What happens when a high-powered engineer walks away from corporate life to follow a dream rooted in ancestral wisdom, music, and the magic of nature?

Follow my journey of transformation, where I’ve aligned my gifts—storytelling, songwriting, speaking, and mindful walks in nature—with the needs of the world.

Stepping back in time, I grew up one of eight children just outside Buffalo, New York. Following the dictates of family and societal programming, I jumped into the world of engineering, earning a Masters of Engineering from University at Buffalo, and a Bachelors of Industrial Engineering at General Motors Institute, now Kettering University. 

After decades working as an executive for manufacturers in the auto industry and then in information systems, I returned to my early love for how words, music, nature, and beautiful places can enliven the whole landscape of a life. I began to write songs, and stories — speaking and performing them throughout the country, and soon, narrowed my focus to align with my reverence for Earth. 

Today I am a certified Forest Therapy Guide, singer-songwriter, and author-speaker.

I’m thrilled that my nature-themed children’s book, The Inside of ME won the Nautilus Gold medal (12 Willows Press) and my Irish novel with original songs, A Moon in All Things, has launched to strong reviews.

My love affair with Earth can be read in three anthologies:

• No Ordinary Words: The Real Life Wisdom of Women (2022, Amazon)

• A Dangerous New World: Maine Voices on the Climate Crisis (Littoral Press, Nov. 2019)

• Sacred Stone Sacred Water: Women Writers & Artists Encounter Ireland (White Cloud Press, April 2019).

I’ve produced two albums of original music, available on all streaming platforms.

I’m proud to be a former trustee for TreeSisters, an international reforestation and women's empowerment organization, and am currently, a global YOUth LEADing The World facilitator with OzGREEN out of Australia.

My philanthropic practice aims to donate 20% of all proceeds to land and animal protection and restoration, and to places that foster courage, resiliency, and hope amid difficult times.

I’m mightily blessed to be married to a guy who holds my kite string (my original song, Kite String), and to be caregiver for a spunky poodle, Bridey in beautiful Southern Maine. Here, I write, hold climate buoyancy workshops, and have a nature-themed business entitled, Wild Wonder Forest Bathing.

Thoughts on collaborations? Email me.

At Long Last

At long last

I’ve come out of hiding

a half-century is all

it took

This is no crossroads;

this is a launch pad.

From a cliff?

Into a sea?

Up where the air is clear?

I throw myself into radical uncertainty

Yet I hold onto

something

I hold it lovingly to my breast

A secret bio

with nouns like sanctuary-keeper, way-shower

 and storyteller 

(that tenderly dislodge other nouns

like engineer, executive, and project manager)

I hold this holy thing as a launch pad

and cast off

everything else.

(c) 2025, Jennifer Comeau