"Judith Barr is a soulful person. As she prefers to deal on a deep feeling basis, she makes it safe to reveal one’s feelings.
I met Judith when she came to my apartment in Washington, D.C., to plan a show. I was hosting a feminist radio program (Sophie’s Parlor, WPFW, 89.3 FM, a Pacifica station) and Judith was going to be interviewed in preparation for her upcoming workshop. We had tea. We lit candles. We got to know each other as we shared stories of our lives and work. Discussing the broad themes she and I wanted to cover in our dialogue, we organized the sequence of the show. We selected music, some of which she brought with her, and some of which I provided. Then we traveled together to the station and live-broadcast our creation.
I remember very clearly how impressed I was with Judith as a sensitive listener, a careful sharer of feelings, a respectful collaborator. In a relatively short time, we entered a place of deep cooperation, and the work we did was infused with this spirit. Many listeners expressed appreciation for the program.
Later, I participated in her workshop, and again I was impressed with Judith. She established an atmosphere in which I felt safe revealing deep wounds and moving into healing. She is a woman gifted with sincerity, clarity, and willingness to move into difficult psychic areas with tremendous care and generosity. Her poetry and performance are doorways into a very healing space."
—Judith Anne Smith
Washington, D.C
"I was looking for a very good therapist who could help me heal and was referred to Judith Barr by a friend. After two previous attempts at other therapists I saw this as a last ditch effort to find someone to help me deal with the life crisis I was going through. I called Judith and from the moment I began speaking with her I knew that Judith was a very special person who was much different from the other therapists I had worked with or any one I have ever spoken with. She lent me her compassionate and caring heart to hear my pains and struggles. I felt great after our first phone consultation because I knew she was a healer who would really take the time to listen to me and speak to me about who I was and what I was feeling. I did not realize the amazing adventure I was to begin with Judith.
Judith, by her word and more powerfully by her presence and response, showed me that the life crisis I was going through was an opportunity to enter into a deeper healing to live my life much more fully. Working with Judith was like opening a door to a whole new world that I never knew existed.
Along with Spirit, Judith and I co-created a container in which deep healing and transformation could take place in the depths of my soul. My work with Judith was truly sacred. Our work together was nothing less than sacred healing.
It is hard to put into words the kind of spiritual midwife Judith is. I can only say that I came to trust my heart and soul with Judith, opening up pains, wounds and joys that I could never allow myself to share with anyone else or even allow myself to feel. I believe Judith loves Truth and one truth is that all life is a precious gift. She held me in this way, as a precious gift, in our work together so that I could in turn live my life as a gift back to others. The only way to say thank you for such work is to accept it as a gift and pass that love onto and be that kind of presence to others.
Judith helped me reconnect with myself. She helped me take a journey home to myself, to feel good being me, and transforming many of the hurts in my life from stumbling blocks into building blocks, paving the way for me to find my purpose and to share my life and gifts and soul with others. And in this way our work together has helped make this world a better place by helping me be more fully alive and loving to all those I am in relationship with.
Judith touched my soul to the deepest core of my being in a deeply loving and healing way and helped me to do the healing work I was called to do. In this way my work with Judith is an eternal gift for which I am eternally grateful.
I give thanks for our work together and for the truly loving Spiritual Midwife Judith is."
—Jim Daniels
Youth Minister
Lindenhurst, New York
"I have listened to your two first tapes - Woman, Come to Yourself and Healing the Feminine Betrayal of the Feminine. I have listened to many tapes before and gone to workshops, and I must tell you, your message and the way it is delivered is one of the most powerful I have ever heard. It has gripped my soul and I remain under its spell.
I hear your voice and your message. It inspires me to not only face my truth but to say my truth and bring it to those who need to hear it. I also have to bring it into medicine and stop being the best female 'male doctor' they ever had. Thank you for your voice. Please keep talking."
—Peggy Bia, MD
Guilford, CT
"Judith's work is filled with insight and sensitivity and provides a supportive environment for people to explore deep issues in their personal quest for self-understanding. A warm and wonderful person, Judith is on the cutting edge of the self development movement."
—Frank Don
Director Quintile Center
“Judith’s help has been pivotal in the strength and resolve I carry with me. In the role of midwife, she created the safe enclosure in which I let go and let the forces of life flow through me to bring forth the fruit of my labor of love.
Judith guided me safely through the descent as though I was a laboring mother. As a result, I am now the midwife I always wanted to be. So fine is she at this calling ... I consider her a midwife’s midwife."
—Susan Allen
Certified Nurse Midwife & Creator
The Rose Women’s Care Service
Hyde Park, New York
"That was the most outstanding four days [Women's Mysteries Intensive] we spent in the shelter of the house and your quiet, loving spirit! I had not realized the depth of my pain, nor my need to grieve. The process by which you lead us is powerful - staying with heart, not head. I find myself more often connecting with my breath and tears. Thank you so much for all you do and are."
—Phoebe Honig
Pittsfield, MA
"One day, reading her mail, Judith Barr came across a letter from Rowe asking her to light a candle for Rowe's Diamond Jubilee Capital Fund Drive. So taken was she by the meaning of that letter that she decided to create a way in which many people could not only learn about Rowe, but also give to the campaign at the same time. She decided to do a benefit performance for Rowe.
Judith's drama for Rowe took place on Saturday afternoon on March 28th at the lovely U.U. Fellowship of Northern Westchester in Mount Kisco, New York. It was a unique, inspired and carefully choreographed blend of ritual, performance and workshop which she entitled Bringing Spirit Into Matter.
'We are here bringing our Spirit Into Matter,' Judith says, 'individually and communally. Often we conceive of possibilities, see in our heart's eye our deepest dreams. We feel in our soul's substance a reality that lives in Spirit, simply waiting to be brought into matter! But often, when we try to bring visions to form, we meet a wall. Discouraged, frightened, perhaps even angry, we may try to force the vision with our will, or we may give up our precious dream.'
It is Judith's conviction that in the realm of Spirit, everything already exists. 'All we need is already deep within us. What remains is for us to heal the wounds, blocks, and distortions within us that form our own inner wall, standing between us and our dearest dreams, our own true vision.'
Her workshop was designed with meticulous attention to detail and sensitively guided to allow each of the participants to go on their own internal journey, utilizing each element of the drama according to their own direction. Stage center was alive with candles, dedicated specially to the Rowe Spirit and to the spirit within each of us.
Judith's gently inviting, poetic expression speaks directly with each person's unconscious mind. There is no dialogue, yet each of us participates fully in the process. And each of us comes alive with a precious gift - our own choice of gift that we give ourselves. This is an efficient, uncomplicated, inviolable method of psycho-spiritual therapy."
—Prue Berry
Director of Development &
Executive Co-Director Rowe Camp & Conference Center
"In your 'Spoken Word' series, you speak deeply and movingly of the profound effect of patriarchy on a woman's soul and the way women participate in this world view and pour salt on their wounds.
You have offered us a searing and heartfelt meditation on a woman's responsibility to awaken her own truth and support future generations in this awakening. It is a call to embrace the cycle of death and birth, of joy and sorrow - to consume life whole, to meet others with our full range of vulnerability and strength. It tells us how to be fully human, to be fully our own woman.
I find you a confident midwife and a gentle guide. In your firm, rich, and soothing voice, you bring us home to the most authentic layers of our being. Your series is a must for any woman trying to reinvent herself and then stay true to her essential core. It is compassionate and wise and will hold the light of consciousness for women as they move through their inner work. I heartily recommend it and thank you on behalf of Woman."
—Valerie Andrews
Author "A Passion for This Earth"
Director, "Sacred Winds"
San Francisco, California
"How can it be that not even a year has passed since you led us through the powerful 'Woman Come to Yourself' ritual in our small western Massachusetts town? In the space of one afternoon, such a deep, deep inward journey! And the seeds planted that day have blossomed and borne fruit in my life in so many rich and meaningful ways!
When you first began the guided meditation, taking us back through the years of adolescence, to childhood, to the womb, my mind was quick to scoff! Yet soon enough there I was, feeling the old constriction and pain and loss in answer to the softly penetrating question you intoned repeatedly: 'Who told you you had to lie about who you were? And what were you told would be the consequences if you didn't'? As the tears flowed at memories of age 7, age 3, I embraced the thought of my own (then) 3-year old daughter and what lay ahead in her journey to womanhood.
Since then, I have often held her, looking into her eyes, and with as full a heart as I could muster, told her, 'I will never ask you to lie about who you are!' Whether she understands the words or not, it is my affirmation to pass along the legacy of truth you helped me to uncover that autumn day.
What a new and glorious dawning awaits if each one of us can help guide just one young woman to a true honoring of her own feminine truth.
Since that day I shared with you and friends old and new, I have trusted the sacred power of my inner feminine to guide me with courage through a series of extraordinary life transitions. Now, I look forward with great delight to the day that you bring your wisdom to the women in my new home town! For here in the West, too, women yearn to connect with the power and the magic and the miracles that only the Feminine can express. May your work continue to flourish on behalf of women of every age."
—Rachel Snyder
Boulder, CO
I used to think of my inner pain as a black hole that should be avoided--get too close and the gravity of it will grab me and crush me. Through this work with Judith, I am starting to realize that I was seeing this in reverse. With Judith’s patient guidance, I am starting to see that I have been living inside the very thing I fear all along. The black hole is really my avoidance and self-deception, and my unwillingness to face the truth has kept me ‘crushed’ inside.
I have been convincing myself of things I know are not true. I have been lying to myself, usually to feel safe. And as I go through this painful process of letting go of my self-deceptions in favor of truth, I am finding relief and release on the other side. I am making my way out of the black hole, something I never could have imagined just a few months ago, and something I never would have come to without the insight of Judith’s gifted spirit. I am finding the real, reconstituted me.
I don’t really know how best to describe what Judith brings to the healing process--she is sometimes a mirror, sometimes an objective witness, and sometimes simply another human being on this earth. But always, she is steady, compassionate, wise, fluid, insightful, willing to listen to anything, and committed to healing with a quiet and unwavering tenacity. Working with her has changed my life.”
-Michael M.
Bedford, New York
“I experienced divine intervention right from the onset with my work with Judith. An ex-employee/acquaintance was applying for a job with Judith and asked me to provide a reference. She also suggested I check out the website because ‘her work seemed really interesting.’ I did follow my curiosity, or more likely my guidance. Immediately I experienced a big ‘yes.’
‘I need to do this, be a part of what is happening here’--echoed from the depths of my soul.
After my initial phone call to Judith--I felt as if I was part of the flow of a river that was going to bring me towards healing. I had experienced many forms of therapies and healing modalities and spiritual disciplines and made a lot of progress thru those paths. Yet my soul was calling for something deeper--a longing for something I didn’t quite know how to yet articulate. The synchronicity of events affirmed my guidance, and my work with Judith and the gift of the Sacred Women’s Circle began one-and-a-half years ago.
It has been a co-creation with Judith and spirit and me in my individual work. I have never experienced anything like it before. Thru Judith’s gifts and integrity and commitment to her own work as well as to me as a client, I have been held in a container of truth, commitment and safety that has allowed my soul to bring parts of myself that have been lost, split, hidden, repressed, shamed, distorted into the light for healing. It has also helped my higher self qualities to grow bigger, become more visible, and give me the strength to confront and transform my early decisions and wounds that have prevented me from experiencing my soul’s true essence.
I experience this in seeing that there is much more of my true self available and present in my life. It has facilitated transformation in my relationship with my children, ex-husband, parents, and extended family. I have become a much more effective spiritual teacher as I am able to connect much more deeply to the ‘truth’ that emanates from my soul.
I have had experiences that I know directly result from my work with Judith that can only be described as an experience of the divine--where my psyche and my soul are in such alignment that I experience
the divine in myself and those I am in connection with.
Judith has been a fabulous facilitator in practical life difficulties as well, always encouraging and deepening the meaning of my soul’s expression. I have watched Judith with heightened vigilance for a year and a half. I know she is both human and divine. She has not missed a beat and even when I have been evoked, I have felt such safety to discuss with her for healing. Our connection has grown with the utmost integrity, safety, and boundaries, which is a precursor to the level of work I have been able to do.
I have the utmost respect for Judith as an individual and practitioner. She is a midwife in the highest sense--using all of her gifts and experience in connection with spirit to co-create a birthing of my soul’s highest potential.”
-Robin Miller
Certified Kundalini Yoga
And Meditation Teacher
Cross River, New York
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