Meet the Team

TICB, TICC, B.A., Licensed Minister

Jen is a certified trauma informed coach as well as a licensed minister with the UPCI. She has a passion to see confidence restored to those who have had an unexpected encounter with this thing we call “life”.

Jen and her husband were expecting their first child in August 2021. On December 30, 2020 their lives would be turned upside-down as there was a life threatening miscarriage that happened. Jen likes to describe that day as, “Compiling the Series ‘A Series of Unfortunate Events’ into one day.” The recovery was difficult and the idea of stepping out into the world that had not stopped spinning but rather kept going was even more difficult.

All of my future life as I thought it would be was not only gone, but gone forever. I truly could never get my child back. The idea of trying to have another child had two sides to it, but physically, it was not a topic of discussion for sometime.

Jen finally had a breakthrough in her health and when all seemed to be going the right direction, her and her husband came down with Covid-19. Her husband had a rough go with Covid and landed in the ER twice. The second time, Jen did not have much hope and did not have any idea if her husband would make it out of the hospital. Things looked so dark, within a year they both had sat by what they thought could be the other’s death bed.

She contacted her pastor and the church family began to pray and against all odds, her husband walked out of the hospital that night with her. His recovery was a bit longer than desired, but she was thankful nonetheless.

A fire started in Jen’s belly about how although she had had a wonderful support system with her family and church, she felt alone. Things emotionally were happening behind-the-scenes that were hard to talk about. Jen had no idea how to navigate these undesired “new courses” that she seemed to have to make.

“When I lost my baby, I felt that everyone around me was able to keep going North. I, however, could no longer go North, as the life that I had set for myself in that direction just honestly, no longer existed. I was being forced to go a new direction.”

Jen understands that no person will have an identical story of how their life became jolted onto a new course of direction. But her driving force is to support those who have the daunting task of trying to steer the boat in a whole new direction while either alone or feeling alone as well as being unconfident in their ability to maneuver.

There is hope! There is a new course that lies before you and Jen wants to cheer you along as well as give you tools to feel confident in your new course.

B.A., Licensed Minister, Communications Coach

At eighteen years of age, Jeremiah was at a cross roads for what direction in life to pursue. Having a burning passion to be a safe place for hurting people, as well as walk with them as they pushed through the hardest of times; he started out for Bible College in January of 2012 to start a new course.

During his years at college, he was able to learn some of his greatest lessons, one of which was: Regardless of their upbringing, culture, past mistakes or varying personalities people are human and all humans have ‘stuff’ to work through.

Jeremiah went through one of his hardest times when he lost his child due to Jen’s near-fatal miscarriage in December of 2020. “I not only lost the child, but there was the realization that I could have lost my best friend, my wife. When working through this ‘stuff’ I found I had the love and care from my family and my church yet, my loneliness was at an all-time high. I tried to fight the idea that my life would never be the same. I didn’t want it to change this way. I knew I couldn’t stay in the same place and be safe emotionally, I had to move forward, into what seemed like a brand new world.”

Whether the ‘stuff’ was given to you and you felt you couldn’t say, “No.” Maybe you yourself picked up some ‘stuff’ of your own free will and you wish you could return it, but there is a ‘No Returns Policy’. Or perhaps life just happened to you and some of the ‘stuff’ you have you now feel has altered your direction in life and you feel completely stuck.

In pursuing one’s new course, usually you have to part with some of the ‘stuff’. During terrible storms on the seas, sailors had to abandon many things that at the time seemed necessary, but when the direction of their life held in the balance, they had to decide what ‘stuff’ was going to help them stay afloat and push through to get to shore. Pulling out our own ‘stuff’ can feel daunting as sometimes we’ve hidden some of it so deep that no one else knows that we have it and pulling it out of our emotional baggage can feel frightening. Other times, the ‘stuff’ has become a part of us and letting it go can feel painful.

In Jeremiah’s recent course change through infant loss, he learned that pulling out those scary feelings, beliefs and realities into the light and being able to identify the ‘stuff’ by name brought a liberating result.

Jeremiah is truly driven to help others navigate this difficult journey by providing a safe place to pull out their ‘stuff’ and talk about what it is, how it got there and confidently embark on their new direction knowing that nothing is holding them back.