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Jennie Sikes - Founder of Ascending Dawn Doula: Holistic Healing, Spiritual Awakening, and Empowering Women's Journeys

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Get ready to embark on a transformative journey with Jennie (Rigo) Sikes, the visionary behind Ascending Dawn Doula LLC. Discover how Jennie's middle name "Dawn" and the symbolism of rising with the dawn inspired a business dedicated to holistic healing. From utilizing Reiki, tarot, oracle cards, and hypnosis, Jennie's multifaceted approach aims to address past lifetimes and generational traumas. She also shares fascinating insights into how her spiritual team uses intuitive messages and music to guide her practice, offering a unique perspective on spiritual growth and personal development.

In an inspiring narrative, we explore Jennie's personal journey that began in a high school choir class and evolved over three decades. Learn how she skillfully balances corporate responsibilities with her passions, leading to the creation of Ascending Dawn Doula, a sanctuary for anyone from all walks of life seeking to rediscover themselves beyond societal roles. Jennie introduces us to the powerful tools of hypnosis, energy clearing, and card readings, and discusses the profound significance of astrological events like the Saturn return as catalysts for life-changing growth and transformation.

Our discussion also ventures into broader spiritual concepts, examining how past life influences and spiritual labels such as "magic" and "witch" shape our current experiences. Jennie provides valuable insights into recognizing signs and synchronicities from spiritual guides, enhancing self-awareness, and the importance of intuition. Plus, get excited about upcoming events in August and September, including tarot, numerology, and astrology sessions, Merry Makers Market and STAARCON. Jennie will be attending Merry Makers Market locally at the Walsh Family Winery and providing Intuitive Readings. She will also be attending STAARCON (in Florida and open to virtual attendees as well) supporting attendees in group hypnosis sessions connecting them to past lives and their spirit teams.Jennie will be joining Merry Makers Market (but will also be available virtually for those who wish to attend). This episode is a heartfelt reminder that the tools for an enriched life are already within us, waiting to be unlocked.

Speaker 1:

My name is Jenny Sykes and I will say I'm born and raised in Northern Virginia, so lots of folks may know me as Jenny Rego Sykes, just to kind of throw that out there. And I am the owner of Ascending Dawn Doula LLC, been around for a couple of years and also located in Northern Virginia. But we do a lot virtually as well.

Speaker 2:

Love that, yeah, and can you explain to me a little bit about what you do and what you offer your clients and all that that entails, especially about like every, just everything that you do? And I would love to hear like every detail, and for listeners who aren't aware, it's better to get into detail.

Speaker 1:

Absolutely so I'm going to throw a lot of detail your way. So I have what is considered a hodgepodge of holistic modalities. It's a toolkit, if you will. At the end of the day, every single one of us deserve to have quality of life. It's important for us to achieve quality of life and we get curveballs left and right of passings and partners and relationships and career changes and wounds that we don't know where they came from. Maybe they didn't even come from this lifetime. That's the crazy part of it is, some come from past lifetimes, Some come from generational pass downs. Just you know, they happen.

Speaker 1:

So with Ascending Dondula, our goal is to work with you, bring in some of those holistic modalities to basically help take those blinders off, heal the wound where it's possible, and then give you those tools, teach you those tools, so you don't have to keep coming back to us. We give you those tools right. Most recently we taught a Reiki training class. Reiki is energy healing, so you can work with your chakras, get them in the balance, Also uncovering some wounds. Lots of folks are going through spiritual awakenings recently and we're seeing that actually kind of in mass and it's like what is going on Right Blinders are coming off. It's no longer about I mean, it is about roof overhead and food on the table, right, but the blinders are coming off like.

Speaker 1:

Life is more than this and I deserve to have quality of life and let's clean up the old wounds and whatever blockages are there. So, at the end of the day, toolkits that is provided to all of our clients and some of those tools in that toolkit may be suitable for some people, and some people were like I don't know about that one Totally fine. We basically customize the whole charter of what you're looking for, whether it be Reiki again, energy work, it could be tarot, it could be Oracle cards, it could be hypnosis, working regular hypnosis with phobias and fears that's a big one. And then getting into the woo-woo of hypnosis with past life regressions, clearing out some of those generational traumas, getting to the heart of some of those matters, Experiencing the lifetimes is amazing. It's absolutely amazing. It answers so many questions.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, oh my gosh, I have so many questions actually. Maybe I should get them out so I don't forget. That's all good, Okay. So like, how did you get the name of your business and what was another? Okay, let's just start with that one first.

Speaker 1:

Thank you for asking that question. So my middle name is Dawn, jennifer Dawn Rigo, and I've always loved my middle name, always, always. I actually almost wish my first name was Dawn. It's such a good name. And then when you get married, traditionally you take on your partner's last name. So the Dawn kind of disappeared, right, sad face. Yeah, a little sad face, but it's always with me. It's always with me. So when coming up with the name of my company, I did decide that I wanted to incorporate the Dawn back into it, and I love the Dawn of the day, right, waking up and hearing the birds chirping. I mean, you should see my deck.

Speaker 1:

I've got all kinds of birds, and the squirrels are coming up too and I'm kind of like yo Joe, go, go, go, go go, because they eat all the feed right it is, it is expensive.

Speaker 1:

So Dawn had to be there and so I'm thinking, well, how do we, how do we, how do we, what do we? And I connect with my team. So this is the other part of me is that I tend to live in a flow state of mind. So I have my daily routines, like I have my coffee at nine 15 and I have my tea at 12 o'clock there's always tea time, right. So I have my daily routines. But outside of that I live in a flow state. And just driving along, it just came to me immediately. My team said ascending, as in rising, rising with the dawn, and I thought, wow, what a, what an analogy, right? So when you can come back to quality of life and you can take the blinders off and you put the lenses of love on, as I'm like doing this, right, it's a whole new world. It's a whole new world. And now I'm singing Aladdin in my head. My team this is a little woo-woo my team does communicate to me through music.

Speaker 2:

Good, I love music.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

When they're mad, they're just like I hate you.

Speaker 1:

No, they'll throw in some Metallica, right, it's all good.

Speaker 2:

I get it, you're cranky.

Speaker 1:

Yes, you can leave. Get you back into a grounded space, Jenny, but that actually adds to Claire's. That's a little bit more woo-woo, right? So I have the traditional items in my toolkit of Reiki and energy work and maybe the hypnosis, and then I add in the tarot and the oracle and the pendulum and the numerology and the woo-woo and we all have Claire's. Everyone in this room right now is a psychic, whether you want to recognize it or not. We all have intuition and just one of the ways that my team communicates is through music. And back to the title Ascending Dawn. I love that, bringing in a brand new day.

Speaker 2:

Absolutely, and I love the true meaning behind it and the story behind it. It's very powerful.

Speaker 1:

Isn't it wild?

Speaker 2:

People are just like oh, I just came up with it, but yours has like a story and you thought on it.

Speaker 1:

So, yeah, I well. I finally gave up and just said it's your girl's call, and sure enough. And then they came in and said okay, here's what you do.

Speaker 2:

Love that.

Speaker 1:

Great question. Thank you, yeah, of course.

Speaker 2:

My brain's just like wondering these things. I love that, thanks. And how did you get started? Was this always like in your mind, in your soul, in your heart? How did you come across this journey to be a guide and lead you to where you are today?

Speaker 1:

Great question as well. So I was actually thinking you know how do I, how do I communicate this in a very holistic, business type of way, and what it comes down to is we all go through our own spiritual journeys. I've always been woo, woo, since I was first grade, second grade, third grade, third grade, going to the planetarium in Oakton and looking up at the stars and going, oh my gosh, this is bigger than me, this is all bigger than me, and all these like students here next to me, right. So take that and flash forward into real world. It's always different, a little bit unique. You know, never the cool kid in school, but now looking back it's like that's okay, because I never really needed to be that, I never really should have wanted that. So flash forward.

Speaker 1:

You know, I meet my, my partner in high school choir class. We've been together for 30 years now. We've raised, thank you, we've raised our children from a very young age on. But when you do that, you have to. You do have to worry about the roof over the head, the food on the table and getting into a stability-type mentality. So off we went, working, doing our thing, climbing ladders, yada, yada, yada. Never had a concept of having my own company. You know, just work for the man Cool, they'll give you your paycheck, it's okay, it's good, do work, do good, you do your thing right, and that's been fantastic. That has always served us well. As my kids grew up, as they grew older, I had more time to myself and it's kind of like okay, well, I'm seeing some blinders come off and I went through my own spiritual awakening that I'm not just a mother, I'm not just a partner, I'm not just an employee. I'm so much more and as I say that I'm getting the goosebumps and this means my team is with me I'm so much more and you're so much more and we're all so much more than just what society tells us we should be in order to ensure our stability of life. So as I went through that, I learned a lot of different items that went into that toolkit right and over 10 years of healing wounds and dissecting things and taking the blinders off and really learning more about who I am outside of these labels that we put onto ourselves Again, the guides.

Speaker 1:

I'm sitting at work. One day I should have been looking at resumes. It was a rainy day. I was like I don't want to Love it. I don't want it today. I've already put in my 40 hours, I'm fine. And I'm sitting there and my guides say, okay, well, now that you have all these tools, what are you going to do with it? And it's like, okay, okay, okay. So now I see where, where I've been, where I am now and where I need to go. So keeping the corporate day job Cool Rock on. I love what I do, love what I do. But creating a Sunny Dondula was a very big moment for me, but all again in the flow state.

Speaker 2:

Yes.

Speaker 1:

All again in the flow state. It wasn't like I'm going to achieve this by this day and this day and this. No, no, no, no, no, no. Today I feel like doing the website Cool. Today I'm going to name the thing Cool, All right. Today I'm going to create my mission statement Cool, all right, let's do it Right.

Speaker 2:

Very, Very long answer, but it gets you from this point to this point. And it makes sense Full circle right. Rock on, love it, yes. And what are you usually helping your clients with? Like, what are they mostly coming into you for? And how have you helped them.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, oh, my gosh. First off, I love my clients. They are amazing and I know that only the clients that need to connect with me and that I need to connect with them will be brought into my space. And it has proven successful time and time and time and time and time again. The majority of the clients that I work with that come to me tend to be about the same in the timeline where their kids are growing and they have time on their hands and they're also learning that they're not just the mom Notice the trend they're not just the employee, they're more than dot, dot, dot, dot dot.

Speaker 1:

So what is here right? What is my life purpose? What are the lessons I need to learn? Why do I still have this lingering wound that I don't understand, why it's still here? I thought I healed it and so we go in a very non-medical way. I'll throw that out there. It's a non-medical business, but we work with those modalities of hypnosis and with energy clearing and balancing and you know, sometimes it's just about pulling out the cards, right? Let's? If you're into cards, let's pull out the cards and see what the cards, what your team, what your team is wanting you to know today, and we'll just flip some cards and do it that way. So it's really based off of what your individual need is and the modality that you're most comfortable with.

Speaker 2:

That is really cool, it's so awesome.

Speaker 1:

I kind of wish you brought your card.

Speaker 2:

I do have my card, so yeah, well, we can do that Okay, just a quick little one, you know, just like a little sneak peek.

Speaker 1:

I actually so funny. Two cents for what it's worth. I don't promote any of the stuff that I do within the corporate world. I know I'm meant to be in the corporate world for my own reasons, learning for myself, but also I've always been an ear. People come to me and they close the door and they cry or they get really angry and release some steam. Right, and they have learned. A few folks have learned that I also do some of this stuff on the side. They're like cards. Let's go to the cards. So do the cards right now. So it's kind of like okay, well, I'm in between meetings and I can take a 15 minute break. I think we're okay to do this.

Speaker 2:

Oh, I love that you can be like that girl for them, Like okay, something's up, Like please just tell me what's going on.

Speaker 1:

Yes, yes, like we have a colleague that is going through her Saturn return right now. And we all go through our Saturn returns.

Speaker 2:

I read a little bit about it, but for people who don't know, would you mind? Explaining what that is, absolutely.

Speaker 1:

Absolutely so. It's nothing to be scared about. It's going to happen, regardless of you believing in it or not. But between the ages of 28 and 32, 33, things shake up Job relationships, babies, passings right, we talked about passings. That can really throw you for a loop if you don't know how to grieve properly. And it all happens in this little frame time frame. Right, it doesn't seem like it's little because it's like three, four years, yeah, but comparatively speaking it's little. So you go through that at that stage and then, if you hopefully you get to the right, the late 50s, early 60s, and then, if you're lucky enough, you go through it again in your 80s. So there are three pivotal times in your lifetime where things are just like what is going on? Why in the world is this relationship ending? Why in this world is the career aspect coming to an end? What in the world is going on over here? Why do I feel this way? It's compactful and it's powerful. What's going on? Right?

Speaker 1:

And you learn a lot from this right oh my gosh, absolutely, and that's why it's not worth even being scared about, because you come out on the other side even stronger than you did before. It's just that the foundation got a crack and so everything needs to come down and that foundation needs to be cleaned up and sealed in, and it's even more firm now than what it was before, and now you can keep rebuilding with a different lens and a different level of wisdom. It's powerful, it really is.

Speaker 2:

I didn't even know that this existed. And there's this album. You may be familiar with it. It's called Return of Saturn. By no Doubt, it's one of my favorite albums.

Speaker 1:

No Doubt.

Speaker 2:

No Doubt the band.

Speaker 1:

Okay, singing it, yes.

Speaker 2:

And I was just like what does that even mean? I Googled it and I read it. And I was just like what does that even mean? I googled it and I read it and I was just like whoa. I think that happened to me and it was during COVID it was and I was just like that's crazy, like it literally shook everything and I just was like. I usually I'm just like no, but I'm just like I truly believe that that was one of those right and it's bigger than you.

Speaker 1:

Yes, that's. The whole thing is like you'll try to like compartmentalize it, you'll try to control this and control this and control this. No, you just, there are some things you just can't control that are much bigger.

Speaker 2:

Yes, much bigger than you are, and it was horrible, but I came. I didn't know that I was going to come out of it, but when I came out of it I feel like just something in my brain clicked and I felt like I just I don't know I grew as a person or mentally, even though that was like one of the most terrible times of my life yeah holy crap yeah, so now let me ask you the question.

Speaker 1:

So I'm putting my recruiter hat back on. I'm gonna ask you the question. Right, the lens, like do you have a different lens that you view the world now?

Speaker 2:

is it a?

Speaker 1:

little bit more clearer for you.

Speaker 2:

yes, yes, it is, but I feel like maybe I don't have a guard up, but but there's something there that's like no, we learned from that. We're not doing that, absolutely.

Speaker 1:

Yeah absolutely, yeah, rock on. I'm sorry you went through it, but we all went through it, we all go through it and it has to happen. I feel like it has to it has to it has to it, just it. It helps our soul further develop, as we're in this lifetime, in this meat suit, which is the most important lifetime. Out of all lifetimes you may have experienced, this one is the most important, so good for you, thank you, and thank you for sharing that with our listeners Absolutely.

Speaker 2:

Also how do you come about this knowledge? Like, is it something that you're born with? Are you reading up on it? Are there resources? Like, how do you have this magic? I don't know what to call it. Yeah, so no, no, no, don't say sorry.

Speaker 1:

So I've actually I've actually teetered with the word magic, right, and I've teetered with the word witch, right. And there are and I will tell you, there are past life regressions of people in my community, within Loudoun County, that had no idea of the witch wound and, going through the past life regression, realize now why they can't wear necklaces or why they have a phobia of the water or a phobia of falling, right. So I struggle with the word magic and I struggle with the word witch because those labels yes, again, everything's a label why can't we just be ourselves, right? How did I fall into it? To get back to your question, well, again, I've always been a little bit different, a little bit unique. Even again, looking up at the stars at the planetarium in Oakton, knowing it's so much bigger than the here and now, and my awful haircut back then was just ridiculous, right.

Speaker 2:

But it.

Speaker 1:

I've always been a magnet towards the bigger aspects, so I'm going to add some woo-woo in. Please do Sprinkling woo-woo. Pisces sun. I'm a Pisces sun, so I go with the flow. Go with the flow, big dreamer, saturn moon I'm sorry, scorpio moon. So that means I can really go deep. I can really really go deep and I can get into the darkness of the deep. I can really really go deep and I can get into the darkness of the deep and I can dissect the whole darn thing and come back up and say, hey, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot dot. And then a Scorpio ascending. So again, I've got water signs, emotional signs, depth signs and very woo-woo. Very spiritual, very life is bigger than this meat suit that we wear. But we are in this meat suit for reasons right, I was checking horoscopes back out when I was in fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh grade.

Speaker 1:

Oh, pisces let me read what's going to be like for the week, right, cosmopolitan? Oh, yay, right. As an adult, a lot of that had to go away because our focus was on and when I say our, my partner and I, our focus was on our children, raising our children, that was priority, stability. But again, as they're growing, I have the time and I'm like let me take some workshops, Let me go meet with this person, let me dive into this book and I'm going to tell you, the doors open wide and it was almost as if I was relearning from past lives things that I naturally knew Tapping into my intuition, connecting with my guides, hearing that's my clear audience hearing my guides communicate through music or frequencies, whereas others might have clairvoyance and they might see images. It's a lot of woo-woo, but it's also a lot of holistic, and some people stay away from the woo.

Speaker 2:

And I respect that. Yeah, it's cool to learn, it's cool to hear other people's experiences.

Speaker 1:

Like.

Speaker 2:

I, I just love it. I I feel like I'm always like in the middle. Sometimes it's just like no, and then sometimes you're just like wait. I'm like in that middle, but I don't. I don't sometimes there. There's days where I'm just like I'm shutting it up, but then there's days like wait, maybe that was you know like we. We always struggle with things, but I'm not like lows to it and I'll hear it out, you know.

Speaker 1:

Yep, well, signs and synchronicities. So, part of my spiritual awakening when, again going through it, with the children growing and things are starting to happen, I'm starting to see number signs. Why am I seeing 1111 all the time? Why am I seeing 444 all the time? Why am I seeing my favorite number, 316, every time? And then you start to practice. What are you feeling? What are you thinking at the time or the few minutes before that number arrives? And then when you start researching those numbers, it's like, oh, it's a whole new language. My team is literally trying to communicate to me through number sequences.

Speaker 1:

Again, completely woo-woo. If you want to smack a label on it, right, but if you're open to the signs and synchronicities of like, why is that hawk always there every single day? Logically, it says he's hungry. Cool, I got it. But he's always there when I'm thinking I got to get out of the weeds, I got to get out of all the jibbida, jibbida, jibbida of this life. You know what's going on all the to-do lists. He's always there. And then you go research Bigger picture, jenny. Get out of the weeds, take an aerial view. There's a much bigger picture at play. So to get back to your question, because I go a little. No, please, right. Uh, it's, it's remembering some things as you get into a workshop or you take classes, or you do your own research or you do, you know, read books. Um, what resonates with you seems just, you roll with it. What doesn't resonate, yeah put it away.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, yeah, no, I love that. And for people who maybe are listening and wondering like I really don't believe in this, or whatever, yeah, they might be thinking in their heads and I get a lot of those.

Speaker 1:

I'm sure that's okay.

Speaker 2:

Yes, it is but maybe they have inquisitive minds and they want to try out. Maybe they're like I'll give this a shot. What do you want to inquisitive minds and they want to try out? Maybe they're like I'll give this a shot. What do you want to let them know? What do you want to welcome them with or tell them?

Speaker 1:

Absolutely. I will always meet you in the space that you are at. I will never put forth items that you are not comfortable with. I might spread out my toolkit for you and you pick and choose, but I'll always meet you where you're at so that you can achieve the quality of life that you're striving for. But you've got to do the work. Yes, that's the other thing. You've got to be willing to do the work and you need to have an open mind. Yes, those are the two key factors of it all.

Speaker 2:

I love that. So for any listeners who are curious or maybe have doubts, or maybe have always wondered, but don't know. You know who to reach out to, jenny. Thank you, absolutely. Thank you, and I just love talking. I swear I could talk to you like forever, but I have to, like ask my final questions.

Speaker 2:

But before I ask my final question is there anything that maybe I did not touch on? While I have you here, I want to make sure that we're using your platform to get what you would like out there for our listeners to know, or just anybody out there.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, thank you. So the biggest thing is all about transformation. We transform from the day we are born all the way to the time that we pass, and as we go through those milestones and as we go through those transitions and transformations, you're not alone. That's the biggest thing. You're not ever alone. There are other people who are going through it or have been through it and are also waking up with you. So if ever there is the desire to learn more, to achieve more quality of life, even at that final stage, with being an end of life doula, that's very important. The quality of life at that final stage is just as important as quality of life all throughout. There are resources and there are tons of people in Loudoun County and I love that. The network. What I don't know, I can absolutely refer out.

Speaker 2:

I love that. Yeah, thanks for sharing that, absolutely Okay. My final question and you sure you got everything out Just want to make sure I touch everything.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I think we're good. We've got some events coming up which we're excited about.

Speaker 1:

Yes. So we've got a couple different events in August and in September a little bit of the woo woo, a little bit of the intuitive reading sprinkling in tarot and numerology and astrology and all of that. We've got a merry makers market happening, which that if folks don't know about that, they need to research it. It's fantastic. It's like an art vendor show and we've been invited to attend that. And then in January I'm super, super stoked about this I'm doing group hypnosis sessions in Florida. Went there last year, had a blast. Only went there as a participant, someone who's walking around scoping it out, right and then I was like, okay, well, yeah, I think this is what we're going to do. So what a nice break from the winter timeframe up here, and I'm going to head to Florida in January, so I'll be back, I'll get a little bit of my tan back.

Speaker 2:

You have a nice glow already Right now. Yes, all right. Yes, a little bit of beach time. Love that, and people can check out the events on your website and find out. Where all that good stuff?

Speaker 1:

is going to be happening, absolutely, absolutely yeah.

Speaker 2:

All right. My final question for you all this time If you could leave our audience with a message or anything that's been on your heart that you want to just share, a mantra that you like to live by, what would that message or mantra be?

Speaker 1:

Oh, that's a good one. I'm going to leave it simple. You have all the tools inside of you. You have all the tools inside of you to create the quality of life that you want. Sometimes you just have to remember them, and ascending dandula can help with. Hey, what, what about that? But you have all the tools within your, your soul, to to make that change.

Speaker 2:

Thank you so much, it was such a pleasure to get to learn and hear and just having you here with us.

Speaker 1:

So thank you. No, thank you. I've been so excited about this, so thank you so much. You're welcome, thank you.