Jewel Middleton
Your Experience Before Working with Maxine in the You Are A Healer program?
When I reached out to Maxine, I was at a crossroads. It was the start of 2022, and I was standing in the wake of life after two years of living in a pandemic. My career as a hairstylist was turned upside down. I had left a busy salon to open a small studio, but then quickly realized that business wasn’t what I wanted to invest more of myself into.
My personal life was also going through significant changes. I was moving to a new town and starting a new job, and my kids were growing up and moving on.
I had a sense that I needed something more. I needed some guidance.
I had reached a place in my life where radical transformation felt like a necessary action.
Your Experience During You Are A Healer with Maxine and the group?
Joining YAAH felt like a huge commitment and was initially intimidating for an introvert like myself. But something spoke to me about Maxine, and I felt like I could take the leap and be safe.
Maxine creates a space where you can open up and explore parts of yourself that, as a culture, we don’t encourage exploring.
Vulnerability is a key component of YAAH, and while it can be scary to be vulnerable, it was a safe space to be.
Working with Maxine and the group taught me to get in touch with my needs, wants, and desires. As a result, I developed an ability for more self-compassion. I learned to trust my intuition and discover parts of myself that I had been neglecting or hadn’t ever connected with.
I always looked forward to our group sessions because they deepened my awareness of myself and others. I felt I could relate to everyone despite how different our journeys looked.
I’m proud of the work I did in YAAH. I showed up and committed to myself, and it jumpstarted something in me. I have learned to believe in myself and trust myself. I now have tools that show me how to care for myself in a grounding and nurturing way. I discovered a deep love of learning and insatiable curiosity that I let fuel me.
Your Results Through Working With Maxine in the You Are A Healer program?
I haven’t switched careers, but I have a new approach and appreciation for my work. I am more in touch with the creative spark that lives within me. I’m committed to nurturing that part of myself going forward because I believe that it holds the key to so much more.
Because YAAH is a nine-month journey, I put myself into a mindset that allowed me to dedicate that time to the experience. I was determined to remain open and wanted to participate and show up for the work. It’s hard to distill the experience into a paragraph. But there is much to gain if you are open and willing to show up for yourself. For me, it was a journey of self-discovery and self-retrieval.
Your Message To Other Women Who Want To Change Their Career?
If you are still reading this and want to know if you should take the leap, ask yourself why you are here. I bet you have a lot to say and want to express yourself. If someone or something is holding you back from fully expressing your essence, YAAH can help you get clarity and may even be a catalyst for change you didn’t see coming.
Hether Gage
Your Experience Before Working with Maxine in the You Are A Healer program?
Before working with Maxine, I was not in tune with the ebbs and flows of my creative practice and process. I didn't realize the cyclical nature of my creative energy. I knew that I was birthing something unique to my true essence but needed clarification on my why and the message I was trying to convey. I was also calling in more female kinships and had just learned that YAAH group existed when fatefully, the program came to my awareness. I'm eternally grateful for the experience.
Your Experience During You Are A Healer with Maxine and the group?
Joining YAAH in 2021 was the best personal investment I've made thus far. The nine-month course (which flew by) provided me with many invaluable tools I've integrated into my creative process and personal life. Each month we took a deep dive into the provided theme and worked through our shadows to uncover who we are to embody our fullest expression. Maxine provides a safe, beautiful, soul-nourishing, and healing space for creative women to share, be vulnerable and hold space for one another. Having the safe container each week was my 'soul therapy,' and I looked forward to EVERY call. I miss my sisters from that group, but we've all managed to keep in touch, and I am beyond grateful for the connections made.
Your Results Through Working With Maxine in the You Are A Healer program?
You Are a Healer is effective yet gentle and very heart-centered. I better understood my intuitive self and how I move through my creative process spiritually, mentally, and physically. Being able to share big feelings amidst the group and support others in their sharing truly opened me up in so many ways. YAAH gave me a renewed sense of self, courage, confidence, and support to keep going and launch my 'passion' project, The Inward Guide, a curated healer directory & podcast. I have the deepest love and gratitude for Maxine and the YAAH group! Also, speaking from my personal experience, I did not quit my day job upon the course completion. However, I received clear messages on how to navigate through the next coming years as I build up my creative outlet in hopes of eventually making the jump. As things have unfolded for me since YAAH, anything is possible!
Your Message To Other Women Who Want To Change Their Career?
If you're feeling the tug to try something different or need that added support to finally make that career jump YAAH is the space for you. Our intuition can nudge us to align with our true calling. You feel this way for a reason, so don't ignore it! Maxine is incredibly gifted, and the YAAH course offers many supportive tools to help along the way, blending your intuitive spiritual self with your creative self to get clear on your message. The personal investment is absolutely worth it.
Hannah Pap Rocki
Your Experience Before Working with Maxine in the You Are A Healer program?
Where to even begin?! Before meeting and working with Maxine, I was in a fog. I was so disconnected from myself and feeling incredibly burnt out at my job. I couldn't express myself creatively or otherwise. My energy was depleted and I was living so far outside of myself.
Your Experience During You Are A Healer with Maxine and the group?
Maxine made it so easy for the group to connect... for us to open up with one another and on an individual basis. She has a magical way of modeling how to heal that soon enough you are healing yourself, even when you didn't know you could! I looked forward to every call. It felt so good to commit to something, connect with the women in the group, and learn more about myself, my needs, and my desires.
Your Results Through Working With Maxine in the You Are A Healer program?
I am in a completely different place in my life now. Working with Maxine allowed me to heal old wounds, be present, lift the fog, learn more about who I am as a human, and find my way back to expressing myself. I was able to pull myself out of the mindless and stressful work I was doing. After making a very solid plan, I left my job, packed my bags, and went on a two-month long road trip across the country. I feel more alive and like myself than I have in YEARS. It's like I hit a giant reset button on my life, and I've been able to re-evaluate everything that is important to me. Now I can mindfully choose what I want to do going forward, and I feel so healed and capable of doing so.
Your Message To Other Women Who Want To Change Their Career?Even if you only have a tiny itch that things aren't right and you want to make changes, do it! Obviously make sure you are prepared and have the tools, but it's truly never too late. It's so incredibly worth it in your one and only life! Leaving my job and making the drastic changes I've made felt so scary and impossible—like a dream—before I started working with Maxine. I worked hard to get where I am, and Maxine helped me lay the groundwork. I am forever grateful to her, and I truly believe she can help any woman looking to make a change.
Isabel Restrepo
Your Experience Before Working with Maxine in the You Are A Healer program?
Before signing up to work with Maxine in the You Are A Healer program, I was involved in a different coaching group. It was led by a woman and was geared towards women who wanted to start their own coaching business. The approach didn’t fully resonate with me and there was always something missing. My old coach used to say “just borrow my confidence, just do it to push through the fear” but no matter how much I tried to make things happen there were always blocks. I was frustrated between working my regular 9-5 job, and trying this other method of building something of my own with someone else’s formula and no tools on how to remove the blocks within myself besides pushing through. A method that had worked up to that point in my life, but I was tired of such a masculine approach, and I wanted/needed something different.
Your Experience During You Are A Healer with Maxine and the group?
I absolutely loved my experience during You Are A Healer with Maxine and the group. Maxine has such a beautiful way of creating a safe space, and a powerful yet nurturing way of providing perspective in the most loving way. We went deep to explore blocks/wounds and how to integrate them into today’s world - I let out many tears, and it felt really good to release. I also met some really amazing women as part of this experience. The support of the women in the group created a virtual embrace. I felt that I was not alone, and that very likely, the other women had gone through something similar.
Your Results Through Working With Maxine in the You Are A Healer program?
I once went to get an astrology reading and the reader said to me “your soul’s purpose can’t be measured by tangible results”. The results of working with Maxine in You Are A Healer simply cannot be measured - even if it sounds cheesy - how does one measure peace? Stillness within? Understanding of the self? Healing childhood wounds? Learning to listen and understand the wisdom within my body? Confidence to build and launch my own healing practice! The list goes on. Through fully diving into this process and being supported and led by Maxine, I have let out my inner femininity more than ever to be the one to guide me and make the calls. And more importantly, learning to trust that within myself! I’ve also come to understand that it is all part of the journey and there isn’t necessarily an end result, it is always another step forward. And for me, it has been much better knowing that I have the support of other women who are wanting to do the same and cheering me on along the way.
Your Message To Other Women Who Want To Change Their Career?
My message to other women who want to change their career is that there is a reason you want this. It isn’t just something that you made up, or something that will necessarily go away. Yes, you can ignore the call for something different, but you can only hold off for so long. While it may seem scary at first to change what you know all too well, the call for change is likely to be stronger than the fear. There is a reason your soul is calling you to a new path, so it comes down to choosing you above all else as an act of self love, and going down that new career path. How exciting!
Nicole Torres
Your Experience Before Working with Maxine in the You Are A Healer program?
I was at the start of my awakening and things were falling apart around me. My relationship, my family dynamic, my job. Everything was ending in a way. I was handling it all relatively well thanks to a supportive community but the bigger picture of my future was unknown. All I knew was that I didn’t want to continue on the same career path that I was on. I kept telling myself, “I can’t keep doing the same thing if I want different results.” When I hopped on my first call with Maxine it was “the call” I had been waiting for. We connected deeply and she was the right kind of gentle push I needed. It was a big commitment, the longest and most expensive one I’d ever made, but the money showed up and so did I. It was the best decision I made for myself that year.
Your Experience During You Are A Healer with Maxine and the group?
Maxine was so kind and listened to me in a way that helped me see a lot of things that were clearly right in front of me and I was just too close to see it. Like I was too “in it” to see a better option at times. She gently guided me through sessions of very deep healing and helped me see past a lot of my own limiting beliefs and self doubt. Oh the self doubt! That’s probably the biggest hurdle I had (and still) sometimes have to overcome when facing a new reality for my life.
I’d have to say the group calls were my favorite part of the experience. At first, I was unsure about a group setting and favored the idea of a one on one call instead. But it truly was the best experience! Maxine was able to create a very supportive and respectful environment on the calls where each person had the opportunity to share and have one on one time with her. The rest of the girls shared their experiences and it really helped us all feel like we had multiple cheerleaders in our corner. Each of us has had life experiences and lessons to share so we were all able to benefit from the multiple perspectives. And I have new friends that have witnessed my transformation and me theirs. That is priceless.
Your Results Through Working With Maxine in the You Are A Healer program?
I definitely feel more self-aware and confident in my gifts and my ability to be seen as a healer. The program gave me clarity on what my role is as a healer at this point, and how my life’s experiences are what make me unique. It is my special way of being me that makes the perfect dose of medicine that my clients and the collective will benefit from. Overcoming the trauma of my life gives me the authority to serve others who have experienced similar life experiences and as I continue my path, more knowledge and wisdom will be gained and shared. I am still working a 9-5 and doing healing as a side hustle but during the process I got a much better 9-5 and I’m making more money. I would have probably stayed at the old job if I didn’t have the support of Maxine and the girls. So I am definitely happier and have a solid plan for making a full transition to healing full time. I have completed 3 certifications in Akashic Records studies and The Emotion Code and my clients are coming along, slowly but surely.
Your Message To Other Women Who Want To Change Their Career?
Doing something like this takes A LOT of guts. You have to surrender yourself to the fact that you will be extremely vulnerable when changing the direction of your life's path; we never really know what awaits us, so having the support of someone like Maxine and other like-minded women will make all the difference in your success and how much more you will believe in yourself at the end of it. It's like climbing a mountain with little to no equipment or climbing a mountain with a team, good shoes, and extra supplies in case of an emergency. You could probably make it on your own but you'd be pretty haggard and just want to sleep for a week straight. The other way makes the scary journey much more enjoyable and there's a good chance you'll make it through victoriously with new friends, feeling accomplished and a giant smile on your face at the end of it. Also tears, lots of happy tears.
Sophia Somerville
Your Experience Before Working with Maxine in the You Are A Healer program?
Before working with Maxine, I had a lot of ambition, but a lack of confidence around acting upon it and being seen in my gifts. I was carrying around old wounds that I didn't know how to process or release. I felt scattered and distracted by other 'priorities'. I felt 'stuck' in a cycle of people-pleasing and alone in my desire to merge spiritual and creative work. I was in need of support, and community.
Your Experience During You Are A Healer with Maxine and the group?
This was my first experience of an online group process, and I was blown away by how utterly connected, intimate and safe it felt. Being the only member of the group outside of the US, this was an important aspect for me - and it made such a difference to feel genuine connection with Maxine and the other women right away. Every step of the way I felt seen, heard and supported. I learned so much about myself and how not-alone I was in what I was experiencing. I loved the combination of structured and unstructured learning and sharing. So many a-ha moments, so many tears, so many laughs; it's difficult to sum it up in words and do justice to how special and magical it was. It was extremely grounded and real, and there was so much room for deep personal work within the group. This program changed my life from the inside out.
Your Results Through Working With Maxine in the You Are A Healer program?
This process has touched every aspect of my life - my career, my relationship to myself, my partnerships and friendships, my home life, my creative life...the list goes on. With the support of Maxine and the group process I transitioned out of a corporate career and into freelancing as a Tarot Reader & Writer. I built my business, Southern Spells, from a deep place within myself. I now work with my dream clients, those who spark the same sense of recognition as the women in the group program - creatives, artists, weirdos, writers, entrepreneurs, makers. I don't experience that old fear of being seen - ofcourse I experience it in new ways, as I continue to receive opportunities - but I am more motivated by excitement than fear these days. that bin itself is everything to me. My relationship with my partner benefited so much from this program, because I just understood myself and my needs on a much deeper level, and was able to communicate that intel with much more clarity and calm. To this day, I am still reaping the rewards from participating with my whole heart.
Your Message To Other Women Who Want To Change Their Career?
Take your desire for change seriously. Ignoring it or minimising it is only going to increase its hold upon you. Let it be the truth, and ask your desire what it needs - what is the next step? There is no rush, no quick fix, only surrender to the creative process of your life. Realise that everyone needs support, and that support empowers. And...I urge you to book that free clarity call with Maxine. You literally have nothing to lose. That call changed everything for me. DO IT!
Rachel Melville
Your Experience Before Working with Maxine in the You Are A Healer program?
Before taking part in You Are a Healer, I had recently left my career in digital media and technology to focus on my own spiritual healing and to embark on a new path led by intuition and a desire to be of service to others in a way that held meaning for me. I had previously worked with Maxine one-on-one, which inspired the first big leap in the process, but I found myself really desiring to connect with other people on similar paths. Even with the support of my partner and close friends, I often felt alone in the process and wished I had people I could share with, listen to, and learn from that would "get it."
Your Experience During You Are A Healer with Maxine and the group?
Somewhat introverted and with no previous experience with group work, I was a ball of nerves and reservations when we started. Was I really going to be able to share my fears and failures with the group? Am I far enough along in my work to do this? What if I'm not spiritual/woke/creative/smart/funny/interesting enough? Those fears melted away after the first call. The group process was so supportive and Maxine was and is truly a gifted and intuitive facilitator. The structure of the program worked really well for me. It was just enough to keep me focused and help me find clarity within myself. There were times when the work would bring up unexpected emotions or carefully concealed wounds and that was uncomfortable, but the compassion and support of Maxine and the group encouraged me to find strength in that vulnerability and learn from it.
Your Results Through Working With Maxine in the You Are A Healer program?
Working with Maxine in the You Are a Healer program brought who I am as a healer, the audience I'm meant to serve, and my creative process into focus in a way that I could not have on my own. I frequently revisit the work we did together to refine my ideas and gain deeper perspective. Since taking part in You Are a Healer, I launched my own healing practice, have begun to share and sell my artwork, and am continuing my education in somatics, eco-therapy, and expressive arts to incorporate into my healing work.
Your Message To Other Women Who Want To Change Their Career?
Honor your feelings, intuition, and imagination and don't be afraid to ask for help.