We grabbed a wrong solution like it was scissors, hoping to cut out what hurt. And we ran.
In every child’s life, there will be circumstances that are unhappy. Disappointment and pain are the human common denominator… We each draw a similar conclusion: “If I don’t feel, I won’t be unhappy”… This is one of the most basic wrong conclusions that people draw about life…
We bury our feelings deeper in our awareness where they stay stuck, destructive and inadequate, even though we have long-ago forgotten we even hid them… But if we don’t let these experiences be felt and moved along, they will stagnate and create a dull climate of vague unhappiness that we will struggle to pinpoint… We shut down our feelings and along went our intuition and creativity. From there, we limped along on a fraction of our potential. Often, we still don’t realize the high price we pay for doing this…
We grabbed a wrong solution like it was scissors—hoping to cut out what hurt—and we ran… This blocking action doesn’t prevent us from feeling the painful feelings forever—it just defers them… So as we grow up, the unhappiness we seemed to have avoided will come to us in a different, indirect way that is much more painful. We will suffer the bitter hurt of isolation and loneliness… We fail to see how we willingly choose our current painful isolation when we chose to defend ourselves this way…
Jill Loree grew up in northern Wisconsin with parents who embraced their Norwegian, Swedish and German heritage. Foods like lutefisk, lefse and krumkaka were prepared every Christmas. And of course there was plenty of beer, bratwurst and cheese all year round.
She would go on to throw pizzas and bartend while attending college at the University of Wisconsin, and then moved into a career in technical sales and marketing. She would settle in Atlanta in 1989 and discover that the sweet spot of her career would be in marketing communications. A true Gemini, she has a degree in chemistry and a flair for writing.
One of Jill’s greatest passions in life has been her spiritual path. Raised in the Lutheran faith, she became a more deeply spiritual person in the rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) starting in 1989. In 1997, she was introduced to the wisdom of the Pathwork Guide, which she describes as “having walked through the doorway of a fourth step and found the whole library.”
In 2007, she completed four years of training to become a Pathwork Helper, and stepped fully into her Helpership in 2011. In addition to offering individual and group sessions, she has been a teacher in the Transformation Program offered by Mid-Atlantic Pathwork. She also led marketing activities for Sevenoaks Retreat Center in Madison, Virginia and served on their Board of Trustees.
In 2012, Jill completed four years of kabbalah training and became certified for hands-on healing using the energies embodied in the tree of life. She began dedicating her life to writing and teaching about personal self-development in 2014.
Today, Jill is the proud mom of two adult children, Charlie and Jackson, and is delighted to be married to Scott Wisler. She’s had more than one last name along the way and now happily uses her middle name as her last. It’s pronounced loh-REE. In 2022, Scott joined her full time in their mission to spread the teachings of the Pathwork Guide far and wide.
