I really love a solid, bold planting of a flag saying, this is how it is.
If this is how you’re gonna roll, by middle age you’ll (I’ll) have realized that way of being is gonna require some humility, flexibility, humor, and an equally bold openness to being wrong about everything.
I pivoted and pivoted through religion, psychology, spirituality of various flavors, politics, cultural critique from various lenses, so much of all of it driven by chronic illness, and all of it infused with a real desire to be of service.
One of my favorite questions is, what do you think? Knowing anything in any solid way is always deeply collaborative. Collaboration has taken a real hit in Western life. Let’s join up and see what happens when we’re together.
How I work
My work engages intuitive, psychotherapeutic and somatic approaches, with a systems and liberation lens. Western psychology is still largely looking at you through the lens of mom, dad and nuclear family, without nearly enough of a giant nod to the whole picture of what we’re in. The growth and healing industry in general is still largely individualistic, and will try to help you with individuation but not offer much in the direction of the skills needed for communal connection.
So when we work together, I will be deeply curious about your specific, personal inquiries, struggles and projects, while knowing that your thriving lives out there inside an ecosystem of diversity. Together we’ll sort out the tangle of what you’re in and how to (re)connect to yourself in a fully embodied state AND to the wider whole. There’s no such thing as real thriving without both.
The intuitive part of this is simple. I’ll have my intuition there with us, to see what it has to add to the wisdom of our work. Everyone has their intuition there with them of course. Being intuitive is as human as being emotional or intellectual or physical. Just like with my therapist self, I’ve developed a skilled connection to my intuition over the years, and have a deep appreciation for the genius intuition has to offer our processes.
A quick word on intuition - I call intuition the human faculty of attunement. New age and woo spirituality will tell you it’s special and mystical and inherently spiritual, that it only belongs to people who “have the gift,” and some other things I’m really not into. It isn’t any of these things. (Insert flag planted here.) Intuition is human. Everyone’s intuitive. And a well-developed intuition has so much to offer us as we go about discerning and expanding, for ourselves and our communities.
If you want to talk more about anything I’ve said (or not said) about my approach, feel free to email me at jen@jenpayneintuitive.com and we can see how my work might best join up with you and what you’re up to.
