Discover how to trust your ability to love yourself and your children well, even when the past tells you it’s impossible.
life is layered healing.
Danielle Jernigan is a writer, advice giver, and meditation enthusiast. She believes self-love culture can trap those raised in abusive homes, keeping them stuck in performance rather than helping them restore a true relationship to Love. Her essays have appeared in the NYT Parenting Newsletter (Tiny Victory), Nourishing Word Blog, and Your Tango, and her essay “A Sister’s Salve” is forthcoming in No Contact: Writers on Estrangement (Catapult, April 2026). Danielle creates meditations, reflections, and write to heal practices for her podcast, Life is Layered Healing. Born and raised on the East Coast, she now lives in the Midwest with the youngest of her two children who made her a midlife mom at the age of 44.
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My current book project explores how we can break free from the cycle of performative self-love and begin to cultivate our capacity to love ourselves and our children well.
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Life is Layered Healing
A weekly reflection and meditation audio experience with one goal — to help those who question their innate capacity to love the children well practice the the art of attention and cultivate healthy self regard.
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