Giving Birth to Our True Selves
Every emotion is a teacher, full of wisdom. Instead of pushing away our painful feelings and experiences, we can learn to soften and invite them in. When we do this, our inner child rejoices. They finally have our attention. Now, the healing can begin.
Lao Tzu says, "The Way is in the piss and the dung." He knew that the dark and murky places that scare us are often the most fertile for our personal growth. By being comfortable with the full spectrum of one's own emotional landscape, the healer can sit with a client in the discomfort of their suffering or, as Lao Tsu puts it, "dung."
Through many years spent in self-inquiry and many years of struggle, I am not only a midwife and Medicine Woman but a person who has become comfortable with the murky aspects of myself as well as the delightful ones. Because of my willingness to face the places that scared me, and the transformation it brought me, I consider it my honor to walk this path with you.
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When we experience suffering, while it may be unwanted, there is still a possibility to meet it with gratitude, knowing that it offers us the wisdom of compassion.
My studies over the past five years in Peruvian Shamanic Heart Centered Ritual has supported me greatly in gaining access to the vision of my heart, which I offer to you.
I have sat with four hundred women as a midwife--a guide on their birthing journey. I approach each and every birth with quiet reverence. Usually, mothers choose soft, calming music for their birth experience. However, it's always the mother's lead, and therefore I once went to a birth where heavy metal played in the background the entire time. The mother head-banged her way through labor to songs like Enter Sandman by Metallica, which worked for her. What each person needs for their therapeutic expansion or birthing process is unique.
Joy Jech
MA in Transpersonal Psychology
Certified Matrix Reimprinting
Practitioner
Just as a midwife's job is to listen to the mother with all of her senses, so too is a Medicine Woman's role to listen to their clients with the open heart of acceptance. In midwifery, I observe the mother's heart, her sounds, her breathing, her body language, and rhythm. I listen to the silence between her rushes as she rests in warm water. I listen to her fears, her joys, her triumphs, and sometimes her heavy metal;). I tune into the unknown and also to my deepest knowing. There in the dark and candlelit room, I listen.
It is much the same with the birthing of the soul's embodiment through presence centered support. I listen to my clients with my whole heart. Together, we can explore what needs to be explored. While the past may come into focus, there is no need to go digging for old wounds. All traumas and regrets from the past will naturally arise to be seen and unburdened in the present moment.
My ultimate goal in the therapeutic process is to assist my clients in gaining greater awareness of themselves. The degree of self-awareness that we cultivate is the degree to which we have a choice in all things. Having a choice equals freedom!
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Where Midwifery &
Medicine Women Overlap
Philosophy & Approach
I believe freedom is an inherent human right. To truly harness that freedom requires claiming personal agency for our lives. We can not expect to change our lives if we do not take ownership of how we arrived where we are today. This doesn't mean that others have not hurt us or that we should blame ourselves. It means that we can always choose how we respond to whatever we may face. As James Allan said, "Circumstances don't make the man-- they reveal him."
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We all live with a healthy degree of anxiety. This is a natural result of the awareness of our mortality and existential isolation. We experience ourselves as separate human beings. We can express ourselves to others but no one else can ever know what it is to be in our experience. While these aspects of being human may be challenging, they unite us all in our shared humanity.
We need just the right amount of anxiety. Too much brings us out of alignment. Just enough lights the fire of our passions and dreams. Like the exhilaration we feel when we are fulfilling our life's purpose.
Our bodies are a natural pharmacopeia, continuously producing chemicals and hormones affecting our emotions and senses. Through awareness and intention, we can learn to take charge of our internal pharmacy and bring our system back into balance when it derails.
Come and sit with me for Matrix Reimprinting Sessions and Amanita Microdosing Sessions and transform your reality. It is my honor to offer my support.
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