I’m Rev. Jess Barrett — mother, public theologian, writer, playwright, and devotional somatics practitioner.
I companion mothers, makers, and justice-workers on the living pilgrimage — the embodied, sometimes brutal, always sacred journey toward a living God. Through Holy Disruption I write weekly about faith, healing, and what it means to stay human while Rome burns. Through devotional somatics I offer practices for healing through body, art, writing, and movement as prayer.
I’m too activist for most church spaces and too mystical for most academic ones. I’ve made my peace with that.
I’m the author of Can Spiritual Women Say F#ck?, The Soft Rebellion, and Blood & Roses.
Devotional somatics is the practice of healing through the body, the page, and the moving world around you.
It’s theology that doesn’t stay in your head. It’s prayer that lives in your hands, your breath, your anger, your art. It’s the conviction that writing, making, and moving aren’t escapes from spiritual life — they are spiritual life.
I developed this framework because the people I serve — mothers, makers, justice-workers, the spiritually burned and still somehow hungry — needed more than ideas. They needed practices. Ways back into their bodies and their faith that didn’t require pretending the world wasn’t on fire.
Devotional somatics draws on ancestral healing, embodied theology, and creative practice to help you re-member what systems have broken — in yourself, in your community, in the tradition itself.
This is the through-line of everything I write, teach, and create.