You were born an animal.
Perfectionism is what keeps you from it.
somaCREATIVE™ is a somatic practice for people ready to stop performing and come back to their animal body. Through grief. Through creativity. Through the death of everything that was never really you.
You didn't forget how to feel.
You were taught to perform instead.
Perfectionism isn't a personality flaw. It's what happens when the animal in you learns that being seen — really seen — isn't safe. So it hides. It refines. It waits until it's perfect enough to exist.
But perfect never comes.
And meanwhile your actual life — the creativity wanting to move through you, the grief wanting to be felt, the wildness wanting to breathe — keeps waiting.
This is the cost of perfectionism.
Not just the unfinished projects.
Your aliveness.
Grief is the body letting go.
Most mental pain is body pain that hasn't moved yet.
The tightness in your chest that has no name. The exhaustion that sleep doesn't fix. The way you reach for someone — human or animal — and they're not there anymore.
That's not weakness. That's your nervous system holding what your mind doesn't know how to carry.
And it needs somewhere to go.
Not to be processed perfectly. Not to be fixed. Just to move. The way it was always meant to.
When we lose our animals — the ones who loved us without asking us to be different — something cracks open. Something we wanted more access to all along. The part of us that knows how to be simple. Present. Unperforming. Alive.
Their grief is one of the most honest things we'll ever feel.
It deserves to be held fully.
somaCREATIVE™ is the practice of remembering.
Not through talking about what's wrong. Through moving it. Wearing it. Drawing it. Letting your inner animal do what it was always built to do.
You were never broken. You were just performing.
Wearing the Practice
The rainbow was never just beauty.
In my ancestry, it was a bridge between worlds. A crossing. In my cosmology — the one I'm living and building — every threshold is a small death. And every death is a crossing into something more alive.
This is why the art is colored. This is why these are somatic pieces to support you on your journey, in your transitions from old patterns into new ones that bring life. Allowing the transition from life to death to be smoother.
These pieces are meant to spark joy. To aid you when things feel heavy, and to support you in any grief you are moving through. Death doesn’t have to just be black. When the light shatters, it scatters into different spectrums of colors, appearing to our human animal eye as a rainbow.
Animals know this. They create without apology. Imperfectly shining their light.
Your animal loved you without asking you to be different.
Pet grief is real grief.
Not less than. Not something to get over quickly. Your nervous system doesn't know the difference between losing a person and losing the one who knew you most purely.
somaCREATIVE™ holds space for this specifically.
Because the animals were never just animals. They were mirrors. They were the parts of ourselves — wild, present, unperforming — that we forgot we were allowed to be.
Losing them sometimes cracks us open to exactly that.
→ Anticipatory Grief Temple — $10/month
What happens when you let go?
“I had a major breakthrough that I can't even put into words. It was as if a part of me broke through a barrier and came out the other side free and powerful.”
— Kayla Viola
"My session with Jessenia was exactly what I needed. I felt very held and completely safe to let go of some tension that had been with me a long time."
— Ruby Warrington
I’m Jessenia Nauta
Somatic Healer, Artist, & StoryTeller
CAÑARI | TAÍNO | LATINX
I spent 15 years in Hollywood making invisible things visible. Turning the inside into something you could see on screen.
Then I turned that skill on my own life.
Through grief. Through my own body. Through every transition that had no map and no language yet.
What I found underneath all of it was the animal body. The part of us that already knows how to move through loss. That shakes. That creates. That returns — without needing it to be perfect.
That's what somaCREATIVE™ is.
I'm not your guru. I'm not your therapist. I'm someone who remembered they were always already an animal.
And learned to make art — and hold space — from that place.
I help you come back to your animal body. Through creativity. Through the death of everything that was never really you.
Ways to grow your practice with somaCREATIVE™
Start where your body says yes.
Anticipatory Pet Grief Temple — $10/month.z For those loving an animal through their last chapter. The loss hasn't happened yet but your body is already grieving. Once a month we gather. You don't have to perform okay. Just show up. → Join the temple
Death Doula Session — $222 For when something in you is dying and you need someone to sit with you while it happens. A pattern. A relationship. A version of yourself you've been performing. A grief so big your body doesn't know how to hold it alone. → Book a session
Wearable Art — $50-$300 Somatic objects for the body moving through something. Silk scarves. Hoodies. Wear the crossing. → Shop the collection
Somatic Coloring Book — $27 Two to five minutes. Let your hands do what your mind won't allow yet. → Get the coloring book
Commission — $1,111 Your story. Your nervous system. Your specific crossing. We co-create a piece built around all of it. Nothing more intimate than this. → Claim your commission
The Community Letter
For when you're not ready to buy anything yet but you know you belong here.