Mindset & Wellness for Creative Thinkers
Expand into daring.
Work deeper.
Actually astonish yourself.
Visual artists, writers, fashion people and creative thinkers of every stripe develop an invaluable ability to reframe their process with perspectives and practices that invite creative flow.
Explore discipline & desire.
Articulate meaning. Hone focus. Build capacity. And pave a crystalline path towards momentum.
It feels pretty invigorating.
Facilitating subtle mindset shifts, we dust off and untangle assumptions, habits and old stories.
Optimizing a new approach to creative work...
flow state physiology...
somatic practices...
dialing in an essential wellness routine.
We work with the integral body-mind systems to increase stability, capacity for expansion, and receptivity to inspiration and ease.
Where to begin?
Let's have a 45-minute call to see how we collaborate together—no strings.
It's a simple way to start when you are ready.
Discovery
A celebrated fashion show producer actively slows her pace to investigate what matters most, expanding into her art practice and pivoting towards a new career...
Restoration
An accomplished screenwriter shakes writer's block, overhauling her approach to her work using mindset tools and somatic practices...
Refinement
A novelist embarks on a challenging manuscript, rebuilding her creative process and shedding destructive work patterns of previous decades...
Optimization
A visual artist plumbs somatic experience to explore challenging new themes, while re-balancing nutritional and hormonal health, and redefining her relationship with her body.
KIND WORDS
“I was in a sort of ‘soft’ crisis…Jessica truly broke open my creative process for me and I have never felt I was given permission to be my own kind of artist and now I do.
I don’t cringe to say I am an artist, and I look forward to my scheduled creative time, which I honor above all other daily responsibilities, beyond childcare. Practically, I am producing more new work than I have in years and it feels easier than it has in a decade.”
—Sophie E.
"a very smart investment in my future as a writer….”
Our work provided “the emotional and tactical support necessary to tackle projects big and small.”
Especially recommended for: ”People who are tackling BIG EMOTIONAL projects or are feeling emotional about work...This was a game changer for me and how I approach everything.”
—Robin, Los Angeles
"I wanted help learning how to live a more creative life and how to stop being a victim in my life. I also wanted help with my ‘writer’s block.’
I felt very worried that I was spending money we didn’t have, and I wasn’t sure if this was a 'wise' investment….I signed up for help with my writing and in some ways ended up getting help with everything but my writing…because it turned out that that was my challenge. My life did not have space for my art. I don’t know of any other coaches who help tackle creative blocks with such a global perspective…”
Biggest reframe?: “Everything is writing. Everything is creativity. There is no separation, and being a mother is deeply creative too.”
—Meghan M., Santa Fe, NM
"Every conversation we had was so rich and full...Even now, over a year later, our conversations feel very fresh in my mind and I am still actively playing with the ideas.
From new ways to approach how I organize my day to support creative and productive patterns, to somatic techniques to implement on difficult days….Our work together helped me to deepen my understanding of the role that creativity, art, and beauty play in my life and allowed me to come to respect and value them in a new and expansive way."
—J.B., Brooklyn
“I knew I was going to have to face certain comfortable patterns which had held me in a state of paralysis....It also, as it turns out, meant finding really beautiful parts of myself which had been whispering for my affection for a long time.”
During our time together she “found a true reference for what being in alignment with myself feels like, and am now working with that as the baseline from which I conduct my life.”
—Lindsey, Los Angeles
“I...have a history of intense perfectionism and burning myself out..."
"I worked with a life coach several years ago, and we instituted a very rigid program, which yielded results in the short term, but ultimately left me feeling depleted and unsatisfied….Jessica's patient, playful, gimlet-eyed compassion was the real revelation for me. I felt her care in a way that I've ended up modeling for myself, and this has been truly transformative."
"I'm kinder to myself when I work now. I'm more aware of my body, and more attuned to the valuable messages my body sends me. I also feel safer and more confident about bringing my full self (and my honest thoughts) to the workplace.”
Especially recommended for: “Anyone who wants to create a healthier and more joyful creative practice with a woman who possesses a wealth of cutting-edge scientific information, a deep understanding of Eastern spiritual traditions, and a dazzling cabinet of alternative therapies that range from somatic experiencing to weird Chinese acupressure points that magically release stress in the body and help you get ‘unstuck.’”
—K.C.
“…Our time together reminded me...that simple energetic practices could make the difference."
During our sessions Jessica guided "our conversation to the bigger picture, or the through-line, always elevating and pushing forward gently…."
"I have carried away from our time together a little ember of self-knowing, a reminder that my essence endures, even if it flickers.”
—Katharine M.
From single session clients:
“I had an issue in my life that felt like a Catch-22…until we reached a point where I saw what I had previously perceived an insurmountable structural issue standing between me and what I wanted to accomplish very differently….Somehow with her gentle nudging I was able to articulate and then take responsibility for making my way through the tangle I was in….after years of talking about making a shift, I knew that I was finally in a position to do it…”
—M.A.
“Jessica listens attentively, asks piercing questions, and gently and steadily holds the vision of my potential….My biggest breakthrough was learning that the way I think about my goals is stopping me from achieving them….I feel greatly nourished by being listened to with this level of acceptance. It is rare in my life.”
I would describe Jessica as “a spiritual guide with a double degree in wizardry and people communication.”
—Jaime T.
Our conversation helped “in creating these small habits that compound to an overall better sense of self. I really appreciate how enlightened I felt. I don't think I've had someone question me to think so deeply about myself…It was another level of self awareness. Thank you.”
—Marlin
COLLABORATIONS
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ABOUT ME
Jessica Kerwin Jenkins is a writer, author and coach for creatives.
I am a certified wellness coach.
I'm also the author of Encyclopedia of the Exquisite, and several other books, and worked for many years as journalist and editor in New York, Los Angeles and Paris (Vogue, W, New York Times, Women's Wear Daily). I picked up some bad habits along the way, pushing myself towards breakdown. There was no room for creativity or innovation, only grind.
After leaving my post as the European Editor of W in Paris, I ran away to India to pursue my love of meditation. I have studied the techniques of mindfulness in the Vipassana lineage alongside developing my understanding of spirituality, consciousness and creativity through the lens of worldwide culture traditions for more than 20 years.
I am a nationally board-certified NBC-HWC wellness coach, and hold a certificate in Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy. Some of the systems that inform my work include: transformational coaching, performance coaching, positive psychology, somatic nutrition, herbalism, Somatic Experiencing, Focussing, Internal Family Systems, Vipassana meditation, yoga, 5 Rhythms, which I have practiced for more than a decade, Tantric Shakta embodiment practices (Kashmir Shaivism) and the philosophies of Taoist Five Elements Chinese medicine.
Teachers and mentors who have influenced my work include Lorie Eve Dechar, Michaela Boehm, Jaya Ashmore, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Gabrielle Roth, Luis Mojica, Daniel Foor, Terri O'Fallon, Ajay Singh and Martín Prechtel.
My husband and I raised our family in the wilds of Maine and live in New York's Hudson Valley. My clients are based all over the world.
