Jessica Epperson-Lusty (she/her)

My central purpose is to support myself and those I encounter to awaken and embrace response-ability for our capacity to heal the wounds of our personal and collective lineages to transform patterns of thinking, speaking, and relating toward ways of being that express respect and care within, between, and among all beings.

I facilitate spaces and processes that support deeper connection with the creative intelligence of life, re-pattern habits of perception and relating toward ourselves, others, and the lifeworld to enhance our capacity to choose, speak, and act in alignment our hearts’ hopes for ourselves, our beloveds, and our communities.

In individual and group Sessions as well as our Leaning In podcast project, we practice awareness, attentiveness, and skillful engagement with our reactivity, wounds, conditioning, assumptions, challenges, opportunities, differences, dreams, longings, and desires towards greater response-ability and creative agency in our lives.

Our orientation supports us to:

• Remember and reconnect with ways of being in relationship, with ourselves and the beings that we reside among to resource, nourish, inspire, inform, and guide us.

• Relate beyond an individualistic orientation towards the psyche, situating our well-being within a collective context, attending to the implications of our interdependence.

• Be curious about and learn though the differences and often contradictory positions that exist within us, between us, and among us.

• Identify dominate narratives and the ways that they embody and enact through us, increasing our capacity to challenge them when it serves our personal and collective healing and transformation to do so.

• Listen and express in ways that support understanding, mutual regard, and collective care.

• Engage our inner and outer experiences integratively, attending to our physical, cognitive, psychological, imaginative, cultural, and spiritual aspects to build our resourcefulness, skillfulness, creativity, and resilience.

I incorporate knowledge and methods from myriad sources, including:

  • M.A./Ph.D. Program in Depth Psychology with Specialization in Community, Liberation, Indigenous, and Eco-Psychologies 

  • Shadow Work Training & Apprenticeship  

  • Pachamama Alliance’s Awakening the Dreamer, Game Changer Intensive, and Introduction to Community Climate Action Training

  • Sivananda ashram based 200 hour yoga teacher training

  • JourneyDance™ facilitator certification

  • 300 hour Yoga Psyche Soul: Yoga Psychology Advanced Teacher Training

  • Urban Priestess Mystery School: 13 Moon Priestess Training and Initiation

  • RITUAL 13 Moon Mystery School

  • Non-Violent Communication (NVC) Parent Peer Leadership Training

  • Debra Silverman's Astrology Certification Program