Meet the Founder of MotherTouch and Intune Wellness for Women

MOTHER-TOUCH and INTUNE WELLNESS for WOMEN

My name is Michele Pedersen and my intention and mission is to support women in establishing a sense of safety and trust in their bodies and nervous systems, so they can birth and live freely and fully as themselves.

INTUNE WELLNESS for WOMEN

I have studied and implemented many healing modalities in my women’s wellness practice over the last 30 years. My signature offering, The Nervous System Reset is a combination of several of my favorite healing modalities, with the purpose of establishing a sense of safety in my clients that is foundational to living a healthy, fulfilling and empowered life. The Nervous System Reset has been deeply transformational for hundreds of clients. Clients have described their experiences as being life changing, deeply transformative, deeply relaxing, restorative, lightening and grounding. Many have reported that The Nervous System Reset leaves them with a peace that surpasses all understanding. My healing practice has taught me that when people feel safe, they become freer and healthier in their bodies , relationships and lives. This can show up as:

-improved sleep

-resolution of physical health issues

-restoration of emotional and mental well-being

-natural healthy weight loss

-greatly reduced or absence of generalized stress and anxiety

-greater connection with your body

-profound sense of lightness and clarity

-more empowered birth experiences

I am an intuitive healing arts practitioner, sound healing facilitator, advocate and mentor for empowered birth, women’s wellness and nutritional consultant, and retreat leader. In short, I am an advocate, mentor,and space holder for personal transformation and conscious living. I support caretakers, mothers, health professionals, and healers to transition from living and giving from a paradigm of self- neglect, self-sacrifice, and “people pleasing” to living a fulfilling and meaningful life, from a place of connection with self-love and value, rather than self -abandonment. The bottom line is you need to feel safe to allow change to occur and take root and this needs to be established in your nervous system.

MOTHER-TOUCH

      I am a mother of 3 young adults, a Mimi of 2 grandchildren and another on the way! I raised 3 girls with very little support along the way. I felt this limited all I wanted to be able to give my children, and often found myself giving from an empty, depleted, unsupported place. My children deserved so much more than what one person could give. It always breaks my heart to hear women's stories when they haven't received the information, care, and support that could have made all the difference in their pregnancy, birthing, and postpartum experiences. This is WHY I created MotherTouch, because I BELIEVE women  need to feel SUPPORTED, NURTURED, and SAFE mentally, emotionally, and physically during pregnancy, birth, postpartum and beyond. I BELIEVE this impacts the health and wellness of both the mother and child well into the future, which impacts the family and community. I also BELIEVE that when a mother receives what she needs, and heals old outdated beliefs and fears prior to or during pregnancy, she is able to birth and parent from a more conscious, connected, and empowered place for the benefit of her child(children).

    When I was pregnant with my first child, I was blessed to have met a chiropractor, who treated me toward the end of my pregnancy and while I was in labor with my daughter. She treated my daughter at birth, and we were both treated for the 2 years that followed. She essentially was my birth Doula, offering me constant emotional and physical support during my labor. I cannot imagine having done it without her. I didn't know that a midwife cannot usually sit by your side throughout your birth. Without my Doula/Chiropractor, I would have been completely alone during my first birth, with the exception of a midwife coming in to check on me from time to time. A Doula is invaluable, as the emotional and physical support she gives is now known to significantly improve birth outcomes for moms and babies. This experience changed my life and I felt that I wanted other women to have the opportunity to receive the care I did.

    MotherTouch is a combination of intuitive, emotionally supportive, and practical holistic health and wellness coaching, for all women, as well as emotional, mental, and physical mentorship and preparation for conception through postpartum.

I offer a variety of tools which serve to empower my clients to clear both conscious and subconscious mental, emotional, energetic, and physical blocks and patterns that are often passed down through the lineage, which I BELIEVE impact the mom's pregnancy, baby’s birth positioning, the birth, and postpartum experience, as well as the baby. I BELIEVE it is important to address as much as we can prior to and during a woman's pregnancy in order to establish a sense of emotional and physical safety and support a more conscious, empowered, peaceful, pregnancy, birth, baby, and postpartum experience.

    I also feel called to bring the sacred back to pregnancy, birth, and postpartum for women desiring to dive a little deeper into the personal and spiritual transformation that is happening under the surface during her pregnancy journey. She is not just being transformed on the physical level, although this is the most obvious sign that something very powerful is occurring. I have found that creating a network of women during this time can be instrumental in how you enter into the uncertainty that pregnancy, birth, and postpartum can bring. This is why I offer Hypnobirthing classes, Mother's Blessings during pregnancy, and Mother Sealing and blessing following pregnancy to honor and acknowledge each rite of passage you have entered and moved through. It is very powerful to stand witness to and hold space for women during this part of her journey, as it helps her to connect with her inherent strength, wisdom, power, beauty, and grace, that has been there all along!

   My passion for empowering and supporting women and babies has led me on an ongoing personal, educational, and professional journey so that I could serve from a more solid place. I received my Masters Degree in Health and Wellness Coaching with a concentration in Nutrition and Spiritual Healing. While undergoing my spiritual healing studies, I had to walk through profoundly, transformative, life changing experiences, while learning very specific healing modalities, so I could serve whomever I support from a clearer, healthier place. I received my undergraduate degree in Human Services and my A.A. degree as a Physical Therapist Assistant. During my clinicals’, I received training in a postpartum women's clinic, which really made an impression on me in terms of how important it is for women to receive postpartum pelvic floor therapy and rebuild their diastasis recti, which often is separated during pregnancy and birth. When these issues go untreated they can lead to lifelong challenges and pain for the mother. Pelvic floor specialists are invaluable postpartum and can also help moms to prepare for subsequent pregnancies.  I have practiced Massage Therapy and Reiki for almost 30 years, am a Childbirth educator, prenatal Yoga Instructor, trained Doula, infant massage therapist, a certified holistic prenatal and postpartum bodywork practitioner, and have been trained in Craniosacral Therapy for pregnant and postpartum women. I studied Shiatsu and Chinese Craniosacral therapy for many years and incorporate that into my work, as well, as it is incredibly helpful for releasing both emotional and physical stress held in the body. My favorite modalities to work with are the crystal sound bowls, tuning forks, and the Gong(not used during pregnancy). I have been holding sound healing circles as well as private Nervous System Reset sessions to support the grief process, for immune support, stress relief, deep relaxation, and restoration of the nervous system. Clients report feeling so much lighter and deeply at peace following the sessions. They are often moved beyond words.

This is the foundation I bring into MotherTouch and my work with pregnant and postpartum women. I have learned so much from each woman I work with and every pregnancy and birth is unique. I have witnessed and experienced how powerful the mind-body connection is during the birthing process. I BELIEVE prioritizing self-care has a huge impact on a woman's pregnancy, birth, postpartum experience, and her baby's well-being.  I have written 3 books for women about self-care. The first book is called Nourish Your Heart, Mind, Body, and Soul:30 Days of Self-Care, the second book is Natural from the Start: Empowered Birthing from Conception through Postpartum, and my third book is Your Embodied Soul Journey: Coming Home to Yourself and the Life You Were meant to Be Living. Natural from the Start includes powerful interviews with many of the postpartum moms I had the opportunity to treat while they were pregnant, along with several midwives! They are powerful and inspiring. I am so excited to share these stories with all of you! My intention is to offer my services at any point during these significant transitions in a mother's life and that by doing so, a substantial difference can be made for both the mother and child both during and following pregnancy. I BELIEVE that when the mother thrives her children thrive and the whole community thrives. I can't wait to meet all you amazing, courageous, mothers-to-be, and couples, who are wanting to and ready to experience a more conscious, supported pregnancy, and postpartum experience.