Meet Jess
The journey back home is sacred – and you deserve support along the way!
If you’ve ever felt out of touch with your creativity, your intuition, or your own voice, I’m here to help you find your way back. Using intuitive guidance, energy healing, and creative practices, I walk with you as you release what’s holding you back and rediscover the parts of yourself you’ve been missing.
How this journey started…
I’m Jess, and when I was in 3rd grade I made the decision that education defined me.
I always knew I wanted to be a teacher because school made me feel like I mattered, school felt like where I belonged when my childhood felt uncertain.
But teaching soon led me down a path of proving myself, overachieving, people pleasing, and burnout, and all the masks I wore made me feel like I was losing control, losing myself.
When I started having panic attacks I knew something had to change because I was bleeding out, and the bandages I always used weren’t working anymore.
So, I did something so many don’t do I put myself first and I started to heal myself from the inside out. I made the decision that toxic family cycles end with me!
As I was healing…
I watched from the sidelines as family and friends struggled the way I once did. I saw the overwhelm of trying to do it all, the exhaustion from ignoring boundaries, the self-doubt and frustration, and the weight of expectations that never seemed fair. They wanted more, but didn’t know how to set boundaries, trust themselves, or step into the lives they longed for.
That’s when I realized something: so many of us lose touch with the parts of ourselves that matter most—our creativity, our intuition, our voice—because old habits, people-pleasing, and generational patterns keep us small.
So, I began creating resources, tools, and experiences for everyday people like you to look inward, reconnect with themselves, and rediscover what lights them up. No matter where you are in your journey, this work is about uncovering the potential that’s always been within you—to trust your intuition, release old patterns, and rise above the expectations and relationships that no longer serve you.
It’s an invitation to come home to yourself, reclaim your voice, and step fully into the creative, confident, playful, and intuitive person you’ve always been.
“How do you let go of those challenging feelings? I stand here as an example that it can be done. You can do the work. You can release the terrible feelings while still validating the ones attached to your memories”
Jessica Madenford
My mission is to help you unlock the power within, trust yourself, and start living with purpose!
The Journey to Here specializes in guiding women through healing, expression, and spiritual connection—helping you move beyond limiting beliefs, emotional patterns, and survival habits like people-pleasing. Through intuitive guidance, energy work, and heart-centered practices, this work supports emotional regulation, self-trust, forgiveness, healthy boundaries, and mindset shifts that lead to deeper alignment, self-acceptance, and peace.
“Jess is a natural healer. Her warmth and authenticity create a comfortable, safe environment for deep self-reflection and vulnerability. Her sessions help me access, release, and shift behaviors that no longer serve me and also empower me to move forward with conscious choice and joy. I feel lighter, more balance, and in control. She’s such a gem!”
“Passionate, relatable, safe, calm. These are words I often find myself associating with Jess as I have worked with her on my own journey. She provides a safe space to open up by sharing her own personal experiences and knowledge to help guide me through my emotions and really helps me question how I think about different parts of my life and my life journey thus far. This personal connection and safe space allows me to be more accepting of myself and to better absorb the guidance and strategies she is teaching. She is so very knowledgeable in her practice and I am so very thankful to be working with her.”
“Jess is an amazing person to go to for a healing experience! She helped me release pent up anger and grief from the childhood I experienced. The journey she took me through helped me engage with my past mother and my father. This experience was one that I will never forget and it has helped me by giving me the courage to look deeper and take the first step in healing that little girl that needed someone to care for her in the way I am now. Jess will make you feel comfortable and work with you at the level you are on and ready to confront.”
