Jennifer J. Lehr, LMFT Blog

~ Stories and reflections bridging therapy, spirituality, and the wild feminine~

Learn about my latest book, Love’s Cauldron: Reclaim Your Wild Feminine. https://www.jenniferlehrmft.com/loves-cauldron-reclaim-your-wild-feminine/

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Please Forgive Me. Thank You.

All Posts, Emotional Healing, Marriage & Relationship Help, Self Reflection Jennifer Lehr's Blog

As time seems to quicken, and our experiences intensify, and as I’ve personally experienced more loss and death in my life, I find myself seeking more peace. As I let go of more of the external – outcomes and things – I find myself needing…

The Pain of an Opening Heart

All Posts, Emotional Healing, Self Reflection Jennifer Lehr's Blog

It hurts for our hearts to open. Like when the blood has been cut off from a limb and begins to flow back in, it pricks and tingles, the intensity worsening as the oxygen-rich blood rushes in to feed the cells and nerves. The cells and nerves…

My Sense of Home

All Posts, Emotional Healing, Empowerment, Self Reflection Jennifer Lehr's Blog

My much-loved husband nearly died three weeks ago. When I imagine my life without him, I realize that there is no place to go, nothing to do that could feel okay. I feel homeless, lost and adrift. What is home, but a tender heart we connect…

My Mother’s Passing

All Posts, Emotional Healing, Self Reflection, Wounds Jennifer Lehr's Blog

My mother died July 22nd after a yearlong battle fighting a rare and deadly cancer, mucosal melanoma. It was the day before my birthday and I wasn’t there. Perhaps she picked that day to spare me her death occurring on my birthday. We had…

The Balance of Peace and Growth

All Posts, Emotional Healing, Empowerment, Self Reflection Jennifer Lehr's Blog

Although much of my life revolves around a daily routine of work, like all of us, I find myself bombarded with sensations and images, thoughts and feelings – and often caught between delight and distress. One moment I find myself in a clear…

My Blessing For The New Year

All Posts, Empowerment, Self Reflection Jennifer Lehr's Blog

A few weeks ago, someone asked me, ‘what is your perfect life?’ The idea being that if I could name it, I could pray for it and perhaps manifest it. It seemed a simple enough question. My immediate answer was that the earth and its various…