537: Maya Luque: The Heart Of The Matter: EMDR Through An Adoptee's Eyes

Shameless Leadership

Sara Dean

Education, Management, How To, Business, Self-improvement

4.7 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Maya Luque is a strategist. She helps businesses craft smart, perceptive ways of communicating. The focus of her work is to help businesses build strong, long-lasting relationships with their customers. She has an M.F.A. and has created over 100 sculptures and installations. Her background as an artist helps her guide people towards an emotion; to help them feel connected. Art is great for strategy because art history is full of telling and re-inventing stories, themes, emotions. Maya has a passion for observing the ever-shifting puzzle of trends, human nature, and people. Maya is also the author of The Heart Of The Matter: EMDR Through An Adoptee's Eyes. She shared her book with me on social media asking if I would be interested in sharing it with my audience. I immediately knew I didn’t only want to share the book, I wanted to share Maya’s voice and entire story. I asked Maya if she would be up for this interview. I’m so honored that she said yes. Her book and her story are so important. Listen in to hear Maya share: Her journey of being abandoned outside a police station in China during their One Child Policy to living her first 11 months in a Chinese orphanage to being adopted by a single mom in the US The lasting impact of her abandonment and how that trauma impacted her ability to cope as a child How she vacillated between extreme perfectionism and testing her mom to see if she would always really love her Her lifelong patterns of trying to prove her worth How she got started in EMDR therapy What EMDR is and how it helped her recover from her trauma How EMDR allowed her to finally find herself lovable Why she wrote The Heart of the Matter in a really approachable way so all ages could use it as a tool Links mentioned: Maya’s Book: The Heart Of The Matter: EMDR Through An Adoptee's Eyes Connect with Maya Maya on Instagram Color for Charity Coloring Book Thank you to our sponsors: Talkspace: To match with your perfect therapist for a fraction of the price of traditional therapy, go to talkspace.com, Make sure to use the code SHAMELESS to get $100 off your first month and show your support for the show. Cubo Ai: Go to getcubo.com and use my code “SHAMELESS “for a discount off your order. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Shameless Mom Academy episode 537 with Maya Lucke.
0:05.2	Show notes for this episode, including any links mentioned in the episode, can be found by going to shamelessmom.com and clicking on episode 537.
0:17.0	Welcome to the Shameless Mom Academy. I'm your host, Sarah Dean. I'm here to give you and other
0:22.6	passionate, driven, unapologetic moms, tools, resources, and a little bit of humor to help you lead
0:28.7	more positive, powerful, and purposeful lives every damn day. One of the best things about the
0:34.1	Shameless Mom Academy is our community. So be sure to join us in our free
0:37.6	private Facebook group to connect with other shameless moms just like you. You can find us over
0:42.6	at shamelessom.com forward slash Facebook. All right, let's dive into today's episode.
0:56.2	Maya Luque is a strategist.
0:59.8	She helps businesses craft smart, perceptive ways of communicating.
1:04.6	The focus of her work is to help businesses build strong, long-lasting relationships with their customers.
1:08.8	She has an MFA and is created over 100 sculptures and installations. Her background as an artist helps her guide people
1:11.6	toward an emotion to help them feel connected. Art is a great strategy because art history
1:17.1	is full of telling and reinventing of stories, themes, and emotions. Maya has a passion for
1:22.8	observing the ever-shifting puzzle of trends, human nature, and people. Maya is also the author of
1:28.3	the Heart of the Matter, EMDR, through an adopte's eyes. She shared her book with me on social
1:33.7	media asking if I would be interested in sharing it with my audience, and I immediately knew that I
1:37.8	not only wanted to share the book, but I wanted to interview Maya and hear her whole story. So I asked
1:43.5	if she'd be up for an interview and I'm so
1:45.3	honored that she said yes. Her book and her story are so important. Listening to hear Maya share,
1:50.8	her journey of being abandoned outside a police station in China during their one child policy,
1:55.9	to living her first 11 months in a Chinese orphanage to being adopted by a single mom in the U.S.
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