‘Welcome to the Soul Mama Podcast! I’m so excited to bring you this first conversation with Jessica Huie MBE. Jessica Huie is an entrepreneur and the author of bestseller PURPOSE, find your truth and embrace your calling’ published by Hay House.
Having worked for years as a publicist to the stars, to creating the UK’s first range of multicultural greeting cards, Jessica’s life has been an ongoing journey of self-discovery and becoming. We speak about her abrupt awakening of motherhood at the tender age of 17 whilst still growing and mothering herself, to becoming a carer for her late father and the presence and awakening that came as a result. Jessica carries such grace and gentle wisdom and I love the way she sees motherhood as an interweaving of lessons and inseparable from the fabric of life.
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Key themes:
- Motherhood (first time around) was within the context of survival.
“I was trying to create something out of nothing in the earliest years.”
- Shifts in parenting style between first child and second.
“Shift from believing that it was my responsibility to shape my child and direct their journey to a place that was to a destination point to my role was just to kind of create the space of support for him to become more of who, who he already was.”
- Growing up mixed-race with a father who came to the UK from Jamaica in the Windrush generation.
Perfectionism became a response to as a response to being raised by parents who felt they didn’t belong. Generational trauma and healing.
- Being motivated by both love and fear.
- Awakening happens in micro-moments.
The power of presence, the significance of caring for her dad and her dads passing. Similarities between caregiving for an elderly parent of at the end of life and mothering a baby at the beginning of theirs.
- Healing power of morning pages and writing as a tool for processing emotion.
- Knowing when to yield and pause and recognise the gifts in our motherhood journey
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- Jessica’s first book Purpose, find your truth and embrace your calling is out now published by HayHouse.
- Michael Beckwith
- Morning pages
About Jessica
You can visit Jessica’s website here
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“The thing with purposes is for me, it’s not about really what you do, like it’s almost inconsequential, it’s about who you are. And then when you start to cultivate the qualities and the type of person that you want to be, then you’ll know what to do… we can’t know what we’re here to do until we know who we are” Jessica Huie MBE on The Soul Mama Podcast