Most wellness environments are designed to feel good. Very few are designed to intentionally guide the nervous system into a specific state.

That's the gap I work in.

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING

"Jessica is a rare coworker who relaxes the room and yet still motivates thise around her to dig deeper. She's shown consistent quality of though, care and follow-through. People are always praising her work, and she maintains a balance of professionalism and levity.
She's been a powerhouse for research, managing a database of high-quality studies in subjects from recovery support to biometric scans. She wrote a document that summarized the power of voice to such a degree that Aescape pivoted its direction on client guidance and interaction. She'd be the first person I reach out to about the cutting edge of recovery.

-Gabe C.

Contact, Simulation, and the Felt Experience of Space

We’ve long understood that the brain mirrors other people. We’re now beginning to see that it may also be mirroring the environment itself. There’s new evidence that the brain’s mirror neuron system responds not only to social interactions, but also to interactions and perceived relationships between inanimate objects in our environment. For decades, the mirror neuron system (MNS) has been understood as a mechanism for social cognition and connection. Observing another person

Rewriting the Nervous System Blueprint: Top-Down vs Bottom-Up

Sometimes the practices that once helped us feel calm start to feel ineffective. We sit down to meditate and our minds spin faster. We try to focus, reflect, or reset, but nothing really lands. We feel restless, overstimulated, or flat. It’s easy to assume something is wrong with us, that we’ve lost discipline or that we’re doing the practices incorrectly. But often, the issue isn’t the practice at all. It’s the state of the system we’re trying to apply it to. Our nervous sys

Relearning Pleasure: Healing the Dopamine Hangover

Have you noticed that we live in a culture that never stops reaching for the next hit of excitement, novelty or ‘success’? Most of us scroll, sip, snack, message, click, win, shop or -insert vices here- until we get a quick jolt of validation. It’s constant. That’s why so many of us now exist in a strange, tense space between feeling overstimulated and undernourished. Our brains are flooded, but our bodies feel empty. There’s a quiet but distinctive crash that comes after too