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Maven Elderwood

Maven Elderwood

HypnoCeremonialist, Plant Spirit Medicine and PsycheWork Specialist

The Impact of Deep-Seated Insecurity and Body Image Constructs

‘“Even though I've lost most of the weight now, the structure is still there. It's become more accessible to me since we've been digging down underneath all this stuff, layer by layer, until we hit cement. I'd always seen body image as more of a framing issue, but for me, it was a thick-ass, full-blown blinding energetic structure filtering my view (specifically of myself) with a shit-ton of judgement defenses holding it in place…”

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Healing Core Beliefs, and New Techniques we are Learning

Meghan has a huge emotional purge in regards to her feelings for Zach (and the old deep beliefs that come with it). Zach has a deep healing of an inner child who felt he had to ‘do’ for others in order to be loved. Plus new spiritual techniques they both learned in the process…

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Inner Struggle of Women: Lilith vs Eve

“There's no doubt in my mind that a cultural shift is happening, bringing the feminine into more natural alignment with the historically masculine-dominated collective. I see it daily in dynamics of relationships, approaches to parenting, and permeating the media. Sometimes it over-corrects to a fault, which happens when any aspect of self is suppressed, suffocated, and has to explode in order to find it's natural place among all our various pieces of self…”

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Ayahuasca Emotional Purging: During Ceremony and and Well After

“One of the common misconceptions is that the purging ends when the ceremony does. This can be true at times, but is often not the case at all. Sometimes physical purging continues into the next day or two, but emotional purges (depending on their nature and severity) can open up a Pandora's Box and continue on at times for months…”

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Ego Work: The Protector of our Deepest Fears

“The way I see it, the ego is there as a defender of our weak, vulnerable, fear spots. Not an enemy, actually an ally at times where it’s the only reason we survived. But after awhile, those belief systems become solid, and route thoughts through the maze of what the deeper, mis-aligned belief is.”

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Where Has Maven Been?

“…What I learned over the last five years (having zero ceremonies from 2012 - 2018) is how to integrate what I'd learned in the first 250 ceremonies. I learned how to be gentle on myself, and how doing everything "the hard way" is not only violent to the self, it is one of the least effective approaches (since it requires a constant internal battle which leads to exhaustion/depression/overwhelm/burnout…)”

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