🌿 About Jenni B
Hey, I’m Jenni.
I’m a 40-something, neuro-spicy creative, former photographer, chronic illness warrior, wife, and now a new empty nester learning to live more slowly, more softly, and more myself than ever before.
For years, I ran a photography business I loved. But behind the beauty I captured for others, I was unraveling.
Prolonged emotional turmoil, mental and physical stress, and the drive to keep pushing finally caught up with me — and my health collapsed.
I found myself facing anxiety, panic disorder, migraines, multiple autoimmune issues, and total burnout.
I had to stop everything — not just for a break, but to survive. And in that stillness, the real healing began.
I learned the art of boundaries — how to say no, how to walk away, and how to protect my peace.
I learned to trust Jesus more intimately—not just with my forever, but with my right now: my decisions, my direction, and my daily dependence.
And I learned to listen to my own intuition — the God-given and Holy Spirit blazing gut sense I had silenced for too long in order to sustain the peace around me.
These days, I work mostly from home as a communications director for a local church, where I design digital content and create quietly behind the scenes. It’s gentle work that meets me where I am — and that’s been a gift.
Now, I’m stepping into a brand-new season.
With our youngest headed off to college, I’m entering empty nest life with a full heart and open hands — asking, what now?
Life with Jenni B is my new space to explore the answer.
It’s not a niche. It’s not a brand strategy. It’s just me — healing out loud, getting creative again, and making room for joy, grace, and honest connection.
Here, you’ll find:
- ✨ Creative work (graphics, journaling, occasional photography)
- 💬 Encouragement for chronic illness + mental health
- 💛 Reflections on motherhood, midlife, and identity
- 🛒 Shopping finds + easy recipes + everything in between
- 🙏 Faith-centered honesty — including what healing with Jesus really looks like
I’m not showing up polished. I’m showing up whole — even when it’s messy.
If you’re navigating burnout, chronic illness, emotional healing, motherhood transitions, or just trying to trust your gut again — you’re not alone.
Thanks for stopping by.
Welcome to this softer, slower, beautifully unfinished life with me.
— Jenni B 🌿
🌿 Random Facts About Jenni B
🧠 I’m a deep thinker (an over-thinker?).
INFJ. Enneagram 9/6/4. StrengthsFinder: Input, Empathy, Intellection, Developer, Positivity. If it’s a personality test, I’ve probably taken it (twice). I love understanding how people are wired — including myself.
📷 Canon girl for life.
I shoot with my Canon 6D and keep my first DSLR (the trusty T3i!) around as backup. I’ve collected enough lenses to cover just about anything — and yes, I still geek out over good glass.
☕ My go-to coffee order?
An iced brown sugar oatmilk shaken espresso. It’s a little strong, a little sweet, and the perfect pick me up.
🧁 The ultimate cupcake in my humble opinion:
Chocolate cake + peanut butter buttercream + chocolate drizzle + a Nutter Butter on top = happiness.
📚 Psych books and spreadsheets are my strange combo of joy.
I can spend hours reading about personalities or creating color-coded budget graphs in Excel. Dave Ramsey’s baby steps helped change our lives, and yes… I do get excited about a well-built formula. #nerdyandproud
🏠 We’re about to be empty nesters.
Our youngest heads off to college in August, and I have all the mixed feelings. I’m sad, proud, relieved, uncertain… but I do know this: I really like a quiet house.
🌱 I’m learning how to heal and protect my peace.
After years of chronic stress and emotional mishandling, I had to learn how to set boundaries, listen to my God-given discernment, and lean fully on Jesus. Healing isn’t linear, but it’s been the most sacred work of my life.
📖 Faith is everything to me.
I love Jesus. He’s carried me through deep valleys, carried me to mountaintops, and met me in the quiet places in between. My life is a story of grace upon grace, and I’ll never stop being grateful for it.
“See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?
I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.” — Isaiah 43:19
🌍 Bucket list dreams?
Ireland — always Ireland — for its green hills and quiet beauty.
France, because I’ve been brushing up on my high school French (rebonjour!) and dream of slow mornings at a boulangerie, ordering un croissant, s’il vous plaît and wandering cobblestone streets with the flaky, buttery pastry in hand.
And Germany, to see where my grandmother grew up and trace back the roots of her story.
✨ Biggest lesson lately?
You can rebuild your life at your own pace.
You can be soft and still strong.
You can love quietly and live fully.
You can have a relationship with Jesus and still benefit from therapy and/or anxiety meds.
You no longer have to shrink, explain, or carry guilt to make others comfortable.
And there’s beauty in being unfinished.