Jennifer Marcenelle was like many of us. A self-described whirling, spinning, force of nature consumed by work and people-pleasing, Jennifer spent years as a hard-driving, highly-motivated ER and Critical Care nurse dedicated to the care and service of others. By her early 40s she’d climbed through the ranks to become a corporate medical sales executive, holding an MBA, BSN, and an RN.
Jennifer’s behind-the-scenes truth was a slow self-destruction into exhaustion, depression, and painful past memories. Following a humiliating situation at work in August 2013, she collapsed, contemplated self-worth and suicide, and experienced a profound transcendental experience that illuminated her inner purpose. She has since dedicated her life to helping others reclaim theirs through the healing of thoughts, memories, and emotions. Once she experienced the dramatic healing effects of Gemstone and Diamond Therapy, her Inner Guidance urged her to share this powerful healing solution. She says, “While in the corporate world, I used willpower to create success rather than divine creativity. It took years to make the shift from leading with head to leading with heart and has been worth every step.”
Jennifer is now a Board-Certified Holistic Nurse, Certified Neuro-Linguistic Practitioner, Certified Reiki Practitioner and Certified Gemstone and Diamond Therapy Practitioner. She founded Burn Bright Today, the first energy medicine practice of its kind, and one that spreads the message of holistic healing with the ultimate goal of creating a platform for licensed practitioners to refer each other so clients can access the healers they need. Her first book, From Burning Out to Burning Bright Get Your Life Back By Healing Your Thoughts, Memories and Emotions helps others to understand their challenges, triggers, and why holistic methods can work when others have failed.
Her Toolbox
Since burnout is an energy problem, Jennifer addresses the need for an energy solution. Holistic treatments address root causes of triggers and sensitivities, addressing the hows and whys of the problem’s origin. It must involve the healing and storage of personal energy, examination of past experiences that influence present behaviors, and a connection to our Divinity and the universe. Sessions and treatment plans are different for every client. Assessment is an ongoing process as a client works his or her own way through the healing process.
One way to balance and align energies is the practice of Reiki, in which the practitioner’s job is to help others harness their own energy and help it flow freely to a balanced state of health. A Reiki session begins with clients explaining painful symptoms. They lay—with clothes on and shoes off—on a massage table or seated in a chair. Depending on client preferences, the practitioner may touch them or simply hold his/her hands above their body. After the session, clients report warming sensations as well as tingling and overwhelming sense of relaxation.
Gemstone and Diamond Therapy
Everything an atom is composed of (protons, neutrons and electrons) and each gem provides a specific frequency of light and sound utilized to bring about healing effects. Gemstone and Diamond Therapy operates on the premise that we are all made of energy and when we interact with invisible short wavelengths of energy, our bodies react. Therapeutic Gemstones and Therapeutic Seven-Color Ray Diamonds carry unique healing energies that resolve blockages, nourish and repair injuries to the energetic anatomy. Before a session, Jennifer cleanses each stone and ensures they are appropriately recharged. Jennifer counts this therapy as a personal favorite because of a diamond’s unique ability to work across, time, space and dimensions.
Chakra Healing
Chakras are energy centers that help to regulate processes, from organ function to the immune system. The seven main chakras are positioned throughout your body, each with its own vibrational frequency and governing specific functions. Due to the wear and tear of everyday life they can shift and require realignment repair or upgrades. Chakras can be palpated and assessed by certified Holistic Practitioners such as Jennifer and re-aligned to improve energy flow, health, and lessen burnout symptoms.
Burning Bright
Jennifer provides a comprehensive and customized energy assessment followed by a treatment plan and highly skilled, precise energy healing sessions. She believes that modern business models should be steeped within a new, energy-centered consciousness and incorporates much-loved concepts from Flute of God by Paul Twitchell and The Spiritual Laws of Life by Harold Klemp within every aspect of her business. Her clients can work directly at her Houston, Texas studio or utilize her concierge services, where they fly her to a location of choice or work remotely by phone or video. When one person suffers from burnout an entire family suffers along with them, and so does the energy in the home, including pets. Jennifer partners with other members of the patient’s health care team so as to utilize every resource to help the client feel whole again. She also works with corporate teams and holds private retreats at various hotels around the world.
To stay organized and prepared, Jennifer relies on her Outlook calendar and the Best Self Journal for Entrepreneurs, also incorporating the Divination Arts of Astrology and Numerology and inner guidance from her spiritual guides. Her book, From Burning Out to Burning Bright Get Your Life Back by Healing Your Thoughts, Memories and Emotions is intended to help others heal their lives. It is both an explanation of holistic healing and a focus on tools for developing spiritual care and physical healing.
Jennifer recalls an inspirational seminar in which the keynote speaker suddenly looked at her as he said, “Tell your story.” In that moment it felt like God had given her a directive—to write her book as a means to help others help themselves.
“Our lives are personal,” she says. “We need to address them as such in order to heal physical and emotional pain. My hope is to inspire others to achieve balance, joy, contentment, access to renewable energy, peace, happiness, and self-direction. I can’t promise that it’ll be easy but can attest to that ‘something better’ waiting for you on the other side of holistic treatments.”
