Work with me
I offer one-on-one mentorship and immersions for women and couples. I’m not taking new clients right now, but I have a waitlist for when a spot opens.
Join the waitlistFree guided meditation
5 minutes to come home to your heart
A short guided audio and daily practice to soften, to feel what is alive within you, and to remember the wisdom in your heart that has been with you all along.
Why it matters
The heart is so much more than a place where we experience love...
It is a doorway into our interior world, into the feelings, longings, desires, and deeper knowing that shape how we experience ourselves and the world around us.
Psychologically, our capacity to connect with our felt experience is fundamental to emotional awareness, self-understanding, and meaningful relationships. When we learn to listen to what is happening within us, we become better able to recognize our needs, tend to our vulnerabilities, and make choices that reflect what we truly value.
And there is something profoundly beautiful about what becomes possible when we begin to live from this place. We become more available to the fullness of life, to its beauty and its heartbreak, to the depth of our humanity, and to the extraordinary experience of loving and being loved.
This may be for you if...
- You long for more depth, intimacy, and meaning in every aspect of your life, and want to experience yourself, your relationships, and the world around you more fully.
- You’ve become so accustomed to being strong & capable that you’ve lost touch with your own tenderness and vulnerability.
- You sense there are parts of yourself waiting to be rediscovered, desires you’ve silenced, longings you’ve dismissed, and an inner wisdom you’ve yet to fully trust.
- You want to embrace your sensitivity as one of your greatest strengths, allowing greater connection, compassion, and aliveness in life.
- You’re moving through a season of change, uncertainty, or heartbreak, and want to learn how to stay present with yourself through it all.
- You want to expand your capacity to hold the fullness of life, to experience profound joy and beauty without turning away from grief, discomfort, or uncertainty.
About
Hi, I’m Jessica
I’m the heart behind @thefeminineheart, where I explore topics like love, loss, and the devotion to living fully in this life.
I create spaces for people to explore themselves: their wants and fears, tenderness and longing, edges and anxieties, darkness and beauty, grief and becoming.
I hold master’s degrees from Harvard and University of Santa Monica, and am currently pursuing my PhD in Depth Psychology at Pacifica.
But life has been my greatest teacher. Losing my mother to early-onset Alzheimer’s, losing my home to the Malibu fires, and all the love and heartbreak in between have deepened my devotion to living and loving with my whole heart.
And it’s this devotion that I bring to everything I do.
- Based
- Ibiza, Spain
Let’s go deeper
Here are some musings from my heart, to yours. Choose what you’re needing, or scroll the row.
On living(opens Instagram in a new tab)- On loss
Please, just give us time to grieve
On shared loss, spiritual bypass, and what love revealed in the fire.
Read on Substack (opens in a new tab) 
On love(opens Instagram in a new tab)- On learning to stay
I write from the ache
I do not write to convince or express some fixed understanding. I write because something inside my skin aches to touch what cannot be named, because something in my blood longs to tend to the ineffable in-between.
Read on Substack (opens in a new tab) 
On learning to stay(opens Instagram in a new tab)- On longing
I want to read you
On fumbling for our own words.
Read on Substack (opens in a new tab) - On learning to stay
Have you met her?
This morning she met me in the bathroom while I was brushing my teeth, leering over my shoulder as the unforgiving light hit the rawness of my face at 5 a.m., as if she had been waiting there all night.
Read on Substack (opens in a new tab) 
On longing(opens Instagram in a new tab)
On learning to stay(opens Instagram in a new tab)- On living
Behind the Glass: On Numbness, Descent and the Courage to Feel Again
There is an enormity to the plunge required to walk away from a life of numbness, from the autopilot humdrum of getting by through forgetting, the everyday bypasses, the skimming over of pain points, the turning away from what claws at our insides, like something trapped behind glass, fogging up the surface. A life pressed flat, breath smudged against the pane, pulse dulled into background noise.
Read on Substack (opens in a new tab) 
On living(opens Instagram in a new tab)- On living
The Cost of Belonging: What We Must Lose to Come Home to Ourselves
There is a portal into the deepest understanding of who we were, before we ever forgot. But what is required of us to walk through this doorway, is more than most can handle; it demands a kind of honesty that will destroy any semblance of stability.
Read on Substack (opens in a new tab) 
On living(opens Instagram in a new tab)
On love(opens Instagram in a new tab)
On loss(opens Instagram in a new tab)
On learning to stay(opens Instagram in a new tab)
On loss(opens Instagram in a new tab)
On living(opens Instagram in a new tab)
On love(opens Instagram in a new tab)
Get in Touch
For speaking invitations, podcast, press, and partnership inquiries, send a note through the contact form and I’ll be in touch.
Say hello