Welcome to The Repairenting Project
I started this a long time ago, on random pieces of paper, on my notes app, on voice record, in journals as a personal memoir to gather my thoughts,experiences, wins and challenges during difficult seasons. It’s a place where I found solace, refined my tools and uncovered golden threads of wisdom and love that I found buried in the depths of despair. Through journeying depression, solo parenting, a nervous breakdown and healing childhood trauma all at the same time. The Repairenting Project became a place to reflect, repair, restore and essentially re-parent my life.
Here, I share personal stories along with teachings through my work as a Mindset Mentor & Facilitator of Change. From seasons in life on the threshing floor, desperate and broken, to times being completely renewed and restored with god's glorious grace on this earth. I share insights and favourite excerpts from moments and people that have inspired me. I share a time and space where both light and shadow simultaneously exist.
I hope in joining me, you find a resonance, a sense of belonging and some wisdom within yourself, through my vulnerabilities. I hope you feel inspired, unburdened and most of all seen, heard and connected through my words.
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Much love Jen Pen
Muma | Interior Designer | Writer | Mindset Mentor
I felt broken, but I was not prepared for the breakdown.
….on the side of a busy morning road, engine running, hazard lights on. As I turned off the engine I felt my seven year old daughter’s tiny hand reach into mine and before I could open my mouth to reassure her, “Everything is alright”, I heard her say “Muma, I think you should call an ambulance”.
A poem “On Children” by Poet and Philosopher Kahlil Gibran
Your children are not your children
They are the sons and daughters of life's longing for itself…
“One of the most rewarding parts in letting go of what no longer serves our soul is receiving the greatest gift; arriving inside ourselves, our cells, as if for the first time, with unequivocal self love and an infinite source of wisdom to create miracles from.”
Much love Jen Pen