Today we’d like to introduce you to Jamie Day.
Hi Jamie, can you start by introducing yourself? We’d love to learn more about how you got to where you are today?
I first came to Sarasota to do a new play at the Florida Studio Theatre. Actually, I said “no” to the contract when my mentor from undergrad called to tell me about it, but somehow it worked out for me to drive cross country with my two dogs and arrive at rehearsal on a Tuesday morning in January of 2005. When I got to the West Coast of Florida I fell in love. The town, the weather, the beaches, the culture… I was smitten, and I knew I didn’t want to go back to New York or LA. I also knew that I couldn’t make a living as a professional actor in Sarasota. So, I got busy, got a job, and in a few years, I went back to graduate school. Transforming myself from a professional actor into a Registered Drama Therapist and a Marriage and Family Therapist felt like a total fit. After attaining both of my graduate degrees, I began working with clients. I also got pregnant with my daughter. Her father and I were surprised and thrilled and terrified. Luckily, figuring out how to manage my professional career with my personal trajectory of becoming a mother happened… not easily or seamlessly, but in exactly the way that it was meant to. Having my daughter cracked me open in a way that was equal parts creation and destruction. Everything and nothing about my previous life made sense. Having this girl child, something opened up in me regarding the empowerment of the feminine. I began to question things that I had just taken for granted as truth. At first, this questioning looked like making bath and body products for our home, changing the way we ate, and becoming proficient in infant mental health, parenting education, and energy work. The more ways of life that I transformed, the more I realized had to continue to change. Something else was asking to be shifted and, at that time, I didn’t quite know what it was. On my 40th birthday, I went on a silent retreat. During that quiet time of solitude, I was given the idea to start a women’s group that focused on women coming together to support one another while exploring feminine spirituality. When I got home, I spoke to my boss at the agency where I was working, and she was totally on board. It took me 8 months to create that initial 6-week curriculum. I went back and forth and started and stopped. I knew I was changing my life in a big way and there were some very scared parts of me that wanted to call it quits. Thankfully, with the help of my boss, I kept at it, and in 2016 the Divine Mommy circles began. Since then, that initial circle has grown into a 29-week 101 Curriculum and a 21-week 201 Curriculum. It has also inspired the book I just published “Soul to Sisterhood.” Over these past 6 years, my work and I have grown together. I am still that woman looking to discover truth and I am also a woman dedicated to being of service. Now I work with private clients, not as a therapist, but as a Spiritual Coach and Mentor. I will always have my clinical foundation, and so much of my work focuses on trauma-informed care – especially as it relates to the behavioral manifestations of trauma-wounded neurobiology – but the work that I offer one-on-one includes different modalities for transformation and healing than what you might experience in a traditional psychotherapy session. I also run my groups weekly online and in-person, and I am proud to say that this year, from September to May, I will have facilitated 116 Sacred Circles. Divine Mommy isn’t just for moms. When you think about it, all women are mothers – all the time. We don’t have to have human children or a certain aged child to think of ourselves as a ‘mommy.’ We are giving life to new ideas on a moment-by-moment basis. In the current Divine Mommy Groups, we explore deeply profound topics rooted in Female Shamanism, Oracular Visioning, and Divine Feminine Leadership. My desire is to heal the Feminine within so that we may ask the Masculine Energies to join us in functional, optimal, and egalitarian ways. My way of doing this is to create a temple of shared Sisterhood… to rewire the belief systems of women supporting women and make these new beliefs unconditional ways of being that are expressed in the now moment of the present… not just ideals for the future. I do this today for myself, for my daughter, and for all women who have walked before me, walk with me, and will walk after me. This work of the Sacred Feminine has so much to offer both men and women. Yes, our world is changing, and so much of that change is for the better, however, I want to rewrite the narrative of feminine denigration because this millennia-old story has deeply hurt all living things, regardless of gender. When we can replenish and reignite the nurturing, compassionate, mysterious, and life-bearing waters of the Feminine within – an inherent part of us that reflects our desires for intimacy, connection, pleasure, joy, and love – we can then approach the more Masculine aspects of life – efficiency, success, goal orientation, competition, and productivity – with more balance, wisdom, and maturity. This is my walk in this moment and as I reflect, thinking back on the past 17 years, I am excited to adventure into the next 17.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way? Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
There have been struggles, however, there have also been so many miracles… and they far outweigh any bumps in the road.
Alright, so let’s switch gears a bit and talk business. What should we know about your work?
My work today combines all of my gifts and transforms them into opportunities for healing. My previous experience as a professional actor has helped me become a dynamic presenter. Going to graduate school and becoming a mental health clinician has supported me in managing group dynamics. My Spiritual education has given me the inspiration and empowerment to keep writing, facilitating, and listening to my intuition. I am known for creating experiential, engaging, and transformative experiences. I like to describe my Divine Mommy Groups as a different one-woman show that I write, direct, produce, and perform weekly – whereby I improvise a little and invite the audience to join me – a lot! I am so proud of my different curriculums and of my beautiful book. Soul-to-Sisterhood is also an experiential tool of transformation where readers are invited to engage in the 180 Sacred Play Suggestions as a means for falling deeper in love with themselves. And, all of the proceeds from the book are going to Stella’s Fund, a benevolent fund I am setting up to support primary caregivers while going through the legal proceedings of divorce and separation.
What sets me apart is exactly what connects me. I meet people where they are with compassion and love and I know that we are all part of one human family.
If you had to, what characteristic of yours would you give the most credit to?
Determination, drive, high standards, and loads of energy are the ways my Masculine side supports my success. Creativity, play, Mother Earth, sensuality, and meditation are the ways my Feminine side supports my success.
Pricing:
- The Soul-to-Sisterhood book is 34.99
- Individual & Couples One Hour Sessions are $150
- Individual and Couples 90 Minute Sessions are $200
- Small Groups Sessions are Available Upon Request
- Divine Mommy Groups are Priced Differently for Online and In-Person
Contact Info:
- Email: jamie@divine-mommy.com
- Website: www.divine-mommy.com & www.soul-to-sisterhood.com
- Instagram: @divine.mommy & @soultosisterhood
- Facebook: Facebook.com/divinemommy & Facebook.com/soul-to-sisterhood
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNGeRYgXEh_scG2vna0IObQ
- Other: tiktok: @divinemommy
Image Credits
Kristine Casart
