Back in November 2019 I was really sad. I was just really deeply sad and disoriented in my life. I had just celebrated my 30th anniversary with my husband. We've had challenges over the years. Normal life challenges, financial, intimate, all of that stuff. And we've been proponents of therapy for a long time. And it just got to the point where we’d done all the therapy. And I couldn't shake the feeling of feeling sad in my life, I felt like my life was happening in one space. And I was over here looking at it. I felt like nobody knew me. And I didn't know anybody else. 

I didn't know how to get to the place I wanted. I knew that I wanted to stay in my marriage. I just didn't know how to get there. 

And that's where I was when I entered into Jenny’s beautiful paving paths. I'm one of those women that feels generally pretty competent in my life, and pretty in control. And so it took a great deal of effort for me to step up to the plate, and let myself go back to learning and find the path that I was missing.

The thing that's happened most profoundly for me since working with Jenny: I've learned how to replace the voice that teaches you to react or judge or try and solve. I've learned to replace that with simple curiosity. And that has opened up everything. 

In my marriage, it's led to fruitful conversations and getting to know each other on a plane that we never had before. And in such a mature and caring and soft and gentle way. And it's opened up all kinds of avenues with work or my children or my own sense of self. 

There's something very special about this program that’s needed in society. But what's unique about what you've done here is this absolute harmonic convergence of women that I know I was desperately missing. I have lots of women friends, but we weren't supporting each other in these ways. We were partying, doing wine nights, great women doing fun stuff. But this is a different level of female engagement that is so richly supported, calling on the skills of other women to support each other in dynamic change and celebrate each other. 

It's a space where you can leave behind all of your self-pity, all of those things that aren't really helpful to grow. And you can go there and be open and vulnerable and real. 

That is uniquely powerful. 

Highlights From Rachel's Story