66: When the Life You Built No Longer Fits
About this episode
Jennifer Hoeprich shares her journey of leaving clinical midwifery and the personal transformation that followed.
What happens when the woman who has held space for a thousand others finally lets someone hold space for her? Jennifer Hoeprich spent over a decade as a licensed homebirth midwife, witnessing the raw, sacred threshold of new life. And then she reached her own threshold. Leaving clinical practice wasn't just a career change. It was an unraveling, a metamorphosis, and ultimately a rebirth into something she couldn't have planned. In this episode, Jen and I talk about what it really means to leave a calling you love to answer a deeper one, and what that kind of honesty costs and gives back. What we cover: The "pretty wild story" of why Jen left clinical midwifery after years of practice What it means to "midwife in a different way" and why that reframe changes everything Sister circles, sacred containers, and why women resist being held even when they're desperate for it The through-line between a new mother and a woman in her 40s or 50s, and what they're both in the middle of What Jen is still figuring out in her own midlife metamorphosis What she wishes someone had told her before she burned all the way down This is not a finished story. Jen is in it. And that's exactly what makes…
People in this episode
Host: Diane Ortega
Guest: Jennifer Hoeprich
Topics covered
- midwifery
- personal transformation
- career change
- women's circles
- midlife
- identity shifts
Keywords
- midwifery
- transformation
- career change
- women's circles
- identity
- midlife
- rebirth
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Willow Birth Center, magical-mama.com, Rebirth Conversations
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