Jessica Root

Jess Guiding Women Through Music and Embodied Wellness

I’m Jess — a singer-songwriter and wellness guide devoted to helping women come home to their bodies, their rhythms, and their creative truth.

I grew up in a humble Italian-American family in Connecticut, an only child with a rich inner world. Music found me early. It was my refuge, my language, my way of feeling alive. I was drawn to soulful artists, movement, and emotion — the kind that lives in the body, not just the mind. As a child, my living room became my stage; as a teenager, musical theater and dance gave shape to what I felt but couldn’t yet name.

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Like many women, I learned how to be practical before I learned how to be embodied. I followed a path that made sense on paper — university, a communications career — while quietly tucking my creative self away. But creativity, like the body, always asks to be listened to. Eventually, life invited me into a deeper reckoning.

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One yoga certification, a yoga business, a divorce, and a gentle unraveling later, I followed a pull I couldn’t ignore and relocated to the Dominican Republic. I thought I was starting over. What I discovered instead was myself. Living there taught me that no place can heal you — only presence can. True change happens when we slow down, listen, and allow ourselves to feel.

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In the Dominican Republic, I returned to music with intention and reverence. I immersed myself in my voice, my body, and my creative flow, collaborating with Dominican producers and musicians and releasing my EP No Me Encajes. My sound carries Latin-Caribbean influence, softness, sensuality, and soul — shaped by the land, the rhythm, and the life I’ve built there. I continue to create alongside Demmanuel Gonzalez in Puerto Plata, honoring music as both expression and medicine.

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During the pandemic, my relationship with my body deepened even further. A health scare involving cysts in my breasts and ovaries became a quiet but powerful awakening. It asked me to tend to my health not with force or fear, but with devotion. I began to listen differently — to my hormones, my energy, my emotions, my cycle. What emerged was not just healing, but trust.

I identify as a highly sensitive person — an empath, an old soul, a feeler. For a long time, I believed this made life harder. Now I know it makes life richer. Sensitivity is what allows me to hear what isn’t spoken, to create from truth, and to guide women with gentleness and depth.

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The practices I used to regulate my own body and nervous system became the foundation of the work I now share. Through simple, nurturing tools, I support women in reconnecting with their cycles, restoring balance, and remembering the wisdom that already lives within them. This is not about fixing yourself. It’s about softening back into who you are.

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Today, I live and work at the meeting point of music and healing, creativity and care. I’m here to create music that moves through the body and to guide women back into rhythm with themselves — grounded, nourished, and fully alive.

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Jess Helen Root