We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Melinda Jacobs a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Melinda, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. Let’s start with the story of your mission. What should we know?

My mission is to empower transformation personally and globally. I have had a long journey of personal healing, moving through and beyond my own past trauma and being (mostly) on the other side so that I can support others. To date, I have supported people in 46 countries and have seen incredible shifts and changes!

My story started when I was 20 years old and had been admitted to an eating disorder unit. There was a particular nurse that worked on the unit whose energy was amazing, calming, soothing and inspiring.

I made a deep vow and set an intention during that time that, once I was healthier, that I too would be the person that sits in other people’s shadow places and knows the truth of the person until they can know it for themselves.

That deep intention has been behind every job, every career change, every training, and certification that I have done over the 35 years since I made it.

To remember the truth of myself and others – that we are light and pure potentiality – and to hold that for others as they bare their deepest hurts – is the greatest honor I could imagine.

Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.

As stated above, my mission is to empower transformation personally and globally. As an International Intuitive Coach, Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist, Speaker, Teacher, Author, Ministerial Student, Licensed Practitioner, Metaphysician, and Massage Therapist, I have worked professionally in the healing arts since 1988 with people in 46 countries around the world.

My current coaching practice, Quantum Therapeutics, specializes in empowering people to heal through and beyond trauma. My unique three-fold approach helps people (i) effectively resolve past trauma through a process called Cellular Release Therapy; (ii) learn more effective tools – such as boundary setting, upgrading self-care tools, processing difficult feelings, having difficult conversations, etc.; and (iii) integrate the many aspects of self so that the majority of one’s inner parts are generally going toward the same goal. As a result, clients develop deep compassion for themselves, get clarity about their purpose and step into their best lives.

In addition, I have created a course called The Highly Sensitive’s Thriving Guide to teach people how to develop intuition and navigate the world as a highly sensitive being. I created an Oracle Deck called The Badassery Oracle that contains several teachings from the course as well as other healing perspectives and practices that I often use with clients.

I have studied extensively with metaphysicians, spiritual healers, Practitioners of Science of Mind and Centers of Spiritual Living, counselors, and many others. Over the years, I have received certifications in Clinical Hypnotherapy, Emotional Freedom Coaching, Cellular Release Therapy, Regression Therapy, Massage, and Craniosacral Therapy and have done specialty training in addiction counseling, yoga, and have been a Reiki Master for over 30 years.

By combining my heightened sixth sense and unique training, clients experience a unique and often illuminating perspective on their internal and external relationships, and how to achieve a more self-realized and fulfilling life.

I love this question – ‘what sets me apart from others?’ Last June 2022, I was late diagnosed with autism. Because I have autism, I have a unique view and understanding of the patterns that people are playing out in their lives- some of them quite destructive and limiting. Often clients will say, “I can’t believe I never saw that” or “It’s amazing in all my years of seeing therapists, no one pointed that out to me – it all makes so much sense to me now!” I also can sit with very deep and painful experiences without flinching. I personally have only met a handful of professional therapists that can sit calmly in my own past trauma. I have found out through my own need for professional support that it is a unique and rare skill to be present to the pain a life can hold.

What I want people to know is that there isn’t anyone that hasn’t been impacted by trauma in some way. Unresolved trauma NEVER goes away, it just sits there waiting for the perfect moment to remind us that it has been buried alive. Like a thorn thrust deep into your paw, trauma can be that irritating – AND – it can be released and healed!

Finally, I believe there is a global pandemic bigger than COVID – ideas of ‘I’m not enough’ or ‘I’m unworthy’ have infected the minds and beliefs of the masses. So many people carry these viral untruths and continue to play them out with their friends, families, finances, and in their careers. I want people to know that they are NOT what happened to them. We are powerful, influential, creative, loving and loved – more than we could possibly know.

Can you tell us about a time you’ve had to pivot?

I know a lot of people would say that they really had to pivot in March 2020 when the world went into lockdown. My world didn’t change much as I was already working with people around the world from the comfort of my own home.

My current pivot is towards self-acceptance as I found out a year ago that I have autism. Truly, through the formal testing process and in receiving the diagnosis, nothing changed. And yet, everything changed. My life struggles were finally under a single cause, and I can now move forward in supporting myself and others in ways that have traction and are effective. I will no longer waste time, energy and resources trying to ‘fix’ something that isn’t broken. This new understanding has already helped so many people that are either on the spectrum or know someone that is. This journey of mine is not unique. I believe we are all, on some level, learning to accept the ‘what is’ and make powerful shifts to change more effectively what we can.

We’d love to hear a story of resilience from your journey.

I never ask anyone to do anything in their healing journey that I haven’t done myself already. It astonishes me that when I do a piece of deep healing, within a day or two I have two to five people that are working their way through the same thing. The events over the last three years from pandemic to gun violence, misogyny and large groups of people that have been marginalized – each of these have created the opportunity to do my deep work to find my own wounds and biases. My resilience is seen on a regular basis as I scramble to get myself sorted so that I can show up to support others and meet them in the depths of their own pain and wounding. I work every day on myself so that I can be the person that sits in other people’s shadow places and knows the truth for them until they can know it for themselves.      

Contact Info:

• Website: www.quantum-therapeutics.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/intuitivecoachinghypnotherapy/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/empoweringpeopletoevolve
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melinda-jacobs/
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/melindajacobsccht
• Other: Insight Timer (Meditation App) – https://insighttimer.com/melindajacobs The Badassery Oracle – https://quantum-therapeutics.com/badassery-oracle-deck/

Image Credits
Abby Wilkes – The Soul Photographer – https://abbywilkes.com/