Jennifer Patterson

Drawing on a multitude of breathing practices from different healing and spiritual traditions, The Power of Breathwork includes 27 simple exercises that can be practiced alone or with a partner to enhance connection, creativity, joy, intuition, or to reduce depression, anxiety, trauma, tension, physical pain, and more. Knowing how to breathe and how to use your breath purposefully has been proven to reduce negative mental and physical issues and actually heal the body and mind. A regular home breathwork practice is an affordable and easy way for you to engage in self-healing practices that can have a profound impact on your overall health. Author, practitioner, and grief worker Jennifer Patterson begins by explaining what breathwork is, why you should try it, and how it can be used to heal the bodymind. Then, you'll learn what happens in your physical body, energetic body, and emotional body as you practice it. Before you start the exercises, find useful tips on building an altar, using scent, visualizations and grounding, and somatic writing prompts to help support your practice.

Simple Practices to Promote Wellbeing

The Power of Breathwork

A Beautiful Unraveling is Jennifer Patterson's poignant debut poetry collection that delves into matters of the heart and soul--the euphoria and longing of love, and the state of disarray it can leave one in; the bewilderment of darkness and the splendour of light in one's life; the resolute search for contentment; and the ultimate unraveling of oneself. Paired up with Joyanna Em's delicate and lifelike water colors depicting Patterson's poetry with such raw emotion and depth, A Beautiful Unraveling is a collection that evokes in one a feeling of profound connection and authenticity--something that was once buried in the abyss but still dwells in the heart, awaiting to be unraveled and nurtured. Praise for A Beautiful Unraveling: Poignant, vivid, and imbued with raw emotion, A Beautiful Unraveling is a poetic window into the psyche. Accompanied by stunning watercolors and lines like, "What was once green and alive says its goodbyes in cinnamon leaves," Jennifer Patterson's chapbook will move, enchant, and make the reader say, "Yes! Poetry is still alive." A Beautiful Unraveling is a truly beautiful work of art. -- Emma Eden Ramos, author of Still, At Your Door: A Fictional Memoir A Beautiful Unraveling brings the simplicity of pure, stripped-down emotion to the poetry of desire. These lovely poems show us the music that dwells within longing, within heartache--they dare us to embrace that music, and perhaps even dance to it. -- Logan February, author of How to Cook a Ghost Jennifer Patterson's debut collection shifts through life's seasons with a dignified whisper like "a trickle of snow melting from the eaves." Patterson takes a seam ripper to the self to reveal an immense and lush landscape in a constant state of becoming, where "time is woven like a fabric." Through all of the quiet, a song. Through all of the darkness and decay, "a ribbon of light," "a flowering vine." As she ventures further into the heart, she begs the question "Will I ever stop unraveling?" to which the answer is no, and thank goodness for that. -- Jessica Lynn Suchon, author of SCAVENGER Jennifer Patterson takes the watery and airy elements of each painting and expands them to a stream of consciousness that examines emotions as stories to remember. -- Melanie Bikowski, author of Wild In this lovely collection of poetry, Jennifer Patterson explores the complications of love and loving. The art by Joyanna Em punctuates such lovely lines as "What was once green and alive / says its goodbyes in cinnamon leaves." and "...others who once savored the sweetness of honeysuckle / are now choking on the vines." The poetry is untitled, mysterious blends of words and meanings revealed only through immersion. Written mostly in couplets, some of the poetry rhymes. As poetry should, much of it rolls with recitation, like this passage, "While the roots of the tree had twisted, It was still growing toward the sky It struggles to find the fading light, So very much like you and I." Poetry is a subjective art, a glimpse into the soul that composed it. Within these poems, Jennifer Patterson explores love in its many forms, including religious and self. In all, this is an admirable book beautifully presented and edited, and a wonderful introduction of Jennifer Patterson and Joyanna Em's talents. -- Kerry E.B. Black, author of Carousel of Nightmares

A Beautiful Unraveling

Often pushed to the margins, queer, transgender and gender non-conforming survivors have been organizing in anti-violence work since the birth of the movement. Queering Sexual Violence: Radical Voices from Within the Anti-Violence Movement locates them at the center of the anti-violence movement and creates a space for their voices to be heard. Moving beyond dominant narratives and the traditional “violence against women” framework, the book is multi-gendered, multi-racial and multi-layered. This thirty-seven piece collection disrupts the mainstream conversations about sexual violence and connects them to disability justice, sex worker rights, healing justice, racial justice, gender self-determination, queer & trans liberation and prison industrial complex abolition through reflections, personal narrative, and strategies for resistance and healing. Where systems, institutions, families, communities and partners have failed them, this collection lifts them up, honors a multitude of lived experiences and shares the radical work that is being done outside mainstream anti-violence and the non-profit industrial complex.

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