Be Here Now With Jen

Be Here Now With Jen Jennifer is an experienced psychotherapist in the Atlanta area who has dedicated the past decade res

Hello colleagues,I’m launching a small supervision and mentorship group beginning in July 2026, designed for therapists ...
06/13/2026

Hello colleagues,

I’m launching a small supervision and mentorship group beginning in July 2026, designed for therapists and helping professionals who want thoughtful support, clinical insight, and sustainable ways to continue doing meaningful work.

We will meet July 6, 13, 20, and 27 at either 9:00-10:30 or 12:00–1:30 PM ET via Zoom. Each 90-minute session will provide space to explore challenging cases and clinical questions, share perspectives, and discuss practical strategies for maintaining vitality in a demanding profession.

My intention is to support clinicians who know the very real experience of professional fatigue and emotional depletion that can come with caring deeply for others. Over the past two decades, my work has lived at the intersection of trauma therapy, Somatic Experiencing, embodiment, meditation, spirituality, and systems thinking, along with the Kintsugi Method I’ve developed through my own work. I’ve come to see that sustaining a long career in this field requires more than knowledge and methods alone. It requires differentiation, presence, and the ability to stay steady in the midst of complex human dynamics. This group is designed to help therapists strengthen those capacities while continuing to grow in the craft of therapy.

If you’re looking for thoughtful consultation, community, and a place to think deeply about the work we do, I’d love to have you join us.

Details and registration: www.beherenowmindfulness.com (* if you need financial assistance, please email me directly at [email protected])

Warmly, Jen

P.S. My Kintsugi Teacher Training coming up Friday, July 17, 2026, is currently half full. It is offered for 6 Core CEs. If you are interested in becoming a certified Kintsugi Teacher to bring this wonderful Japanese art of mending broken pottery with gold to your place of work, please email me at [email protected]

A beautiful book sent to me by a beautiful friend. There is a solution to the chicken and egg problem. The beginning, ei...
06/11/2026

A beautiful book sent to me by a beautiful friend.

There is a solution to the chicken and egg problem. The beginning, either way you go, started with living kindness and compassion towards our own selves. Without that, everything else will crumble, or certainly feel unsteady.

On page 14 Bassani writes:

From a Buddhist perspective, how do we deal with unresolved wounds and emotional blocks?
“Buddhism is not psychiatry, but we must remember what the Buddha originally taught,” Jetsunma stresses. “The teachings are not just about calming and taming the mad monkey mind. The other thing he said is that we should all, at first, do the meditations of loving-kindness, compassion, and joy, starting with ourselves. I think this is very important. Buddhism may seem to be mostly about fighting the ego, about nonself, about emptiness, but the Buddha said in the beginning, ‘Become friends with yourself, because it is your ego that will have to walk the path. To be able to do that-and then to develop deep understandings—we must be friends with our ego.” This is a crucial point that I, and many spiritual seekers, lose sight of.
I am happy that Jetsunma expresses it unequivocally, in such simple words: “Be friends with our ego.

Many mindfulness practices teach us how to become less reactive. Fewer teach us how to stay fully human. Somewhere in th...
06/05/2026

Many mindfulness practices teach us how to become less reactive. Fewer teach us how to stay fully human. Somewhere in the pursuit of calm, we’ve started sanding down the very edges that make us interesting. Is that growth, or are we just getting a little boring?

Read, subscribe and follow me here on Medium: https://medium.com//does-meditation-make-us-one-dimensional-a1cfbfa0b162

Or subscribe and read here on my website blog:

https://www.beherenowmindfulness.com/blog-layout-1/does-meditation-make-us-one-dimensional

I’m opening up an impromptu Kintsugi Teacher Training on Friday, July 17, 2026, in the Marietta / East Cobb / Roswell, G...
06/03/2026

I’m opening up an impromptu Kintsugi Teacher Training on Friday, July 17, 2026, in the Marietta / East Cobb / Roswell, Georgia area.

If you’re a therapist, mindfulness teacher, coach, educator, facilitator, or group leader, this training offers a unique way to bring a meaningful and highly engaging experience into your practice or organization.

What is Kintsugi?

Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold, transforming cracks and fractures into part of the object’s beauty rather than something to hide. It has become a powerful metaphor for resilience, healing, and post-traumatic growth.

In this one-day training, you’ll learn how to:

• Facilitate a Kintsugi workshop from start to finish
• Organize, market, and structure your event
• Lead meaningful discussions around resilience, loss, trauma, growth, and transformation
• Work with the Kintsugi repair process itself
• Create a memorable and impactful experience for participants

All materials are included, along with a comprehensive 50-page facilitator manual that will allow you to confidently bring this work into your own setting.

Space will be limited.

If you’re interested, email me directly for details: [email protected]

Details here: www.beherenowmindfulness.com EVENTS page

Continuing education credits available.

…most of us don’t need another self-improvement workshop. We need a better relationship with the places where life broke us….

What happens to the self when we lose contact with where we end and another person begins? In a culture organized around...
05/13/2026

What happens to the self when we lose contact with where we end and another person begins? In a culture organized around both hyperconnection and emotional avoidance, many people oscillate between emotional fusion and emotional cutoff without realizing either extreme can erode the self. Drawing from neuroscience, Bowen Family Systems Theory, contemplative practice, burnout research, and even the film Cast Away, this essay explores the fragile architecture of identity, intimacy, and the difficult art of remaining connected without disappearing into one another or trying so desperately to stay separate.

Read full essay here: https://jenniferchasefinch.medium.com/essay-self-other-bed2593f8b32

As a supervisee, what kind of relationship would you want with your supervisor? I’ve had my share of less-than-great sup...
05/12/2026

As a supervisee, what kind of relationship would you want with your supervisor?

I’ve had my share of less-than-great supervisors over the years. Not all of them, of course—some profoundly shaped the clinician and person I became.

I think many clinicians remember both the supervisors who expanded them and the ones who made supervision feel more like a survival game. I had one supervisor early on who left me questioning nearly every decision I made. I walked out of sessions doubting my instincts, my voice, even whether I belonged in the field at all. It was terrible.

Twenty-five years later, I can see more clearly that good supervision should challenge you without shrinking you. It should sharpen your thinking, deepen your integrity, and help you become more fully yourself as a clinician—not less.

I have dedicated much of my work to the realities of burnout, emotional exhaustion, and the erosion of self that can happen in this field over time. My hope as a supervisor is not to create dependency or structure a hierarchy where I would presume to know and have all the answers. I want to create a space that rests in equanimity—where we can think out loud, ask difficult questions, make mistakes, strengthen clinical judgment, and grow into our own voice, power, and intelligence with greater confidence and steadiness.

Above all, I believe one of the most important skills a clinician can develop is the ability to remain connected without losing themselves inside the emotional intensity of the work. That self-other distinction changes everything—that is the one thing I hope to pass on from my lived experience in this field and in my personal life as well.

Published in 1970, psychiatrist R.D. Laing wrote Knots—a strange little masterpiece that reads like an adult nursery rhy...
05/11/2026

Published in 1970, psychiatrist R.D. Laing wrote Knots—a strange little masterpiece that reads like an adult nursery rhyme after one too many martinis and several generations of unresolved family trauma.

It is written in a style I have never come across before—looping conversations, contradictions, and manipulations—showing the gridlock of common patterns in relationships. The themes explored are of marriages stuck in endless impasses, family secrets that bind generations in dysfunction, violence that destroys a self, and projections that entangle a parent-child dynamic. All of these are called “Knots.” Emotional gridlock that still feels somehow painfully modern. I hear every single one of these themes from my clients weekly.

Part poem, maybe part play, or maybe part psychological fever dream—it is undoubtedly unusually written, and dizzying to read, but somehow still held up to my attention standards. You can read it in under an hour and then spend the rest of the day thinking…”Well…that explains such and such….and I can see why everyone is so stuck and why no one can seem to move forward…”

There are free PDFs floating around online if you’re curious.

This is for anyone who has ever felt too much for the space they were given and suspected that nature might understand t...
04/27/2026

This is for anyone who has ever felt too much for the space they were given and suspected that nature might understand them better than most people do. This is for those who feel the pull to get back to the feeling of bare feet in the dirt.



Read and be sure to subscribe on my page:

https://jenfinch.substack.com/p/born-in-a-wheatfield?r=7fj47

Hello colleagues,I’m launching a second cohort of small supervision and mentorship groups beginning in May 2026, designe...
04/20/2026

Hello colleagues,

I’m launching a second cohort of small supervision and mentorship groups beginning in May 2026, designed for therapists and helping professionals who want thoughtful support, clinical insight, and sustainable ways to continue doing meaningful work.

We will meet May 1, 8, 15, 22 from 12:00–1:30 PM ET via Zoom. Each 90-minute session will provide space to explore challenging cases and clinical questions, share perspectives, and discuss practical strategies for maintaining vitality in a demanding profession.

My intention is to support clinicians who know the very real experience of professional fatigue and emotional depletion that can come with caring deeply for others. Over the past two decades, my work has lived at the intersection of trauma therapy, Somatic Experiencing, embodiment, meditation, spirituality, and systems thinking, along with the Kintsugi Method I’ve developed through my own work. I’ve come to see that sustaining a long career in this field requires more than knowledge and methods alone. It requires differentiation, presence, and the ability to stay steady in the midst of complex human dynamics. This group is designed to help therapists strengthen those capacities while continuing to grow in the craft of therapy.

A few spaces remain in the noon group. If you’re looking for thoughtful consultation, community, and a place to think deeply about the work we do, I’d love to have you join us.

This is a small group format.

Details and registration: www.beherenowmindfulness.com (* if you need financial assistance, please email me directly at [email protected])

Warmly, Jen

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