jennifer pastiloff

when jen was eight her father died. the last words she said to him were “I hate you.” those words would haunt her well into adulthood as she found herself dropping out of NYU as an english major, working as a waitress for 14 years while “pursuing” acting and dead-end relationships, and falling deeper into depression.

the day she began taking anti-depressants was the day she began finding her way home.

she became a yoga teacher and started writing what was true. sharing all of what it means to be human: the messy, the hard, the beautiful, the magical. no shame. no apologies. just “real fucking life.”

today jen the a national bestselling author of On Being Human: a memoir of waking up, living real, and listening hard. she leads sold-out yoga-related movement and writing retreats around the world, and is the founder of the online magazine The Manifest-Station. jen has been featured on Good Morning America, New York magazine, Health magazine, CBS news, and more. she has a massive online following and is loved the world over for her raw and real telling of what it means to be human.

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“I am so abso-fucking-lutely okay with saying I don’t know. I don’t know. and without a moment of I should know this, I’m going to be judged. nope. I don’t know. and that’s what’s so beautiful about being human. it’s all about the asking of the questions. it’s all about the figuring it out. it’s all about the diving in and the paying attention.”