Welcome back to the “Hey, Wait” Podcast, hosted by embodiment coach, educator, and author Jay Moon Fields. Each episode we’ll be sharing stories, insights, interviews, and practical tools to help you shift how you show up in your relationships, and in your life.

In today’s episode, Jay Moon Fields is joined by Somatic Therapist, Social Worker, and Founder of Somatic Therapy Partners, Maira Holzmann. Maira’s work with Somatic and Psychedelic Therapy brings her clients to incredible breakthroughs, many of whom have struggled to find help through traditional therapeutic outlets.

Maira’s “Hey, Wait” moment came when she was driving through a fancy neighborhood and felt a whisper suggesting “You Belong Here.” She grew up as an immigrant, and constantly felt the desire to be a person of status within society. It was when she finally felt comfortable in herself, in her family, and in her surroundings, that she was truly able to embrace her wisdom and her career.

Understanding Somatic Therapy goes hand in hand with saying “Hey, Wait.” As soon as you are able to pause and soften your body, you are totally able to refocus your mind, reclaim your moment, and move into a more productive headspace. In an absolutely can’t miss episode, you’ll get a collection of tips that you can immediately implement into your own “Hey, Wait” journey, such as “Joy Spotting,” “Facial Softening,” and more.

And Hey, Wait! Before you go, make sure to subscribe to the “Hey, Wait” Podcast so you can follow along with every new episode as soon as it is released. And be sure to connect with Jay Moon Fields on her website (jaymoonfields.com/) and across all social media platforms (instagram.com/heywaitwithjay/) so you can submit your questions to the Podcast. You just might be featured on a future episode!

Key Takeaways:

• Spending Time in Nature is a Fantastic Way to Find Yourself & Recenter

• The Body Whispers Until it Has to Yell

• When You Include the Body in Your Healing Work, Your Resistance will go Down

• Embodied Work is All About Starting Small, in a Way That You Can Access

• The Most Important Thing You Can Do When Under Duress is Soften Your Body

• If There is a Rupture in a Relationship, Try to Fix it in 20 Minutes or Less

• Psychedelic Assisted Psychotherapy Won’t Lead to Addiction

• Psychedelic Therapy Will Break You Out of Your Survival Self

Your Homework:

• Practice Softening Your Body. Your Gaze. Your Face. Your Eyes.

• Practice “Joy Spotting” in Your Body & Review Your Day. Feel the Moments That Were Good in Your Day

• Share this episode with someone else who needs to hear it.

More on Maira Holzmann:

• Official Somatic Partners Website: www.somatictherapypartners.com

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/somaticindenver/

• Denver Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/SomaticInDenver

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maira-holzmann-2a2b4b1b6/

Ready to Dive Deeper? More on Jay Moon Fields:

• Official Website: https://jaymoonfields.com/

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heywaitwithjay/

• “Yours Truly” Coaching Program: https://jaymoonfields.com/coaching

• Jay Moon Fields’ Book “Teaching People Not Poses”: https://www.amazon.com/Teaching-People-Not-Poses-Principles/dp/1478326913/

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaymoonfields

Welcome back to the “Hey, Wait” Podcast, hosted by embodiment coach, educator, and author Jay Moon Fields. Each episode we’ll be sharing stories, insights, interviews, and practical tools to help you shift how you show up in your relationships, and in your life.

In today’s episode, Jay Moon Fields is joined by Bill Schiffmiller, the founder and CEO of Akoio, a company that specifically addresses auditory needs in the workplace. Bill’s real-life experience with hearing loss has informed every aspect of his life, and today Akoio is helping companies around the globe recognize the value of accessibility.

Through his conversation with Jay you’ll learn that there truly are so many auditory elements of life that may be causing you stress… that you aren’t even aware of. This is an invitation to take a “Hey, Wait” moment to pause, listen, and to consider what your experience of your daily soundscape is, and what you might need within it. Because learning to tune into what you actually feel—including noise–allows you to stop accepting discomfort as “just the way things are” and start making space for more joy.

And Hey, Wait! Before you go, make sure to subscribe to the “Hey, Wait” Podcast so you can follow along with every new episode as soon as it is released. And be sure to connect with Jay Moon Fields on her website (jaymoonfields.com/) and across all social media platforms (instagram.com/heywaitwithjay/) so you can submit your questions to the Podcast. You just might be featured on a future episode!

Key Takeaways:

• Make a Point to Be Present & Enjoy the Moment

• When You Offer Attentive Listening, New Things are Revealed

• Improved Sound Solutions in the Workplace Increase a Company’s Bottom Line

• Everyone’s Relationship to Sound is Different

• Noise Isn’t Just What You Hear– It’s What You Feel

• Be Aware of the Noise Around You & Track How it Makes You Feel

• You Can Close Your Eyes– You Can’t Close Your Ears

• Crying As A Practice For Emotional Release

Your Homework:

• Make a journal. Become aware of the way different sounds and soundscapes make you feel.

• Share this episode with someone else that needs to hear it.

More on Bill Schiffmiller:

• Official Akoio Website: https://akoio.com/

• Bill’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/billschiffmiller

• Forbes Profile: https://www.forbes.com/sites/billschiffmiller/

Ready to Dive Deeper? More on Jay Moon Fields:

• Official Website: https://jaymoonfields.com/

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heywaitwithjay/

• “Yours Truly” Coaching Program: https://jaymoonfields.com/coaching

• Jay Moon Fields’ Book “Teaching People Not Poses”: https://www.amazon.com/Teaching-People-Not-Poses-Principles/dp/1478326913/

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaymoonfields

Welcome back to the “Hey, Wait” Podcast, hosted by embodiment coach, educator, and author Jay Moon Fields. Each episode we’ll be sharing stories, insights, interviews, and practical tools to help you shift how you show up in your relationships, and in your life.

In today’s episode, Jay Moon Fields returns solo to the mic, answering listener questions for the first time as she dives deeper into the essential– yet often challenging– Second Step of the “Hey, Wait” process.

Emily, a listener of the podcast, recently faced an upsetting moment at choir practice when someone took her stand without asking. Many of us have been in situations where we later wished we had spoken up, asserted ourselves, or found our voice. In this episode, Jay uses Emily’s story as a starting point to explore somatic experiencing– a practice that uses imagination to unlock bodily sensations– and explains how it can help Emily (and you!) move forward with more agency.

As we learned in Episode One, the “Hey, Wait” process has three key steps. Today, we focus on Step 2: Pausing– the moment you stop reacting and start tuning into your inner experience. It’s a deceptively difficult practice, requiring you to actually feel what’s going on inside. Jay breaks it down with clarity and compassion, offering real tools to help you integrate this step into your own life.

And Hey, Wait! Before you go, make sure to subscribe to the “Hey, Wait” Podcast so you can follow along with every new episode as soon as it is released. And be sure to connect with Jay Moon Fields on her website (jaymoonfields.com/) and across all social media platforms (instagram.com/heywaitwithjay/) so you can submit your questions to the Podcast. You just might be featured on a future episode!

Key Takeaways:

• Somatic Experiencing is a Body Based Therapy About Healing Trauma that is Stored in the Body

• Allowing Your Mind and Body to Imagine What Being Safe Would Have Felt Like in Traumatic Moments… Can Release Your Trauma

• Give Yourself a Replay Of What it Would Have Felt Like to Say What You Would Have Wanted to Say

• Matching Your Insides to Your Outsides is about having an Essential Self Within You that you know how to Inhabit and Express

• Your Strategic Parts Developed When You Were Young to help you Survive

• There are 3 Steps to Staying Within Yourself

• The “Touch In”

• Track Yourself

• “Of Course.” As in… “Of Course I Feel This Way.”

Your Homework:

• Practice following the 3 Steps for yourself, wherever you are at. Touch In. Track Yourself. Tell Yourself “Of Course.”

• Share this episode with someone else that needs to hear it.

Ready to Dive Deeper? More on Jay Moon Fields:

• Official Website: https://jaymoonfields.com/

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heywaitwithjay/

• “Yours Truly” Coaching Program: https://jaymoonfields.com/coaching

• Jay Moon Fields’ Book “Teaching People Not Poses”: https://www.amazon.com/Teaching-People-Not-Poses-Principles/dp/1478326913/

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaymoonfields