Emotional Release
Over the past decade of helping people heal from trauma and anxiety there is one multilayered modality that I have created and used in every session to help them clear out emotional clutter and set a sturdy foundation to grow and heal upon.
Many people want to feel differently than they currently do. They want to feel peace, calm, and love. They try talk therapy, affirmations, and reading self-help books but still find themselves disproportionately reacting to situations or feeling stuck with the same depleting patterns and cycles.
Why aren’t those things working?!
Let’s say you buy a new couch as your old one is broken and hurting you every time you sit on it. The delivery people arrive with your new couch and ask where you want it. You show them the room, however, there is no room as the old couch is still taking up the space. You realize in that moment, which seems obvious now, that you must move out the old stuff to make room for the new.
Emotions are like this. People are so full of stored past emotions that any small thing added has the backlog spilling over. Even if they try to bring in a better feeling, but they can’t hold on to it as there just isn’t the space/capacity for it.
Why is this the case?
You’ve gone through life having experiences that bring up feelings and emotions that you didn’t know what to do with. From a very early age you’ve been told to “be quiet”, “go to your room”, “cut that out” etc. Your parents didn’t know how to deal with those feelings and so you were sent away or quieted down and “figure it out”.
The heartbreaking part is, you were just a little child, and you needed to be seen, heard and shown how to deal with them. Instead, you learned that those emotions were not safe or acceptable. So, you started pushing them down, ignoring them, or avoiding them. Your body became like a pot that just kept collecting more and more emotions. Until one day, your emotional pot was so full that a small incident started it overflowing.
This my friend is why it gets to a point where any small thing results in a disproportionate emotional response. You have such a backlog of stored emotions that need to be processed and released. You need to learn how to open the spigot on the pot so that you can start emptying some of those stored emotions at a safe and compassionate speed so that you can create room and capacity to invite in the emotions you want to feel.
What people don’t realize is those perceived negative emotions only lasts 60-90 seconds in the body in its natural cycle. It’s when we resist, push down, or numb them that the cycle gets interrupted and will get activated again with the goal of completion. Cue repeating patterns and behaviours. This is how trauma and emotions can stay stored and on repeat for years.
Over the past decade of working with people, I have created a combined multi-modality approach to help people learn how to release and process their emotional pot.
I’ve learned the subtle cues that indicate how much to open the spigot and how to guide them through the feelings in a way that is much more empowered and freeing than they initially think it will be. I help them to stay present and create a safe nurturing space for them to feel and release what they have been wanting to let go of for years.
When people leave these sessions, they have more compassion for themselves and past situations. They feel lighter in their mind and body, and have a deep sense of peace that leaves them in awe and amazement.
When I first started offering this combined modality in 2016, we could often get through the major emotions of Anger, Fear, Sadness, Guild and Shame with in one to two sessions. Then Covid hit and things that had been laying dormant were stirred and activated. Now I am finding 4 sessions are needed to make an impactful difference and make space for the things they want to feel.
Here’s the wild part. Many people are accustomed to leaving traditional therapy feeling worse than when they arrived. They were asked, “and how did that make you feel” but not supplied with any tools, skills or know how on what to do with those feelings. They would end up marinating in them – which feels disheartening and hopeless.
Working with me is different. My goal and mission is to leave you at the end of the session in a better place than where I found you at the beginning of the session. That means, you’ll be learning how to feel the feelings, you’ll have skills and tools to help you navigate life outside of our sessions. And you’ll leave feeling more empowered and lighter. It’s a very different experience.
If you are ready for a different experience that actually helps release stored emotions so you can feel better – the Emotional Release is for you.
Emotional Release is comprised of 4 x 90 minute sessions focused on meeting and processing the main categories of emotions: Anger, Sadness, Fear, Guilt and Shame. We will blend modalities of Hypnosis, Somatic (breath/body work), Sound healing, Energy work and a modality I call the Eye Cataloguing System (similar philosophy to EMDR).
These sessions are effectively done online or in-person depending on your preference. The first and second session should be spaced 7-10 days apart and the subsequent sessions can be spaced one to two weeks apart.
If you’re wanting a different experience, a practitioner that has decades of experience and acquired skills and to finally feel better, I encourage you to schedule your Emotional Release now.