From Shameful to Shaman
Jessica Hinds was born the youngest of six girls in Contra Costa County California. After a complicated childhood filled with bow hunting, religious exhaustion, animal rearing, electrocution and poetry, Jess made her way to New York City on September 9th 2001. On her way to the World Trade Center the morning of September 11th 2001 a numbness set in that a year later thrust her into a decade long depression of insomnia, self-destruction, isolation and mental instability. Awful to herself and to most of those around her (after all "Hurt people hurt people"), the desire to become a professional writer was the only thing driving her forward.
After a second failed suicide attempt (she couldn't even do THAT right) she sat down and asked herself the following questions...
Q: What do I need to be happy? To keep from ending my life?
A: To become a professional writer.
Q: What would that give me?
A: Daily creativity, connection to others, a chance to share my unique view of this world with others, the possibility of making a difference.
She then realized she could have all these things without being a professional writer. She could do each of these things every day without other people having to say "yes."
So she began her research and exploration of Meditation, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Jungian Psychology, Behavioral Economics, Hypnosis, Neuroscience and Yoga. She developed a style of meditation and thought-pattern-rewiring that has had incredible results.
Suddenly she didn't need her social anxiety medications, she stopped having panic attacks, sleep came regularly, her depression disappeared along with the ruminating negative voices that used to plague her daily. She became excited about life. A life, where she didn't even need to be a writer.
Ironically, six months later she sold her first screenplay and made more money in two months than she had in the past three years. Damn.
She didn't need to become a different or "better" person, she just needed to take off all the crap that her family, old teachers, the world had placed on her and honor her true fucking self. When we are authentic, others want to be around us, to work with us, even if you are a foul-mouthed gender-fluid non-hippie yogi with a love of B-list horror movies.
Now she has helped thousands of others do the same thing. Nothing delights her more than reaching into the mind, the inner world of another and assisting them in the discovery of their true self.
If you think Jess can be of any help to you, or someone you know, please Say Hey!
After a second failed suicide attempt (she couldn't even do THAT right) she sat down and asked herself the following questions...
Q: What do I need to be happy? To keep from ending my life?
A: To become a professional writer.
Q: What would that give me?
A: Daily creativity, connection to others, a chance to share my unique view of this world with others, the possibility of making a difference.
She then realized she could have all these things without being a professional writer. She could do each of these things every day without other people having to say "yes."
So she began her research and exploration of Meditation, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Jungian Psychology, Behavioral Economics, Hypnosis, Neuroscience and Yoga. She developed a style of meditation and thought-pattern-rewiring that has had incredible results.
Suddenly she didn't need her social anxiety medications, she stopped having panic attacks, sleep came regularly, her depression disappeared along with the ruminating negative voices that used to plague her daily. She became excited about life. A life, where she didn't even need to be a writer.
Ironically, six months later she sold her first screenplay and made more money in two months than she had in the past three years. Damn.
She didn't need to become a different or "better" person, she just needed to take off all the crap that her family, old teachers, the world had placed on her and honor her true fucking self. When we are authentic, others want to be around us, to work with us, even if you are a foul-mouthed gender-fluid non-hippie yogi with a love of B-list horror movies.
Now she has helped thousands of others do the same thing. Nothing delights her more than reaching into the mind, the inner world of another and assisting them in the discovery of their true self.
If you think Jess can be of any help to you, or someone you know, please Say Hey!