I’m Aoife Griffin — founder of The Womb Initiation.

I know what it feels like to survive your life while looking fine on the outside. I was the master of “I’m Grand!” A busy mum at the time with four children one with special needs and juggling all the hectic schedules of motherhood.

I was consciously unaware I was living in an abusive relationship but my body knew every day it was screaming at me and I ignored it. I kept powering through and thinking it will get easier and its not that bad but it was only when I stopped hiding and started being honest I could see how bad things were. When you are in the eye of the storm you cant always see the full impact its having but your body is telling you long before your mind can catch up!

Coercive control. Panic attacks every single day. Given three months to live. Five children. Years of repeating the same painful patterns.

I didn’t heal through talking. That was my first step but it wasn’t the last. We carry so much in our bodies, our wombs there are beliefs going back generations from the women in our family line but also from society. In Ireland we carry the Catholic Wound - where we were conditioned to be ashamed of our periods and our bodies where intimacy was not about pleasure but procreation and that runs deep so a lot of women I work with and myself have ovarian cysts, fibroids, painful periods, endometriosis, fertility issues and struggle to experience pleasure through intimacy.

In my own healing I went to every layer — my nervous system, my subconscious, my womb, my energy body — and changed what I believed I deserved at the root. This is a work in progress we are always healing and evolving.

My healing journey allowed me to leave my marriage, save my children, set up a business to help other women like me and create an impact when you help women you have a ripple effect to the people in her family and beyond. I manifested my soul mate and our son and use manifestation in my work for clients. Running group programs and one to one manifesting work we have manifested houses, soul mates, engagements, jobs and more….

My mission in life is to empower women to understand the language of their bodies and to use the power of their womb and inner wisdom to heal and live a life that they love. Life is to be lived not endured!