Post by Jen Rodriguez

Like a bubble on a windy day, Jennifer Ibbotson Rodriguez floated into this world upon the peaceful stream of a Colorado lullaby. Her father, "Ibby" of The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, finished writing the song Ripplin' Waters the weekend she was born. Like water finds its own level, that song established the metaphor of her life. Yet downstream, Oh Little Jennifer's life became a raging river of compounding personal traumas culminating on September 11, 2001, as she sat on a subway car directly under the World Trade Center Plaza when the first plane struck. The ripple effects of that day on her health and happiness are what led to the solutions she provides her clients, and a new nickname, SuperJen. Healing from environmental toxicity and recovering the ability to sleep normally combined into her sole mission, until accidentally meeting her future husband in the fall of 2011. Jen was working as a sleep expert in a retail environment. He was a disabled combat veteran healing from much more than exhaustion after serving in Iraq. Their happily ever after was inevitable from the start. In the fall of 2018, tangible change became undeniable. The Cortlandt Street Exit, the subway station where Jen was stopped on 9/11, finally reopened during the same timeframe she began studying to become a certified consulting hypnotist. The simultaneous celebration of these two moments of trauma-recovery created an unshakable cornerstone for her healthy, happy life. Jen earned board-certification as well as became a certified hypnosis instructor in the spring of 2023. The years of customizing clients' solutions, while formalizing a lifetime of personal theory, and becoming a Faculty Presenter with The National Guild of Hypnotists, truly makes her future self very proud of who she's become - in the here and now. It's ironic, Jen was introduced to the world through a song about water rippling and grew up to realize that time moves in the same way. Through unbroken circles, continuously stretching outward, embracing one version of the self as they flow into yet another. The past and the future pulsing briefly in the heartbeat experienced here and now, reminding us, it is time to enjoy today. 👐🫶👐 ~~~ Photo credit Forgotten circa 2002/3