The Fertile Heart^TM Ovum Process

When I first began to lead informal support groups in our apartment on the Upper West side of Manhattan, the grief, rage and sadness in the room was palpable.

One day I started calling the abandoned parts of ourselves, mirrored in such feelings -our inner Orphans. As we began to use imagery and other tools to work through the pain, and access the compassion within us, we were able to connect with another aspect of our nature. The unconditionally loving, wise voice within, which I eventually named the Ultimate Mom. And the go-between was the part of us that wanted to learn, and build a fulfilling, juicy, meaningful life, but didn't necessarily know how to make it happen. For many years I called that voice, the Student. I was never quite happy with that title, and one night a much more fitting term came: Visionary. To my amazement, when I combined the first letter of each of these words, they formed OVUM, meaning egg in Latin.

And that's how my work got its name: The Fertile Heart^TM Ovum Process.

I couldn't have asked for a more perfect acronym. After all, the one prerequisite for any healthy creation is at least one good egg. And as I see it, conception begins with engaging in a life-long relationship with our inner Orphans, our Visionaries and our infinitely fertile and kind Ultimate Mom.

Currently, the most thorough experiential introduction of the Ovum Process is the seven hour workshop offered in our studio in Woodstock, New York

-Julia