I'm Tracy Persons, and Midlife Midwifery is my love offering to women walking the path of self-reclamation.

I offer it humbly, as I am old enough to know just how little I know. And I offer it with the utmost respect, because it takes enormous courage to dive into our deep inner work!

Midlife Midwifery is the culmination of a lifetime of soul excavation; of losing myself in the darkness and then slowly, inch by inch, stitching myself back together and reconnecting with the truth of who I am. This is not to say that I have “arrived” anywhere - as we are all forever in the becoming - but I am no longer a hostage to my pain and fear to the same extent I once was.

My life's path, like so many others, included being born into a highly dysfunctional household. My early childhood was suffocated by domestic violence, parental alcoholism, and physical and emotional abuse. Fear was my constant companion. I learned early on that I was not safe in this world, and that pervasive feeling of being unsafe informed every aspect of my life.

It is within this backdrop that an extremely sensitive little girl grew into a highly reactive and disconnected woman. Even though I had achieved certain external "successes" in my adult life, internally I was being run by the unresolved imprinting of those early injuries to my psyche and spirit.

It all came to a head during my forties. As midlife arrived in full force, I found that I could no longer rely on the distractions of life to keep me from myself. Raising children, building a career, and tending to the needs of everyone but myself had run its course. An inner tsunami was building, and there was no outrunning it. I knew the time for massive change had come, but I didn’t know what to do or where to go for help.

My search led me down every imaginable road of self-improvement/healing, eventually delivering me to the steps of Emotional Release Therapy (ERT). Through this practice, I learned to feel again - to acknowledge and express the emotions I had long suppressed, and to reconnect with the deepest parts of myself. And along the way I discovered that midlife, or “The Middle Passage” as I prefer to call it, isn’t a crisis - it’s an invitation.

Now, I share this powerful practice with women who are ready to stop pushing through and start tuning in. This is your time. You are not broken, and you are not alone.

Let’s walk this path back Home, together.