Another year under our belts; another year of healing. Good job everyone! I’m so proud of you. I know it’s not been an easy journey. It’s been hard as hell for some of you. And lonely, too, I know. But here we are, standing on the brink of the New Year. Three hundred and sixty-five days in 2019 that are brimming with opportunity. Every day, a new beginning, a chance to practice acceptance, patience, faith, and hope. Three hundred and sixty-five days to love as deeply as we can.
I am closing out the year with an ocean of gratitude. 2018 was the year I moved away from the Bay Area to where my heart and soul could truly feel alive. I worked hard on allowing my central nervous system to heal from my setback, and that work has paid off. (I have mostly healed!) I’ve made new friends, “adopted” four feral cats that I feed (and trapped and had “fixed”) enjoyed writing my Soul Reminders (soulreminders.com) and my benzowithdrawalhelp.com blog. I published the book Soul Reminders, Little Chats With God, helped friends create websites and content (soultrue.biz) taught my Acceptance Workshop three months in a row (and met some wonderful people) and I created The Benzo Withdrawal Coloring Book, 
plus put the final touches on The Benzodiazepine Tapering Journal.
Not a bad year for someone who had a nasty setback midway through 2017!
What does 2019 hold for my work in the benzo community? I’ll still be coaching, creating more month-long classes, and creating more books to help people on their healing journey. I’m incredibly excited about the New Year.
I’ll keep you posted here with updates about workshops and books. I appreciate that you were patient with me when I took most of December off from blogging. It gave me the chance to work on the new books. Thank you!
May the New Year bring you all things bright and beautiful. May your heart dance and your soul sing. May you intimately know peace and love.
I love you.
Jennifer
Thank you Jenn. The acceptance workshop was wonderful and I’m already missing the daily videos. I look forward to what you come up with next :).
Dear Dr. Jennifer, you have been a godsend for me this year!! I want to say thank you for all you have done for me. I enjoyed talking with you. I appreciate all of the support you have given me. I want you to know you are always in my prayers and if you ever need anything I am here for you. I can pray with you and maybe encourage you! God bless you and all your kitties.
Thank you so much! I appreciate it. I hope the coming New Year brings you peace and happiness.
I am glad that you enjoyed the workshop. I’m creating one for writing and one for hope and healing. I’ll post the info here soon. Blessings!
The Happiest Happy New Year to you Jennifer. Thank you for your service and Love !
With Gratitude, Jerry
You are most welcome. I love you all so much, it is an honor to help. I hope 2019 is a wonderful year for you and for everyone healing from a benzo.
Thank you for continuing to guide and inspire. Best wishes for 2019.
Thank you so much! May 2019 be wonderful for you as well.
Hi Jen, You often talk about your “Setback”. Could you maybe elaborate on what happened? If you have addressed it somewhere else, could you repost? Thank You….For Everything, Phil
I drove across the USA in 3.5 days, by myself, spending 14 hours a day behind the wheel. The vibration of the car started my CNS to “unravel.” When I got home I tore out big areas of my garden and relandscaped, lifting heavy bags of rocks and slabs of flagstone, etc for five days, all day. On top of it, four people I love died within a week. The drive, the intense labor, and my grief were the perfect storm. I started experiencing weakness, dizziness, and DR. Over a few weeks time, I descended back into BWD symptoms and very intense symptoms at that. I developed POTS and was unable to sit or stand. It was very frightening. But, I am about 98% healed now and life is GREAT! I won’t push myself again like that, and now I’ve learned about the dangers of vibrations. (Baylissa told me that a neurologist informed her that vibrations can indeed, cause a lot of problems for the CNS, even bringing on dystonic fits.) Even though we may feel healed, our CNS may still be a bit fragile, and we need to honor that and give it a bit more time before we jump back into life. But we DO heal and our CNS gets strong and we won’t have setbacks.
I just met u today& glad I did, just 6 mos in my withdrawal from Hell,I googled “Waves” & u came up!👍 how do I get ur coloring book & ur book?
Hello! Thanks for stopping by. You can find the links to my books on the front page of the website. A search on Amazon with my name will also make them appear. But the links here are the quickest. Hope the coloring book helps!
Hello, Thank you so much for explaining what set you back. So glad your doing well now. I pushed myself recently to get employed part time at our local library thinking it would be stress free and quiet,after volunteering their 1day per/week for over 2 years. I was wrong and the stress got to me. I couldnt calm myself down after each workday. I developed severe insomnia. Long story short; After 3 months I had a bad heart problem one day at work when my heart rate jumped to 148 beats per minute then became severely irregular and had to leave work for the er. I was also given a POTS diagnosis. Metoprolol was prescribed. Do you also take a bata-blocker now for POTS or has it gone away. Are there other natural options I could try? Much love to you too and wishing you and your furry freinds a very happy/healthy 2019. Michael
Mine has gone away 100%. I don’t take any meds of any kind or any vitamins or supplements. I eat paleo now, low carb but not keto and I exercise gently, usually hikes on the nature trails here. I hope that your POTS leaves as mine did. I only took a beta-blocker for a short time when mine was really bad. Let us know how you are doing. Happy 2019, to you as well!