Jenn Harkness Coaching

10/05/2025

This is going to be a fun series not to miss.

Great for therapists who want to learn more about dreams from a Jungian vantage point with expressive arts prompts for your clients.

Great for anyone who has vivid powerful dreams and wants to explore how to work with the messages they are providing.

Three Sundays in November 2025 11/2, 9, 16
10am-12pm PST
$500 for the series
Limit to 12 participants for more intimate engagement
www.courageoushearthealing.com for more information

09/07/2025

Struggle with chronic illness or pain? Want to express the experience creatively? Want to learn or strengthen skills for resourcing and resilience? Wish you could connect with others who get it? This is a group not to be missed, starts first week of October and is filling fast!

I've had fibromyalgia and a host of other chronic issues my entire adult life. I know the in's and out's of managing disability in an ableist world. Come join me and others as we explore this challenging and rewarding path of acceptance and compassion together.

08/27/2025

https://courageoushearthealing.com/groups/
I have a host of new online art therapy groups I will be running in fall 2025 and in 2026. They are open to anyone, anywhere...so friends can attend if they wish. They are limited to 12 and will go fast I suspect. Check them out on my website, but here is a brief run down:
Jungian Dreams (3 Sundays in November)
Join the Resistance: Resilience in the face of fascism with joy and love. (6 weeks in November/Dec)
Spoonie Group for Chronic Illness (6 weeks in Oct/Nov)
Burn out Prevention and Recovery (8 months sept-april)
Perimenopause (12 months 2026)
Witchy S**t Group (12 months 2026)

Visit the post for more.

08/27/2025

Starting in September and taking folks through the School year, let's get creative and support folks through the season. Small group design for maximum depth of engagement. Therapists, teachers, parents, nurses, any care giver will benefit. Link is in the picture and here: courageoushearthealing.com

07/22/2025

New therapy website to reflect a new chapter. Still in progress, but if you have folks you know who might benefit from some Jenn time…send them
my way!

Creatively Cultivating Curiosity and Compassion through Heart Centered Counseling

06/09/2025

Hi there! I haven't been on socials for a long while now. I've been busy making more organizational waves in the world toward equity in the workplace.

I wanted to let folks know that I have opened my practice for a handful of adults 18+ who are seeking support for the following:

Help for the Helpers–How to Support Others and NOT Burn Out
Mid-Life Emergence
Navigating Life Pivots
Neurodivergence–Life Hacks for the Day to Day Logistics and Navigating Relationships
2SLGBTQIA+ Living a Healthy Authentic Lifestyle in a Polycrisis Instituting Discrimination
Parent Coaching and Support
Door is open for previous clients wanting to reconnect in the work.

Creatively Cultivating Curiosity and Compassion through Heart Centered Counseling

12/06/2023

From my journal this past weekend:

Stop Trying To Fix It

If you are cold
Get a blanket
If you are cold
Turn up the heat
If you are cold
Make hot tea
But for Gods Sake
Stop Trying to Change the Weather

10/09/2023

Reclaiming your time and energy looks like carving time out to daydream.

Creative process and new ideas take time for your brain to rest and wander.

Staring at leaves, the horizon, fire, water…anything that allows your attention softly drift onto something soothing and repetitive is a primal way for our brains to reset and allow for divergent connections to happen.

The trick is to also watch out for spinning or rumination on stress or habitual thought patterns, when you notice that, gently bring your attention back to the focal point.

(Music is also another easily accessible way to do this same process.)

Pix of a middle aged white woman staring off into the distance driving a sailboat near wooded islands.

09/26/2023

Reclaiming your time and energy while working at home looks like creating an inspiring and comfortable space to spend long hours. (If you have the privilege to do so.)

Key ingredients:

1. Color. Always color. What colors are soothing or inspiring for you?

2. Notice all the fidgets, body based needs easily accessed around the desk, and visual reminders to ground. (Bob & Brad foot massager, strap for stretching, wobble seat, standing desk.)

3. Light. I only do warm bulbs, and lots of them. Especially in the PNW long dark winters, this is key. You can’t see it, but I have a south facing window that looks out over an area where children play and there are trees in the distance. Hearing their giggles and cries grounds me in humanity.

4. Probably the most important: a door. I can close at the end of the day and walk away from work.

Pictured is a bright yellow office/art studio filled to the brim with treasures.

09/23/2023

Reclaiming your time and energy looks like meandering and quiet walks in nature.

07/25/2023

I'm still not on socials much these days. When I do pop on I have mixed feelings.

1. Joy to see how folks are doing.
2. Smiles from quick connections.
3. Overwhelm of information.
4. Disturbed peace of mind from content/state of the world.
5. Addictive scrolling, or wanting to pick it up to scroll, and lack of focus.
6. A feeling of needing to hustle, to do or be something coming from a sense of comparison or lack.

Any of this sound familiar?

I do think there can be a way to engage social media healthily, I have tried many to most tactics and haven't found any that work long term. I will say, being on here less has given me the following:

1. More connection with my in person relationships.
2. More peace of mind.
3. Increased focus.
4. A healthier sense of priority and self values on the day to day.
5. Better outcomes in what I choose to learn, engage and work on.
6. More time to do things I love rather than scroll.

Habits are hard to break folks. The first steps are awareness of what we are currently doing and asking, is it what I want to be doing? Then exploring what you would rather replace a habit with. For me, it's a lot of going off screens and into nature.

What would you like to be doing with your mind and time?