Hey, I’m Jessica but my friends call me Jess.
After writing and releasing my tell-all memoir in 2020, I realized my story was far from over. In fact, it had just begun. In the wake of Sleeping with a Stranger’s release, I learned that who I had become in order to survive the life I’d built no longer served me. Thus began a brutal, beautiful journey back to my true self. Leaving no stone unturned, I searched for wisdom and knowing from sources across the universe: from the Bible to energy charts, moon phases to star signs. I spent months, and then years, reading, learning, discovering, and becoming. Today, my mission is to bring a little witchy wisdom to the Bible Belt, making the discoveries I’ve gathered in adulthood approachable for the community I grew up in. While my listeners, readers, and followers hail from all around the world, I always imagine I’m speaking to women who remind me of myself five years ago: searching for more after years of accepting less, stuck in a society that tells them, “you get what you get and you don’t throw a fit.” Blending the practical and the spiritual, I seek to equip fellow sojourners with tools and stories from my own life to help them navigate the road back to their true selves.
I grew up in the Bible belt. I can almost guarantee you that many of the things I am going to share in this 12 month series will trigger you. I know this because they also triggered me. At first, I wanted to reject them completely. Because if the things that triggered me were true, then my life as I knew it, my life as I had been raised, my life as I had been taught, must be false. If my life, propped up by what I had believed to be absolute truth, isn’t what I thought it was, well I can’t think of anything scarier.
But here’s what I invite you to do: use each trigger as an arrow, directing you. Showing you where to take a closer look.