We had the good fortune of connecting with Yamile “JAHmeLEH” McBride and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Yamile “JAHmeLEH”, maybe we can start at the very start – the idea – how did you come up with the idea for your business?

The idea for Igniting Relationships was the healing and integration of my souls journey. I now get to impact and ignite other strong, high performing professionals to REMEMBER their own divine essence and unapologetic purpose in the world. Being a Holistic therapist allows me to stay in constant remembrance that life is meant to be experienced fully regardless of the unconscious conditioned beliefs of society, religion, and culture. Growing up as an immigrants daughter brought to me many opportunities to ignite relationships with self and others and my personality loved it. Because I went to 27 schools, lived in foster homes and shelters until graduating high school, I was already conditioned to believe that I would get what I wanted when I “work hard, serve others before myself, going to college would be the only way to achieve, money is the root of evil, and you can’t trust anyone.” With all of those deep rooted unconscious beliefs I became an overworking, over drinking, over pleasing adult who kicked butt in every job, or project I laid my hands to the detriment of my own relationships with my health, wealth and well being. At 40 years old, after doing everything I was told I needed to do to “be happy” I was in my 3rd failing marriage, over drinking and working over 80 hour weeks bull dozing anyone or anything that came close to me if it wasn’t on target of “closing achievement gaps and making others outside of my home happy, pleased.” I got taken down by a student. That student ultimately saved my whole existence. She ironically came from where I was born in NJ and she too was just desiring to belong and found significance in using her powers to harm others. That opportunity set me on the journey of a lifetime and over the last 8 years I have invested more on my own personal, spiritual development, and certifications to support others who want to Ignite the relationship with themselves, their source and others to create the magnificent lives they can dream up.

Can you give our readers an introduction to your business? Maybe you can share a bit about what you do and what sets you apart from others?

Igniting Relationships is the place I get to support mindful badass professionals with unleashing their own power within by releasing stress, blockages, issues in the unconscious mind, that have kept them from creating their most fulfilled life. The idea came way before opening and solidifying what I do now. I now realize that all the “pain and process” was purging my own limiting beliefs about what a Holistic Therapeutic Center is and offers.

Growing up Roman Catholic, specifically during a movement of the Apostolic Catholics, I was conditioned to believe in the power we have can only be obtained by rules and from the powers of those who were schooled to be in authority. I am so grateful I was able to experience that type of faith, because through all of the trauma, I saw my heart felt peace in the process of surrendering to a higher power. Now I get to experience that higher power within me without the religious attachments and a more centered understanding of the divine essence we all have access to regardless of our religion, our culture and societal beliefs and standards.

Igniting Relationships is different only because I and the other practitioners decided to cross the river of our own disillusioned states conditioned to believe that outer significance was the way to happiness. We are a growing collective of online, in-person and home delivery of Time Line Therapy®, Hypnotherapy, Healers, Intuitive, Neuro Linguistic Programming Practitioners, Pelvic Floor Specialists, Somatic Healers, Sound Healers, Coaches, Trainers and Speakers of the unconditional and nonjudgmental truth for what and where our clients want to experience now. Clients are the answers to their own miracles and when they release the unwanted, they can and will Fuel Their Destiny unapologetically to serve from an overflowing cup.

The best song that exemplifies my work is Stand Up From The Harriet (Tubman) movie https://open.spotify.com/track/3wNNbf63xkxw9rIVWtFy7a?si=0e57fb60008a4a1b She was able to liberate others ONLY when she was freed from her own enslavement first. She made the spaces to any of those ready to cross the river to their own promised land. I want anyone, churched or unchurched, sinner or saint to find the answers they look for so that they can accomplish all they came to create without judgments of diagnosing the human spirit that comes in so many diverse and succulent flavors.

Any places to eat or things to do that you can share with our readers? If they have a friend visiting town, what are some spots they could take them to?

Ironically she is coming down for the 4/8 Eclipse and the Grand opening of Igniting Relationships, my Therapeutic Healing Center! She lives in upstate NY and we get to talk, connect, dream and create all the time what we want to experience. As Mamas we get to really play in our kid versions so we would enjoy all the magical beauty that NC has to offer and our week would look, sound and feel like this: Walking around, playing, eating, connecting and taking pictures in
Winston Salem
Raleigh
Asheville
Charlotte

Jordan lake and Pilot Mountain to regain our energetic strengths

Air bnb experiences by taking mindfulness practice and women empowerment sessions from other providers

Every meal, snack and experience will be savored like it’s our last because we would want to imprint the experiences into our DNA, our long term memories to be the example for our children to BE FREE TO ENJOY ALL LIFE HAS FOR us to experience and partake in.

Shoutout is all about shouting out others who you feel deserve additional recognition and exposure. Who would you like to shoutout?

In the place I am now, I will have to say that everyone and everything that I have encountered up until now, the good, the bad, the wrong, the right, the ups and the downs have been my supporters to who I get to experience now. I will forever be grateful for the strength of the human spirit by staying on the journey of creating all of the delicious dreams I have manifested today.

My family, specifically my 3rd husband, baby daddy 😉 King and partner, including all of my children, have loved me unconditionally and nonjudgmentally where they held the space of all of the versions of Yamile. They waited because they knew, in their own divine essence, the real me because they caught glimpses of it. As toxic as I was, I was still human, I was still a ball of energy full of love and passion and purpose and they loved and aligned with that.

If it wasn’t for the student that took me down, I wouldn’t have been grounded at the hospital with nerve damage for the next 9 months where I found different teachers and modalities that allowed me to learn about the limitless potential every human has access to. So to say it was one particular person is to forget that every opportunity we get is the way for our own truth regardless of how polarizing they might look, sound or feel in the moment.

Website: https://yamilemcbride.com

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yamilemcbridevalencia

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@yamilemcbride

Other: Google page https://bit.ly/IgnitingRelationships

Image Credits
Casey McBride, my husband, business partner, King, and biggest supporter has taken all of my photos to show all the sides he knows me as.

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