This body of work to devoted to midwifing women in humanity's collective Heroine's Journey — the mythic return to the feminine (as body, feeling, instinct, earth and soul), returning women to the wellspring within.
Once upon a time there was a woman
Once upon a time there was a woman
Once upon a time there was a woman
She was wandering through the deep forest in the dark, in search of herself. Nothing but her growing instincts to guide her, and the moonlight at her feet. There was a strange thing about this woman: she had no hands. They were cut off long ago by her father, who had sold his soul to the devil for comforts and riches.
After many years in the forest, she came across an orchard of pears, swollen and ripe. Her belly quivered at the sight, but the orchard was surrounded by a moat, so she could not reach. She fell to the ground and lifted her arms in sacred defeat. Inspired, a spirit appeared, and helped her cross the water. The trees, too, were moved, and lowered their branches to offer their pears to her. She reached up on her toes, pressed her parched lips to a pear and sucked...
Something poured into the maiden that she wasn’t expecting to find: she began to remember how to speak an old, nearly forgotten language — a living body of meaning imbibed in image and story, in her own body and song. The maiden drank from the pear tree, and re-membered her life...
"Each of us has a well of images within, which are the saving reality and from which may be born the individual myth carrying the meaning of a life…. It must be borne out of the crucible of our own struggles and suffering as we affirm our new freedom without rejecting the perennial truth of the feminine way".
— Helen Luke
Brielle Elise Martinez, MA, PTC
Brielle is a women's facilitator, scholar of myth (MA), storyteller, and certified Professional Transformational Coach in private practice for nine years.
Weaving storytelling with transformational coaching, Brielle midwives women in the archetypal "Heroine's Journey" — their return to wholeness by healing the separation from the feminine (as body, feeling, instinct, earth, and soul) caused by a sun-blind, masculine-dominant culture. Using the power of story to tap into the wisdom of the unconscious, she curates experiential, mythopoetic journeys that help women recover their instinctual life, transform pain into meaning, and re-member the radical sufficiency, creational power, and bliss of their true nature. Her work is a full-bodied prayer for advancing the "Big Story" of humanity — transforming crisis into our collective return to soul. Brielle draws from thousands of hours of 1:1 sessions, post-graduate study in the Poetics of Imagination under the supervision of mythologist Dr. Martin Shaw, and the salt and grit of her own Heroine’s Quest into the paradoxical mysteries of the deep feminine. ​
Supporting Women on the Journey to Wholeness
3 foundational threads of this work:
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Postfeminism
Teachings for advancing women's collective consciousness from the 2nd stage of independence (feminism) and its trauma-response-shadow of striving and hyper-independence, to the third stage of sacred inter-dependence with partner and Spirit, reclaiming Eros — vital life-force energy — in body, imagination & heart.
Emergent Feminine Creativity
Feminine creativity as receptivity, as porosity to the wellspring. Returning women to the creational power of the feminine — the ability to receive & respond — so they can be agents of the Aquarian Age, the age of the water-bearer, carrying water into this world from the other world.
The Heroine's Journey
Separation from the Feminine
Over-identification with
the masculine
Road of trials
Finding the illusory boon of success
Awakening to feelings
of spiritual aridity
Initiatory descent to the goddess
Urgent yearning to reconnect with the feminine
Healing the mother/daughter split
Healing the
wounded masculine
Integration of the masculine and feminine
“Within every woman there is a wild and natural creature — a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing.”
— Clarissa Pinkola Estés
