Becoming the Person Behind This Space
If you've made it to this page, you're probably the kind of person who wants to know who's actually on the other side of this work.
I'm Jen Wende. I'm an ancestral healing practitioner, embodied expression guide, and someone who spent most of her life being very, very good at making everyone else comfortable.
This page is my story. Not the polished version, the real one.
Hit play if you want to hear it in my own words, or scroll down for the highlights.
I grew up as the quintessential good girl. The one who listened, followed the rules, and made herself useful without needing anything in return. I didn't realize until much later that this wasn't just a personality trait, it was an inherited pattern, connected through generations before me.
Theatre cracked open the first door. Playing characters who were bold, commanding, and unapologetic gave me a safe container for everything I couldn't express as myself.
Then three years of solo travel connected me to an exciting new version of myself. For the first time in my life I woke up every morning asking only what I wanted and needed. I felt more alive than I ever had.
Until my body stopped me completely…I ended up in an infectious disease ward in Italy, sick enough to be brought home by my mother, and suddenly dependent in every way I'd spent my life avoiding. That illness became the beginning of everything, yoga, coaching, embodied healing, and an honest look at the patterns I'd inherited.
Becoming a mother opened up a power and deep reflection of myself that only motherhood can provide. Nothing shows you your own unfinished edges quite like raising a child.
I'm not someone who figured it all out and now teaches from the other side. I'm someone who does this work because I needed it, and still do. That's why everything here exists.
“She has a gentle way and is full of helpful and encouraging support. I adore Jen.”
“Jen Wende is one of the most powerful female healers I have ever had the pleasure of working with.”
“She is intuitive, wise and caring and connected to a world beyond what we can perceive with the naked eye.”
Fun Facts about Jen:
If I were a dog I'd be a golden retriever, playful, trustworthy, and deeply loving when I feel free.
I always wanted to be an actor, so I became one. What I loved most was getting to express in ways Jen never would have dared to in real life.
My dad died the exact same age and in the exact same way as his dad, unexpectedly, at 49, from a blood clot. That pattern ignited the work I do now.
Three years into solo world travel I met my mom in Italy, became extremely ill, and ended up in hospital for over a week, and then as an outpatient for over a month. The doctors never really figured out what happened. I'm still grateful for it.
I once boarded a local bus in Laos thinking it was a 10 hour pretty direct journey. It took three days, crossed seven rivers, and broke down five times. No other foreigners, nobody spoke my language, and nobody in the world knew where I was. It was one of the most amazing community-filled experiences of my life.
When I was pregnant I was terrified of having a girl because I hadn't yet connected to the power of being a woman. Motherhood shifted that completely.
My tattoos feel like codes written on my body, each one marking a lesson, a healing, a turning point.
I have one foot in the spirit realm and one planted firmly on earth, and I wouldn't have it any other way.
I'm really glad you're here. If something in this page softened or woke up in you, trust that. That's usually where the work begins.