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I grew up in Africa where, early in life, I fell in love with colours, spots and stripes. Africa is a sweet-spot of emergence in nature, and human creativity. My home city of Durban is a colourful place, home to many Zulu people who love to drum, sing and bead, and the largest Indian community outside of India, who have rich cultural traditions, and love to make spicy food and wear brightly coloured fabrics. As a child, I was constantly stimulated by colour and rhythm. My father, an architect, taught me to draw, and my mother, a ballet dancer, taught me to dance. 

I realized from an early age that I was deeply attracted to all forms of self-expression and I began to notice that the more I engaged in various creative arts, the more I understood their deeper, unifying, spiritual significance, that creativity is simply performing ‘an alignment with the principles of an evolving universe’. Physics verified this for me – it taught me that ‘something’ is always emerging from ‘nothing’ at both the micro and macro levels of existence. The resulting forms that arise, such as giraffe, zebra, books, plays, dance or art are simply the results of deep rivers of creativity running through the universe, through the landscape, the mind and the body.

I have always been a student of the universe. I enjoy creative and spiritual influences from many parts of the globe, including a vibrant image bank from Africa, and a love of words from my British heritage. I learned early how to meditate and practice yoga from my Hindu neighbours. I am also interested in indigenous and shamanic practices, as I was surrounded by many diverse cultures in Africa. I was privileged to study human transformation with several of the great Indian gurus who moved to America, where I did my post graduate work in transformative Yoga Education. Later, after I moved to Canada, I became the director of a residential, Yoga Education Centre, and a teacher of Transformative Art Education at a University.

My interest in how humans transform and empower themselves has led me to study many things, including the arts, science, education, psychology, neurology, evolutionary spirituality, creativity, and feminism, culminating, in my Phd, which focused on how creativity transforms us. Now I bring all I have learned to you, as a counsellor and author. 

When I am not counselling, or further researching creativity and transformation, I can be found in my studio on Vancouver Island, or walking next to the pristine ocean that is still filled with whales, otters, and surging kelp beds. This island, with its rainforested, mountainous wilderness, bear and cougar, feeds my soul. My family and the resourceful, eco-friendly people who live here, are my wellspring. Living in right relationship with body-mind, community and the planet are the cornerstones of my health and happiness.

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 I’m Jen Peer Rich. I’m a writer, artist, and consciousness explorer, though none of those words quite capture the wild, spiraling path I’ve taken to get here. I was born a Miracle Baby, raised in the rubble of generational trauma, and shaped by chronic illness, queer becoming, caregiving, and the relentless pull toward reclaiming wholeness.

My life hasn’t been linear. It’s been cyclical, cellular, and strange, more like a house with collapsing rooms and unexpected doorways than a straight road. Through it all, I’ve carried many selves. Not fractured, but multiple. Not broken, but vast.

My memoir, The Alchemy of Being a House, is the story of how I found a way to live inside myself again. It’s about ancestral pain and hard-won love, about inner voices that bark and bloom and guide. It’s about what happens when you stop trying to be one thing, and instead become 

a home for all of it. 

I live by a lake in Florida with my wife, our magical daughter, and our pack of rescue dogs. These days, I’m living from the inside out—wild, whole, and unhidden.