: in nervous system terms, these are survival responses doing their job. As your body learns it’s safe (what my fellow nerds call ventral vagal), it doesn’t have to work so hard.
Every part of you makes sense.
Even the cringe ones. In parts work (IFS), we get curious about what each part is protecting and what it believes, so it can finally soften and rest.
Healing is expansion, not just repair.
Clearing old pain matters. So does making room for joy, pleasure, creativity and the Divine. We work with the body, the mind and the soul together.
training & credentials
lived experience, backed by real training
Here’s the short version: I’m a mind-body coach who helps women stop fighting themselves and remember who they really are.
My work lives where science meets soul, and it’s deeply influenced by Polyvagal Theory, Somatic Experiencing and Internal Family Systems (IFS). Together they help your body feel safe and help us get to know the parts of you that have been working so hard to protect you. Then we make room for the part of you that was never broken in the first place: your true Self, the one that’s Already Free.
I trained for nine months with Jerry Donoghue in Inner Presence Coaching, an IFS-based model, and I’m an alum of Irene Lyon’s Smart Body Smart Mind. I haven’t stopped learning since (see the list, I’m a little obsessed).
But the training isn’t the whole story. I’ve lived this. Every tool I teach is one I used on my own way back, so I’m not guessing what it’s like to be where you are. I’ve been there, and I know the way back to the sun.
Her extensive training includes:
- Certified Health Coach through the Institute of Integrative Nutrition (2011)
- Vital Mind Reset Alumni under the guidance of Holistic Psychiatrist Dr. Kelly Brogan (2017)
- DONA Certified Birth Doula (2018)
- Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorder Training through Postpartum Support International (2019)
- Postpartum Doula training with Newborn Mothers (2019)
- Smart Body Smart Mind Nervous System Alumni with Irene Lyon (2021)
- 6 week cohort: IFS training, with therapist Justine Maxwell (2023)
- 9 month Inner Presence Coaching Program with Jerry Donoghue (2023)
- IFS and Your Body Compass course with Life Coach Christine Dixon (2024)
- 2-Day Virtual Retreat with psychotherapist Loch Kelly: Self-Led IFS Training: Effortless Mindfulness & Self Leadership (2024)
- 2-Day virtual workshop with IFS therapist Bob Falconer on “Trauma, Spirit and IFS: The Deeper Realms of Healing.” (2026)
a note on credentials
While I have considered going back to school for my graduate degree which would qualify me as a licensed therapist, I have chosen to pursue unconventional qualifications instead, deeply investing my time and energy into learning outside the traditional system. This has allowed me to immerse myself in cutting-edge therapies while training under trusted and respected practitioners – without the constraints and costs of graduate school.
What qualifies me, in addition to my dedicated study, is my personal embodied experience with this work. I have successfully tapered off five pharmaceuticals for clinical mood disorders, and I have navigated my own trauma integration journey through the methods I have trained in. This personal alchemy, combined with my professional training, enables me to support others on their healing paths effectively.
“I love that coaches are out there actually, just going straight to training and models and what’s on the cutting edge. It is sometimes easier to be on the cutting edge when you don’t have to spend all the years going through grad school because usually what we learn through grad school isn’t actually the cutting edge.” – Psychologist Dr. Tori Olds, PhD
Already Free is coaching, not therapy, and many clients work with me alongside a therapist or doctor. I never ask anyone to change their medication. If that’s something you’re considering, please work with your prescriber on what’s right for you.
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