This is so brilliant, Julia. Thank you for sharing your work and all your insights with all of us. I went through this article twice: first I read it and then I listened to your audio recording and each time different things were underlined in my mind. This is interesting because I am familiar with OVUM practice but what actually came to me while reading about it - it actually is a way of life, perspective, thinking or approach to life - trying to find a right word but all are applicable.
It is so easy to get lost these days in all things happening in the world, all distractions and all "trends" - that we keep forgetting what you nicely pointed out: we are our own authority and we need to claim that. I know it and I still keep forgetting it as outside noises are too loud...
The work you do, Julia, is so important and I really hope more people get to know about it - because it can really save lives!
Thank you so much for this peer fully written piece, Julia! I read it at a time when I am feeling a range of “negative” emotions, or, to use the OVUM terminology, when the Orphans in me are particularly strong. Undergoing a miscarriage yet again, after having conceived spontaneously following 4.5 years of trying, brings out a powerful Orphan filled with rage. Your sentence about healing the possibility of healing a fragmented human being, unlike a fragmented embryo, resonated strongly. The pilgrimage toward my child is taking longer than I’d anticipated, but the tools of your practice are the “golden rope” that rekindle the hope in our hearts and strengthen our resolve to continue on this path.
Sending lots of love to your "orphans" and to every part of you that is hurting, Radha. This is not an easy assignment, this longing we feel, the disappointment we have to bear. And...my faith in our ability to "turn it around," turn into a source of our greatest strength remains unshakable. You can do this. You ARE doing it. Sending much love!
In a world full of positive this and positive that, it felt counterintuitive to allow those 'negative' feelings to come to the surface, but the OVUM practice has shown me the benefit of allowing all emotions to be heard, not to stifle, not to hold back. I'd say we're all fragmented in some way, but how reassuring to learn we don't have to stay that way.
Julia, thanks for writing this short version of your amazing story and the story of the birth of the OVUM. It's a huge reminder that EVERYTHING on our journey, pain and disappointment, anger,etc., is a chance for a transformation, for conception, co-creation, for birth of something better for you, and bigger than you. That's probably the most important lesson I took from you: everything to be regarded as an invitation for transformation and creation.
Dismissing feelings that we learned to mark as negativ is so deeply ingrained in our functioning, that it now needs huge amount of consciousness to relearn this automatism… thank you of teaching us how to imprint new way of thinking 🙏🏼
It is always a sincere pleasure to read anything you write – I confess I’m always affected by your thoughts and ideas which stay with me, long after I’ve finished reading something of yours. Your thinking is so original, and your point of view so unique, I cannot help but be changed by what you have to say. So right off the bat you’re right “Consciousness is Contagious”!
Such a beautifully written intimate and personal piece with such evocative imagery and descriptions.
These ideas/sentences have opened a part of me :
“Birth operates under entirely different laws.”
“…a fragmented human being—someone who disowns any aspect of their nature—cannot give birth to a healthy life, a thriving community, or a peaceful world. And yet, unlike embryos, fragmented humans can be repaired. We can be born and reborn into greater wholeness over and over again.”
“Lasting peace cannot simply be legislated or enforced—it must be conceived and nurtured by shepherding the motley crew of our inner Orphans to safety.”
“The story of our species is co-authored by all of us. The feelings we attend to, the thoughts we expand upon, and the action we choose to take, will tip the balance—toward a more frightening or a more life-friendly earth community.”
Your consciousness and your work are contagious. I think I’ll attend to feelings I’ve been avoiding and expand more completely thoughts I have sequestered and hopefully the actions I choose to take can make a difference…I sure want to believe in this great, big world.
Here’s to that “Young Pioneer” who grew up be to the fertility advocate many of us have been so fortunate enough to work with …(the one who helped me gently open the sealed off - locked gates I had erected around my heart, ones that almost barred me from a becoming a mother).
And your generous heart is also contagious, Annie. I remember in the circles, just seeing your face in that little square reflecting such presence and goodwill, was always so reassuring for me. Makes me smile every time I think of you as a mom to that little angel boy.
This is so brilliant, Julia. Thank you for sharing your work and all your insights with all of us. I went through this article twice: first I read it and then I listened to your audio recording and each time different things were underlined in my mind. This is interesting because I am familiar with OVUM practice but what actually came to me while reading about it - it actually is a way of life, perspective, thinking or approach to life - trying to find a right word but all are applicable.
It is so easy to get lost these days in all things happening in the world, all distractions and all "trends" - that we keep forgetting what you nicely pointed out: we are our own authority and we need to claim that. I know it and I still keep forgetting it as outside noises are too loud...
The work you do, Julia, is so important and I really hope more people get to know about it - because it can really save lives!
Yes, it really is one of the most challenging things these days: claiming our own authority. But we're doing it:). Thank you, S.!
Thank you so much for this peer fully written piece, Julia! I read it at a time when I am feeling a range of “negative” emotions, or, to use the OVUM terminology, when the Orphans in me are particularly strong. Undergoing a miscarriage yet again, after having conceived spontaneously following 4.5 years of trying, brings out a powerful Orphan filled with rage. Your sentence about healing the possibility of healing a fragmented human being, unlike a fragmented embryo, resonated strongly. The pilgrimage toward my child is taking longer than I’d anticipated, but the tools of your practice are the “golden rope” that rekindle the hope in our hearts and strengthen our resolve to continue on this path.
Sending lots of love to your "orphans" and to every part of you that is hurting, Radha. This is not an easy assignment, this longing we feel, the disappointment we have to bear. And...my faith in our ability to "turn it around," turn into a source of our greatest strength remains unshakable. You can do this. You ARE doing it. Sending much love!
In a world full of positive this and positive that, it felt counterintuitive to allow those 'negative' feelings to come to the surface, but the OVUM practice has shown me the benefit of allowing all emotions to be heard, not to stifle, not to hold back. I'd say we're all fragmented in some way, but how reassuring to learn we don't have to stay that way.
Julia, thanks for writing this short version of your amazing story and the story of the birth of the OVUM. It's a huge reminder that EVERYTHING on our journey, pain and disappointment, anger,etc., is a chance for a transformation, for conception, co-creation, for birth of something better for you, and bigger than you. That's probably the most important lesson I took from you: everything to be regarded as an invitation for transformation and creation.
Dismissing feelings that we learned to mark as negativ is so deeply ingrained in our functioning, that it now needs huge amount of consciousness to relearn this automatism… thank you of teaching us how to imprint new way of thinking 🙏🏼
It is always a sincere pleasure to read anything you write – I confess I’m always affected by your thoughts and ideas which stay with me, long after I’ve finished reading something of yours. Your thinking is so original, and your point of view so unique, I cannot help but be changed by what you have to say. So right off the bat you’re right “Consciousness is Contagious”!
Such a beautifully written intimate and personal piece with such evocative imagery and descriptions.
These ideas/sentences have opened a part of me :
“Birth operates under entirely different laws.”
“…a fragmented human being—someone who disowns any aspect of their nature—cannot give birth to a healthy life, a thriving community, or a peaceful world. And yet, unlike embryos, fragmented humans can be repaired. We can be born and reborn into greater wholeness over and over again.”
“Lasting peace cannot simply be legislated or enforced—it must be conceived and nurtured by shepherding the motley crew of our inner Orphans to safety.”
“The story of our species is co-authored by all of us. The feelings we attend to, the thoughts we expand upon, and the action we choose to take, will tip the balance—toward a more frightening or a more life-friendly earth community.”
Your consciousness and your work are contagious. I think I’ll attend to feelings I’ve been avoiding and expand more completely thoughts I have sequestered and hopefully the actions I choose to take can make a difference…I sure want to believe in this great, big world.
Here’s to that “Young Pioneer” who grew up be to the fertility advocate many of us have been so fortunate enough to work with …(the one who helped me gently open the sealed off - locked gates I had erected around my heart, ones that almost barred me from a becoming a mother).
And your generous heart is also contagious, Annie. I remember in the circles, just seeing your face in that little square reflecting such presence and goodwill, was always so reassuring for me. Makes me smile every time I think of you as a mom to that little angel boy.