I’m wishing you a happy belated Valentine’s Day. I was traveling last week in CA, touring potential communities for a new home. Honestly, I’m a little in sticker shock. My extensive Real Estate background didn’t prepare me for this. California is unimaginably expensive. I guess I am going to pay dearly for great weather.
Thing is, I really want to live there. So, I’m going to have to hold the vision and not let unfounded fear derail me.
I celebrated Valentine’s with my granddaughter in LA, who was dressed in pink of course and wore her angel wings. She told me she was a flower fairy. We were outside waving her magic wand at the full moon making wishes.
Oh my god, be still my heart. Her free spirit and exuberant imagination are powerful examples of the self-confidence she has as a young girl. She has been raised in a healthy, loving environment and encouraged to express her creativity in a multitude of ways.
There is a flip side to this. One that is becoming more common. I’m referencing the young girls that have had their innocence, their free spirit ripped from them and have been silenced by the atrocities of domestic abuse. They have witnessed their mother’s being abused or have been victims themselves. It’s really a big problem that doesn’t get talked about enough.
Sometimes a conventional medical approach is just another bandaid over a gaping wound.
If you have been following me for a while you know by now, I am always looking for alternative ways to heal. I am a huge believer in holistic remedies. I’ve also witnessed firsthand what can happen to these young girls and their mothers when they are processed through our legal and medical systems. They can be lost in the shuffle of paperwork and end up being victims again.
This week’s conversation on Awakening Divine Wildness is a much-needed one. My guest, Laura Joseph is a super knowledgeable expert on dealing with and healing trauma. She learned the hard way, by being a victim of domestic abuse and rape herself. She knows the pain of C-PTSD personally and the poisonous grip it holds on your life.
Laura uses a spiritually based integrative holistic and health program through her “Healing Trauma Through Spirit” for women.
Trust me, this show is an eye-opener, revealing ways for women to reclaim their power from the shadows of abuse and trauma.
If I could wave a magic wand, I would want all women to live loving, prosperous lives that are free from abuse and trauma. A life where a woman wakes up every day and know she’s valued. A day where she can wear her wings.
We can do this…working together and supporting one another. Women are the future!
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Mal: I am excited today because I get to talk to someone I know personally. Many of my guests are from around the globe, but this lady, I know, I’ve been nose to nose and toes to toes with her. And I even did one of her magical full day retreats and I came out feeling so uplifted and so whole and connected to my heart at the end of the day with Laura Joseph. She’s magical and I’m thrilled to have her on today. But Laura’s journey has not come without challenge. When she was trying to heal that broken feeling that she had within herself for so many decades after suffering abuse, including domestic violence and rape, resulting in complex CPTSD. Laura delved into traditional American health care system, hoping she could returned to her unbroken self. She wasn’t getting better and band-aids were increasingly applied to her mental, emotional, and physical symptoms that began to spiral out of control.
[00:01:21] Laura began to heal herself when she began looking into the spiritual aspects of her issues that the healthcare system couldn’t figure out. She systematically implemented a spiritually based holistic approach to her healing, which saved her life in ways to defy a logic. Since then, Laura’s been a sought after spoke person. Laura has experience as a trauma specialist, a domestic abuse advocate, college educator, end of life transition specialist with over health advocacy and college educator with over 15 years’ experience working in the healthcare system. She’s a healer, an educator, a natural born intuitive, a manifested physician and a trauma survivor, a health advocate, a mentor, an artist, a writer, and an overall spiritual bad-ass and I can attest that. She is sought after for speaking all over and she has a fabulous website that is called ‘Healing with Spirit’ and her business is Healing with Spirit in Hingham, MA. Laura, I am over the moon girl that you’re with me today on 1212 this is like a super high energy day. And look what I’ve got, the cosmic queen of resolving trauma from abuse. How are you dear?
Laura Joseph: I’m doing good. These energies are sure shit kicker, that’s all I know because it’s really in trauma, it’s interesting I was chuckling over the fact that we picked this day. And I did a live video this morning on 1212 and how much trauma peace is developed in the whole 1212 full moon, on a 1212 AM, you know. Today, three years and I’m going, “holy shit, this is like major, [Inaudible 03: 28 – 03:29] like the generational, it’s the personal, it’s the karmic. It’s all surfacing all at the same time.”
Mal: Powerful, powerful energies. I love it. I love moving energy and I have many rituals I use for new moons and full moons. And I had all my crystals laid out last night, had the singing bowl going and I had them all in the moonlight. It was wonderful. Came down with the morning and they were all like sparkling in charge.
Laura Joseph: [00:03:59] Well that’s good because sometimes, I’m a Pisces, this is actually a Pisces number as well. So, I’m so sensitive that I didn’t sleep until after one, two o’clock in the morning. And then I had a hard time getting up this morning and I was like, “Oh my gosh.” You know, but I guess this is where I bless my junk because as I like to say is “you’ve got to learn to bless that and learn to go and master the flow, not the outcome,” you know. And you kind of chuckle at these little hiccups that we get, you know.
Mal: Wonderful. So I am just so taken back by your transparency, your vulnerability in sharing that you personally went through decades of violence and trauma. So give the listeners just a little history. I don’t want to, you know, drag the suffering of, but just a recap of kind of what has inspired you to step up and do what you do today?
Laura Joseph: [00:05:06] Well, growing up, I didn’t know what a normal household was like. I grew up in an abusive household and I have no resentment towards either one of my parents. They, I think at that time did the best that they thought they could. But it also didn’t make it easy for me to go to my parents for the subsequent events that had happened, where I was actually even molested as a child by some neighborhood kids that we just thought things were just normal, you know because I didn’t know what normal looked like. I was sexually abducted at 12, in a town that was deemed to be safe, even though nothing happened, “so-called happened.” I was still groped. I still blamed myself and didn’t talk to anybody about it because you know, “Hey, go help me find my puppy” and next thing you know am behind this abandoned building and told to pull my pants down. To being raped at 15, losing my virginity through rape. To being sexually abducted, ruffyed at 22 and my best friend had to pull me out of a car of four strange men and figure out how to drive a stick shift in the middle of Philadelphia, in the hills. So all by herself.
[00:06:16] So, and then I met my ex-husband and got married at 26 and then the rest is history of “Oh, this systemic abuse” that I didn’t realize existed in our, even in our system, you know. That, you know, in the family courts and how 58,000 children are illegally trafficked by way of family courts. You’ve seen a lot in the media this year, what’s going on at the border, but nobody talks about 58,000 children being legally trafficked by way of family courts to abuser and rapists every year.
Mal: It’s awful and you see in the news, several times a year locally for me, children who have died in foster care. And that breaks my heart because that could have been prevented.
Laura Joseph: Yeah. [00:07:05] This is like, you know, I spent 10 years researching and advocating for families in Massachusetts and the punishment or I should say the reward I got for doing so, I actually had 20 families against one judge. My mission was to remove him from the bench. And I grew up in an environment that the truth always prevails, right? That you tell the truth and you know, it always wins, right? You can’t, you know, abuser can’t get away with things. And so I thought that that was on my side. And I ended up at Framingham State Penitentiary to be silenced. That was the system’s way of silencing me on advocating for these 20 families, which compromise over 80 children, and protective mothers against one judge who was knowingly giving custody and visitation to rapist and documented abusers.
Mal: Well, oh my god. What? So many women get violated the way that you have, even in childhood, their teens and yet they seem to minimize what happened to them. They are afraid to step up and really say what happened. Why do you think that is Laura?
Laura Joseph: [00:08:34] I think its multi-fold, one, I know in my situation it was retaliation. Not only retaliation from your abuser but actually retaliation from the system that says on one level, “we’re going to protect you,” but really what they’re doing is the system is a colonized system. Let’s get real. We think as women we have rights. I didn’t realize how many rights because I had just grown up very independent that I’m able to a man in every way until I faced the system that is very white man dominated. And it’s not to say white men are evil, but this is the system that we’ve created.
[00:09:11] So women are, don’t have the power that we think we do when it comes to law, legislation, when it comes to being believed. Because when we have a colonized mind-set, you know, it is conquer and enslave. That’s the mentality of a colonizer’s mind-set. And until we as a society can wake up and realize that’s the society we have been bred into, we can’t change that. I had somebody asked me recently, “why do we normalize violence and all these things?” I said, “Because we’re colonized.” We don’t realize we’ve normalized it. It’s so in our veins. We don’t even realize that what we’re thinking and what we’re believing is wrong, you know. And women blame women. You can see her coming out of a bar with her clothes, rip, bloody, bruised and beaten. And the first thing might be, “what did you do to deserve this?” Instead of, “who did this to you?” Right?
Mal: Yeah.
Laura Joseph: And I’ve seen people that claim to be healers and spiritual leaders, even in churches that call out and say, “Women lie about rape.” And I just go, “Oh my god, do you realize what you’re doing? Do you actually realize….” Because, I know my advocacy years, how many girls, I didn’t know how bad this was when I was doing advocacy of how prevalent ruffying girls on college campuses are. That it’s the gateway drug, not the gateway drug, but it’s the gateway to keep yourself from getting prosecuted. And that girls wake up on college campuses normalizing saying “as long as they don’t remember, it’s okay.” There’s something wrong with this when we start normalizing this behavior, this violation that we don’t realize later on may end up as fibroids, endometriosis, uterine cancer, you know, breast cancer, all these things that we know are linked to abuse and sexual violence. Just because you say you don’t remember, doesn’t mean your body doesn’t remember.
Mal: And you hold that trauma and what happens is, it changes the cellular structure.
Laura Joseph: Yes, it does.
Mal: But you always say if you can heal trauma, you can heal anything.
Laura Joseph: [00:11:39] That is a firm belief. That’s been my mission. I mean, when I first left my marriage in 2005, they gave me a cocktail of a lot of medications, of all kinds of things. I had all kinds of mental health as well as physical symptoms from a haemorrhagic uterine bleeding, too severe PTSD, Insomnia, Anxiety, Panic to chronic, left side pain. I had a lot of these, I would choke just on water. It was insane, the subtleties of what my body was responding. And when I started realizing the cocktail wasn’t making me better, but making me worse, that’s what led me into, “okay, there’s got to be something else.” And I grew up in the healthcare field and it’s in a field filled with holistic doctors to boot. So I already had one foot in there a little bit, but when I started really going into the spiritual path and all of a sudden my body was kicking medications to the curb, I’m going and I was actually getting better, I was like, “okay, what’s wrong with this picture?” Because why not go to a therapists, or a doctor and a pill’s going to fix you or therapy is going to fix you. And I’m finding “no, that didn’t help me.” That actually made me feel more broken, okay? So it doesn’t mean that in some cases, for other people that might be what they need. And I never persuade somebody to not seek those things, you know. What I say is when you’ve tried that and nothing is working, then you got to look at another component.
[00:13:21] And with my Japanese teachers, I really got to understand that trauma seeds itself, not just what we think, like, “Oh, in the mind”, you know, or in “the physical body.” Well, no, but they’re also, they are separate bodies. There’s the mental body, the physical body, the emotional body, and the spiritual body. Where was the trauma seated? Yeah, it was grabbed by the throat and thrown up against the wall. Is it seeding in me physically, mentally, emotionally, or spiritually or combination? And how was that manifesting?
Mal: How do you, how do you decipher that?
Laura Joseph: [00:13:54] Listening to the body. So I teach people how to listen to their, see our bodies are designed to heal themselves. We have been, again, from a colonized culture, we have been conditioned to turn our power over to a pill, to a corporation, to a doctor, to a politician, to an advocate, right? And what I do is I say, “Let me help you become your own superhero,” okay. Because when you can do that and help your own body know how to heal itself, just by learning how to reconnect and re-educate yourself on what does that look like. And I like, this week I had clients that said to me, “Geez, I didn’t realize how far I’ve come. My mother said this to me today. I had somebody came up to me and said this to me today that so, you know, when you had this conflict last year, this is how you reacted?” And they were very frustrated with how their mother was behaving, they couldn’t handle. And I said, “But watch, you live together. What you’re doing it’s going to rub off, right? So they said, “the law,” they were saying, “look at this battery, you created how healthy it is.” And I go, “are you paying attention to how your parents responding? Because you were saying that you didn’t know how to get through to them at all.” And to be mindful of how you’re letting things go and you’re going, “but how did I do that?” Then I go, “because you created this innate system within yourself and my goal is help create that.” We all create that differently. Because what does that look like for that individual person? That’s where it gets maybe a little complex. It’s a little time consuming because everybody has a different way of communicating and what that looks like for them.
Mal: Do you have certain modalities that you really favour or recommend for women to heal trauma?
Laura Joseph: [00:15:46] I am a big ad from everything that I’ve done. I’ve done everything from massage to acupuncture, Tai Chi. I think it’s, what works for you. For what has worked for me isn’t just Reiki, because I got to be careful with that because I can see Reiki as equally as harmful with the wrong practitioner who’s unskilled and untrained, but Jikiden Reiki. I couldn’t understand how different it was when I was doing more Western Reiki. I had so many other things I had to add to what I was doing to make sure that what they were releasing was in a safe environment. And when I started learning Jikiden Reiki, which is the direct teachings out of Japan that are non-colonized, non-westernized, as it was done in Japan, before it came to the West. And I was like going, I was just looking at the results and I’m going, ‘holy shit.” It was like night and day. And then I started experimenting it with people, with wound care and getting people’s wounds that weren’t closing for three months. All of a sudden one or two sessions, closed. So, now I’m on a mission, obviously using myself as the poster board because if I’m not walking it, then how do I expect somebody else to do it? It’s not as easy, it depends on what’s, there’s so much involved as in the rituals of Jikiden Reiki that’s hard to do in a podcast.
Mal: Can you maybe in a very simple way, what’s the difference between the Reiki that you’re using and the Western Reiki that we’re all kind of familiar with? Is there some ingredient or something that you can kind of pinpoint for us to understand?
Laura Joseph: [00:17:43] I think, you know, from my experience and coming from both worlds, I always knew there was something missing in the westernized Reiki, I didn’t know what. Because if it cured every known illness and disease, why wasn’t I seeing this in a medical environment? So I felt like there was something, again, I come from a very intuitive, background. So like something in me just didn’t sound right, I didn’t know why. And to be honest with you, just the word Jikiden, I was drawn to, I didn’t know why. And then when I learned that the word Jikiden translated into English means direct teaching. I was like, “Oh, okay.” So what I want to say like between Western Reiki and Jikiden Reiki, Western Reiki, some people say, “All they talk about is shock horizon, ore horizon, crystals” and “Oh, let me talk to your dead uncle.” None of that is Reiki. Let’s just get that clear, okay. And I’m hoping I’m not offending anybody, but this is how we’ve westernized it. It doesn’t mean that what they’re doing is wrong because I did it, I taught it. I didn’t understand either. And it doesn’t mean that it doesn’t have a value. When I went to the direct teachings, it was really all about removing toxicity and restoring wholeness. It’s about ego destruction.
Mal: Ego destruction.
Laura Joseph: Yes.
Mal: Yes.
Laura Joseph: [00:19:10] Reiki, it’s about, “Hey, put your hands on everybody and let’s make magic. I’m a healer. I’m going to fix you, but I’m not going to do my work.” Something simple, like the Go Chi with, I had my first little pending talking about the go Chi, which are five simple sentences and in English, it’s something as simple as learning in English, minimizes the importance of saying in Japanese [inaudible 19:34] is “Just for today, do not [Inaudible 19:36], do not worry, be grateful. Do your duties fully, be kind to others? And in Japanese it’s Okoru-n., Sinpai suna, Kansha shite Goo hage me. Hito ni shinsetsu ni. So when you say it, it does a resonance because of a frequency and vibration, these are the subtleties that can make magic. And I have a pending book on this. I couldn’t believe I wrote a book on five sentences [inaudible 19:59] healing trauma and chronic illness and it made me realize like why the victims stay victims?
[Inaudible 20:08] is conditioned to believe that we’re victim, right? The power of the mind-set. Who’s going to believe me, you know? Or I just got a cowboy it up and just move. I got to keep moving because I’m told I don’t, you know, me grieving over this or need crying or having an emotional breakdown over what happened to me. I shouldn’t be entitled to that. [00:20:30] So we are entitled. I teach my clients, that you have to honour that wound. You have to honour that pain.
Mal: Yes.
Laura Joseph: [00:21:00] The magic to become whole again isn’t avoiding the shadows. Actually having the courage to go into the shadows and to know about the triggers, I call them triggers. Triggers are nothing more than a clue to the treasure on the treasure map. And we can switch our mind-set to see them as close to the treasure and not as, “oh my God, why am I feeling this? Oh my God, I’m going to have a breakdown. Oh my God, I didn’t want this, he did this again.” No, get out of that. I want my mind-set to tell my brain to “shut the fuck up. Am already done with those games. They are not going to mess with me anymore. What happened to me, happened to me?” But my brain, I do not want my brain to kind of bring me back and constantly re-traumatize me. So it’s clean, those new neurosynopsis, there’s new neuropathways and belief systems. So, all these angles and all this kind of came down to learning Jikiden Reiki.
Because when you go into the ego destruction, you see all these things very clearly. [Inaudible 21:44] has a shifted, since learning that because there’s so many piles of Jikiden Reiki that can’t necessarily be shared, that’s not taught in Westernised Reiki because it’s a cultural difference. That’s like a mental thing. I know so many wonderful Reiki practitioners in the West that don’t even say it’s Japanese anymore. It doesn’t mean that what they’re doing is wrong or that what they’re doing doesn’t have value. I want to be clear on that. We’re talking about trauma, it’s everything. It’s everything and it takes experience. It takes knowing when to put your hands on one, when to not put your hands on, when to hold space. Okay? When to help somebody just practice the breathing and you know and to know that they’re in a safe environment, right? So this is where I’m not putting myself first, I’m putting them first. But in order to put them first, I have to deal with my own junk. If cant’ deal with my own junk, then how can I be effective for them?
Mal: Right. I’ve always said to women, “you need to feel the pain in order to heal it.” There’s no way to circumvent that because it’s going to come back. It’s going to bite you in the tail, harder the second time around.
Laura Joseph: Yes.
Mal: You deal with it and feel it and process it. Allow yourself that, you owe it to yourself. If you’ve been through something horrific and you’ve been traumatized to feel the pain so that you know that once you’re there that you can, there are modalities, there are ways to heal it. But if you deny it, you’re not going to get to the healing.
Laura Joseph: [00:23:30] That’s exactly right. I mean, almost every person I have seen with either terminal cancer, cancer, autoimmune disorders, mental health issues from anxiety, PTSD, suicidal ideations to, you know, all kinds of things, have all been linked to [inaudible 23:49]. We have an epidemic of unresolved trauma in this country. And recently, a lot of the opiate epidemic is also a way of numbing traumatic events. So, you know, and it’s not just personal events, by the way, let’s just be clear, some of the trauma that’s surfacing right now isn’t even our own. It’s generational…
Mal: It’s selective and generational, yeah.
Laura Joseph: [00:24:16] Selective and generational is surfacing really hard right now. So for those of us who have been spiritually bypassing even our own traumas are especially feeling the weight of this, tremendously. And then there’s the old saying, “when you surrender to what is, it no longer has power.” There’s a paradox of that. Like, people don’t realize that when you surrender, you actually have more power. Well we don’t see it as that. We see it as turning more power over. But yet, the women that I see, they get re-victimized because I [inaudible 24:43] spoken in the [Inaudible 24:45] community on sexual predators that have been infiltrating our communities. And the one thing I see with these women that make them targets, is that they are looking for the knight in shining armour. They’re looking for that guy that’s going to rescue them. That’s going to, “Oh my God, I’m so exhausted. I’m so broken.” I’ve been there. I get it but you don’t want somebody to do it for you because when you have somebody that’s going to do it for you, under the guise of, “let me be charitable”, under the guise of “I want to be your knight, let me help you,” right? That is an invitation of “I’m taking your power away and you don’t even know it.”
Mal: Yes. And it’s control.
Laura Joseph: By the time you cop on, that’s when the abuse starts. Every single woman that I’ve helped in these situations, it’s been that scenario over and over. Okay. One of them ended up being sexually trafficked by their partner. And she was worried about her whole losing custody and everything. And this is what happens. [00:25:50] And like we have to become whole. We can’t [inaudible 25:52] this is what they do. They beat us now so much that we get so exhausted, we feel so broken, all we want is somebody to help us, you know. And I’ve been there and I would never want anybody, I would never want anybody to live through some of the things that I went through. You know, I mean, I was borderline homeless, you know. I went from living in a beautiful home, mid six figure income, BMW, two acres of land, indoor ground pool, whole works to [Inaudible 26:19] a month I was living on. Now, and having everything stripped away from me, including my children that I haven’t seen in over 10 years, you know?
Mal: Because of the system,
Laura Joseph: Hmm?
Mal: Because the system,
Laura Joseph: [00:26:35] Because of the system. Yes. I was punished, with my own children. They used my children to punish me for advocating for the other families. And I had
Mal: You had a voice that threaten the shit out of them, you got it?
Laura Joseph: I know. You know, I knew I was onto something because I think it was 2006 maybe or 2007, I can’t remember. [00:27:03] I was actually contacted by a 2020 reporter, and I forget how they got my information, but I knew I had to been on to something if they were contacting me saying, “Why? And at the time I only had 11 cases and they go, “why 11?” Or “why only 11?” And sometimes, you don’t always have the answers for those things, right? What it said to me was the fact that they’re contacted me on 11 cases with one judge and they don’t really give a rat’s rear end about my case, is telling me that I was on to something. I didn’t know what, I didn’t know what at the time.
[00:27:42] And it’s the collective [Inaudible 27:43], the collective corruption and the colonization that affects society and it’s so infectious that we don’t even know, and this is the last year that I’m seeing, in order to heal trauma, we have to decolonize. Because this is the piece that I see that people, they go, “why can’t I just get over this? Why can’t I just do this?” Because the belief systems that they have are coming from a colonized mind-set. It’s that parameter that women are less than, nobody’s going to believe you that you deserved it, right, while you were complicit in it, you asked for it, right? All these things are coming from a colonized mind-set. It’s not from well, “I’m a woman and I’m a human being and I didn’t deserve to be abused, raped or beaten. Thank you very much.”
Mal: Laura, you have got resources on your website for our listeners.
Laura Joseph: Yes.
Mal: Tell them where they can find you, your web address, how they can get in touch with you because I know there are a lot of people out there that need this kind of help, healing and you know, with trauma.
Laura Joseph: [00:28:56] So I do a lot of events too. I speak at a lot of conferences, structures, organizations. So sometimes there’s a posted on my event page and the many of them are free. And I also have a blog on my website with links to like my YouTube videos and everything else, including one that is called “Today I bless my junk”, which is like a four part series, which is like, “look, yes, I was raped, I was abused as a child0”. I can sit there and go be [inaudible 29:27 – 29:28] for the rest of my life. Or I can sit there and say, “You know what, because of what happened to me, I’m more empathetic. Because of what happened to me, it has made me who I am today. Because of what happened to me, I am the loud mouth and spiritual bad-ass, I am, right?” More of a woman’s champion than I was then because my look at my mind-set then, I was raised as a boy, not a woman. So all these things, so I do have a series called “Today I Bless my Junk.” It’s a four part series in a blog section.
Mal: I love it.
Laura Joseph: [00:30:01] It is www.laurahealingwithspirit.
Mal: Wonderful. Thank you my friend. It’s always a joy to see you.
Laura Joseph: You too.
Mal: I’m going to be seeing you on the solstice, honey.
Laura Joseph: Yay. I know I can’t wait. Another powerful day. Talk about some shit kickers. Time, like has a 2020 by the way, for the 2020 and the next women’s retreat on January 12th, we’re going to [Inaudible 30:26] numerology for 2020.
Mal: Oh, awesome.
Laura Joseph: So for those of us with trauma, it’s a big deal to get the stuff rolling now, to set up the legwork, the platform for 2020 on how to take our power back. It’s a very self-empowering year for those of us with trauma. If you’ve already started the work now,
Mal: Awesome. Bless you, my friend.
Laura Joseph: Thank you.
Mal: Great to be with you.
Laura Joseph: You too.
NOTES
[00:01:21] Laura began healing herself using spiritual means because the health care system could not come up with a cure.
[00:03:59] Laura rules under the Pisces sign
[00:05:06] Laura’s history of the path she has chosen, being abused, raped, abducted and rufied.
[00:06:16] Spoke about her ex-husband and being married at age 26.
[00:07:05] Spent 10 years researching and advocating for families, resulting in the removal of a corrupt judge.
[00:08:34] Laura explained by girls/women are afraid to come forward, but she implores them to retaliate.
[00:09:11] Laura speaks about the power that women don’t think they have and it’s bad when they start to normalize and accept the abusive behavior.
[00:11:39] Laura believes that if she can heal from trauma, you can heal from anything.
[00:13:21] Laura speaks about her Japanese teachings, having separate bodies; mental, physical, emotional and spiritual.
[00:13:54] Laura teaches people how to listen to their bodies to heal themselves.
[00:15:46] Laura recommends certain modalities such as Jikiden Reiki.
[00:17:43] Laura explains the difference between Western Reiki and Jikiden Reiki.
[00:20:30] Laura teaches to honor the wound, honor the pain.
[00:21:00] Laura explains that the magic to becoming whole is to go into the shadows and know the triggers.
[00:23:30] Laura agrees that you have to accept your situation to get healing.
[00:24:16] Laura speaks about selective and generational trauma.
[00:26:35] Because Laura is an advocate and because if the system she is punished by not being able to see her children.
[00:27:03] Laura is contacted by a 2020 Reporter about her 11 cases.
[00:28:56] Laura’s work, seminars, conferences, etc.
[00:30:01] Laura’s website www.laurahealingwithspirit.
