Meet Jane Kelly, your Midwife of the Soul
Meet Jane Kelly, your Midwife of the Soul
At 50, I am in menopause. The last 8 years of peri-menopause and then the great initiation itself have taken me to hell and back. I am stronger yet more vulnerable. I have sobbed, raged and shed layer upon layer of who I thought I was. My quest to find the meaning and purpose in this rite of passage has led me to myth and legend, science and spirituality, feminine cycles and indigenous wisdom.
Now I offer this presence, knowledge and wisdom to you as Midwife of the Soul.
I am passionate about life and believe it can be a rich, fulfilling journey when we are able to open our hearts and minds to new ways of being.
I also know from personal experience how painful it can be to change behaviours and beliefs that have kept us safe. The women I serve are women with a purpose, healers, pioneers, intuitives. They are women who are changing the world by healing themselves from the inside out. This work requires tremendous courage and perseverance. You are not alone. I am here to support you.
It is a peculiar truth that those of us who most long for connection are those who feel most alone, who find asking for and receiving what we need so painfully difficult. Often we have experienced deep trauma as children that keeps us stuck in fear. These return to us in menopause to be felt, held and integrated. For me, friends, therapists, mentors and teachers have helped me and held me as I have worked through my own trauma from birth and beyond as a sensitive and intuitive child in a harsh world. Re-uniting my child self who survived bereavement and fear with my menopausal adult has brought a whole new level of health and wholeness as I have learnt to embody my once disowned super-powers of sensitivity and intuition. With each wound I turn towards I am able to more fully serve you as an awakening woman.
For your super-powers are there too, disowned in your childhood, waiting for it to be safe to re-emerge into the light.
I am here to serve you as your midwife in birthing these super-powers, these gifts that only you have to offer the world and then in sharing them freely so that you can experience deep fulfilment and abundance.
When I work with awakening women I come more fully alive, as if something magical is flowing through me. This magic inspires them to try things they might not have tried alone. To keep it flowing I have had to learn to tune into my feminine body, to speak my truth, look after my own needs and trust both my intuition and my gut instinct. Now I take great delight and honour in passing my experience onto you, so that your struggles may be eased by the path I have forged. It is not for the faint-hearted but the rewards are the miracles I see in my life and those of my clients every day.
The journey that has led me to call myself the Midwife of the Soul began long ago but experienced a renewal when my second daughter Lottie was born in 2008, as I finally stepped out of my career and security towards the call of my soul.
Lottie’s birth was the most profound and beautiful experience. I felt the life force of the universe travelling through me. I knew that all I needed to do was get out of my own way, silence my mind and allow my body and soul to take the lead. I birthed Lottie in a pool in my living room with a fire blazing in the hearth. My midwife provided careful preparation, companionship and a safely held space for me to unleash the magic of my body and of the new life coming through me.
Over a decade later menopause really upped her game and shedding my identity in my work became a necessity in order to allow myself to fully surrender to death and rebirth. I had no idea if Midwife of the Soul was gone for good or just on sabbatical! Then like a phoenix she began to rise from the ashes, tempered by the fires of menopause, first with whispers then an ever-strengthening voice. This is the voice of my calling. It has never been clearer or more insistent. Yours is there too, awaiting your presence, your attention and your commitment to the quest.
This is transformation, I am no longer the same person and yet more myself than ever
This is what I now do for you. I create that same safely held sacred space for you to remember your power and your magic just as I did on that day over 14 years ago.
I hold you after that birthing process too – as you and your soul get to know each other more intimately just as Lottie and I did in those first few days and weeks together.
It is an honour and a privilege to do this work and I feel that my whole life has been preparation for this deep soul work. I blend my lived experience of 15 years as a Human Potential Coach with the five elements, feminine cycles, ritual and ceremony in a unique and beautiful way that best serves each woman who crosses my path.
“We are the ones we have been waiting for”
You have deep wisdom and magic within you. Menopause is both the doorway and the container. I simply create and hold the space for your transformation to take place and to integrate fully into your life here on Earth. Each interaction is infused my once disowned childhood super-powers – healing, empathy and intuition and what I can now see as the sheer beauty and power of being a midlife woman on Earth at this crucial time in history.
It is my deepest pleasure and greatest honour to do this work in the world. If you would like to find out more about me, my inspiration or my career and qualifications, please explore the links below: