About Jennifer Crews

I have been told since the age of five that I was wiser beyond my years. If I had a quarter for every time someone said that to me as I grew up in chronological age as well as in experience, I would be able to buy all my family, friends, and loved ones their dream homes. Indeed I intend to do this one day. Meanwhile, I collected smiles as an alternative to quarters all of these years.  I found myself as a child cringing when I heard those words “You are wise beyond your years”. It always left me with a sense of “aloneness” in a wild way as if I was walking a path that no one else wanted to wander upon.  It also felt like a level of responsibility that I did not need or desire as a child. I can remember at the age of seven all the children I played with in the neighborhood would congregate on my front porch step. They would be waiting for me to eat dinner so we could all play together again.  My mother would walk outside and tell them I was eating and why not go and play without Jennifer – she will join you soon.  I could hear them tell her that they weren’t sure what to do next and that Jennifer had neat game ideas so they would rather wait.  I could see my family’s frustration as we tried to have a peaceful dinner while a large group of kids were loud and noisy hanging out waiting for me to come up with ideas for the next game we would play.  I guess I was born a leader of sorts.
 
My childhood was filled with many experiences of me speaking up for others. Starting very young I knew intuitively what others needed or desired.  When my brother did not feel like expressing himself I would tell my parents what he needed. So much so, that my mother encouraged me to take a break from talking at the dinner table so my brother could have an opportunity to speak up for himself.   A girl I grew up with, who lived across the street from me, was born with cerebral palsy.  For many her speech was difficult to understand.   I on the other hand understood every word. On a daily basis I would translate to our friends, her parents, and our teachers what she was trying to communicate. I can remember being angry at the teachers in school.  I was baffled as to how they could not understand what my friend needed or was expressing.  To me it was quite clear. 

Of course I learned much later that it was through my intuition and nonverbal communication gifts that I could see so clearly what others needed. I also learned that the physical world did not always match my inner clarity and awareness.  This caused me tremendous heart ache as a child and teenager.  Why wasn’t everyone speaking and doing what they were feeling on the inside?  Why would they feel one thing and say another?  I did not understand why so many people’s inner and outer worlds did not align and why they would chose to live life this way.

As a child, besides speaking and advocating for others or getting in trouble in class for too much talking– I used to spend hours and hours in front of the mirror acting out commercials and talk shows. Wildly enough, I naturally knew how to convey and express a message starting at four years old.  It seems I was born a communicator. My choice of education, I realize now, as a pediatric speech language pathologist was no coincidence. I was in the profession for over fifteen years. Once again I was speaking and advocating for children, only this time for children who were severely challenged in voice, speech, and self expression.  I found peace serving as an interpreter between children and their environments.  It allowed me to play and see them for their amazing gifts and for them to see mine.  It was a safe haven to shine for both of us.

After traveling to various parts of the world to work with children and their speech I saw how every mother, father, and child I met, wanted to be seen beyond their challenges and noted instead for their wholeness. I was limited in the medical and educational settings to be able to give all that each family and child needed, so I left the field of speech pathology.  Needing a new way to honoring the beauty of a person’s wholeness, I founded Intuitive Teachings, LLC in 2004. I became an interpreter, no longer focusing on physical speech, but instead on intuitive connections and communication for children and families.  I provided workshops, classes, and one on one session for many years.  I became a columnist and author dedicating my life to honoring the wholeness in every person that requested my products or services. I branched into radio broadcasting as another communicative expression to share with a larger audience the clarity and wholeness I saw in every person I met.

Now as a full on adult, those words I heard as a child have morphed into “You are ahead of your time.”  Every time a friend, colleague or client voices this to me I no longer cringe. I smile and say “Thank You.” My forms of expression in the world, I am sure like yours, have changed and evolved though the core has always remained the same.  I see each and every one of you clearly. Intuitive Teachings, LLC has expanded into Get Clear and Jennifer Crews Enterprises, LLC.  I continue to dedicate my life to creating a platform for you to realize inner truth, clarity, and expression of self.  Thank you for being you!

Clear Truths

• B.A Communications Disorders  - Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA
• M.A. Speech Language Pathology – George Washington University, Washington D.C.
• Married
• Divorced
• Founder Intuitive Teachings, LLC 2004
• Founder of Jennifer Crews Enterprises, LLC 2009
• Columnist – Children of the New Earth Magazine 2006-2009
• Author
• Speaker
• Radio Talk Show Host- The Jennifer Crews Show – KRXA 540 AM  Monterey, CA   2008
• Volunteer Operation Smile – Russia
• Volunteer Operation Smile – Philippines
• Volunteer – Cleft Palate Team – Dartmouth Hitchcock Hospital, NH
• Volunteer – Children’s Burn Unit – University of North Carolina, NC
• Lived in Illinois, Virginia, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Colorado, California
• Tap Dancer
• Played Flute
• Ariel Fabric Danced for two years
• Art Consultant
• Artist and Designer

Not so Clear Experiences

• Broken shoulder
• Broken wrists
• Boyfriend breakups
• Fired from a job
• Unemployment
• Lots of Money
• Marriage ending
• No Money
• Friends Leaving
• Family Members Passing to the Other Side
• Friends sick
• Heart inflammation – bed bound 6 weeks
• Unfulfilling sex
• Destructive behaviors
• Transitions
• Hanging out in the “Hallways” – When doors close – Waiting for others to open
• Confusion
• Mind Chatter
• Navigating Personal Power