HOLISTIC THERAPIST.
TRANSFORMATIONAL GUIDE.
HEART-LED VISIONARY.
Meet Jessica Harding
BA International Studies, Masters in Social Work
PhD drop out (completed 2+ years of Visionary Practice & Regenerative Leadership)
Jess
I grew up in the suburbs of Maryland in the U.S and the only real desire I had for my life was to fall in love. However, life had other plans for me. Riddled with insecurities, low self-esteem and low self-worth, I followed the first call that would change my life forever.
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An adventurer and dreamer at heart, I spent most of my 20s traveling the world and learning about people from different backgrounds. I traveled to over 30 countries and lived in Spain, The Netherlands, South Africa, and Uganda. With intuition as my guide, I followed an unconventional path with each step. There was never a linear end goal; it has always been about the journey and a search for something "more."
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After experiencing many transpersonal experiences abroad, I decided to dedicate my life to service. Through service, I discovered my passion for grassroots work and being part of missions larger than myself. I served two terms of AmeriCorps in Baltimore City and successfully completed serving in Peace Corps South Africa.
Throughout my 20s, I was continually brought into experiences that reignited this truth of finding the light and the universal in people even in some of the darkest places, like when I would volunteer as a nonviolence facilitator in prison. What all these experiences had in common was, when surrounded by people from different cultures and countries, I felt connected to my heart and open to universal beauty. They were profoundly spiritual encounters.
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I was unconsciously following a mystic path in my 20s, continually shedding past versions of myself through novel experiences, greater awareness, pattern interruption, and transformative fire. However, my biggest learning came when I experienced a spiritual initiation at the age of 30. After a health crisis brought me back to my childhood home, I soon realized that everything I had been seeking was already found within; all the friends I made along the journey were reflections of parts of myself either longing to be expressed or yearning to be healed and integrated. I decided that I was going to love myself through this life crisis which then began an internal journey where I was led into the depths of my body and psyche to do inner alchemical work.
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I laid the wild party girl of my youth to rest, but learned how to transform the lower expression of her needs into the higher expression of finding the ecstatic in the mundane through connection, vocal activation, meditation, breathwork, and movement.
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I learned that self-love is the foundation for service; there's no separation between service to self and service to other. When you have a full cup, you have more to give. Most importantly, when you do the work to understand your shadow, triggers, and inner drives, you become accountable to those you serve. It's no longer about best intentions; it becomes clear intention and right action.
At 34, I was initiated into a deeper feminine path. I again set off into the unknown with only my intuition as guide.
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I got the call to attend an awakening women's ashram on an island in Greece. Little did I know what would unfold from saying yes to that call.
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Soon after returning, I got an intuitive nudge to watch old video tapes from my youth. The majority of the footage was of sleepover parties with my best friends at the time. I noticed how imaginative, playful, and carefree we were. I also noticed that we intuitively did the same things we did at the ashram: singing, dancing, connecting, playing.
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A week later, the name came to me: Inner Child Sleepover Party.
The wild party girl I had laid to rest was being reborn, not in her shadow form seeking escape, but in her light form seeking pure joy, connection, and play. What I didn't yet know was that Inner Child Sleepover Party would become the bridge between who I had been and who I was becoming: the wild party girl transformed through innocence reclaimed and wisdom earned.
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What followed was the most challenging journey of my life. Years of financial struggle, hard work, learning new skills, confronting deeper layers of inner wounds and trauma from my youth, navigating self-doubt, and attempting to quit multiple times while still ultimately saying yes to the process.
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On one of my quitting attempts, I was intuitively led to an old diary passage from 2005 where I had clearly stated this very dream, what is now Inner Child Sleepover Party. It was a dream I had forgotten, but here it was, in the process of being manifested as an adult.
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This whole process led me down the heroine's path to power, but at the heart of it, I've become the woman my inner girl needed. I've learned how to honor my whole self, my whole journey, and embody the gifts of all the struggles and pain. Inner Child Sleepover Party is the treasure, born from decades of inner and outer journeying, and it's the spiral path that I continue to walk. It's my offering to help others reconnect with the joy, playfulness, and wholeness that lives within us all. My deepest soul longing is to share what I have learned and create space for others to come home to themselves.
INNER CHILD SLEEPOVER PARTY