Today we’d like to introduce you to GeorgAnna Wiley.
Hi GeorgAnna, we’d love for you to start by introducing yourself
We carry shame, fear, and guilt in our bodies, with negative, hyper-critical self talk. I want to help women release it and rewrite their inner narrative to one of self-love. I studied neuroscience, psychoneuroimmunology, plant medicine, herbs, naturopathy, biofeedback, endocrinology, hypnosis, meditation, brain waves, trauma, midwifery, and women’s health (earning a double Masters and 2 Bachelor’s Degrees along the way) in my pursuit of helping women heal and love themselves. My calling is to help women love and enjoy their bodies, awaken their own potential.
I noticed women dread their GYN exam, yet need one EVERY YEAR. I helped a 60-year-old woman with pelvic pain so severe she had avoided intimacy for years. She felt safe enough with me to disclose being raped as a 3-year-old child, and I realized I was the only medical provider to ever ask if she had past trauma, a neglected but huge part of chronic pain. I gently did the pap smear she had avoided for 30 years, because she was too scared it would hurt. We hugged as she cried with relief that my gentle touch didn’t hurt, and now trusts me to see her mother, sister, and daughters – I can think of no bigger compliment. Seeing this over and over for decades inspired me to launch Rebirth – I specialize in gently caring for those who don’t like going to doctors. 1 in 3 women have experienced trauma, which manifests as shame, guilt, fear, and addiction, as well as health concerns including pain, vaginal issues, difficulty with intimacy, inability to handle stress, and mood disorders. I help them heal. I also teach consent and empowerment workshops to prevent trauma by learning boundaries, speaking up, and communicating.
The trend truly having the biggest impact lately is getting back to our ancestral roots of using touch to heal, taking the time to listen, and opening ourselves to deeply connecting with others. Using plants and food as medicine. Turning off electronics, looking up from our screens. I use my hands to heal – aligning the uterus, adjusting ligaments, moving lymph, and created a technique to physically help women release shame and guilt, to heal from trauma and connect with their bodies, nourish their soul. This works far more deeply than surgery or pills, and requires no technology. What if we were encouraged to love our bodies instead of changing them? What if balancing our neurotransmitters and hormones helped more with mood and libido than pills?
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
I wanted to use empowering reproductive health memes in ads, and was shocked to find them all self-denigrating, so made my own “love your vagina” memes, but was shut down for 4 months for using the word “vagina” on my social media ads. I began to wonder, why can’t we use the correct anatomical term? Why do we associate shame with our bodies, and how do we release it? I am on a mission to help women overcome shame, love their bodies, find their voice, and rewrite their self-narrative to one of gratitude and self-love. Rebirth empowers women through trauma-informed healthcare. Happy Vaginas social media campaign educates women. My goal is to foster connection and love through healing.
Women go to their GYN provider for everything, including mental health such as mood issues. Covid has brought more stress-related issues, like adrenal fatigue and autoimmune disorders, but women typically are only offered pills, like SSRIs (Zoloft, Lexapro, etc). As a frontline provider, I was booked out for 14 months, largely for mental healthcare (treating stress, anxiety, depression) and saw a huge need for women to actually be listened to. This spurred me to launch Rebirth, using my 20+ years of experience in mainstream medicine, alternative health, Psychobiology, and Neuroscience to help women in mind, body, and spirit by not only offering primary and GYN care, but also balancing hormones, testing neurotransmitters, teaching mindfulness and self-care. I created a technique to physically release stress, shame, and heal from trauma. I am launching an e-learning course blending empowerment, education, and shame release to help more women, as well as an herbal line for stress and women’s health issues.
As you know, we’re big fans of Rebirth Holistic Women’s Health. For our readers who might not be as familiar what can you tell them about the brand?
Rebirth offers holistic primary care, gynecology, and functional medicine (hormone balancing, neurotransmitter testing) – blending natural and traditional approaches to healing in 30-90 min virtual or in-person visits, next day appts, no wait. I want to listen to you.
Why are pharmaceuticals or surgery ever a first option? Why not natural options first? What if your anxiety, stress, brain fog, etc could be addressed naturally? What if your appointment wasn’t just routine labs and pushing pills? Why would you waste 3 hours in a waiting room for an intimidating, clinical 10 min visit, freezing in a paper gown, when you could be lounging on a velvet couch in a silk robe, sipping tea in a relaxed exam that’s more like hanging with your (highly educated, knowledgeable, gentle) bestie in a comfy lounge? I specialize in helping women with stress, anxiety, burnout, trauma, and autoimmune issues find deeper levels of healing using natural options, balancing hormones, testing neurotransmitters, using food as medicine. In my care, medications and surgery are the last options, not the first. I want to listen to you, and help your body heal itself!
As an APRN, I offer annual exams, birth control/family planning, natural fertility, pregnancy and postpartum help, genetic testing, labs, and traditional medical care. As a healer, I help women physically listen to their bodies, and release trauma, shame, fear of taking up space or being heard, and guilt that leads to autoimmune disorders. As a community activist, I promote empowerment through my Happy Vaginas podcast, and offer education through virtual courses. I enjoy being engaged in our local community – serving our marginalized women, including women of color and our LGBTQ+ community. I am a proud winner of Bizpitch 2021 (Savannah’s entrepreneurial Shark Tank competition), was voted “Best Midwife” by Connect, wrote a health column for the Savannahian, and initiated a call in health show for WRUU’s Women on Top. As a master herbalist for 20 years, I am launching an upcoming line of plant medicine specifically for women’s health and stress.
Rebirth is thriving and will soon expand into a women’s wellness collective! I want to help women love themselves fully, in every way possible.
If we knew you growing up, how would we have described you?
I volunteered in Ghana, Nepal, India, Romania, and Mexico with traditional midwives and deeply respect their use of touch in healing. Globally, traditional knowledge is dying as the next generation idolizes technology and wants a quick fix magic pill. I saw this firsthand working with shamans in the arctic circle of Alaska and the Aboriginal Australians, so dedicated myself to learning and preserving the lost art of using our hands – learning the skills of touch from Mayan midwives as they align a uterus, reposition a cervix, adjust ligaments, massage internal organs and bellies, move lymph. This approach to deeper healing nourishes our souls, supports fertility, and addresses the root of our issues through our uterus – the home of life itself. Pills and technology can’t do that.
As a master herbalist for over 20 years, I enjoy wildcrafting, foraging, and making herbal remedies with my 3 children. I also enjoy teaching consent workshops at primitive skills gatherings, as well as sewing, knitting, drumming circles, and sculpting uterus teapots with matching ovary mugs. My children and I love making TikToks together – follow us @happy vaginas!
Contact Info:
- Email: rebirthSavannah@gmail.com
- Website: www.rebirth.health
- Instagram: happy vaginas
- Facebook: happy vaginas
- Youtube: happy vaginas
- TikTok: happy vaginas
- Spotify Podcast: happy vaginas
Image Credits
Tim Nelson (@ One Eleven Photography)
