ARTICLE continuation from WOMEN'S MOONLODGE PAGE
"In workshops and private healing sessions I combine my training, skills, and intuition to address a range of life concerns as an ally for women. I help people cross thresholds. However, throughout my twenty years of practice I noticed a consistent theme concerning womb loss; I rarely met a woman who had not had an abortion or miscarriage, and so a core focus of my work has developed over the past years, along with a greater intention for public exposure, discussion and outreach too.... My non-judgmental work with women's issues and womb wisdom attends gently to all forms of womb loss; post-abortion distress, infertility, miscarriage, and early menopause.
This work aims to holistically heal the body-mind-spirit of a woman and the complex feelings she may have connected to her womb loss experiences. I also believe that a belief in reproductive rights does not have to negate the right to healing rites, both can co-exist at one time.
My work with women can involve anything from the most tender quiet feelings of sadness and loss to more intense issues such as feelings of fragmentation and complete destabilization.
An abortion is much like a wheel with the procedure at the hub and from there many interconnected events reveal themselves or can become manifest. For example: relationship/spousal/family concerns, spiritual/ethical questions, concerns about sexuality, substance abuse, issues with self-esteem, isolation, physical/sexual abuse, and spiritual interference, concerns with ancestor beliefs, past-lives, and soul loss. A large range of emotions and conditions can be part of any abortion experience, days or decades after. Often in cases of abortion and miscarriage women and couples yearn to integrate their complex feelings and speak freely about the potential life that was not to be--within a safe environment and without judgment, they search for inner peace.
Infertility too is another key focus, many suffer greatly with fertility challenges, including difficulty conceiving, miscarriages, feelings of loss each month when a pregnancy does not happen, the medical roller coaster of tests, clinics, drugs and lab work --- all that combined with the painful dilemma of selective termination when multiple fertilization does occur can create intense worry, drain, and heartache.
Women are looking for integrated tools specifically created for healing stress, womb loss and cycles of transition-- tools I can provide, methods that help with lasting insights.
Women resonate with the words describing my work; initiation, thresholds, transition, healing the taboo, because they recognize it is a truth and feel safe to speak of it with me. The women I see have said they felt profoundly relieved to express themselves openly, to discuss their feelings and experiences without shame, to explore insights without judgment.
Many women have never told anyone about their abortion(s) and after decades of hiding they are deeply moved to be able to begin to heal by speaking out loud. I have worked with women of all ages and from different religions, cultures, and countries, women who have had from one to nine abortions, women who experience a mix of miscarriages, abortions, and infertility concerns. I have worked with young women up through all ages, and into their seventies. I know the differences between medical and surgical abortions, I can address those specific concerns. I understand the residual trauma of life threatening illegal abortions too.
I have worked in private sessions with nurses and doctors who have personally experienced womb loss in some form. They feel my work should be required education for nurses and therapists, something that is needed and missed in society. I can help medical professionals not only with their own healing but also teach them about their patients needs too. "
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Terra Wise, midwife for the soul
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