Jessica's Story

Jessica grew up in a predominantly African-
American neighborhood where she encountered
the Baha'i Faith, and the music, teachings, and
community life around her left a lasting mark —
a thread that would later draw her to singing as
medicine and years spent immersed in cultures
beyond her own. Raised by non-religious parents, yet surrounded by a deeply devotional Bahá'í community, she was encouraged from an early age to share her voice in service to others.

Even so, Jessica's early life was marked by challenges — an emotionally volatile household, a highly sensitive nature, and constant bullying at school. By 18, that early adversity had taken a physical toll: Jessica was 300 pounds, living with severe sleep apnea, hypoglycemia, anxiety, and clinical depression. Owing to her highly sensitive nature, she knew the conventional medical path wasn't going to work for her, and so she began an intense holistic healing journey — one that would ultimately lead her to lose 140 pounds and reverse all her chronic health conditions.

Her journey took her far beyond convention. She has lived and worked in China and studied in Ghana. She spent years visiting and at times living on the Lac du Flambeau reservation, immersed in Ojibwe culture, and attended Sitting Bull Tribal College on the Standing Rock reservation in South Dakota. Decades of sacred singing — in Bahá'í devotional gatherings, Kirtan, gospel traditions, and Ojibwe and Lakota sweat lodges — deepened her devotional life and opened her to different ways of connecting to the unseen. 

Through all of it, singing with people — and helping them find spiritual connection — has never been a technique for her. It's simply what she does. For more than 30 years, she has led thousands of people in singing together, across the country — long before any of it was her profession.

Her holistic healing path eventually became her vocation: she is a certified holistic health counselor and coach, certified sound healing practitioner, and professional singer, with a daily meditation and prayer practice she has kept for over 30 years, enhanced by participating in extended silent meditation retreats. In 2022, Long Covid dismantled her nervous system and put her out of commission for two years — she healed once more, this time by going deeper into the science of nervous system regulation and energetics.

Today, as a professional practice, Jessica has guided more than 250 people locally through sacred singing and sound healing. She is honored to hold space for others on their path of healing and liberation.