I’m Tracy Persons, founder of Midlife Midwifery.

This work was born from what I refer to as my midlife awakening.

Perimenopause and middle age arrived like a tsunami and cracked me wide open. Everything I had stuffed, ignored, and pushed through began to bubble up to the surface as I entered my forties.

I didn't know what was “wrong” with me. I just knew I wasn't okay - and that business as usual could not continue.

But I didn't know what to do, where to go, or who to turn to for help.

And so my search - for answers, for support, and for relief from the pain within - began.

In truth, the search had begun long before. I had carried an inner fire and a deep hunger to feel internally free from a very young age. But the busyness of life - taking care of others, raising children, building a career - slowly stifled that fire.

Until midlife arrived.

I could no longer push through and ignore what I was feeling.

I instinctively knew that I had to turn inward.

What began as a search for relief became something much deeper: a willingness to finally meet the parts of myself I had spent years running from.

I explored many paths. I learned, questioned, felt, unraveled, and began to discover that the answers I had been looking for could not always be found outside of myself.

Somewhere along the way, I found somatic work and began experiencing what could happen when I stopped trying to think my way through everything and allowed myself to listen to what was happening within my body and the emotional realm.

It wasn't a quick transformation. It was a process of learning to stay present with what was difficult, to feel what I had once needed to avoid, and to slowly rebuild a relationship with myself.

And that journey is what eventually led me here.

Today, I don't see myself as someone who has figured it all out. I see myself as a fellow traveler- someone who has walked through her own darkness, continues to do her own work, and has learned to trust the wisdom that can emerge when we become willing to listen within.

That is the place from which I meet the women who come to me.

~Tracy