About Nekawa Healing Collective
Nekawa Healing Collective was created to meet the unspoken needs of women in long-term recovery, those who have success with abstaining from substances but still struggle with untreated trauma, emotion dysregulation, and disconnection.
Founded by Jen Borovica, sober woman, trauma therapist and Internal Family Systems (IFS) practitioner who found her way back to wholeness after years of sobriety and silent suffering, Nekawa stands as a response to a gap in services in the recovery community for the specific issues that women in long term recovery face. It is a place where we honor the deeper healing and nervous system repair.
Our offerings include individual IFS, EMDR, & nervous system based therapy, IFS healing circles, IFS based retreats, and support and wellness groups. Every service is designed to help women move beyond survival and into embodiment, into lives that feel nourishing, connected, and whole.
Nekawa is rooted in trauma-informed care, somatic wisdom, and the belief that healing doesn’t end with sobriety. It deepens there.
We are proud to serve women in recovery who are ready for more, more presence, more joy, and more self-trust. And we are building a community where healing is no longer a private battle, but a shared experience.
What is the meaning of Nekawa?
(nuh-KAH-wuh) is awaken spelled backwards
Our "awakening" happens when we return to the innate wisdom of our bodies. Our bodies hold divine gifts: gifts of intuition, a place of inner knowing, and heightened senses that give us the ability to tap into safety, connection, and our ability to heal ourselves.
When safely begin to "un thaw" from the numbing, when we begin to soften the frantic survival energy, we return to this wisdom. This work is about returning and remembering our authentic expression. Nekawa is here to support people to be in right relationship with themselves and others.
– Jen
I can’t wait to connect with you.
Nekawa is here to hold you, just as I was held during my healing. The loneliness of awakening although was profound, it came with a significant loss of a community and through these years I deeply craved an awakened community that could hold me as I walked through it all.
Nekawa aims to be a community space to hold you in moments of healing. Community is at our core. Connection and belonging are what drive the spirit of Nekawa.
Nekawa is a manifestation born of this period. Nekawa’s spirit will be shared as the manifestation of the awakening of the spirit within. The oneness, the wholeness of each of us, is in me, you, and the collective.
It all started with what seemed like a dream... 4 years of what I call being in the washing machine, a time of intense healing, looking at every nook and cranny inside... the healing was hard and messy and along the way came the experiences, the messages, the synchronicities, and the big awakening.
I’ve been relatively quiet over the years, keeping what felt like a mountain inside of me to myself. The sacredness of the journey was mine and only a few to share with along the way.
Moon: Capricorn
Rising: Pisces
Soberversary: 1/18/2006
she/her
Jen Borovica LISW
Meet your founder
- Personal growth
- Spirituality
- Sport
Passion
- EMDR level 1 and 2
- IFS Level 1 and 2
- Creating Healing Circles
- Somatic Experiencing, Advanced year
- Intro to Therapeutic Nature Based Interventions
- Reiki Master
Advanced trainings
- Licensed Independent Social Worker, State of Ohio
- Graduate Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University
- Recipient of Leadership Fellows Program
- Founder RebelRising Wellness
- Triathlon Coach, Peak Performance Coaching
- Ironman Finisher x 3
Credentials
A world where sober women and non-binary folks return to their authentic expression and know their inherent worth.
Vision:
Exploring authentic connection through shared sober circle experiences.
Mission:
All of you is welcome here.
At Nekawa, we believe we can see ourselves in each other when we gather in this way.
Heart-Centered
Authenticity
Connectedness
Expression
Expansion
Innovation
