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The Den was Born
The Sovereign Den was born in August 2025, though the work that shaped it had been developing for many years.
I began my private practice, Everyday Enneagram, in 2019, primarily coaching and mentoring people using the wisdom of the Enneagram. I love the Enneagram because it remains one of the most honest and reliable lenses I have found for understanding ourselves and others with compassion.
The Enneagram reveals the conscious and unconscious strategies each type develops while learning how to be human, how we seek belonging, protect ourselves, relate to others, and make our way through the world. It brings remarkable specificity to the patterns that have shaped us and the possibilities available to us. The very qualities that become our gifts when held consciously, can become liabilities when left unconscious. Both belong to the structure of type. We cannot fully embody the gift without also understanding its shadow. Learning to hold this paradox is one of the greatest gifts of the Enneagram.
As I worked alongside people in the trenches of their lives (mine included) something became increasingly clear: self-awareness was not always enough. People could recognize their patterns, speak fluently about them, and understand why they behaved as they did, yet still feel unable to choose something different. The unresolved effects of trauma often created a barrier between insight and meaningful change. Strategies that had once been adaptive and protective were no longer serving them.
That realization led me into advanced professional study and continuing education. Specifically, my work grew in areas of trauma-informed practices and recovery, nervous-system regulation, somatic work, attachment, relational healing, bilateral practices, and more. This training expanded my capacity to work with greater integrity, responsibility, and respect for the complexity of what people carry. It also allowed me to integrate the profound insight of the Enneagram with practices that engage not only the mind, but also the heart, body, nervous system, and lived experience.
The Sovereign Den grew from that integration and from the understanding that insight can illuminate the way home, but it is capacity that allows us to walk it reliably.
As my approach evolved, Everyday Enneagram continued to offer a distinct kind of space for people seeking deeper self-understanding, including many who had already explored traditional therapy and wanted an additional, more integrative and experiential form of support.
At the heart of everything I do is, my love of people. I want to know people deeply and listen in ways that help them hear themselves more clearly.
Along the way, while teaching, mentoring, and coaching others, I remained a student, learning to live the very thing I teach: to claim both the responsibility and the privilege of being me. The Enneagram remained foundational, but my work expanded to include far more than Enneagram education alone. The Sovereign Den became a home where integrated insight and self-understanding could be carried further into greater agency, embodiment, choice, and freedom.
The Sovereign Den Manifesto
A prayer entered my heart in the early morning hours, before daylight’s first hues touched the red rocks surrounding my home in Southern Utah.
It was a ‘struck-by-lightning’ kind of moment. I have experienced only a few of these moments in my lifetime, and they remain among the most sacred and reverent experiences I have known.
The universal winds of change were blowing something profoundly misaligned out of my life, while ushering something else in with such force that I felt completely upside down. Or at least that is what I thought.
I was actually being turned right-side up.
The prayer poured out of me like poetry. I may be a writer, but I have never considered myself a poet. At the time, I did not fully understand what I was writing or where it had come from. It felt strange, yet deeply intuitive. I knew only that it was some kind of guide, a declaration of my intentions with guardrails that would help me remain accountable to what I believed and the type of person I wanted to be in the world.
Within a few days, I began to understand what was happening. It was not happening to me. It was not even happening for me. It was happening through me. The words stood on the shoulders of years spent studying, learning, healing, and wrestling with what it meant to become free. Or better yet, where I was NOT free. I saw with precision and humbling clarity that everything I had experienced up until very moment, had been an extraordinary teachers to me and something cosmic was compassionately and continually revealing the places where I was not yet free.
I had been learning to loosen my attachments, unravel my codependency, and take responsibility for the projections, pain, and bullshit I had conveniently placed upon others to carry.
It was me all along. I was the problem, and I was also the answer.
At this strange, painful and unexpected threshold, I knew that if I could use what I had lived and learned to help others walking a similar path, perhaps that was one way I could live responsibly into the privilege of being me.
I cannot help everyone. Nor do I want to. But if I can help one, I will be grateful. Perhaps the heartache, pain, sweat, tears, grief, joy, and abundance that have moved through my life could become meaningful, if I was willing to give them my honest attention and do a few things right.
The prayer that arrived that morning became The Dens Manifesto. And the manifesto became The Sovereign Den.
MANIFESTO
In the Den, we gather as travelers of the soul. We stand as mirrors for one another, companions on the path of life, walking each other home to the place of our true belonging.
Here, autonomy is steady and alive. Freedom is not found by simply pulling away, but through the honest work of standing in your own authority.
To cross the threshold of the Den is an act of devotion: answering the quiet summons of authenticity, standing as a sacred witness to our shared humanity, and learning together what it means to live from a place of embodiment.
We are bound by a golden thread of compassion, united by our longing for refuge, connection, and belonging that never requires the betrayal of self.
Within this sanctuary, sovereignty isn’t something we just desire to reclaim, it is something we restore, embody, and celebrate.
Welcome to the Den.
Welcome home to yourself.
JEN HURST
25 Years of Practice and Study
Jen Hurst is a Holistic Trauma Practitioner, Enneagram Specialist, Certified Professional Coach, Certified Breathwork Facilitator, and Psychedelic Integration Specialist whose work brings together the intelligence of the mind, heart, body, and nervous system.
For more than 25 years, Jen has studied the patterns, relationships, protective strategies, and lived experiences that shape who we become and what allows us to reclaim greater freedom, wholeness, and choice. Since opening her private practice in 2018, she has accumulated well over 10,000 hours of direct client and facilitation experience.
Jen holds professional certifications in the Enneagram (iEQ9), The Narrative Enneagram tradition of Helen Palmer and Dr. David Daniels; Compassionate Inquiry, developed by Dr. Gabor Maté; and Reclamation Breathwork. Her continuing education spans many disciplines and approaches, some of them include; Internal Family Systems, somatic and nervous-system-informed approaches, cognitive frameworks, attachment theory, relational dynamics, trauma recovery, and non-ordinary states of consciousness.
Other affiliations include but not limited to ONAC (Oklevueha Native American Church) and the International Practitioners of Holistic Medicine.
Jen’s private practice is depth-oriented, relational, and highly individualized. It encompasses three primary areas: Enneagram education and mentoring; trauma recovery and reprocessing; and somatic and embodiment work, including breathwork, ceremony, and preparation and integration support for psychedelic and other non-ordinary experiences. Each area can be engaged independently, though they are often integrated according to the needs, capacity, and intentions of the individual.
Jen has guided hundreds of private and small-group Breath Ceremonies, creating carefully held spaces rooted in preparation, pacing, consent, attunement, and integration.
She also designs and facilitates customized trainings for businesses, leadership teams, and organizations. Grounded in trusted trauma-informed principles, these trainings strengthen self-awareness, communication, time orientation, accountability, conflict navigation, and collaboration in the workplace without reducing anyone to a personality type.
The constant beneath all of Jen’s work is her commitment to personal sovereignty. Her role is not to tell people who they are or what they should believe. It is to create the conditions in which they can see themselves more clearly, expand their capacity, and make more conscious choices.
Based in Southern Utah, Jen is a wife of 25 years, a mother of seven, and a grandmother of five. She works with individuals locally and online and facilitates organizational trainings in a variety of professional settings. Her work is held within clearly defined professional boundaries and with deep respect for autonomy, pacing, consent, and informed choice.
Jen believes it is each person’s responsibility to live into the privilege of being who they are. The Sovereign Den is her continuing practice of living into that responsibility herself.
“It is misleading, at best, to think sovereignty is about standing alone. Sovereignty is not about independence, it is the paradox of finally belonging to yourself and in that belonging, opening the door to everything. Real sovereignty is the refusal to abandon yourself; to courageously return to the home of your own belonging, no matter who stays, leaves or misunderstands.”JEN HURST