On becoming and unbecoming that woman
Saturday, May 23, 7pm
General Admission $20
Media Fellowship House
302 S Jackson St, Media, PA 19063
The Salon Series. May 2026.
Some Beauty: The Myth of Having It All
On becoming and unbecoming that woman
Many of us grew up believing a particular story — that we could have it all if we just… (fill in the blank).
This evening is for anyone who has felt that promise fade, found themselves living a life untethered and painfully uncertain, and wondered how to get to the other side.
Jennifer Schelter is a multidisciplinary artist working across performance, memoir, poetry, and watercolor painting. She shared in the Tony Award as an actress at the Denver Center Theatre Company and was named Best of Philly mindfulness teacher. She currently teaches yoga, meditation, and micro-memoir writing as practices of personal discovery, truth-telling, and acceptance. Drawn to tiny moments and the beauty of everyday life, she is fascinated by what gives us energy and what quietly drains us — and devoted to the practice of paying attention to moments of unexpected grace: an iris in the garden.
She will read from Some Beauty, her recently completed memoir, which follows a woman in midlife confronting the unraveling of the life she expected — marriage, motherhood, and a particular way of belonging. Caught between the myth of “having it all” and the weight of reality, she moves through relationships, her own business, the raw question of whether to become a single mother, and the stark reckoning with all of it.
At its heart, this reading is about what happens when reality and identity begin to shift — and something more honest, yet vulnerable and uncertain, starts to emerge in its place.
How do we stay present to the unbecoming of who we thought we had to be in order to belong?
You will leave with something rare: a beautifully crafted story in which to see your own life reflected and held in the art of being true to lived experience.
The evening will close with a conversation about the themes of uncertainty and the slow, tender work of growing into someone new.
