A collection of essays and resources on ceremony, ritual, weddings, poems, Jungian depth coaching, midlife, spiritual life, and the thresholds that shape us. Here you’ll find practical guidance, personal reflections, and the occasional wander into myth, symbol, and soul.
Midlife in Widening Circles: On empty nest, menopause, creative fire, and the circular path of midlife.
There is no linear evolution; there is only a circumambulation of the self. - Carl Jung The early stirrings arrived before I turned 40. I had a young child. On the surface, life was beautiful, functional and full. I was working from home in tech alongside my husband's...
What Is Depth Coaching?
What is Depth Coaching? The simplest definition is that depth coaching is coaching that pays attention to what is going on beneath the surface. Depth coaching is a reflective approach to personal growth that works with dreams, symbols, recurring patterns, life...
Asking a Friend to Officiate Your Wedding? What to Know Before You Ask
Asking a friend or family member to officiate your wedding can be a beautiful idea. It can make the ceremony feel more personal, more intimate, and more connected to your actual life. It can also get weird fast. Because while this may seem like a simple favor,...
Wheel of the Year Practice: A Grounded Rhythm for Soulful Living
A seasonal way to bring more meaning, rhythm, and soul into ordinary life Working with the Wheel of the Year can be as simple as seasonal celebrations. A way to say: here we are. It’s spring. It’s the midpoint. The light is returning. The dark is deepening. The leaves...
Inanna’s Descent: A Mythic Map for Loss, Midlife & Identity Change
Inanna’s Descent is an ancient Sumerian myth, but I don’t experience it as old in a dusty-clay-tablets-on-a-museum-shelf kind of way. Quite the opposite: this myth feels alive because descent is alive. By descent, I mean those seasons when life takes us downward and...
Midlife Transition Coaching: Restlessness, Change, and What Matters Now
At some point in midlife, sometimes very quietly, the life you’ve built stops fitting the way it once did. Nothing is necessarily "wrong." You’re still showing up. Still doing what needs to be done. But underneath the routines and responsibilities, something has...
What Is Spiritual Coaching? Finding the Sacred in Daily Life
What Is Spiritual Coaching? Spiritual coaching is a soul-centered way of creating dedicated space for your inner life. It helps you slow down enough to hear yourself, notice what is stirring beneath the surface, and tend the deeper rhythms shaping your life. Rather...
Carl Jung and the Foundations of Jungian Coaching
If you’re here because you’re curious about Jungian coaching, you may be wondering what it actually is, how it differs from therapy, and who Carl Jung was, anyhow. When I first came across Carl Jung’s work, I was in college, reading Man and His Symbols for an...
We Need Better Stories
There’s a quote by Epictetus I keep coming back to lately: You become what you give your attention to. When I feel completely saturated with breaking news and worst-case-scenario headlines, that phrase feels like both a reminder and a reckoning. Because when I am...
San Jose del Cabo Wedding at Acre Resort
This San Jose del Cabo Wedding at Acre Resort was a Baja dream. Whales. Warmth. Saguaros. Ocean. Fish tacos. Margaritas! Y mucho amor. M & C knew they wanted to take their friends and family on an adventure, Cabo and Acre held significance to them, and they wanted...
Non-Traditional Wedding “I Do” Vows: Examples for Your Ceremony
If traditional “honor and obey” wedding vows are not your cup of tea, there are many other ways to say yes and make your promises. These examples below of non-traditional wedding "I do" vows offer a more personal, flexible way to make your promises without having to...
Colorado Micro Wedding at Lily Lake
This Colorado micro wedding could not have been any more perfectly Rocky Mountain high. Having a micro wedding is a great way to get those amazing mountain backdrops... you can't have a wedding ceremony with 150 people in Rocky Mountain National Park, but with 20...
A Perfect Elopement in Boulder Colorado
It was a beautiful late summer day for an elopement in Boulder, Colorado. The couple chose Flagstaff Mountain for their nuptials, and I had a new elopement script I wanted to try. (This couple did not want a custom ceremony, they preferred a simple process and a...
Hermosos Poemas para una Ceremonia de Boda
Estos hermosos poemas para una ceremonia de boda son una maravillosa adición a cualquier ceremonia! Agregar poesía que amas a la ceremonia de tu boda es una manera de hacer que la ceremonia sea tuya. A continuación hay una selección de mis poemas favoritos. Algunos de...
Quotes on Ritual, Ceremony & Awe
I’ve long collected quotes on ceremony, ritual, beauty, wonder, and awe -- a little spark of inspiration, a bit of meaning-making, especially in the moments I need to re-discover my why. Sometimes a single line, a perfect poem or a small ritual can stir something...
Earth and Nature Honoring Poems for a Wedding Ceremony
One of my favorite human emotions is awe -- that sudden, bodily remembering that this planet is wildly beautiful, and that we belong to it. So it’s no surprise that I’ve collected so many earth and nature-honoring poems and quotes over the years. These pieces can...
Off the the beaten path LOVE poems for a wedding ceremony
To me, poetry is the nectar of the gods...kinda like mangos. I love including poems in a wedding ceremony, it helps set the tone in a way that prose and exposition just can't. But.... I also don't love hearing the same poems over and over again... I like the poems to...
Get to know Jen a little better
I think there are at least a bajillion words on this website...but if you want to explore my thoughts a little deeper, here's some recent press: KSQD : Talk of the Bay. Christine, Naomi and I have a delightful exploration on how ritual and ceremony assist important...