About Me
Hello, and welcome! I'm Beth Jones. If you feel stuck, unfulfilled, or tormented by critical inner voices - then we may have a lot in common. I felt that way too, for much of my life.
Now I help people change those painful dynamics, find their way to freedom, and unlock their trapped energy.
The work I do with clients is centred in the body because after years of seeking, my own healing feels like it only really got started when I discovered body-based work.
I studied psychology at McMaster and Johns Hopkins, and spent years in talk therapy, but that only helped to a degree. By the time I reached my late 40s, I still felt dissatisfied with life, and was perpetually single and lonely. Then a friend invited me to my first body-based workshop. After that things started changing rapidly...
If you'd like to explore how body-based work could change your life too, I'd love to talk. Click the link below to book a free Discovery Call.
My Journey to self acceptance
For most of my life I felt hounded by critical inner voices. When it came to my career, the voices told me I wasn't working hard enough, and that I wasn't successful enough. When it came to my family, the voices told me I wasn't a good enough daughter, and that I was a bad sister.
And the critical voices were especially loud when it came to love. I was perpetually single. My longest-ever relationship only lasted only six months. Because of that, the voices told me there was something fundamentally wrong with me. That I had commitment issues. and I needed to be fixed.
I spent years in talk therapy, and for some things that helped, but not as far as my "commitment issues" went. I felt like there was a rigid pole inside me, but no matter how much I talked about it, nothing changed.
Then I started doing to body-based work. In group workshops and solo sessions, my practitioner encouraged me to follow my body's impulses, which could mean anything from hitting pillows when I felt angry, sobbing when I felt sad, or reaching my arms out when I felt a need. She told me that by following those impulses, I was bringing my gifts to the world. It wasn't always easy. I discovered profound layers of grief and sadness to work through.
It felt good to release that pent up energy, but at first I didn't really understand how it was helping me in the rest of my life. Then I started to notice things changing. The more I expressed my long held emotions, and allowed them to move me physically, the less stuck I felt in my life.
The most profound shift came about a year after I started the body work, when I was out for a bike ride one day. I had just experienced another romantic failure, and I was reflecting on my "commitment issues" - how on the rare occasions that I felt attracted to men, they were usually married or in love with other women; and how I had flings when I was travelling, but never when I was home.
Up until that moment, I had always thought that my inability to find a committed relationship was a sign that I was broken. Finding love was like the holy grail for me. I'd know I was "fixed" when I didn't have commitment issues anymore. But on that bike ride, a new thought occurred to me:
"What if I'm not broken? What if I can be a gift to the universe just as I am?"
It felt groundbreaking, and in that moment, something inside me relaxed. I decided to start exploring polyamory. And in the decade since then my life has changed dramatically. I have multiple long-term relationships and a life full of love and rewarding sexual experiences.
Ultimately, I was so moved by the way body-work had helped me, that I decided to explore further training. I studied at the Institute of Core Energetics in New York, and graduated as a Certified Core Energetics Practitioner in 2024.
Enter Existential Kink
The latest chapter in my healing journey happened when I learned about Existential Kink, first from reading Carolyn Elliot's book and then from an intensive Existential Kink Coach training at her Immortal College.
This unique approach to "shadow integration" invites us to consider the ways our unconscious self derives pleasure from the unwanted negative patterns in life we can never seem to change.
For stories about Existential Kink has changed my life for the better - check out my blog.
Learning from the Earth
For much of my life, I worked in the environmental field, and a key understanding I gained from that is about the interconnectedness of forests. I was amazed when I learned how trees communicate and even share resources through underground networks of fungi. It's a beautiful and complex system of reciprocity.
Sometimes I like to think that we humans are like forests. Because there is beauty and complexity in our hidden depths too. And joy and serenity to be gained from slowing down to appreciate that beauty.
Mission
My mission is to support you on your journey toward healing, fulfillment, and personal growth. Whether you're looking to overcome long-standing emotional blocks, deepen your self-awareness, or simply reconnect with your body (and your inner forest), I'm here to help.
Thank you for being here. I look forward to walking this path with you.