Meet Jo May

Certified Emotion Code Practitioner

Hi, I’m Jo, and thank you for being here. I believe if you are reading this you have a curiosity and desire to make a change in your life.

My intention in my Emotion Code sessions is to create a safe, compassionate and non-judgemental space where we can connect and allow your body to release what it wants to in that moment.

I share a little more about me below, and if who I am and what I do resonates with you, I look forward to connecting.

How I discovered The Emotion Code

When I think about how I discovered The Emotion Code and becoming a Certified Emotion Code Practitioner, three main thoughts arise:-

01 Helping People Feel Better

First, I’ve always wanted to help people “feel better”, even before I had any conscious awareness of what that meant.

02 Release

Second, I didn’t realise for a long time that I needed to learn to support myself before I could support other people in a meaningful way. For a long time my own unconscious trauma and emotional sensitivity prevented me from being able to support other people in the way I passionately wanted to. I also didn’t know how to make myself “feel better”, in fact I was numb to my own feelings for a long time. My own healing journey has been both a challenge and a gift like the best teacher and informs how I support others on their own unique journey. Receiving and conducting Emotion Code sessions on myself has been a huge contributor to my healing as well as to my learning around energy.

03 Changing The Mental Health Label

Lastly, I am passionate about changing the old-paradigm stigma around what has been labelled “mental health”. I believe that feeling sad, anxious or angry is just as valuable as feeling happy. Instead of being taught that these are bad feelings to be got rid of, I believe we would heal more quickly if we learnt to listen to what these feelings are there to tell us. I have experienced and witnessed in countless others how our emotional and physical health are not separate but inseparably connected. Some people struggle more with physical challenges, others with emotional or what we would call “mental health” challenges. I believe whenever we don’t feel balanced or in full health mentally or physically, we have unprocessed emotional energy or what some call “trauma” contributing to these challenges.

One of the biggest experiential learnings to come from the years of yoga, meditation, personal development and other learning I have devoted myself to, is that where there is judgement, there is not love. Without loving acceptance and witnessing of our states of being it is very difficult for healing to occur. So all the years of feeling ashamed of myself for feeling down, anxious or depressed, and seeking to hide these feelings from everyone actually made it much more difficult for me to shift any of this stuck energy. Perhaps this resonates with you?

Our emotions are energy in motion, and they want to be felt, listened to and witnessed, from a space of loving non-judgemental presence. In this environment healing flourishes. In my experience releasing Trapped Emotions using The Emotion Code is an effective way for us to positively transform our relationship with ourselves.

About my journey...

There are so many ways each of us can explain our lives. So many lenses through which we view our reality, and these lenses shift and change as we react (or respond) to the experiences of our lives. How I understand my life’s experiences now comes from a very different place of being than it did 2, 20 or 30 years ago. I hope that sharing a little of my life helps to explain why I love being a Certified Emotion Code Practitioner, and why I believe Muscle Testing and releasing Trapped Emotions are valuable complements to Medical care, as well as to many other therapies.

Always Wanting To Help People

As a child, I thought helping people was a thing I wanted to “do”. Now I understand helping as a way of being. Of connecting energetically, caring and sharing love. Cultivating a deep enough presence to be able to see someone through as few layers of judgement and conditioning as possible. This is not something we “do”, more who we choose to “be”. And it takes consistent practice.

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Emotions Were Not Talked About

I am able to sense or feel the emotions and suffering of others, and this happened without me consciously being aware for decades. I believe many people are like me in this way. We don’t tend to hide our joy, but often we suppress our negative emotions. I know I did. Many of us were raised in an era when emotions were not talked about, not even on the radar. I remember phrases like “stiff upper lip” and “children should be seen and not heard”.

My "Negative" Feelings

Growing up I was unaware that I was absorbing and feeling other people’s emotions and energy, it seemed like just part of me, like the way we absorb music. I had no energetic boundaries, like most children. I desperately wanted to be able to help the people in my life feel better, and to feel connected to and loved by those around me. The only ways I knew how to help were the conditioned ways of “being good”, which in my culture meant to be quiet, do as you’re told, work hard and be responsible. I excelled at all these, but couldn’t understand why this didn’t make things better, so I unconsciously blamed myself for “not trying hard enough”. Like most children, we perceive ourselves as the centre of the universe which means that anything that we perceive as “wrong” or “not feeling good” must be our fault. And so from the mistaken meaning I unconsciously gave to my environment, I created my own loop of perfectionism, anxiety, depression, low self-worth, feelings of failure and despair that plagued me for decades. How many of us can relate to creating seemingly “successful” lives as measured through the lens of Western capitalist materialism, yet suffering from a sense of emptiness, anxiousness, loneliness, feeling disconnected, or many other uncomfortable emotions?

Learning and healing

I have devoted myself to many pursuits over the years, which I can now see have all contributed to me having the ability to support others in the way I can now. Early on I was a musician, and developed a deep level of listening, focus, presence, discipline and connection to vibrational energy through my years playing piano, but especially violin in orchestras. I then spent many years honing my understanding of working to support people, from working in McDonalds, to a well-paid career in the finance industry, to teaching yoga, volunteering in many ways, being a wife, and most importantly in my role as a Mother.

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One of my biggest challenges and sources of continued learning has been the ending of my marriage and the many subsequent unexpected challenges. Like anxiety and depression, many of us have been conditioned to view the ending of a marriage as a complete personal failure. I did, and that belief is deeply ingrained and I’m still working on removing it entirely. The unravelling of my marriage was the catalyst for overwhelming emotions to surface. It felt like a tidal wave of previously suppressed feelings in my body and nervous system came flooding up to the surface for me to finally face, feel and heal. I am forever grateful for discovering The Emotion Code, and to the therapists, teachers and many other tools and resources that supported me and many others through difficult times.

I know that through experiencing and being willing to feel intensely deep pain that was for so long suppressed, I allowed previously stuck energy to move through and out of me. And this has created so much more inner peace than before. As a result of this, I am able to hold space for the healing of another soul in a far more compassionate non-judgemental and loving way than I was before. Standing in the deep vulnerability of lost identity, broken dreams and a mistaken perception of utter failure provided me with the space to truly and authentically take responsibility for my own energy and healing in a way I didn’t know how to before.

Who I Am Now

I now believe that the emotional sensitivity and suffering in my life, that I hated and suppressed for so long, is actually a gift. It’s taken me a long time to get to this point, where I now embrace rather than reject what we have been trained to call “negative” emotions. I now see I have a gift that creates the opportunity for me to fulfil my Soul’s calling to help people and pets and thereby raise the consciousness of this planet. I believe The Emotion Code is a powerful tool to support us all. I'd love to know what you think?

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Being a part of healing our planet

We are living in unprecedented times of change. The Old Paradigm and conditioned ways of thinking no longer work. At the level of the individual and collectively we can see shadows surfacing, I believe, to be witnessed and then healed.

Consciousness is rising, and we can either rise with it or suffer increasingly by holding onto our old ways and energies. I see releasing our Trapped Emotions as a powerful way for us to release what is not serving us vibrationally and becoming more authentically who we came here to be.

My children have benefitted from The Emotion Code, and they are learning about their own energy in a way they can choose to manage themselves in the future. I saw big changes in my dog too after I worked with her. I wish I had known about how to shift our energy when I was a child. I pray for all of us to have access to learning how we can move from fear to love with every cell in our bodies.

Together we can heal this world, one heart and Soul at a time.

By learning to live from our hearts and not our heads, I believe we can all fulfil our unique purpose here on this earth at this time. The time is NOW. A new paradigm is emerging.

Are you ready to Release With Love?

“May all beings everywhere be happy and free and may the thoughts, words, and actions of my own life contribute in some way to that happiness and to that freedom for all”

Lokah Samastah Sukinho Bhavantu” – A Sanskrit prayer