Be Here Now With Jen

Be Here Now With Jen Jennifer is an experienced psychotherapist in the Atlanta area who has dedicated the past decade res

Hello colleagues,I’m launching a second cohort of small supervision and mentorship groups beginning in May 2026, designe...
04/20/2026

Hello colleagues,

I’m launching a second cohort of small supervision and mentorship groups beginning in May 2026, designed for therapists and helping professionals who want thoughtful support, clinical insight, and sustainable ways to continue doing meaningful work.

We will meet May 1, 8, 15, 22 from 12:00–1:30 PM ET via Zoom. Each 90-minute session will provide space to explore challenging cases and clinical questions, share perspectives, and discuss practical strategies for maintaining vitality in a demanding profession.

My intention is to support clinicians who know the very real experience of professional fatigue and emotional depletion that can come with caring deeply for others. Over the past two decades, my work has lived at the intersection of trauma therapy, Somatic Experiencing, embodiment, meditation, spirituality, and systems thinking, along with the Kintsugi Method I’ve developed through my own work. I’ve come to see that sustaining a long career in this field requires more than knowledge and methods alone. It requires differentiation, presence, and the ability to stay steady in the midst of complex human dynamics. This group is designed to help therapists strengthen those capacities while continuing to grow in the craft of therapy.

A few spaces remain in the noon group. If you’re looking for thoughtful consultation, community, and a place to think deeply about the work we do, I’d love to have you join us.

This is a small group format.

Details and registration: www.beherenowmindfulness.com (* if you need financial assistance, please email me directly at jencfinch@gmail.com)

Warmly, Jen

Join us for our First Friday monthly meet ups to practice a little kundalini to get the energy moving and Realization Pr...
04/20/2026

Join us for our First Friday monthly meet ups to practice a little kundalini to get the energy moving and Realization Process meditation to make sure we stay inhabited in our body.

When we allow our natural energy to move through us while we stay put (and not go up and out with the energy….the way some traditions teach) we feel more alive, more connected to self and our environment, and more centered in a stabilized way. This regulated and balanced state of feeling up energy/vitality AND grounded embodiment/connection to self, is a skill within our control and once learned we can walk through the world with greater ease, openness and confidence.

May is just around the corner.
Next First Friday is May, 1, 2026

Refresh, restart, reconnect, or simply explore and try something new.

Join us and the First Friday Crew
Friday, May 1, 2026
8:00 am ET

The cost is free but registration is required to get Zoom link. Please register at least a day in advance, last minute registrations cannot be submitted (it is just me back here working the backend of stuff). If you register late, you can join us the next go.

Go to EVENTS page at: www.beherenowmindfulness.com

Class starts promptly at 8:00 am Eastern
Please arrive a few minutes early to settle.

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This is a question that I pulled from Erica Bassani’s book: Women In Love With the Divine, where she specifically addres...
04/17/2026

This is a question that I pulled from Erica Bassani’s book: Women In Love With the Divine, where she specifically addresses her question to woman.That is of course important and a powerful frame, and it is an excellent read.

In this moment however, I feel inclined to broaden the scope to the entire human race regardless of how me might orient ourselves to gender. Right now, it feels bigger.

I don’t think it has a really good and clean answer either. I recognize the importance of our anger as a source of our power. Anger isn’t the problem—not entirely anyway.

Anger is data. It can tell us that something matters.
It tells us something has been crossed, ignored, or harmed. It pushes away what oppresses us.

But living in anger becomes problematic. Can we see the difference? It isn’t meant to be where we live and build a home. I fear we have become too comfortable with it, even if we don’t choose to express it—dormant anger is still felt by the way.

Love, on the other hand, isn’t the opposite. I find the term soft strength disagreeable at times. Even though I get the gist of what that means I am tired of anything soft to keep the peace and be agreeable.

So the conundrum this question ignites in me is how to give love a spine. To strongly say no, and set a boundary. Can love stand in the fire of disagreement without needing to win or destroy?

So maybe the work right now is to get out of the duality—and stop choosing between anger or love.

And to learn how to let anger move through us
without letting it take over the steering wheel.

To train instead in a nondual act from something deeper. Something that doesn’t need to dominate in order to feel powerful. To allow ourselves to feel anger without becoming it. And to stand in anger, powerfully and forcefully without losing contact with our love. To not have one eclipse the other.

Can we get both online and start from there and see how it goes?

My creativity is in full flourish after a weeklong retreat in Ann Arbor with my mentor and teacher Dr. Judith Blackstone...
04/13/2026

My creativity is in full flourish after a weeklong retreat in Ann Arbor with my mentor and teacher Dr. Judith Blackstone. I am currently curating events to bring the experience of the Realization Process (RP) to you and your groups and organizations.

RP has fundamentally changed and opened how I live…in my body…in my self…in my life. I am discovering that I can experience and express more joy and pleasure even amidst the crazy current events we get besieged with on a moment to moment basis.

To stay tuned to events subscribe to my website: www.beherenowmindfulness.com You can fill out the subscribe form at the bottom of any page.

My hope is to bring this work to more healthcare professionals out here on the frontlines to help diminish the deleterious effects of burnout and overwhelm so we can do our jobs with more ease and dare I say, happiness. Yes, happiness!

If you’re interested in a program for your hospital, team or healthcare work environment please reach out to me directly.

My supervision/mentoring groups start tomorrow, Monday, April 6. Embodied Clinical Practice—4- Week Supervision Group Th...
04/05/2026

My supervision/mentoring groups start tomorrow, Monday, April 6.

Embodied Clinical Practice—4- Week Supervision Group
There are a few spots remaining in the noon session.

We’ll meet on Mondays—April 6, 13, 20, and 27—from 12:00–1:30 PM ET via Zoom.

Each session will offer time for case consultation, thoughtful dialogue, and teachings using somatic experiencing interventions, trauma-sensitive meditation, embodiment, enhancing clinical presence through the core of the body, Buddhist psychology frameworks, and nonduality methods. We will also discuss practical support around the real demands of this profession—burnout, complexity, ethics, and the challenge of staying present over the long haul.

Tomorrow we will be discussing the potential pitfalls of modalities and singular methods. (Ahem…polyvagal theory was recently debunked)

My intention is to offer a small-format space open to 4-6 individuals, so we can ground ourselves in the work cohesively.

You can find more details and sign up here: https://www.beherenowmindfulness.com/courses-list-shop

If you have questions or need financial assistance, please e-mail me directly.

Warmly, Jen

When I make caramelized onions sometimes it takes 20 minutes, other times 45 minutes to an hour. Today it took about 55 ...
04/04/2026

When I make caramelized onions sometimes it takes 20 minutes, other times 45 minutes to an hour. Today it took about 55 minutes. There is no magic in cooking, only mystery.

Normally when I cook them I fill my time multitasking. Plucking thyme from their stems. Chopping other items. Cubing the ham. But not today.

I missed my regular meditation practice this morning. In fact, I have missed it many mornings as of late. And I feel it is time to get back to the basics. As my teacher would say: go back to square one.

But I’m craving a more active practice these days. So today I sat, and felt my breath move in and out while also feeling a wooden kitchen spoon between my fingers of my right hand. I pulled up a stool and waited patiently with my presence until they were golden brown and a a bit crispy on the edges. I smelled the contagious belly rumbling fragrance. I watched them transform to a reduced state. It took as long as it took.

And every time I was distracted by my pugs, by my environment, by my own thoughts, I came back to the moment with a mantra: this is my life right now. And instead of panicking that I was bored out of my skull, or impatient with the task, I was elated that this was all that my life required of me right now.

How can you bring meditation into your ordinary, everyday life?

Good morning, everyone, This is a last call for my upcoming supervision/mentoring groups. Embodied Clinical Practice—4- ...
03/30/2026

Good morning, everyone,

This is a last call for my upcoming supervision/mentoring groups. Embodied Clinical Practice—4- Week Supervision Group
There are a few spots remaining in the noon group.

We’ll meet on Mondays—April 6, 13, 20, and 27—from 12:00–1:30 PM ET via Zoom. Each session will offer time for case consultation, thoughtful dialogue, and teachings using somatic experiencing interventions, trauma-sensitive meditation, embodiment, enhancing clinical presence through the core of the body, and nonduality methods. We will also discuss practical support around the real demands of this profession—burnout, complexity, and the challenge of staying present over the long haul.

My intention is to offer a small-format space open to 4-6 individuals, so we can ground ourselves in the work cohesively.

You can find more details and sign up here: https://www.beherenowmindfulness.com/courses-list-shop

If you have questions or need financial assistance, please e-mail me directly.

Warmly, Jen

Enjoying this new book by .pollan
03/21/2026

Enjoying this new book by .pollan

I’m launching a small supervision and mentorship group beginning in April 2026, designed for therapists and helping prof...
03/16/2026

I’m launching a small supervision and mentorship group beginning in April 2026, designed for therapists and helping professionals who want thoughtful support, clinical insight, and sustainable ways to continue doing meaningful work.

We will meet April 6, 13, 20, and 27 from 12:00–1:30 PM ET via Zoom. Each 90-minute session will provide space to explore challenging cases and clinical questions, share perspectives, and discuss practical strategies for maintaining vitality in a demanding profession.

My intention is to support clinicians who know the very real experience of professional fatigue and emotional depletion that can come with caring deeply for others. Over the past two decades, my work has lived at the intersection of trauma therapy, embodiment, meditation, spirituality, and systems thinking, along with the Kintsugi Method I’ve developed through my own work. I’ve come to see that sustaining a long career in this field requires more than knowledge and methods alone. It requires differentiation, presence, and the ability to stay steady in the midst of complex human dynamics. This group is designed to help therapists strengthen those capacities while continuing to grow in the craft of therapy.

A few spaces remain in the noon group. If you’re looking for thoughtful consultation, community, and a place to think deeply about the work we do, I’d love to have you join us.

Details and registration: www.beherenowmindfulness.com (* if you need financial assistance, please email me directly at jencfinch@gmail.com)

After more than two decades working as a trauma therapist, meditation coach, and embodiment/nonduality teacher, I’ve not...
03/11/2026

After more than two decades working as a trauma therapist, meditation coach, and embodiment/nonduality teacher, I’ve noticed something important about this profession that we don’t talk about enough.

Even very good therapists — thoughtful, ethical, experienced people who have never had a licensing concern in their careers — can begin to feel the strain of the work when they are carrying it alone.

It doesn’t usually show up as some catastrophic or dramatic failure. It can creep in with subtle signals such as a little more fatigue, a little more irritability, and less tolerance for situations that once felt manageable. When we are on that track, even if it is slow, we are likely to encounter a moment of misjudgment that normally would have been easy to navigate.

None of this means someone is a bad or inexperienced therapist. It usually just means they’ve been holding a great deal for a long time without enough space to process it with other professionals. This work asks a lot of the nervous system and the heart.

Support and consultation are often what help very good therapists stay very good at what they do.

If you are interested and would like to be a part of a thoughtful consultation space with other therapists, you are welcome here.

If you’re curious whether it might be a good fit, just reach out directly at

jencfinch@gmail.com, and I can send details. If you are ready to sign up, you can do so below.

If you’re a therapist who sometimes leaves a long day of sessions thinking “there has to be a more grounded way to do this work,” this group will likely resonate.

Small supervision groups (a few spots remain) and individual mentorship. Details: www.beherenowmindfulness.com

Have you ever felt that strange but wonderful feeling that you’re being pulled toward something important?I’ve been cont...
03/09/2026

Have you ever felt that strange but wonderful feeling that you’re being pulled toward something important?

I’ve been continuing to work on my stories about Molly June, and I’ve just published the next piece of her story. She is growing up.

If you enjoy stories that feel a little ancient and a little magical, and need a little restoration of a strong sense of purpose, I think you’ll like this one.

Read on my creative fiction page:

https://open.substack.com/pub/jenfinch/p/molly-june-parker-and-the-scottish-576?r=7fj47&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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When your mind is with your body, you are in the here and now. And if you meet this moment of awareness with curiosity, kindness and non-judgment, You are fully alive.

Be Here Now Mindfulness is dedicated to inspiring, guiding and connecting anyone who wants to explore mindfulness through both science and experience to enjoy better health, happiness, more caring relationships, and a compassionate society.

Be Here Now Mindfulness is based in Metro Atlanta and Marietta, GA founded by Jennifer Chase Finch, M.A., LPC, NBCC, Certified Mindfulness Instructor. I see mindfulness as a unique, practical and profound approach to social change, and my dedication to teach others in the community as a social innovation initiative. My classes and workshops promote individual wellness, healthy relationships, and a more mindful and compassionate community. Mindfulness is entering the mainstream and this presents an historic opportunity to transform ourselves, our children, our communities, our world.

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