Hi, I’m Jessi!
Or more formally, I’m Jessi Andricks, MS CCC-SLP, yoga+meditation teacher, and Integrative Health Coach.
I spend my time working to help SLPs, like yourself, manage their stress, so they can find more balance in their lives and stop living in survival mode each day. I’ve created multiple webinars and CEU courses on this topic, and have presented in conferences, both in person and online. And I host my own podcast, as well as have been featured in several SLP-focused podcasts.
I enjoy the work I do, as a coach and also as an SLP, but it has not always been this way.
At some point, early on as an SLP, I was so stressed out, every day, that I decided I had made a HUGE mistake by becoming an SLP, and eventually quit. I left the field for nearly 5 years, training and teaching yoga and mindfulness, before I stumbled back into it due to some life circumstances (I had a new baby and the yoga studio I helped run was closing due to the owner moving).
Luckily, I had a ton of tools I could to help me manage my stress and actually enjoy the work for the first time ever.
And I found that, while I was able to manage my stress and keep things in balance, most other SLPs were struggling. The SLP world was FULL of SLPs who were stressed, overwhelmed, and wishing they could quit and just go work as a barista somewhere, doing something that didn’t require them to think or take it home with them each day.
They wanted a break for their brains from all the dress that seemed never-ending.
I knew how they felt, and made it my mission to make sure that no SLP ever feels like quitting is the only option to manage their stress.