The Birth of Many Moons Therapeutics
Hello! My name is Maeve, creator of Many Moons Therapeutics.
My business and I are dear beloveds, inextricably linked in a personal, spiritual evolutionary process together. I was born on the cusp of Leo and Cancer Sun, along with double Libra Moon and Rising Signs… creating a bubbling magical caldron of emotional tides, nurturing energy, fiery passion, and a deep need for balance.
For many years I felt confused by these seemingly conflicting facets of my inner being, I did not understand how I could have so many differing perspectives and feelings at once. I would judge myself for not being as bold as a leo sun sign "should be", and critique my deep well of feelings when I was told I was "very sensitive". I felt exhausted, depleted and hollow inside for much of my childhood and throughout my twenties, not realizing that I was continuously abandoning myself as I endlessly attempted to please everyone around me, trying to keep everything harmonious and balanced on the outside, with the hope that I could THEN feel ok on the inside.
Around age 24, I found myself in my first semester of graduate school for geography and sustainable planning (I thought I wanted to be in this program, but was really just trying to make my father proud by going into environmental science). My roommate's girlfriend at the time told me that she was applying for Expressive Arts Therapy. I had never heard of this type of therapy but something intuitively sang out in my heart, calling for me to listen and respond. I left the geography program a few weeks later and began my journey towards somatic and expressive arts therapy.
I spent the next several years immersing myself in yoga, meditation, art explorations, yoga teacher training, volunteer work, and my own somatic therapy process. Throughout this time, I discovered how harmful my people pleasing tendencies were for myself AND for those around me. My anxious attachment style (ppl pleasing) led me to believe that my mom and my romantic partners could not take care of themselves without me. I was using control tactics to instill a false sense of safety instead of learning to trust others and trust myself.
My first yoga teacher training was a birth canal that forced me to recognize the lack of trust I had in myself, and awakened me to the deep, true yearning I had been looking for all of these years in my people pleasing journey... to turn my nurturing presence around back towards myself and begin filling my own cup with the energy I had been pouring outward for so long.
FINALLY, I began to experience the feeling of true balance that my libra rising and moon needed. I began to trust myself in a whole new way because of the caring relationship I was developing with myself. My vision became clear as I discovered my passion for supporting others in their own journey of healing their relationship with themselves and others.
A few years after I completed my training in expressive arts and somatic therapy, Many Moons Therapeutics was born, a healing arts private practice specializing in trauma-informed yoga classes, workshops, and trainings, as well as somatic and expressive arts therapy for individuals and groups.
5 years later, my work continues to inspire and challenge me, evoking personal growth and community connection that deepens with each passing week. I support adults as they move through the wild and enchanting life-long portal of developing deeper self-trust as well as remembering their innately curious and creative self.
How does this happen? Through providing education on how to care for the nervous system and digesting this information through somatics, yoga, and expressive arts processing.
My current goals in life are to rest, create without an end product in mind, and play as much as possible. I am in my own ever-unfolding process of developing self-trust and am finding much pleasure and deep liberation in being as silly as I want to be on a daily basis.
Lately, some of my favorite ways to play include laughing until my stomach is sore, dancing in the most ridiculous ways I can imagine, flubbering my lips like a horse, shaking my body until all feelings of guilt and shame and people pleasing slough off like snakeskin, rolling around in the grass, scribbling with markers, eating yummy foods and savoring each bite.
Play not only fun, but it’s a very powerful way to soothe and bring balance physiologically to our nervous system… an entire topic of its own that I will share in another blog post very soon. Stay Tuned!
What are your favorite ways to play? Feel free to leave a comment below!
