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Birthing the Mother: a reclamation!
Six individual session package to take you from attuned mother fatigue,
to finding your voice and powerfully claim what calls you now.
Mother #1
Mother.
An opening.
An opening to the deep unknown,
beyond the walls
of who I thought I was.
I answered the call
to meet my first born.
She was waiting
on a star,
a long way away.
I reached her in the cosmos,
where we could have stayed
sitting in awe of each other.
But I had a job to do:
to come back to my labouring body.
Here, as earthly mother
I called to my ancestoral mothers:
I don't know how to do this!
They entered the room.
Their wisdom
filled up the
empty
space
of my
surrender.
By Jess Lovell
Using various expressive arts processes you will:
Explore art making materials (pastels, paint, clay, collage, installation, print making, found objects etc) and engage in narrative, embodied and shadow work processes. We will swim in the ocean of the unspoken deep unknown, lean into the shallows of what is present, and open to the vast possibilities of our, disowned and now attended to, parts.
Connect
Go from your vast capacity to give to others...to time and space to connect deeply with you.
Explore
Go from being attuned and available to the needs of others... to attuning to and exploring your own needs.
Express
Go from hiding in the invisibility cloak of Motherhood...to finding expression for your longings and desires.
Integrate
Go from living through your uninitiated fragments ...to integrating the wisdom that is yours from Mothering.
Claim
Go from attuned mother fatigue...to powerfully claim what calls you now.
Testimonial
In a short time, I have grown and taken steps I never thought I would dare to take. Jess is a gifted therapist and I am very grateful for the chance to work with her.
Marguerite, 2022
Mother #2
Wading in the deep unknown.
Pockets of heart expansion
not previously imagined.
And the pain
of not being able to protect/hold/shield
at all times.
in all places.
The deep dive
of being thrown into
your own un attended
un healed ness.
It has been
waiting for this time.
The veils
now pulled back
to reveal
a nakedness
so vulnerable
it took becoming a Mother
for it to
speak.
Or perhaps,
it's a fire
so hot
it took becoming a Mother
for it to
speak.
Or perhaps
it's your secret longings and yearnings
so unrelenting
that it took becoming a Mother
for them to
speak.
By Jess Lovell
Testimonial
Mirroring my process through her own words, I found myself witnessed, articulated and gently held. Trusting Jess has proved so worthwhile. Today I am walking more fully in who I was always created to be, with the dignity of my own calling and more freedom from fear to express this in the world."
Sally N 2023
An invitation
Dearest Mother,
I celebrate the holding and deep knowing you bring to Mothering. I acknowledge the responsibility conscious Mothering brings.
Your growth and your children's growth are intertwined. Whether our journey together brings you a reclamation of what was- integrated with the new wisdom of Mothering, or if you are yearning to claim something for yourself that is yet to exist, Birthing the Mother is time and space for you to explore your needs and find your voice for what calls you now.
Birthing the Mother is a way to activate your own self worth and to provide a powerful self worth imprint for your children.
Let's chat.
Love Jess.
Jess Lovell MTAP
I birthed my children over fifteen years ago, and that experience has fueled my creative practices and ripened me into my role as artist an expressive art therapist. I am offering this series, Birthing the Mother, because I am a mother. I know the power available to us in the potent threshold space post-birth and before menopause.
I am an Expressive Arts Therapist with a passion for creating safe and supportive spaces for meaningful explorations and rich creative processes. I value curiosity, playfulness and reverence for the complexity of the human experience and threshold spaces such as Motherhood to whatever comes next. I am often in awe of the potency of expressive arts therapy and its impact on our capacity to grow, to connect with self and heal. I offer a phenomenological approach, with a trauma informed and nervous system state informed lens. My practice privileges lived experience and working multi modally.
God be with the Mother.
As she carried her child may she carry her soul.
As her child was born, may she give birth and life and form
to her own, higher truth.
As she nourished and protected her child,
may she nourish and protect her inner life and her independence.
For her soul shall be her most painful birth,
her most difficult child
and the dearest sister to her other children.
Amen.
Leunig