We Are the Church

We’ve Been Waiting For

A somatic sanctuary for mothers, mystics,
& misunderstood women
rebuilding their faith from the roots.

Enter the Sanctuary

Rooted in Reverence. Rebuilding With Fire.

                               Meet Jess Barrett
          MA Theology & Sociology | Interfaith Minister |
                          Sacred Somatic Practitioner

Rev. Jess Barrett, MA, is a published theologian, speaker,
& founder of Feral Petals Ministries.

Her work lives at the intersection of mysticism, motherhood, & sacred embodiment.

Jess tends to the wild-hearted women reclaiming their voice, rhythm, & reverence.

 

✔️ Contemplative Justice Scholar

✔️ Published Author: Can Spiritual Women Say F#ck?, Blood & Roses, The Soft Rebellion, Sanctified & Untamed

✔️ Creator of The Sacred Reset, Anointed & Untamed YouTube, Feral Faith Pod, & The Holy Disruption substack

What is Feral Petals?

 

Feral Petals is a devotional microchurch and prophetic publishing ministry for mothers, mystics, and misunderstood women. We create somatic liturgies, sacred descent maps, and tender spaces for theological repair. Here, embodiment is worship. Story is sacred. And softness is a holy rebellion.

What We Believe

We believe the body is holy ground.

We believe the Spirit speaks through breath, tears, and trembling hands.

We believe that softness is a form of rebellion, and that God meets us in the descent, not just the resurrection.

 

We believe in Jesus, the Christ-woman mirrored in the misunderstood, the broken, the bold.

We believe the divine is not distant, but immanent—present in soil, in song, in stories passed down by grandmothers.

We believe in the sacred weaving of Scripture, science, and somatics as a form of co-creation with God.

 

We believe that motherhood is ministry, that grief is a teacher, and that reclaiming reverence is a prophetic act.

We believe in rebuilding the Church as a garden, not a fortress — tender, wild, and alive with possibility.

 

We are rooted in mystery.
Guided by grace.
Rebuilding with fire.

Core Commitments

  • Embodied Faith — We honor the body as a sacred vessel of divine truth.
  • Devotional Somatics — We practice healing that integrates nervous system repair with spiritual restoration.
  • Ancestral Wisdom — We reclaim what was buried and listen to the saints and grandmothers who came before us.
  • Contemplative Justice — We move slowly, prophetically, toward healing and repair.
  • Radical Belonging — We believe no one is too much, too loud, too tender, or too far gone for the grace of God.

 

Explore Devotionals
& Books

Explore Feral Petals Press for inspiration, benediction, and sacred presence (& presents).

 

Feral Petals Press publishes works for the wilderness between becoming & belonging.

Join Rev. Jess & Feral Petals in the Digital Garden

Read The Holy Disruption substack.

Listen to the Feral Faith podcast.

Watch the Anointed & Untamed YouTube.

Tend the Rosarium to bless & be blessed.

Live Workshops & Teaching

Bring Jess to your church or retreat.

Whether you’re seeking a keynote speaker, guest preacher, or workshop facilitator, Jess offers sacred teachings on theology, trauma, and tender faith.

Book The Sacred Reset live experience or request a custom devotional workshop.

Sample Speaking
& Workshop Topics

 ✨ Faith, Theology & Reconstruction

  • Sanctified & Untamed: Reclaiming Faith After Religious Harm
  • The Christ-Woman Archetype: Feminine Mirrors of the Divine
  • Drawing Close to the Immanent God
  • Sacred Softness as Spiritual Resistance
  • The Church We’ve Been Waiting For: A New Liturgical Imagination 

đź•Ż Embodiment & Devotional Somatics

  • The Sacred Reset: A Somatic Healing Journey for Mothers & Mystics
  • Breath & Bone: Embodied Prayer for the Spiritually Hungry
  • The Body’s Psalm: Listening to the Gospel in Our Flesh
  • Grief as Liturgical Practice
  • Holy Ground, Bare Feet: A Descent Ritual for Postpartum Mothers

🌱 Women, Motherhood & Ancestral Healing 

  • Mothers, Mystics, and Misunderstood Women
  • Planting Sacred Things Where No One Thought Life Could Grow
  • Faith & the Feminine: Reclaiming Rhythm, Reverence, and Rites of Passage
  • Blood & Roses: Healing White Christian America Through Ancestral Repair 

🔥 Prophetic & Pastoral Leadership

  • Rebuild My Church: A St. Francis-Inspired Call to the Margins
  • Tending the Wild Church: Ministry for a New Reformation
  • From Burnout to Benediction: Restorative Leadership for Sacred Rebels
  • Rooted to Rise: Trauma-Informed Ministry in the Age of Collapse

Marissa G.,
Mama & Artist

I came to The Sacred Reset burnt out, disconnected, and spiritually numb. What I found was a holy invitation back into my own body. Jess doesn’t just teach healin, she embodies it. Every word, every practice, felt like sacred balm. I remembered how to breathe again.

Talia R.,
First-time mother

Jess held space for me in a way I didn’t know was possible. In the sacred mess of new motherhood, she helped me feel seen, safe, and spiritually anchored. Our sessions were part therapy, part liturgy, part resurrection. I found myself again, in my breath, in my tears, in God.

Rev. Danielle M.,
Pastor & Retreat Host

Feral Petals is more than a ministry, it’s a movement. Jess speaks with the authority of a prophet and the tenderness of a midwife. Her words cracked something open in me I thought was lost forever. I walked away changed. Blessed.
Re-membered.

 Work with Jess

 

The Sacred Reset is the foundational healing journey of Feral Petals Ministries—a 6-week invitation to return to your body, your breath, and your belonging.

Rooted in both science and sacredness, this guided experience weaves together nervous system healing, embodied prayer, somatic rhythm, and spiritual restoration. It’s not just self-care, it’s soul repair. 

Through weekly reflections, somatic practices, and sacred rituals, you’ll rebuild from the inside out, gently rewiring your body’s stress response while reconnecting with your divine center.

Whether you’re navigating burnout, deconstruction, postpartum grief, or the ache of spiritual disconnection, The Sacred Reset offers you a map back to reverence. 

This is where the holy begins again: in breath, in bone, in the soft places the world told you to harden.

Held & Holy: Wombwork

A 1:1 somatic sanctuary for the pregnant, postpartum, and prophetically reborn.

 

Held & Holy is a 12-week sacred container for mothers walking the tender terrain of transition—whether through birth, loss, spiritual reawakening, or radical reconstruction.

This is wombwork for the weary. A place to be witnessed, softened, and rebuilt from the inside out. Each session is a blend of devotional somatics, nervous system healing, spiritual midwifery, and trauma-informed pastoral care.

Here, the descent is honored. The body is sacred text. And softness is not weakness—it’s how we rise.

You are not alone. You are held. You are holy.

A Blessing For the One Who Has Found Her Way Here 🕊

 

May you feel the soil soft beneath your feet,
and know deep in your bones that this ground is holy.

May every breath be a prayer,
every ache a doorway,
every pause a return to yourself.

May you remember
that softness is not surrender,
but sacred strength in bloom.

And may you carry this truth with you:
You are not too much.
You are not too late.
You are already becoming.

Welcome home, beloved.

You are held. You are holy. You are hers.