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Exactly What Is An Ascending Doula: Spirit Fest USA Special

Exactly What Is An Ascending Doula: Spirit Fest USA Special
Exactly What Is An Ascending Doula: Spirit Fest USA Special
The Skeptic Metaphysicians
Exactly What Is An Ascending Doula: Spirit Fest USA Special
So what comes after your spiritual awakening? Or after your kids leave home?

In this heart-centered and hilariously relatable episode of The Skeptic Metaphysicians live from Spirit Fest USA in Dulles, Will and Karen sit down with Jenny Sikes, founder of Ascending Dawn Doula, whose work blends hypnotherapy, past life regression, intuitive readings, astrology, Reiki, and end-of-life doula services into one mind-blowing (and heart-expanding) toolkit for spiritual transformation.

You’ll hear:
- How Jenny transitioned from 18 years in corporate recruiting to soul-centered service
- Why past life regression can help you release phobias, unblock purpose, and even understand tennis elbow?!
- The truth about witch wounds, water fears, and walking naked around the house (trust us—it fits)
- What your Midheaven has to say about your true career path
- Why we’re all psychic—and how to tell the difference between a “psychic” and a “psycho” at a metaphysical fair

Plus, we go deep into:
- How end-of-life doula work mirrors transitional coaching for empty nesters
- The quantum difference between QHHT and SEH (and how you can do hypnosis virtually!)
- Spirituality meets LinkedIn—yes, she even helps folks revamp resumes with astrological alignment

Whether you’re grieving your kids flying the coop, questioning your purpose, or wondering what dimension your higher self is hiding in… this episode is for you.

Connect with Jenny Sikes:
Emnail: ascendingdawndoula@gmail.com
Social: @AscendingDawnDoula

Tip: “Ascend” your search by remembering A-S-C—Ascending into your badass self!

0:04 Hey there, welcome back. We're glad you joined us again. We are still here Spiritfast USA. Dulls. We're not going anywhere. You are stuck with us. No, we really appreciate you sticking with us as we broadcast live from Spiritfast USA in the Dullest expos Center in Chantilly, Virginia. Now we have someone very special with us today. She's from as sending Dawn Doulah. Her name is Jenny in the I mean, I love what you have on your cards is transforming paths, empowering journeys. Yes, good lord, that's a lot to live up to you. It is. It's a lot though it's also very heart fills my heart.

0:47 Yeah, I can imagine. And that's honestly that that's what we found everyone that we've talked to it does it. It's it comes from the heart. It fills the heart everything that they're doing. So I'm glad to hear you are exactly now. On the back of your card, he says, you do hypnotherapy. You're a q AHH T s e H and well certified hymno therapy. You do intuitive readings, reiki and end of life Doulah. That stuff together is a little much, right, So I mean. I'm thinking kind of slacker here. Wait you or me?

1:28 So in your free time? So then, what what do you do with sending dawn doulah? What? What does I know that you just mentioned everything that you do? But what like, what's your calling? Oh? Okay, so I'm going to backtrack with that question. Okay, okay. So I went to see a shaman and I sat down with her a couple of years ago and she said, so, what do you want to do in this life? And she said, before you answer that? It was like, okay, I's like, please do not tell me that you want to help people. And I'm like, I was literally about to say I want to help people. And she helped me actually clarify that because I had all of these different modalities, my backgrounds eighteen years in corporate recruiting, never imagine myself to be in that world. I am an introvert by trade, but the universe said no, no, no, We're gonna have you socialize and work with people one on one. And then I progress in all these different modalities.

2:23 And she said, well, the one thing that connects all of these different modalities is you're helping people with transformative times with milestones, with empty Nestine, because I've been there, done that, with spiritual awakenings, because I've been there, done Then we're all continuing to evolve and grow with relationships, with the different dynamics. Of relationships, with energy, healing, with the chakra. She's like, you're not helping people to stop that, okay, because she's basically said that I'm helping folks during those transformative times in their world. And I'm like, that's it. That's the connecting piece. With astrology, numerology, intuitive readings, hypnotherapy, past life aggressions.

3:04 Oh my gosh, Oh my gosh. So you mentioned something that I have never heard people talk about as far as helping transitions empty minsters. Yeah, I mean, you hear about it, and you hear it sad, and you know we've already decided our daughters never leaving us. Here. When she was a five, we somehow we're talking about college. You just said, mom, will you. Move in with me? Said yes, didn't even think about it. Will you move it? Yes? So I made that decision and so I'm sorry, kiddo, don't you were five. I'm moving in with you. She's looking to the left and looking up and smiling. Now we have the change in the beastments already to go. It's fully furnished.

3:45 Yeah, I mean, I made a promise. Can not break my promise. It'll change go at least ten feets. You'd be good. You can walk around here. Oh my gosh. It's a big thing when you're going through that part of your life. A lot of us, especially moms and dads too. I've watched my husband go through this. Uh. And we're we're high school sweethearts. We met in choir class. He was the cute, funny guy and I was the you know, bigger chested. Brown heritage, and I looked at all those jokes and then you know, long story there. But uh, as empty nesters, we kind of saw it differently. So he was like, yeah, party, Oh, we're gonna have a house something, walk around naked. I'm good. And I'm like, but my babies, like you know, one's already up and out and the others going to college, and I'm like, what do I do with my tie?

4:32 Yeah? I mean as a mom, you become this mom and that's kind of who you are. Even you can take the kid to the dock and they call you mom. You know that's about Yeah. Absolutely, But what I found was, actually, it's not the. There is some grieving that goes with that. Naturally, there's grieving, but there's also extra time you get back. So there's things that you did not have time for. Because we do invest mind, body soul into our children. Children's upbringing their mind, body, soul everything. You get your time back, and it's like, what do I do? And I don't want to be bored? You know what you do? Walk around?

5:14 There are times I will admit, my daughter comes home from college and ups, that's what happens. And you need to shut the bedroom door. Right, normally the bedroom doors open. We have three cats. Now if we close the door, the cats go scratching. Right, So she comes home, we got to close the door, be. A little bit more, you know, modest, yes, And of course she's like, you guys, do that? Wemb out here? Yet? A whole different life, A whole different life. How do you think you got here? Honey? Yeah? So what are some of the more kind of fun transformations that you help people in? Oh?

5:55 All right, fun, that's a great question. That's a great question. So let me start with the past life aggressions. Okay, So there are many people who are interested in the past LIFs and how many lives have I had on planet Earth? And there are people that go incredibly magical and metaphysical and they go, well, how many lifetimes have I had in. The ple eighties? Right, They can get really interesting, and I would say those are some of the most interesting and fun ones because they're just interested enough to step into it without any typic expectation, and so it comes out is just phenomenal, phenomenal. We've had people with which wounds they're like, I always kind of knew that I was like a holistic practitioner, like in Scotland or Ireland, and I just don't know why I have all these things inside of me and why do I have some of these phobias.

6:43 There was one woman that had a phobia of the water. Well we found out why she had a phobia of the water. But what's important is that this life is the most important. You get to gather all this data which. Is really really fascinating and bring it into this world and find out why, why does something holding me back? Why am I really focused on this area? What's calling my name? What's my mission, what's my purpose? It's amazing. So I'm gonna say fun, but just I open. Yeah, I can imagine. So can can that help with phobias of like going to work? We're still.

7:25 I'm pretty sure I was killed loading the dishwasher in my past life, so I can't do it. No. But in your case, we would take your look into your birth charts. So let's take the hypnotherapy out of it, and let's look at your birth chart. Let's take a look at your mid heaven. Where your mid heaven falls is typically the tenth house, sometimes the nights, sometimes the eleven, depending on and I'm speaking sorry, trying to bring it down right, I still get lost in it. You ever ever stopped. Learning ing loop.

8:08 Shop? But we would look at your mid heaven, your career. What you're supposed to be doing in this, like what's calling your name? So back to the job. If you're not digging a man, let's take a look. Now, I like this. You're doing this. This is a part of your career. You're supposed to put out awareness and open channels and doors of opportunity, right, and that takes passion and courage and networking capabilities, not a lot of us in this community have. That we're introvertsed or share. I want to help, You're not supposed to say help, right, but I want to be in my bubble, right, you're out here actually connecting. Yeah, that's a great way to put it, actually, because I think in this time Aline, we talked about it a lot on the show this time around, we are here to be messengers.

8:51 Were actually we're here to be connectors. That's a that's a better way to say it, because we're connecting people like you who have these special skills and abilities to help. We don't want to say help, but to be of service to humanity. Humanity, Yeah, yuh. And it is a calling. We are called to do this. Uh, it's just we need to find a way to make it be sustainable. That's the hardest part because we do we feel this is this is the. Direction we're heading in. So from your mouth to the universe's ears. That happen definitely right now. Yes, So then if someone comes to you, you've got all these different tool sets that you can reach into.

9:32 What makes you decide, Okay with you, I'm going to do astrology or are going to do right? Dualist off like yeah, I'm pretty sure it's a technical term. Well, the dulist stuff. Let's clarify that though also, and we'll come back to that question if you don't mind. The Georgia stuff. Is the end of life transition, that's the final destination, you know. What you're doing where it's pretty obvious. Yeah A, but I mean you kind of do the empty nesters too, right, so you know, just popped up. So with meeting people, I like to meet them exactly where they're at.

10:13 And there's lots of people that that do what I do. Right, We're here at a wonderful show with lots of really great energy, lots of psychics but ps, we're all psychic. Every single one in this room in psychic where that they. Want to say it or not. Lots of really good energy. The people that come to me are guided. Did you say psychic or psycho? Psychic? Okay, all right, I just wanted to clarify because you know, it's a bunch of those. Actually love Yeah, that's actually feeling that the energy is important. You can figure it out really easily who's the psychic and who's the psycho and the psychos you kind of just bubble yourself up with energetic protection, and you shake your heads and you smile, and then you walk away.

11:01 Turned the energy back to. Sometimes always return the energy back to center, because it's not yours to takes, but meeting people where they're at. So say, for instance, someone's coming to my table. They might be coming to me for a reading because they've had a relationship and they're curious about whether or not this relationship is something that they should be holding onto or something they should be closing the door on. The thing is I'm not here to give that answer. I'm here for you to connect with your team. And the team is coming in through me and through you and through the cards, and the answers are there. Does that make sense? And then there are others that are. Simply interested in, hey, you do pass like aggressions? Can I connect with you? Let's schedule that, because they're interested in why do I have this anxiety? This is unexplained anxiety? More, why is this tennis elbow always bothering me? But they have no they don't test, they don't sleep the wrong way.

11:54 Not that I'm a medical person. I'm not playing not yet. Please disclaimer. I did go to school to become a nurse. I quickly decided I'm sorry. I love you nurses and doctors. I don't touch people. I can't. I'm a highly sensitive person. Which is why you do reki. You don't touch people with reyki. It's hands off, his hands off. And that's great. I love all of the medical folks out there. That was well, that dashes all my hosts for interviewing. All right, So then you intuitively know what someone is gonna need to do. Obviously you do QHHT, which is in person, but do you do things remotely as well?

12:34 Absolutely great question. So with QHHT, that's pretty well known Quantum healing hypnosis technique. It's about four to five hours. You're really only supposed to do it in person, one session a day. They don't ever want you to double book yourself or book yourself back to back. With the sole empowering hypnosis, this is the one that you can do virtually. It's kind of the same thing. It's kind of the same thing because it's so empowering hypnosis. You can kind of tweak it to also go into past lives, you can go into future lives, you can connect with your higher self, you can get that quants of healing and it can be done virtually. Can you help us to hop timelines? We always hop timelines. I know, but can you help us hop to specific timeline like this is the one I'm rich in.

13:20 Well, there's some work we can do with that. All right, all right, I'm on board, but you're doing the heavy lifting. Oh man, Here we go back to the version of work again. Right, midevenir chart. We'll check it up. Well, if someone wanted to reach out to you to do something like this, what's the best way for someone to do that? Great question. So I'm actually on all the social media platforms, but my favorite is healed dot me. It's a scheduling. It shows my reviews people that I've actually worked with. I have lots of returning clients for several tommialities. Easy to book, easy to pay. You can actually book a twenty minute discovery call with me for free, and we just talk about where you're at in your journey, Like you don't have to come to the table with like I want this and I want this. This is the twenty minute conversation where we would talk more about where you are at, what you're comfortable.

14:10 With I've got this going on. How can you not help help me? Yeah? Absolutely, and even career advice again being a recruiter for eighteen years. Oh yeah, the corporate world. I get people all the time. Hey, I love the woo woo, I love the magical, But can you help me with my resume? Right? The job market's awful right now, it was last year. We've got a lot of federal folks coming out, and those folks are interviewed in seventeen eighteen years, right, that's work for that. Yeah. And then ps, we can pull your birth chart and we can see what you really want for in your career. One stop shopping people, one stop. Shopping, one stop shopping. All right, Well, so then healed up me. But how did someone find you? There? Jenny Sykes, j E and n I E. Not with the y, not with the y Pykes s iks like psyche your gen xers, right, yeah, answers.

15:00 You may know that. Ye the millennials will rolling your eyes. Yea, that's not fire. Yeah exactly. We're going to add because we also have your email on here. I'm not you don't want to publish your phone number because you might get some strange phone calls, but yes, we'll. Definitely well, my handles are ascending down Doula and it's a hard one to remember because ascending it's a. Hard it's a hard smell. Yes, but if you think about it, a s C A s C. We're ascending, every single one of us are ascending to a bigger, more.

15:42 Bad ass el excuse my. Language, perfect, it's all good, all right, awesome, Well, thank you so much for being on the show today. Thanks for sharing us so wonderful. Yeah, thanks for getting the courage up and coming over folks. Work with the Moon Energy. I'm an introvert. You bet you don't know that. I'm an introvert, but I had to work with the Leo Moon Energy get grounded and then say. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Thanks so much for being on the show. Appreciate so much, Thank you. Thank you, and thank you for watching. You are listening to the Skeptic Metaphysicians on New Reality tv dot com. And we now return you to our regularly scheduled programming. Already in press,

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