Thank you for the precious and inspiring event. It made me and my colleagues from work reflect on what bullying is in a fresh way … a different way … It was even more to think about than the previous, similar web conference ”There is a Bully in All of Us” where I first came into contact with your work …
I was truly amazed at the depth of the definition of bullying that you refer too. What most struck me, of course, was the name: “There is a Bully in All of Us”.
Wait a minute, I thought … an unpleasant thought crossed my mind … it would mean that there is a bully in me too! …

BILJANA OGNENOVA
Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
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“Judith is a gifted and conscious healer who brings to her work a big heart, a clear and focused mind, and great awareness & care to the therapeutic relationship. An engaging and thought provoking speaker, Judith offers profound wisdom and deep insight into how our past experiences and early decisions can shape lives, for better and for worse, and without grandiosity, how therapy can change the world. As an advocate for therapists becoming conscious of their use of power, Judith "walks the talk" - her therapy work demonstrates her clear sense of ethics, selflessness, and sensitivity to the power differential. Judith is one of those rare therapists with the experience and skill to safely guide a person into the abyss and back again, achieving great healing and change.”

NOAH RUBINSTEIN, LMFT
Executive Director of GoodTherapy.org

"I wanted to thank you again for coming to present at my class. I enjoyed it very much and was glad I was able to see you present finally. I know that it wasn't a full training but I feel that it was a valuable lesson for my students as well as myself. I just wanted to let you know that I had a dream last night with three negative past experiences that were all related to my early decision! I didn't even think of these while you were presenting but clearly my unconscious was working! I think I need to go explore these more."

PAT GIORDANO NCC, LPC, ACS

"I have had the pleasure of working co-jointly with Judith in an on-going women's group. She has also conducted a monthly all-day "Intensive Workshop" for women at The Center for the Therapeutic Arts.
Judith is a precious gift. She has a unique ability to bring people very quickly into the depths of their issues and their burning questions, to hold them there with love, and to gently coax them out into their truth.

Her style reminds one of the best of Gestalt Therapy, depth psychology, and spiritual counseling. Her tools include her own tenacious search for self-actualization, and her expert modeling of the struggle to grow in the face of the temptation to remain stuck.

I have watched the participants in her workshops quickly come to trust and respect her, and to temporarily borrow her ego strength to better face their own challenges.

Judith is 'where it's at', in that the themes which emerge in her work are those issues at the growing edge of the human psyche. We all benefit by being in her presence. As I said, Judith is a precious gift."

JOSEPH SOLANTO, PHD
Psychologist
Canada

“Judith Barr has helped me to explore and heal areas in my inner-landscape where I had been stuck. She had a depth and inner wisdom allowing her to hone in on what is truly the root issue from early childhood and to communicate the truth of it in a compassionate and open-hearted manner such that I could hear without being defended. The depth of Judith's presence has allowed me to feel safe enough to explore where I needed to. In a group setting I have witnessed Judith speak in such a way that every person could personally relate to what was being presented and every person felt she was speaking and connected only to them. I whole-heartedly recommend Judith for anyone looking to do their deep inner-work for healing what's holding them back from living life to the fullest.”

RICHARD STRILOWICH
IT Project Manager

"As a result [of working with Judith] . . . I am able to be much more alive! My authenticity in all my relationships has grown tremendously. Like removing the debris from a dammed river, I am clearing away the blocks to love. I am laying down the burden of blame, shame and false guilt. I am earning my living now doing something I believe in and love! I don't have to pretend to be powerless anymore! I have developed the willingness and ability to journey into the heart of the wound. Every time I climb in, I climb out much more powerful."

LISA SAMALIN
Artist & Founder, Deerstooth Murals
Dobbs Ferry, New York

"Judith's writing gives readers a new lens to see current national and international issues through, expanding understanding of power, oppression, and what living with compassion and empathy looks like. She has a deep understanding of the human condition and shares her insight on how to transcend adversity. Her wisdom is shared articulately, poetically, and with grace that has both awed our readers and awakened them to their own inner world."

FAITH MARKHAM
Director of Media Relations
GoodTherapy.org

"Judith Barr presented a workshop for Conifer Park's Grand Round Series entitled "Surrender: What Does It Mean?" This workshop was intended to be experiential in nature and provide professionals in the field of chemical dependency with a truer understanding of surrender. This format of experiencing rather than intellectualizing is new for the series and emphasis was placed on this difference in the flyer.

The evaluations reflected a positive experience for those who attended, one that appeared to touch participants on a deep spiritual level. Judith's ability to develop and provide a safe and sacred space was evident throughout her presentation and allowed individuals the freedom for inner reflection and self examination. Many felt this experience was introspective and thought provoking and would help them to understand more fully the struggle of their patients and clients regarding surrender.

I enjoyed thoroughly the time I spent with Judith planning and discussing this presentation and found her commitment refreshing and courageous. I would recommend her to other agencies and groups who were seeking that which would touch their souls and make them feel alive."

JUDITH LECOMB
Regional Representative
Conifer Park, New York

“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

“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

[About Judith's tape series …] "These are beautiful tapes -- strong, compassionate, full of a deep understanding of our Feminine nature. Judith Barr offers a gripping, tender, evocative invitation to awaken to the Feminine Self within; a stirring, passionate appeal to embrace what we had betrayed of the Archetypal Feminine."

JUDITH DUERK
Circle of Stones and
I Sit Listening to the Wind
Luria Media Publishing

"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

"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 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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