ABOUT ME

Hi, I’m Jen.  

The idea for Life After Busy came to me during a sob session on my first yoga retreat.  Each day started with 25 minutes of silent meditation.  The first time I sat cross-legged and began chanting OM in this rustic temple,  I came completely unglued in less than two minutes.  

The flood of emotions took me by surprise.  This wasn’t me.  I’m the Type A girl that gets it all done without breaking a sweat but not this time.

Life and all its messiness came down on me in that ashram.  I finally had stopped and looked inside.  There were no to-do lists or news feeds to distract me.  I had pushed through the worst year of my life and the only way out was by turning inside.

The flood of tears had been welling up while I fought cancer alongside my mom.  I didn’t have time to feel those emotions because I was busy still being someone for everybody else.  When cancer took my mom too soon, life shook me HARD.  I finally took the time to recognize the emotions and vulnerability I had pushed aside.

This was the wakeup call I needed to see that there is more to life than being busy.  Before I packed up my yoga mat, I promised myself that I would find a way to live beyond exhaustion as a status symbol.    

I hope our paths have crossed before you’ve reached your breaking point.  

Life After Busy is a place where you can break free from the busy trap.  I’m harnessing my Type A powers for good.  Time management and productivity are skills you can take outside the office. There also needs to be space in your life for self-care or you might end up ugly crying on a yoga mat in the woods.

I am a writer and coach to help you find the path to a fulfilled life.  It can be a dark and scary journey but you don’t have to do it alone.

We are living during a distracted time.  There’s so much competing for our attention  - family, friends, career, social media, the list goes on and on.

There’s more to life than constant interruption.  We need to find a way to fight through all that noise to focus on what’s most important.  Small tweaks to refocus.  There is life after being busy.