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ABOUT

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meet sammy-jo

Sammy-Jo Hand (she/her) is The Witchy Feminist Divorce Coach: a certified mind-body and divorce coach with over 15 years of experience in the healing arts. She works with women, femmes, and AFAB individuals who are navigating the often painful, disorienting, and liberating process of divorce.

Sammy-Jo blends meditation, ritual, and nervous system regulation with a fierce awareness of the gendered imbalances that shape marriage: the mental load, the pleasure gap, coerced intimacy, emotional labor, and more. Her approach is feminist, trauma-informed, and deeply embodied. She helps clients process the grief and rage of being undervalued, unseen, and overburdened in marriages shaped by structural inequity So THAT THEY CAN MOVE FORWARD AND REMEMBER THEIR WORTH.

In heterosexual households, women still perform around 75% of unpaid domestic and emotional labor. Married men live longer than their single peers- while married women are more likely to die sooner than women who remain unmarried.

The system is rigged.

Women deserve rest, care, and joy. They deserve to be supported during illness, postpartum, and beyond. They deserve to be loved as full human beings with agency, and dreams. and they deserve to have their jokes laughed at.

Sammy-Jo holds a B.A. in Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies and certifications in Mind-Body Coaching, Alternative Dispute Resolution Divorce Coaching, Trauma-Sensitive Yoga, and Energy Healing.

As a white, cis, able-bodied practitioner, she works with accountability, humility, and a commitment to equity.

Her work helps clients remember who they are and reclaim the life they were told to give up.

alchemize pain into power, grief into growth.

alchemize pain into power, grief into growth.

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RELEVANT QUALIFICATIONS:

  • Mind-Body Somatic Life Coach Certification- The Embody Lab, The United States

  • Alternative Dispute Resolution Divorce Coach Certification- Divorce Coach Academy, The United States

  • Conflicted Co-Parenting Divorce Coach Certification- Divorce Coach Academy, The United States

  • Bachelor of Arts in Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies- Deakin University, Australia

  • Mindfulness Institute For Emerging Adults Facilitator Training- Mindfulness Institute, The United States

  • Be Body Positive Facilitator Training- The Body Positive, The United States

  • 50 Hour Trauma Sensitive Yoga Teacher Training- The Trauma Center, The United States

  • 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training- Moksha Yoga, Australia

  • 200 Hour Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training- Kundalini Research Institute, The United States

  • TAROT FOR THE WILD SOUL TRAINING- TAROT FOR THE WILD SOUL, UNITED STATES

  • Mindfulness Training- School of Philosophy, Australia

  • Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism, Mindfulness and Vipassana- Tushita Meditation Center, India

  • Reiki Level 1-Melbourne, Australia

  • Energy Healing & Chakra Meditation Certification- Maa Asho Institute, India

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“Divorce seemed like such an overwhelming process to me. That was BEFORE talking with Sammy-Jo! Her heartfelt care, along with her feminist wisdom and witchy insights truly gave me the strength and courage I needed to see that I could live life on my own, much happier.”