Jen Berlingo is a coach and guide, a Licensed Professional Counselor, a Nationally Registered Art Therapist, a best-selling author and thought leader on the midlife passage, and a master-level Reiki practitioner. After two decades of midwifing hundreds of women through life’s major transitions, Jen experienced her own passage through a fiery midlife portal where she more fully stepped into her queer identity.
During that time, she was inspired to write her first book, a teaching memoir titled Midlife Emergence: Free Your Inner Fire. Upon its publication, Midlife Emergence reached #1 in several Amazon categories, including midlife management, divorce, LGBTQ+ memoirs, LGBTQ+ parenting and families, adulthood and aging, and self-help, and won first place in the Spring 2024 BookFest awards in three categories: LGBTQ+, personal memoirs, and transformational self-help. The book was also named a finalist in the 18th Annual National Indie Excellence Awards in the Non-fiction LGBTQ+ category.
Additionally, Jen is a visual artist who self-published an intuitive watercolor oracle deck called the SoulSpace Oracle in 2016. She creates custom, fluid, abstract paintings for collectors worldwide and exhibits her art locally in her beloved town of Boulder, Colorado. There, among the sunny foothills, she can usually be found in her comfiest sweats, making bottomless bowls of popcorn (with olive oil and nooch!) and snuggling on the couch with her teenager, her girlfriend, her coven of close friends, and her chatty twin rescue cats, Jinx and Juju.
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In this excerpt of “Midlife Emergence,” bestselling author, coach, and psychotherapist Jen Berlingo writes about dropping people-pleasing, finding her truth, and her “allergy to stagnation.”
