The Week I Inhabited My Own Life

There are weeks that ask us to endure. There are weeks that ask us to become. And then, every so often, there is a week that simply asks us to inhabit everything we have already become. This was that week. Just one week earlier, I stood at the edge of profound grief, preparing to lose someone who has shaped the course of my life. The sadness was real. It still is. But this week taught me something equally true: Grief does not disappear when joy arrives. It simply rests for a while as life reminds us why we continue walking. And life was generous.

The Baton and the Field

There are weeks that move quickly, and there are weeks that seem to exist outside of time. This was the latter. It was a week where past, present, and future converged—not in collision, but in quiet, unmistakable convergence. The week began with creation. The Business Universe expanded into something far greater than strategy or planning. It revealed itself as a philosophy of stewardship, a living framework for creating the conditions where people and systems can flourish. What once felt like a business tool now feels like a reflection of who I have become. At the same time, life asked me to walk into one of the hardest moments I have ever faced.

The Horizon Shifted

Some weeks ask us to climb. Others ask us to carry. This week asked me to carry. It was a week woven with grief, brain fog, uncertainty, and the quiet ache of watching someone I love prepare to leave this world. Helping Patty walk out of the office—perhaps for the final time—felt like watching an entire chapter of my life slowly close behind her. There are no words that fully describe the weight of standing beside someone who has entrusted you with their legacy while knowing the time remaining is painfully short. I felt scattered. Fragmented. As though each day dissolved into the next without enough clarity to gather myself between them. And yet…In the middle of the heaviness, I chose to step outside of my familiar walls.

The Compass and the Threshold

This week brought one of the hardest truths I have faced in a very long time. Patty’s health declined rapidly. What had once been measured in hopeful possibilities suddenly became measured in weeks. Hospice entered the conversation. The future I knew was coming arrived much sooner than expected. For several days, I felt suspended between worlds. One part of me continued opening the office, attending meetings, building websites, solving problems, and showing up for the responsibilities in front of me. Another part stood still in disbelief. Nothing felt normal. Because it wasn’t.

The Author Tree Finds Her Voice

This week began with a realization about time. While sitting with a journal and a glass of sangria, reflecting on the growing responsibilities of leadership, a simple sentence emerged: There is only so much time in a week. The words stopped me in my tracks. For years, my life had been measured in days, hours, and during the hardest moments, minutes. Yet without thinking, I had begun measuring my life in weeks. The horizon had expanded. The mountain had become visible.

The Mountain Sees the Eddy

There are moments on the path when growth arrives as a breakthrough. And there are moments when it arrives as recognition. This week was the latter. Sometimes you are not broken. Sometimes you are in an eddy.

Blue Moon Clarity

This week brought a kind of clarity that cannot be forced, only received. Under the light of the Blue Moon in Sagittarius, I found myself standing in the aftermath of several conversations, realizations, and emotional shifts that all seemed to converge into a single truth: I am no longer willing to live inside stories that are not reality.

The Lighthouse Without the Anger Blanket

This week began as a celebration. One full year since the nuclear collapse of the life I thought I was living. One year since the day I discovered that my marriage had shattered in a way that could never be rebuilt. One year since illusion exploded into ash. And so, I decided to celebrate myself differently each day. Not with spectacle or performance or proving. With presence. And then the spiral turned…

Inhabitation After Ashes

This week was not made of lightning bolts or dramatic revelations. It was made of something quieter. Something steadier. Something far more sustainable: Embodiment. The Universe of Jen is no longer an idea floating in journals and conversations. It is now physical architecture.

The Universe Holds

This week felt like standing in the center of a storm and realizing I was no longer being carried away by it. There was grief and anger. There was tenderness and truth. There was revelation. There was deep nervous system recalibration. And through all of it, I remained standing – still coherent, still open, still expanding. That may be the clearest definition of healing I have ever experienced.