Maya Geyer Integrative Psychotherapy & Bodywork

10/18/2023

A simple, beautiful practice offered by one of my brilliant teachers. May it bring you support during challenging times:

Kathy L. Kain shares a short practice for supporting resilience, for practitioners and clients.

09/02/2022

02/26/2022

Such a useful and profound practice, led by a grounded, kind human

Realization Process Saturday Classes for March - https://mailchi.mp/26171b51156d/realization-process-classes-14117508

02/07/2022

Once you have genuinely, fully, and tenderly touched your own brokenness, place a seed in the crack. Make a wish in that fissure, and share with yourself the aimless kindness of your own presence.

Lama Karma
From “A Letter from My Future Self, Encouraging Me to Practice”

02/06/2022

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Do you struggle to communicate your needs or even know what they are?

If you do, I'm so glad you're reading this today. Let me explain why this is happening.

We all have a brilliant self-protective system. Its job is to keep us safe and alive.

The way it decides what is safe or dangerous is by looking to a receptacle of past information within us. Inside that receptacle are all of our past experiences, both good and bad.

So let's say in the past it wasn't safe to:

Know our truth
Ask for our needs to be met
Use our voice
Take up space
Have limits, etc.

Then every time we are confronted with any of these things in our current lives our self-protective system will essentially say, "it's not safe to do that, know that, express that, etc."

Part of healing is beginning to show, not simply tell these parts that we are safe now to know our truth and communicate it with others.

For many of us, we may not know what our truth is and that makes so much sense if we were told our reality wasn't real, we were talked out of our experience or told to stop feeling.

To begin, I invite you to start taking tolerable steps toward getting in touch with what your truth and limits might be. When you're finding yourself feeling regulated or present in the here and now ask yourself these prompts with no expectation of what arises:

What do I feel in this moment?
What is something I enjoy? What informs me that I enjoy it?
What does my body need right now?
What task today feels like too much?
What kind of connection would be nice?
What do I like in my relationships? What feels like too much or doesn't work for me?
What could help me feel safer?
What feels like too much in my work?

Those are just a few prompts that can help you get curious about your experience, your truth and your limits.

It's also very important that we remind ourselves we won't communicate these things until we feel safe and ready. And we want to think about what conditions will make communicating our truth safer, one brave step at a time.

12/25/2021

The holidays can be hard. Holding you with love.

For some individuals, the holidays can bring up old trauma wounds that have yet to be forgotten. Trauma is “an emotional response to a terrible event” that can lead to long-term reactions such as flashbacks, strained relationships, unpredictable emotions, and physical ailments such as nausea and headaches. When trauma is associated with the holidays, it can make managing symptoms especially difficult because there is an expectation for everyone to be happy during this time of year. The thought of gathering with family members during such trying times can invoke feelings of anxiety and stress. Here are a few tips to help you face trauma during the holidays. - April Cox

1. Identify Trauma Triggers
2. Practice Good Self-Care
3. Set Boundaries with Family Members
4. Orient to the five senses
5. Journal with Sensation
6. Inhale and exhale. Notice what you feel on, in and around your body. Speed of breath, heart rate and body temperature.
7. Think back to at a recent moment you felt most calm, safe and most like your “self”.
8. Identify at what point in time and/or which part of your body began experiencing disturbance or stress.
9. Replay the scenario from calm state to stressed state, in slow motion.
10. Tune in to your body sensations as you recall the event(s) and slow down and notice if there is any shift in your body, a sensation of tingling, tensing, warming, numbing or cooling in your chest, arms, legs, face or an overall change in body temperature.

11/16/2021

It will take some time to trust this process, so hang in there… it’s happening!

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It can feel so frustrating when you’re putting in so much work, energy and attention into a change, and not seeing the results yet that you are hoping for. But real transformation happens somewhere deeper within us, in a place that we don’t have access to. All of the time, it’s brewing away, even if we can’t see it.

And then all of a sudden, it bursts through and becomes visible in a real way. You see the change within you. You take the step you have known you needed to take, but couldn’t. Someone points a difference out to you. You respond in a completely different way to a situation. You wake up and feel it in your bones!

Don’t give up if you aren’t seeing the external outcomes or results yet. Trust in the fact that every one of those choices is doing something important within you, but that it isn’t ready to be seen just yet. You are transforming at the deepest level, and you will see the results in yourself, your life, and the world soon. Keep going ❤️
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09/26/2021

Sending you love

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Sending love and encouragement to all on . There are many definitions of 'family'... none more "normal" than the rest. Today and every day, remember that you are not alone. Link in bio for resources and support.
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08/10/2021

07/29/2021

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⭐️Our bodies are amazing.

⭐️Reconnecting to them again, after periods of trauma, dissociation, injury, and stress can feel overwhelming.

Be gentle with yourself in the process of reconnection and healing ❤️

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