My work

JEN PEER RICH, PhD | metamodern animal, reverend, artist, autoethnographer, scholar, author & speaker on a variety of research interests:    

• Ecopsychology & Ecological Consciousness 
• Self-Awareness 
• Autoethnography as research methodology
• Transforming through Hypervigilance 
• Unity of Self, Mind & Nature 
• Transforming through Intergenerational Trauma 
• Metamodernism 
• Disability, Chronic Illness & Chronic Pain 
• Speciesism, Nonhuman Animal RIghts and Friendly Veganism
• Spiritual technologies such as Self-Inquiry, Self-Awareness & Radical Self-Acceptance 
• Survivorship issues related to Childhood Cancer & Childhood Illness 
• Transforming through Non-Suicidal Self-Injury (NSSI) 
• Transforming through Complex Trauma & Adverse Childhood Experiences 
• Transforming through Addiction 
• Personal, Sociocultural, Ecological Breakdown & Dark Nights of the Soul 
• Personal, Sociocultural & Ecological Transformation through a conscious relationship with self   

I received a BA from Athens State University, and an MA in Transpersonal Psychology, Ecopsychology from Naropa University. I completed doctoral studies at California Institute of Integral Studies, defending my dissertation: A Metamodern Autoethnographic Journey of Healing From Childhood Cancer and Adverse Childhood Experiences Through Reinhabiting Self and Ecological Consciousness. I am the author of three books, So Be It (2012), Friends In Presence (2013) and forthcoming, The Alchemy of Being a House: A Memoir of Intergenerational Transformation (TBA). I reside in Atlanta, Georgia with my wife, Iris, and our daughter, Frannie.