Who Told You That? | Tuesday, October 27, 2026 · 7:00–9:00 PM CT

The Experience

Question the stories you inherited about pleasure, desire, worth, femininity, success, and what you are “allowed” to want.

Long before we began making our own choices, many of us absorbed ideas about who we were supposed to be.

Be nice.

Don’t ask for too much.

Take care of everyone else first.

Don’t be selfish.

Work hard before you rest.

Good girls don’t…

Women your age shouldn’t…

Mothers are supposed to…

Partners should…

Over time, these messages may quietly shape the way we experience pleasure, relationships, rest, ambition, sexuality, our bodies, and our identities.

Who Told You That?™ is an experiential workshop designed to help women gently examine the beliefs they have inherited—and consciously decide which ones still belong in their lives.

Through somatic awareness, guided reflection, journaling, movement, values exploration, and meaningful conversation, you’ll begin separating what you authentically believe from what you learned to believe.

This workshop is not about rejecting your family, culture, faith, relationships, or everything you have been taught.

It is about becoming conscious enough to choose what still aligns with the woman you are today.

Because freedom does not always begin when someone gives us permission.

Sometimes it begins when we realize we are allowed to question the rules.

You’ll Experience

🧠 Identifying the Inherited Stories

Begin noticing the messages you may have absorbed from family, culture, religion, gender roles, relationships, school, work, and society.

You may explore beliefs about:

• Being a “good” woman

• Pleasure and desire

• Rest and productivity

• Success and ambition

• Beauty and body image

• Age and femininity

• Motherhood and caregiving

• Relationships and partnership

• Sexuality

• Worthiness and belonging

• Asking for more

• Changing your mind

The goal is not to determine whether every message was good or bad.

It is to recognize which messages are actually yours.

🗺️ Create Your Inherited Stories Map™

Trace where certain beliefs may have come from and how they continue to influence your choices.

Your map may explore:

• The message you received

• Who or what taught it to you

• What the message may have been trying to protect or preserve

• How it has shaped your behavior

• What it has allowed

• What it has limited

• Whether it still aligns with your present-day values

You choose which beliefs you want to explore and what you want to keep private.

🌿 Somatic Awareness

Notice how different beliefs, possibilities, and choices feel as you consider them.

You may become aware of tension, ease, energy, resistance, curiosity, uncertainty, or emotion.

Body awareness offers information—not absolute answers. You’ll be encouraged to consider what you notice alongside your values, circumstances, relationships, and conscious judgment.

You will not be asked to force a response or treat every sensation as proof.

✍️ Questioning the Script

Use guided prompts to examine an inherited belief with greater curiosity.

You may ask:

• Is this always true?

• Who benefits when I believe this?

• What has this belief protected me from?

• What has it cost me?

• Does it reflect my current values?

• What might I believe if I were allowed to choose again?

• What would change if this rule no longer directed my life?

🧭 Values Clarification

Identify the values you want your choices to reflect now.

Rather than replacing one rigid set of rules with another, you’ll explore how values can guide decisions while leaving room for complexity, context, and change.

✨ Write Your Permission Statement™

Choose one inherited rule you are ready to question and create a personal statement that reflects your present-day values.

Your statement may begin with:

• “I am allowed to…”

• “I no longer have to…”

• “I choose…”

• “I give myself permission to…”

• “It is safe enough for me to question…”

• “I am still deciding…”

You do not have to feel completely certain for a new possibility to matter.

🌙 Reflection & Integration

Close with journaling, optional sharing, and one small values-aligned choice you may want to explore in everyday life.

Sharing is always optional.

You May Leave With

• Greater awareness of the beliefs and expectations you have inherited

• A personal map of how those messages have influenced your choices

• Questions for examining narratives that may no longer fit

• Greater clarity about your present-day values

• Your personal Permission Statement™

• One intentional choice to explore moving forward

• More compassion for the ways inherited beliefs may have once helped you belong

Perfect For

Women navigating identity shifts, questioning old expectations, reconnecting with themselves, exploring pleasure with less shame, or intentionally redefining success, femininity, relationships, rest, and well-being on their own terms.

You do not need to reject your past to become more intentional about your future.

Good to Know

Designed For

Women and femme-aligned adults, ages 18+

Experience Level

Open to all. No previous somatic, personal-development, or sexuality workshop experience is necessary.

What to Bring

• Journal

• Water bottle

• Curiosity

• A willingness to question without forcing an immediate answer

Sexual Content

Sexuality may be discussed as one area where inherited beliefs appear, but it is not the sole focus of the experience.

There is no nudity, sexual activity, genital or breast contact, or erotic facilitator touch.

Touch

Mayra does not provide massage, tissue manipulation, or intimate or erotic touch. This experience does not require participant-to-participant touch.

A Note About Emotional Safety

Mayra facilitates through a trauma-informed lens and can hold grounded, compassionate space for emotions that may arise.

Exploring inherited beliefs can bring up complicated feelings about family, culture, faith, identity, and belonging. You will never be pressured to criticize your community, disclose trauma, defend your values, or reject a belief before you are ready.

Every practice may be modified, paused, or declined. You are always in control of what you share.

Who Told You That? provides education, somatic awareness, values reflection, journaling, and experiential learning. It is not psychotherapy, trauma treatment, religious counseling, medical care, or crisis support.

You do not have to become someone entirely new.

You may simply need permission to question who you were told to be.