
Jenny lives and works in South Somerset, England. She was born and raised on a working farm, attended university in Exeter, and then spent fifteen years living overseas in Australia. Around 1998, her childhood home beckoned, and she returned to be around her family and the familiar countryside of the Somerset levels.
Jenny worked for the Commonwealth Rehabilitation Service in Australia. Her primary focus was on helping people return to employment after an injury, illness, or disability. She worked with a diverse range of clients in various roles and established offices in the Atherton Tablelands (located up the hill from Cairns in Far North Queensland) and the Snowy Mountains (south of Canberra). At one point, she covered a territory of 250,000 square miles.
Jenny loved her work and stayed in the profession for thirty-five years. Back in England, her company provided insurer-focused vocational rehab services and was also involved in ‘transfer of innovation’ projects working in fourteen European countries. They were busy times. In one week, the company accepted twenty-five new referrals and, over fifteen years, provided services to thousands of clients. She served as a Trustee for her professional association and was both a visiting university lecturer and tutor for the Open University.
Around 2010, Jenny became interested in energy work. Over the next few years, she qualified as a shamanic practitioner and completed a three-year apprenticeship-type course in divination, healing, and magic. In 2014/15, she spent three months on a pilgrimage in South and Central America, with a Peruvian shaman. The following year she interviewed, ‘A series of bards, hags, shrews, soothsayers, sorcerers, shamans and witches’ in her investigation of the pagan wheel-of-the-year then in 2016, explored the Glastonbury zodiac with a ‘cunning man’.
More recently, Jenny has become interested in dowsing and ancestral repair work. She visited the Battle of Sedgemoor site in Somerset, as well as Argyll and Perthshire in Scotland, and Falmouth in Cornwall, to explore her family history and ancestral stories. As it turned out, the root of her early childhood illness was related to age-old imprints and legacies. She writes about inherited emotional patterns in her fourth book, Sin-eater.
Over the last ten years, Jenny has explored traditional and alternative therapies, working with a psychotherapist and a herd of horses, as well as individuals who considered themselves body workers, healers, and dream catchers. This has deepened her practice and fueled a passion for trauma release work.
An old story ran my subconscious. It was a consequence of the past and left no space for a different future to open up.