Maverick Joyce, MSW | RSD Coach and Transformative Social Work
@ageofaqueerius.bsky.social
Finding the authentic Self is deeply connected to collective liberation.
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This is the heart of my work; helping people disentangle from assimilation, reconnect with their soul, and reclaim the authentic Self.
If this resonates, you’re not alone, and you’re not broken.
You are remembering.
DM GENIUS for January cohort details if you feel the call. /14
If this resonates, you’re not alone, and you’re not broken.
You are remembering.
DM GENIUS for January cohort details if you feel the call. /14
December 11, 2025 at 12:51 AM
This is the heart of my work; helping people disentangle from assimilation, reconnect with their soul, and reclaim the authentic Self.
If this resonates, you’re not alone, and you’re not broken.
You are remembering.
DM GENIUS for January cohort details if you feel the call. /14
If this resonates, you’re not alone, and you’re not broken.
You are remembering.
DM GENIUS for January cohort details if you feel the call. /14
You start receiving the messages and lessons your ancestors have been wanting to tell you. You become unmanipulatable, because fear of rejection no longer controls you. /13
December 11, 2025 at 12:50 AM
You start receiving the messages and lessons your ancestors have been wanting to tell you. You become unmanipulatable, because fear of rejection no longer controls you. /13
This is how buried parts are excavated safely.
Through this process the authentic self returns, and RSD softens. Your nervous system expands. Your voice strengthens. Ancestral wounds of assimilation heal. /12
Through this process the authentic self returns, and RSD softens. Your nervous system expands. Your voice strengthens. Ancestral wounds of assimilation heal. /12
December 11, 2025 at 12:50 AM
This is how buried parts are excavated safely.
Through this process the authentic self returns, and RSD softens. Your nervous system expands. Your voice strengthens. Ancestral wounds of assimilation heal. /12
Through this process the authentic self returns, and RSD softens. Your nervous system expands. Your voice strengthens. Ancestral wounds of assimilation heal. /12
This is why “just be yourself” feels impossible. The Self didn’t disappear — it was buried under layers of survival. Healing assimilation wounds requires something deeper than regulation. It requires attunement — to your body, your soul, and your ancestry. /11
December 11, 2025 at 12:46 AM
This is why “just be yourself” feels impossible. The Self didn’t disappear — it was buried under layers of survival. Healing assimilation wounds requires something deeper than regulation. It requires attunement — to your body, your soul, and your ancestry. /11
But the cost is enormous: disconnection from desire, your soul’s intention, chronic RSD, toxic shame, disembodiment, and loss of intuition. /10
December 11, 2025 at 12:46 AM
But the cost is enormous: disconnection from desire, your soul’s intention, chronic RSD, toxic shame, disembodiment, and loss of intuition. /10
A fracture forms between self and the soul. Eduardo Duran calls this “soul loss.” And you learn to abandon your authentic self in exchange for proximity to safety. You sacrifice who you are for a false sense of security. /9
December 11, 2025 at 12:45 AM
A fracture forms between self and the soul. Eduardo Duran calls this “soul loss.” And you learn to abandon your authentic self in exchange for proximity to safety. You sacrifice who you are for a false sense of security. /9
Those strategies were passed on through familial culture and environment, with generations of parents passing on the messages:
“who you are is too much”
“your natural way of being isn’t welcome”
“You have to change to be worthy of love and stay safe.” /8
“who you are is too much”
“your natural way of being isn’t welcome”
“You have to change to be worthy of love and stay safe.” /8
December 11, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Those strategies were passed on through familial culture and environment, with generations of parents passing on the messages:
“who you are is too much”
“your natural way of being isn’t welcome”
“You have to change to be worthy of love and stay safe.” /8
“who you are is too much”
“your natural way of being isn’t welcome”
“You have to change to be worthy of love and stay safe.” /8
We all carry intergenerational memory in DNA, neurobiology, and nervous systems. For many of us white-bodied folks, the seeds of RSD were planted generations ago through assimilation strategies. /7
December 11, 2025 at 12:43 AM
We all carry intergenerational memory in DNA, neurobiology, and nervous systems. For many of us white-bodied folks, the seeds of RSD were planted generations ago through assimilation strategies. /7
Assimilation is the kind of insidious, quiet harm that creeps in slowly and is hard to see until it’s already shaped you. Assimilatory behaviours are validated and reinforced by rewards of “success,” and “acceptance.” But that acceptance is conditional, not genuine. /6
December 11, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Assimilation is the kind of insidious, quiet harm that creeps in slowly and is hard to see until it’s already shaped you. Assimilatory behaviours are validated and reinforced by rewards of “success,” and “acceptance.” But that acceptance is conditional, not genuine. /6
Assimilation causes harm both internally and externally. In fact, there’s a research study on this exact topic, but in relation to Autistics – how assimilation strategies like masking and camouflaging increase depression, anxiety, and suicide. /5
December 11, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Assimilation causes harm both internally and externally. In fact, there’s a research study on this exact topic, but in relation to Autistics – how assimilation strategies like masking and camouflaging increase depression, anxiety, and suicide. /5
Irish, Italian, German, Jewish, and other non-Anglo European immigrants were once considered “ethnic” and “other” – not white. If you are white-bodied, there is a high likelihood that your ancestors experienced this pressure to assimilate. /4
December 11, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Irish, Italian, German, Jewish, and other non-Anglo European immigrants were once considered “ethnic” and “other” – not white. If you are white-bodied, there is a high likelihood that your ancestors experienced this pressure to assimilate. /4
When you are white-bodied, you have ancestors who navigated the “melting pot” assimilation tactics of the early to mid 1900s. “Beware the hyphenated American.” Difference was dangerous. /3
December 11, 2025 at 12:41 AM
When you are white-bodied, you have ancestors who navigated the “melting pot” assimilation tactics of the early to mid 1900s. “Beware the hyphenated American.” Difference was dangerous. /3
Assimilation is the process of shrinking yourself to fit fabricated dominant norms so you can stay safe, accepted, and praised. Western societies rely on assimilation as a tool of social control: compliance, homogeneity, and sameness. /2
December 11, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Assimilation is the process of shrinking yourself to fit fabricated dominant norms so you can stay safe, accepted, and praised. Western societies rely on assimilation as a tool of social control: compliance, homogeneity, and sameness. /2
That’s when transformation begins. The healing work is about becoming more present, more self-trusting, more embodied, and when those become integrated, you become unmanipulatable. /11
December 9, 2025 at 4:59 PM
That’s when transformation begins. The healing work is about becoming more present, more self-trusting, more embodied, and when those become integrated, you become unmanipulatable. /11
This isn’t about becoming “better regulated.” That’s why I don’t focus on the question “how do I stop this reaction?” Instead, we ask: “What part of me learned it wasn’t safe to exist, and how do we bring them home? /10
December 9, 2025 at 4:59 PM
This isn’t about becoming “better regulated.” That’s why I don’t focus on the question “how do I stop this reaction?” Instead, we ask: “What part of me learned it wasn’t safe to exist, and how do we bring them home? /10
The symptoms naturally fade away when you address the core wound. When safety is restored inside, reactions naturally soften. My approach is neuroaffirming, somatic, relational, ancestral, psycho-spiritual, and anti-assimilatory. /9
December 9, 2025 at 4:58 PM
The symptoms naturally fade away when you address the core wound. When safety is restored inside, reactions naturally soften. My approach is neuroaffirming, somatic, relational, ancestral, psycho-spiritual, and anti-assimilatory. /9
I do not center symptom reduction; I center relational repair. Because RSD is healed through developing a healthy relationship between You and You. We repair the relationship with your body, your inner child, your sense of self, and your desire. /8
December 9, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I do not center symptom reduction; I center relational repair. Because RSD is healed through developing a healthy relationship between You and You. We repair the relationship with your body, your inner child, your sense of self, and your desire. /8
Attunement means meeting what’s in your body without hierarchy; listening to sensations, emotions, and impulses; and staying present with and allowing, instead of forcing, change. /7
December 9, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Attunement means meeting what’s in your body without hierarchy; listening to sensations, emotions, and impulses; and staying present with and allowing, instead of forcing, change. /7
My medicine is my ability to attune through sensing and guide a person onto their soul’s path. My work centers attunement instead of control. Nervous system work is relational work, not compliance with instructions. /6
December 9, 2025 at 4:56 PM
My medicine is my ability to attune through sensing and guide a person onto their soul’s path. My work centers attunement instead of control. Nervous system work is relational work, not compliance with instructions. /6
But I find that this approach can quietly recreate the wound and reinforce the belief “I’m wrong for feeling this way.” It replicates the energetics and conditions of childhood that required the changing of Self in order to fit in. /5
December 9, 2025 at 4:56 PM
But I find that this approach can quietly recreate the wound and reinforce the belief “I’m wrong for feeling this way.” It replicates the energetics and conditions of childhood that required the changing of Self in order to fit in. /5
That takes a spiritual, physical, mental, and emotional toll on you. Traditional approaches teach you to regulate faster, be less reactive, stay within the window of tolerance, and control your responses. /4
December 9, 2025 at 4:55 PM
That takes a spiritual, physical, mental, and emotional toll on you. Traditional approaches teach you to regulate faster, be less reactive, stay within the window of tolerance, and control your responses. /4
That can help, but it doesn’t get at the root cause, and it doesn’t guide you onto the healing path. Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria is the manifestation of a lifetime of child-you learning that if you inhabited your body, you weren’t safe. /3
December 9, 2025 at 4:55 PM
That can help, but it doesn’t get at the root cause, and it doesn’t guide you onto the healing path. Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria is the manifestation of a lifetime of child-you learning that if you inhabited your body, you weren’t safe. /3
Much of Western therapy is organised around harm reduction. It focuses on mitigating damage and pain and associated symptoms. Reduce anxiety. Calm the body. Get back to functioning. /2
December 9, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Much of Western therapy is organised around harm reduction. It focuses on mitigating damage and pain and associated symptoms. Reduce anxiety. Calm the body. Get back to functioning. /2