Hygieia College Students Speak

"All has been quiet here for awhile.  Life has been life and I take it each day with light, laughter and love.

But there is one thing I just have to do...

Thank you, Jeannine for what you are doing for the earth, mamas, children and more.  You have touched
my life so much, and for that I thank you.  I'm always passing around your info and telling folks how you have
touched me and my family. :)"

KIim Upton
Community Mother Magazine

"I understand how time lapses, then creeps up again.  Thanks for always responding
so personally.  I take pride in the fact that we maintain a semi-constant personal contact!
You are very well regarded as female guru among my womyn family!  You are that
redeeming light where ever I feel in the shadow as a woman.

Thank you - I'm sure you get that a lot and it is something that you learn to respond to,
but seriously,  I feel a kinship.  Thank you, womyn to womyn."
always,
Whitney

"I've been sitting with this dream for a few days... It was a wonderful dream.  One of the pre-bleed dreams
where you are dancing in the world of life-giving energy: ...There were many wise women sitting in a cabin
in the woods.   As I watched myself in the dream, I looked around at all the women sitting there, talking
and healing, weaving healing with Ariadne into a rainbow rug of love.  Then I walked over to a stream.  I
took a drink of the water, then walked over to give you a drink.  You looked very tired, but your light was
very strong and bright.  You smiled at me, quietly, and then you closed your eyes.  I took this as a sign that
you needed rest, so I started to get up.  You reached over and touched my arm and said,"Wait."

So, I sat there and focused on my breath.  I felt the energy of the magic of women in the room, I felt as if I
was being healed by your touch (I'll get to my real-life stuff in a moment), and you started to speak.  This is
what you shared with me:

"You are not called to be a midwife of the typical sense.  You are to help keep the Earth and to save her
ways of healing.  Be okay with who you are.  Accept the gifts that GodUs has given you.  Do not forget that
you are human and that your human body can sometimes give up on you. Keep your spirit strong and
always believe in your gifts."

I started to cry and felt sad.  I said to you, "But JP, I ~want~ to be a midwife, I want to bring peaceful birth
into the world.  I want it more than anything."

Then you asked me what it was about midwifery that made me feel like I had to be a midwife.  I couldn't
answer you.  So you asked me this...

"What is it that you really want, Yarrow? (this is a name some of my sisters have taken to calling me *grin*,
which also is the green ally I've been studying with Susun Weed)"

The whole room got quiet and all the women looked at me.  You touched my arm and said, "there is no
need to be afraid, these women support you...and all that you do."  I look down at the floor, move my feet
around a bit, then through my tears I say...

"I want to be okay with who I am.  I want to be "that lady" that I've always wanted to be.  I want to be a
woman who always learns and stays wise.  I want to extend my heart to sisters and brothers around the
world so that our children can grow free and intact.  I want to accept the gifts of foresight and healing
that Spirit has given to me.  But mostly, I want to stop feeling so helpless in my own life."

You smiled, touched my arm and said, "It is done."  Then I woke up...and that day I started to bleed.  Wow!

So, thank you for the dream medicine!  When I was starting my search for a midwifery teacher, I clearly saw
you in my kitchen...so I called you and now here we are.  The dream medicine was powerful.  Whether it
was you, or the dream used you to represent the GodUs spirit of my own inner healer...is of no matter.  Your
work, light and undying love have *yet again* extended out to me for healing.  For that I am forever
grateful. :)

Of course I will finish my midwifery work with you (when you are ready), but my dream is to work with you as
an earth keeper and birth keeper! :)

Hugs, love and life!
Kim Upton
Community Mother Magazine