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Hello, I'm Jennifer.

I'm a writer at heart: award-winning author, trauma-informed somatic writing coach and INFJ empath. Highly sensitive and emotionally intense, I am passionate about honoring what our bodies have been through and the stories and emotions they hold.

I believe our stories are the key to our wholeness. Whether you dream of writing your story in a way that really conveys your experience or you seek safety inside your skin, welcome. I'm glad you're here.

You're a writer at heart too.

It's easier for you to write about your feelings than talk about them. You've been through a fair amount of trauma. Maybe you've written formally about it, maybe you've only journaled and maybe you've lost your voice in the wake of a season of pain. That happens.

You’ve spent your life feeling "too much," carrying an internal landscape that feels intense, overwhelming and vast.

But you keep returning to the page because you are a writer at heart. Yet when you try to move your intensity onto your page, the words either flood you or they feel thin – like they're not touching how it actually feels. They're not conveying your experience in a way that leaves you feeling whole.

This gap between how you feel inside and what gets written on your page is what I call the wordless ache – that sense that nobody sees you in your story and nobody cares. Most sensitive writers have this. It isn’t a lack of talent, this gap — it’s a somatic disconnect.

A close-up of a handwritten Body Writing™ journal page with a blue Pilot pen, representing the visceral prose and somatic release of Jennifer's method

My Rare Bridge

The Healing Power Of Witnessing & Expressing My Own Story

I sit at the intersection of two worlds that rarely speak the same language: the world of high-level literary craft and the deep, tender world of trauma recovery.

I've studied and written with Janet Fitch (White Oleander) and Tom Spanbauer, founder of the Dangerous Writing method, and have been a runner-up for The Missouri Review Jeffrey E. Smith Editor's Prize. I know what it takes to write a narrative that bleeds and sings. I also know what it's like for your body to feel like a crime scene. As a Certified Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy Coach, I know how to hold the shaking, the silence and the flooding that often muffle sensitive writers right before they break through.

I created The Body Writing Method™ to bridge the disconnect between feeling alone in your story and whole within yourself through writing it. Whether that writing is journaling or a well-crafted story, Body Writing™ draws from Somatic Experiencing, IFS Parts Work, Expressive Writing and Tom's "dangerous" approach of going where it feels vulnerable inside ourselves to write and heal our stories true.

Jennifer Arnspiger testimonial for Highly Sensitive Healing 1:1 somatic trauma coach

Working with Jennifer is healing in a tangible way that lasts.

"Working Jennifer feels light and safe, even when we explore the more painful layers of trauma my body needs to write about. Her process is a safe way to explore trauma stuck in our bodies and release stored energy. It's simple, it's powerful and it works. If you have carried stress and trauma responses for far too long, then Jennifer is the one to turn to. Try this and give yourself the gift of lasting release. I had no idea working with her would be so magical. It has been more helpful for me than years of therapy."

REBECCA HEISTERHOFF

Work with Jennifer Arnspiger body writing Highly Sensitive Healing 1:1 somatic trauma coach

I have actively sought healing in many different modalities, but Body Writing is proving to be the most effective.

"As a survivor of childhood trauma, I have suffered my whole life from anxiety, depression, hyper-vigilance and a dysregulated nervous system. I have actively sought healing and relief in many different modalities, but Body Writing is proving to be the most effective.

Jennifer provides a safe and empathic space and process for us to explore our dark places and hold them up to the light to release their grip on our bodies. I appreciate the way she brings such gentleness and sensitivity to our space, and holds us all so carefully and lovingly. Following her example, writers not only accept what we have to share, but honor and celebrate our words with us. As a result of Body Writing, I find myself feeling lighter, calmer and less reactive. I am finally finding some peace."

ANNE H.

Working with her has helped me soften my perfectionism and craft a much more embodied, somatically authentic story.

"I have been working 1:1 with Jennifer for several months and cannot praise her enough. Her sensitive, compassionate, gentle nature coupled with her thoughtful, insightful and attentive feedback – all provided in a deeply safe container – has helped me soften my perfectionism and craft a much more embodied, somatically authentic story. She is a gem of a coach and human. I wholeheartedly recommend Jennifer!"

RACHEL K.

I feel so free and at peace with myself.

"Before working with Jennifer, I felt skeptical that I could ever experience the healing I needed. It felt impossible. By far the biggest issues I faced were self-hate and criticism, unhealed childhood traumas, resentment, rejection and feelings of unworthiness. After working with her, I feel so free and at peace with myself.

Jennifer is a genuine badass. As a coach, she has a gentle but fierce strength and lovingly holds space while you excavate your depths, offering caring reassurance. She holds a light for you and helps you realize it's your light. The light you thought for sure had died out and she's standing there at the end of the tunnel saying, "See? Isn't it beautiful?"

JESSICA M.

The 4 Stages Of Body Writing™

For A More Loving Relationship with Your Body, Story and Self

I don't just help you think or talk about your story; I help you embody it. I help you rewrite the narratives that say you think too much, feel too much, are too much – and learn to use your sensitivity + depth of feeling as your warmest path home to yourself.

Whether you're healing with me privately, writing with me in-circle or writing your story with me, my 4-part Body Writing™ framework moves at the speed of your nervous system. I help you embrace:

Grounding: Creating the safety you need for your body to open.

Interoception: So you can listen without fear to the subtle stories, vibrations and feelings on your inside.

Body Awareness: So we can locate exactly where your vulnerable stories are held in your body.

Expressive Writing: So you can finally find the words that match and convey your internal experience.

Work with Jennifer Arnspiger body writing Highly Sensitive Healing somatic trauma coach

My Invitation to You

Whether you seek writing as private medicine or to finally get an embodied draft of your story written, I have a place for you here. Which path feels most wanted by you today?

Option 1. The Internal Bloom

Your path to wholeness. For the deep feeler seeking writing as private medicine to move from a wordless ache to the grounded beauty of witnessing herself.

[Explore the 1:1 somatic healing journey]

Option 2. Somatic Story Immersion

For the sensitive writer ready to match the intensity of her internal experience to the words she puts on her page.

[Explore the 1:1 mentorship]

Option 3. The Atelier

For the sensitive writer comfortable penning her story on her own who still wants a path, co-regulation and accountability in a community that gets her. 💗

[Explore the Atelier]

She radiates warmth and sensitivity from her very core.

"Jennifer is, in the most compassionate and heart-felt way, guiding us all back to ourselves. She empathetic and caring but she is also so fucking kick-ass at the same time. She encourages the whole range of emotions and celebrates writing with no holds barred. She is kind. She is authentic. She is funny. She is the darkest of dark and the brightest of light. She is one of the very best humans. She has created a safe space for those of us who feel all the things all the time – a wonderfully safe and encouraging environment for every one of us to shine."

JANE McGEOGHAN

Layers of emotional pain have just melted away.

"It's really hard to put the experience of working with Jennifer into words but maybe it's best to simply say: if you allow her to guide you through her process, you will set yourself free. You will write and speak the words to set yourself free."

K.B.

Jennifer writes so beautifully about such difficult things.

ANNE H.

Little known facts about me 😊👋🏼

The human behind the method

My first job at seventeen was professional ballroom dancer, but writing has always been my first love. For me it's a deeply physical act that tethers me to my body and fulfilled self, even when I'm writing about hard things. Which I usually am. I’ve self-published two books, but the credential I'm most proud of is using writing to reclaim my own wholeness after decades of spectacular trauma.

My Body Writing™ method was born out of that experience.

I’m an Aquarius sun, Cancer moon and Taurus rising. I love flowers, emotional honestly and iced Americanos with cream. Most days I can be found with either earplugs or earbuds in —Tori Amos is my perpetual favorite listen.

I believe crying and laughter are medicine. I believe Black Lives Matter and support all human rights. If you value depth, storytelling and your relationship with yourself, you belong here. Whether you're a dog person or cat, a storyteller or a seeker — I invite you to bring your whole, honest self to the page with me.