~About us~
Where women gather to tend, heal, and remember
Welcome to Our Home!
Nestled in the forests of Jupiter, Florida, just twenty minutes from the ocean, The HeartRoot Collective is a living sanctuary for women, animals, and the Earth. Wrapped in songbird melodies, swaying pines, and water on two sides, this land holds a rare stillness — a place to breathe deeply, create freely, and remember who you are beneath the noise of the world.
The HeartRoot Collective grew from the idea that joy thrives in community. Surrounded by nature, animals, and women who love to make things with their hands, we learn old-world skills, share meals, and rediscover the peace that comes from a life lived slowly and together. Here, connection isn’t a cure—it’s a way of living well, and a reminder that we were never meant to figure it all out on our own.
And woven throughout it all are healers who hold space with gentle hands and open hearts, reminding us that tending one another is part of the magic.
Nestled in the forest of Jupiter, Florida, just twenty minutes from the ocean, The HeartRoot Collective is a living sanctuary for women, animals, and the Earth. Surrounded by songbirds, whispering trees, and water on two sides, this land offers a rare kind of quiet — a place to breathe, create, and return to what matters.
The HeartRoot Collective was born from the belief that healing happens in community. Here, women come together to rest and rekindle joy, to learn sacred and practical skills, to connect with animals and the land, and to remember that maybe we were never meant to fly alone.
Jen Taylor-O'Connor
(Founder)
Jen Taylor O’Connor never set out to found a movement — she simply followed her curiosity. What began as a question about whether animals could learn language grew into a decade-long journey that reshaped the way we understand intelligence, connection, and the invisible threads between species.
Today, Jen is an attorney, writer, founder of Parrot Kindergarten, and adjunct assistant professor at Texas A&M University whose research in interspecies communication has been featured in The New York Times, NPR, Smithsonian Magazine, People, and other major media outlets. Her groundbreaking work with parrots has brought her into collaboration with researchers at MIT, Northeastern University, The University of Miami, The Open University, Purdue, and beyond, and is now the subject of the Award-Winning Feature Documentary, Parrot Kindergarten.
But Jen’s story didn’t begin in a laboratory or a lecture hall.
She was raised in a restrictive religious cult, where creativity was controlled, individuality was suspect, and joy was something to be earned through suffering. Trauma was woven into childhood like a language she didn’t consent to learn. For years, she carried the weight of a world that told her who she was allowed to be.
The life she has now is the one she built with her own hands, with the support and love of community and friendship.
It started with birds — teaching them words, colors, feelings — and realizing along the way that she was teaching herself to trust, to choose, to imagine again. And then it expanded: baking bread, crafting herbal remedies, creating beauty out of ordinary ingredients, and realizing that the simple act of working with your hands brings joy, peace, and a healing that no theory ever could.
You don’t need hours to change your life—sometimes five minutes to knead dough, to mix herbs, to make something small and precious is enough.
For Jen, ancient skills aren’t just the path to a joyful, peace-filled life. They are antidotes. They turn chaos into ritual, overwhelm into action, loneliness into belonging. A peaceful life, she’s learned, isn’t built all at once—it’s stitched together from moments we choose to make beautiful.
The HeartRoot Collective is the culmination of Jen’s scientific work, her healing journey, and her deep belief that joy is not accidental — it is found in the little moments. Here, far from algorithms and expectations, women gather to rest, to learn, and to remember themselves. They unplug, breathe, play with parrots, make things with their hands, sit in circles, and find that what felt impossible alone becomes inevitable together.
Jen doesn’t promise that HeartRoot will fix you.
She simply knows — because she lived it — that disappearing into the forest with a circle of sisters, away from noise and into nature, can ground you, nurture you, soften you, and change the trajectory of your life.
Sometimes, it only takes one weekend.
Every woman carries a thread —
a tug toward something slower, kinder, truer.
For years, most of us have ignored it.
HeartRoot is what happens when
we finally follow it home.
If you feel the tug of a thread,
we’re waiting at the hearth and
we can't wait to meet you! ❤️
Nestled in the forest and nourished by water and song, we are a sanctuary for those who feel the pull to reconnect, to slow down, breathe deeper, and remember the quiet tending of old ways.
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