Laura Re

About Me

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As an Art Therapist and Breath-worker, I focus on healing through emotional release.
Simply “talking” about our problems can never penetrate the root of our suffering. It is through “feeling” the emotions that have been denied, suppressed, forgotten or shut down, that an opening occurs and we are liberated from our habitual grip of anger, fear or shame. Breath opens us into feeling and reconnects us with our body allowing the stored frozen emotions to flow and release. When we express the emotion on paper, we are able to go deeper into the moment when that specific emotion was first present but unexpressed. As we stay present in this vulnerable place we soften our heart and the emotion begins to flow. It is here that we feel the heart being “washed clean” of old limiting negative states.

WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT FROM A SESSION

Every session is unique just as every individual is unique. A “typical” session consists of myself and the client sitting down. When the client begins to express what is currently happening in their life right now, there is a moment when the strongest emotion comes to the surface. This is almost always overlooked by the client but this is the jewel in the session. It usually occurs within the first 3 minutes. It is here where we pause and feel and honour the emotion that has surfaced in order to be experienced and fully felt.

It is here that the client begins to create a symbol, an image, a doodle, or any sort of representation of the emotion onto paper. NO artistic quality is needed as the emotion in form is unique to every individual. Once the emotion is expressed on paper, the image begins to ‘tell it’s story’ and forgotten memories surface, usually the strongest memory of when this emotion was first denied, suppressed or not allowed to be expressed. It is in the release of old hurts and wounds that transformation and deep healing begins to take place.

The expression of emotion on paper can then taken home and the client can continue to work with their image to gain further insights and to support them to through their healing.

WHAT ELSE YOU CAN GAIN FROM A SESSION

• Identifying what is the causal emotion verses the ‘effects’ of the causal emotions
• Accessing the emotions that inhibit growth, love and healing
• Releasing the anger which keeps the pain in place
• Getting to the root of your fear
• Transforming the shame and grief that lies beneath
• Discovering your true passions and natural gifts
• Creating new behaviours that are in harmony with love

HOW DO I KNOW IF I NEED TO COME AND SEE YOU?

If you are experiencing thoughts of scarcity, “not good enough”, “don’t know enough”, “not enough time”, “not attractive enough”, “not enough money”, “not enough holidays”, etc.
If you feel incompetent, unworthy, useless, “I have nothing to offer, there is nothing special about me”
If you feel stuck, stagnant, uninspired, passionless, numb, “I don’t even know how I feel!”
If you keep repeating behaviors that you know are unloving to ourselves and others but feel powerless to change them, “why do I keep doing that?”
If you feel as if you are healing the same issues over and over and nothing is changing, “not this again, I’d thought I’d worked through that!”
If you are resistant to growth and change, experienced as an inner contraction, a hardening, rigidity, a closing down, a block to the flow of life; “this is all too hard”, “nothing ever changes”
If you are unaware of the cause of your anger. Anger can be classified as anything from rage to mild frustration, irritation, annoyance, to feeling hurt and withdrawn; “I’m not angry!”, “why am I so angry?”