meet jac

I am a loving creature of the Tides that is trying to live a conscious and simple life in reciprocity. I have been in deep study and practice the past several years of body/mind/spirit ecology— the Earth is our body and our body is our Home. I strive to live my life as a dance in deeper resonance with myself and all of life.

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In 2017, I was in a mass shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada, and I witnessed people just feet away get rained on with bullets while my friends and I were fortunately guided to hide under tables on the perimeter. In 2018, I moved to San Francisco and shortly after acquired a Clostridium Difficile infection that became extremely severe to the point where I couldn't keep any food or water in my body when it wasn't diagnosed for many months. I was given four rounds of different antibiotics (the wrong ones) within a three month period. The whole incident was basically a gut atomic bomb that doctors said I wouldn't be able to fully recover from (and they'd just call "IBS").

 

These events were a wake up call that I wasn't living. I'd given up to pain and depression. My inner critic was all I knew. But after these experiences, I knew I needed to radically change my way of being even though I had no idea how.  I've been on a healing path of deep listening and becoming ever since.

 

Up until this turning point, I was living at the whim of unhealed trauma— constantly anxious, burnt out, depressed. I felt like I stepped right out my traumatized childhood into adulthood and needed to just put it all "under the hood." I was failing to live up the false and unrealistic expectations of a "perfect" life, and it  was making me very sick and miserable. Everything I actually wanted (like, for example, freedom to express myself authentically and be in healthy and secure loving connection with myself and others) was always out of reach.​

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Some other human things about me: I am white,  exploring my pansexuality, ancestrally Ashkenazi Jewish, and anti-zionist. You might find me communing with Spirit in the natural world, immersed in warm bodies of water, dancing, cuddling, laughing, making herbal medicine, melting into the sunset, and deepening connections.

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I have a BA in Sociology and Pre-Med from Tulane University in New Orleans. I have a Masters in Public Health in community health and behavioral sciences (with a specific focus in nutrition and food ecosystems) also from Tulane University. I worked for several years in public health (government and academia) and health technology startups. 

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Although I am a femme spiritual mystic who doesn't traditionally practice Judaism, I consider myself Jewish because my dad's mom and my mom both did the genetic testing thing. Both are 99.8% genetically Ashkenazi Jewish. 

 

For both of my parents, their parent’s grandparents were Ashkenazi Jews who immigrated to the United States in late 1800s and early 1900s from Austria, Hungary, Bohemia (now Czechia), Montenegro, Ukraine, and Poland.

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Thank you to my parents, my siblings, my grandparents, Mother Earth, and all my ancestors for this opportunity to be here.​ Thank you all or being here. Big Love to you all on our healing journey, together. ​

 

More of my story coming soon ...