First as a Science and Tech Advisor with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Defense Sciences Office and later as a Deputy at the Air Force Research Laboratory, Human Performance Wing, Jen managed an outrageous portfolio of biologically inspired robots, brain-machine interfaces for prosthetics, and multi-disciplinary programs to understand the impact of nutrition, illness, injury and stress on individual susceptibility and resistance to other stressors and disease.

Jen knows first-hand how chronic stress, concussion and trauma impacts the nervous system communication in the form of autoimmunity, anxiety, chronic pain and burnout.

After experiencing stress-related burnout (4x!) in a post-9/11 environment, Jen finally understood that no amount of bootstrapping can sustainably reignite a nervous system after experiencing burnout. Even more, how continuous overriding the system may ‘work’ short-term, but long-term, only creates faster pathways to shutdown.

From her personal journey and professional work in mental health and addiction communities, Jen committed to training, research and application of mindfulness, breathwork, yoga therapy, energywork, meditation, vagus nerve conditioning, psychomotor movement, relational trauma therapy, somatic experiencing and personalized nutrition for nervous system regulation and capacity restoration. 

Jen developed and directed the Self Care and Resilience™ program, a holistic stress management and nervous system resilience program that reduces perceived stress and improves coping skills, establishes boundaries and boosts compassion.

Over the last decade, she launched mindbody therapeutic programs within two NFL teams, three military branches, dozens of organizations, hundreds of health/helping professionals and thousands of real humans just like you.

This work is featured across local and national news outlets and the data outcomes presented at the American Academy of Health Behavior and International Society of Traumatic Stress.

Jen finds deep fulfillment engaging in warfigher reintegration and somatic justice work across the country, Additionally, Jen is committed to rehumanizing our culture with state grants like Hey, I’m Here Ohio, a resilience-based, youth-led, mental health campaign delivering original content that elevates the conversation around self-care.

Jen holds a steady belief in our human potential and that each of us deserves the freedom found from everyday resilience to show up in the world as our True Self.