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Mindful Quest Relationship Counseling

Mindful Quest Relationship Counseling offers individual & couples therapy to those dealing with conf Services are available by appointment only.

Mindful Quest Relationship Counseling was founded by Maritza Plascencia a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. She works helping men and women address issues with relationships (dating, marriage, domestic violence, infidelity communication, conflict, extended family and friends), anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, divorce, stress, parenting, self-esteem, codependency and more. She has a background in working with individuals looking to heal from trauma and abuse and recovering from a pattern of unhealthy relationships. Maritza considers mindfulness an important aspect of building healthy relationships. She supports her clients through the use of traditional talk therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR), Emotionally Focused Couple's Therapy (EFT) and mindfulness techniques such as guided meditations and body-scan exercises. Call today for a free phone consultation.

10/25/2023

It is especially necessary to keep our heart open in times when it feels the most natural to let it close up. Otherwise, we risk getting stuck in a never ending state of internal chaos where nothing that would help resolve it is received and nothing that we can contribute to the resolution of the situation causing this uncertainty and fear is offered. An open heart has the power to generate the love and compassion necessary to heal any injury and resolve any conflict.

09/09/2023

Our free will affords us more power over our lives than we often realize we have. When we finally are able to understand we are the creators of our reality everything changes.

09/06/2023

Engaging in deeply healing work can really open us up and leave us feeling more sensitive, tired and a little more prone to anxiety. As a therapist who often helps others identify tools and resources for self-regulation I’m well aware of the many things I have at my disposal. I’ve been doing a lot of deep healing this year and lately I’ve been noticing my nervous system asking for more love.

Today, I engaged in meditation, a sound bath and in the evening I attended a shamanic music therapy session. Afterwards, I felt the need to end the night with some grounding. Decided to take my doggie for a long walk and ended up sitting on a large field to feel myself connecting with Mother Earth.

I have many messages (texts, emails and DMs) waiting for a response, but a girl’s gotta show herself some love in order to keep spreading her love to others. I share all of this to remind anyone taking the time to read that it’s okay to put a pause on everything else to be human first. When we love others before loving ourselves we create imbalance in our lives.

09/03/2023

Sometimes, when we have experienced situations where we did not feel loved we end up internalizing the false belief that we aren’t worthy of receiving love. We then go through life with a closed heart, rejecting the love that others want to gift us. Without realizing that our fear of being loved perpetuates the pain of not having been loved in the first place.

May we all learn that closing our heart for self preservation is normal, what’s not normal is to keep it closed indefinitely.

08/22/2023

Going within to acknowledge the rejected parts of ourselves is part of the integration process in our healing journey. Coming face to face with our shadow is a crucial step as we move towards our light.

It is what makes us whole again. For we cannot expect to be accepted in our entirety when part of it is foreign to us.

08/21/2023

Sometimes the progress is not made by how much closer you get to the finish line, but instead by practicing consistency and showing up even when it doesn’t feel like you have much to give.

After a very physically and emotionally exhausting weekend, filled with what feels like 100 years of personal evolution as I continue to process and integrate my Ayahuasca experience I had at the end of June, I decided that if I am serious about finishing my book I must be consistent in making room for it.

When I noticed my writer’s block was just not going away, I decided to have some fun and take some selfies to practice for my author’s picture that will be included in the book. As I was doing so, I remembered that today we celebrate National Latina’s Day and I felt a surge of pride that I get to represent my community through my writing.

Which picture do you like best? 1, 2 or 3?

08/20/2023

The heart contains the medicine that cures it all, LOVE. Therefore, when we speak from the heart, when we allow ourselves to lean in with vulnerability, we make our medicine available to all those that choose to listen. Love softens hearts that over time have become hardened once they dry out because they kept giving without receiving love.

TRADUCCIÓN

El corazón contiene la medicina que lo cura todo, AMOR. Por lo tanto, cuando hablamos desde el corazón, cuando nos permitimos apoyarnos en la vulnerabilidad, ponemos nuestra medicina a disposición de todos aquellos que eligen escuchar. El amor suaviza los corazones que con el tiempo se han endurecido una vez que se secan porque seguían dando sin recibir amor.

08/18/2023

A week ago today I started reflecting on the women I come from and the woman I’ve become. All thanks to having two separate, but very profound conversations with two friends who started on their healing journey with plant medicine before me. As I was listening to the stories they shared I began connecting many dots, specifically around the mother wounding that I come from and the mother wound healing I’ve done.

This past Sunday I ended up having a very deep 3 hour phone conversation with my parents about this. I was able to share my insights with them both and they were able to offer new information about both my grandmothers. Throughout the phone call there were moments during which I could feel my parents’ inner children rewriting the narrative they had on their mothers and grandmothers, bringing some healing to their own mother wounds.

At some point in the conversation my parents both held space for me as I shared with them details about my journey in healing my own mother wound. I was able to experience a sense of deep compassion from them both. My inner child felt validated, heard and deeply loved.

We ended the conversation with plans to take a family trip to Yosemite before the year ends.

1st photo: My mother at the age of 19 holding me, her first born.

2nd photo: A photo my mom sent me this Monday. My maternal grandmother, who became my ancestor this year, holding me as I know she has continued to do so since crossing over.

3rd photo: My paternal grandmother in her younger years. My only grandparent still alive.

08/16/2023

It has become so common to scroll on social media and for everyone (therapists and non-therapists alike) to be promoting the need to heal. I get it, because I am an active participant in promoting healing. I do believe it is important for us to live a life where we tend to the parts of us that need healing as soon as possible.

However, after having attended a few retreats this year, three to be exact, I have realized how becoming overly focused on healing and forgetting to make room for integration can sometimes keep us feeling stuck and block our ability to recognize the ways in which we’ve already healed. Causing us to miss out on living a life where we get to enjoy the gifts we’ve received throughout our healing journey. A life where we step into the power of finally owning that version of ourselves we’ve worked so hard to create, that healed part, that integrated part. That part of us that is able to recognize that we have the power to change how trauma, loss, hurt that we’ve experienced will play a role in the story of our life moving forward. That part of us that is able to recognize that when it connects on all levels, the mental, the physical and the spiritual, it has the power and clarity to transmute pain into wisdom, darkness into light… it has the power to integrate our existence and ensure we are in alignment with living our purpose.

This is your reminder to slow down and integrate what you have healed. To be aware that if you’re in therapy, always having to talk about your pain is not a requirement. You are allowed to ask your therapist to hold space for and celebrate your healing with you. For those of you who are not currently in therapy or have never been, know that every day you make a choice to do what you do and heal, hurt or integrate yourself, so choose wisely and intentionally.

From my heart to yours,
Maritza

08/14/2023

Feeling immensely grateful for the supportive space created by the amazing and for brown women to come together and put our voice on paper to represent our gente.

I’ve been working on a book since 2018 and up until today I had what felt like an overwhelming chaos of pieces to a puzzle. In three hours of intentionally sitting with my comunidad I was able to stay grounded and focused in my writing. Not only was I able to organize what I have, but I was able to come up with so much more! The book was just flowing out of me. 🥰

I don’t have a publisher, not sure I wanna go that route either. So, if anyone has book deals for me, I’m open to talk. Not ready to share much on here yet, but let’s just say couples and anyone wanting to be in a relationship is gonna want to read my book. 😉🥰

I am creating the reality I’ve always dreamed of. I am a poet, I am an author, I am a speaker, I am a healer of hearts, I am my ancestors’ voice. 💗

08/10/2023

When we learn to see pain as only a stop along the way, in the journey of growth, we have discovered the power we have to create the life that we want. We have learned how to avoid becoming stuck in our pain. We have discovered that on the other side of pain is an abundance of wisdom.

TRADUCCIÓN

Cuando aprendemos a ver el dolor como solo una parada en el camino, en el viaje del crecimiento, podemos decir que hemos descubierto el poder que tenemos para crear la vida que queremos. Hemos aprendido a evitar quedarnos atrapados en nuestro dolor. Hemos descubierto que al otro lado del dolor existe la abundancia de sabiduría.

08/07/2023

We have become so conditioned to focus on what’s outside of us (the material possessions, how much money we have in the bank, the labels attached to our identity, etc.) that we forget none of these things or what others think of us based on these truly define who we are and much the less our worth.

We learn to live at peace when we finally understand the only one who has the power to determine our worth is the person that stares back in the mirror. When we finally understand that we decide how much or how little we’re worth and that our choices, our actions and what we accept from others are a direct projection coming from within ourselves that is representative of our internal sense of worth. We take our power back when we finally are able to understand that others are mirrors that help us see what it is we are telling the world about ourselves.

Others will either value us or take us for granted. Only we decide if we’ll make room for those who value us or if we’ll allow those who take us for granted and repeatedly show us they don’t value us to take up the space instead.

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17291 Irvine Boulevard, Suite 425
Tustin, CA
92780

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Monday	10am - 7pm
Tuesday	10am - 5pm
Wednesday	10am - 7pm
Friday	10am - 5pm

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+19493425947

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http://www.mindfulquestrelationshipcounseling.com/

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