Laura Jean Reiki

25/07/2025

✨ This video is such a great explainer on how chronic pain and symptoms isn’t always about damage, it’s often about protection. Our brains can learn to generate pain, even when there’s no injury.

❤️ I wish more people had access to this kind of understanding, especially those who’ve seen countless medical professionals and still haven’t found answers… just like I did.

👏 It offers so much hope if you're navigating chronic symptoms and want to explore the mind-body connection and how we can retrain the brain and nervous system to feel safe again.

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23/07/2025

✨️ Reiki Healing in Northcote ✨️

Come see me at the Hartington Centre in Northcote for a sweet Reiki reset! 🧡

🌈 Reiki is a gentle energy healing modality on all levels ~ physical, emotional, mental, spiritual and energetic. The essence within you knows how to heal, and Reiki helps to switch on that knowing.

✨️ Reiki is a Japanese word ~ ‘Rei’ translates to ‘universal consciousness’, and ‘Ki’ also known as Chi, is life force energy.

💕 If you feel like some deep rest and relaxation for the body, mind and soul, a Reiki session might be for you.

Reiki benefits can include ~

♡ Relaxation
♡ Stress management
♡ Emotional release
♡ Deeper sleep and rest
♡ Restoration of the nervous system
♡ Strengthening intuition
♡ Energetic cleansing
♡ Awakening your inner healer

❤️ You might feel called to book a Reiki healing if you are:

• Desiring self-care on a mind, body, soul level
• Stuck in the same patterns and cycles
• Feeling heavy or unmotivated
• Having difficulty processing emotions
• Going through a life-transition phase (break up, changing careers, moving house)
• Just feeling "off" or out of balance
• Feeling disconnected from your intuition
• Feeling the call to try something new
• Wanting to reinvigorate your own Reiki healing practice.
• Seeking creative inspiration

🦋 Booking link in bio or DM me for Q's. 

~ I have a bunch of session times available over the next month 🥰 I look forward to meeting you or seeing you again!

 

22/07/2025

All parts of you are so welcome 🧡

21/07/2025

In honour of National Pain Week, I want to share an interview I did last year with Nicole Sachs on ‘The Cure for Chronic Pain’ podcast.

As someone who has lived through both pain and OCD, National Pain Week brings up big feelings and a deep desire to speak up and advocate for a healing path that changed my life (and the lives of many others).

💡 Did you know that a lot of chronic pain (particularly nociplastic pain) is actually fueled by fear and a dysregulated nervous system?

💡 Did you know the body can use pain and symptoms to protect us, by distracting from emotions that feel too overwhelming?

 💡 And did you know that Chronic Pain/MindBody Syndrome (Tension Myositis Syndrome) is not only manageable... but curable?

I had NO idea about any of this, until I experienced it myself. And it changed my life.

I love this interview because:

❤️ 1.     I get to offer hope to others suffering from chronic symptoms and OCD.

🧡2.     I open up about taboo intrusive thoughts — something I was silently struggling with for months, too ashamed to tell anyone or seek help.

💖 3.     I explore topics close to my heart — self-compassion, acceptance, and how symptoms can be an invitation to evolve, grow and truly heal – wow.

It surprises me that organisations like Chronic Pain Australia don’t fully speak to this mind-body healing perspective. I understand it’s a newer paradigm, but one that holds profound potential. It’s time we talk about it more.

Every little bit of advocacy helps.
And every time I share my story, someone reaches out and says… “Yeah, me too.” 💛
That’s why I’ll keep sharing (even if it’s a bit vulnerable!).

🎧 Link in bio



💖 What's your biggest take away from this interview?

17/07/2025

🤯 Chronic pain... gone like a “religious experience”?

In this clip, comedian Larry David shared how his chronic pain completely disappeared after discovering Dr. John Sarno’s work on Chronic Pain/TMS (Tension Myositis Syndrome). Dr. Sarno believed that much chronic pain isn't from structural damage, but from repressed emotions like anger, fear, and stress.

Once Larry understood the emotional root of his pain, it lifted. Just like that. No pills. No physical treatment. Just deep mind-body awareness.

It was, in his words, “a religious experience”.

✨ I find this soo interesting, because that’s what it felt like for me too — a spiritual shift. I’ve heard so many others describe that same “awakening” when their pain or symptoms shifted.

Having learnt and practiced Reiki for years, I see the connection and I wonder… is it all the same thing? Just different languages for the same healing process?

Would love to hear from others — have you experienced this kind of shift?

If you’ve struggled with chronic pain or are curious about the mind-body connection, this Doco “All the Rage” might be worth a look.
👉 Watch the clip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSKAlCZ_ef8

A clip we put together when we were doing our kickstarter- some Howard Stern, Larry David, and Dr. Sarno - The full film now available on VOD https://vimeo.c...

10/07/2025

Listen to yourself, your body, your needs, the world around you... Taking a moment to slow down and "be here now" might be just what your symptoms are asking for. ✨️

28/06/2025

I love this story and I've heard variations of it over the years. I heard this one in the book "Intro to Internal Family Systems" by Richard Schwartz.

I just think it's such a beautiful reminder of the magic that is inside of us all ~ no matter how tough things feel on the outside, there's always this untouched peace inside...The Self, the soul and untouched light. 💖✨️

12/06/2025

It’s tricky to put my whole journey into a pretty little post!...
 
However, I know that when I was stuck in pain that it was difficult to read big chunks of info etc. So I wanted to make a little post that you could save and revisit if you need some inspo! ❤️
 
Of course the healing journey is nuanced, individual and non-linear ~ however I believe that every person’s story counts and helps to create a more multidimensional understanding of the recovery process.
 
🌈 I have elaborated on some of my points below.
 
🌼 Telling myself that I was safe and there was nothing physically wrong with me (after having tests to rule out other causes etc.).
 
🌼 Continuing to exercise even though I was in pain, going for a run or walk - showing the body that it is safe.

🌼 Listening to “The Cure for Chronic Pain’ podcast and all the amazing recovery stories – this showed my brain that it was possible for me too.

🌼Starting a daily ‘Journal Speak’ process – 20 mins of unfiltered journalling to purge the difficult emotions followed by self-compassion as a ‘balm for the wound’

🌼 Observing the emotions and the pain without attaching meaning - this is a mindfulness practice which can also be called ‘focusing’ or somatic therapy. It’s about noticing sensations with an attitude of curiosity and acceptance.

🌼 Understanding Tension Myositis Syndrome (TMS or mind-body syndrome) and the ‘Symptom Imperative” and catching it when symptoms move – As soon as my bladder pain decreased, I became really anxious, developed a headache or a sore throat… this is just another way for the symptoms to distract us from the emotional pain. The key here is to face each new symptom with acceptance “ahhh I see what is happening here, it’s OK, I’m not scared of a new symptom, I’ll sit with you too, take as long as you need”.

🌼 Unconditional self-acceptance - of myself, my pain, my emotions – each time we choose to accept rather than resist, it strengthens the neural pathway of safety.

05/06/2025

Big news! My website is live! 🥰

Welcome I'm so glad you've found your way here! This space was created with care, love and excitement, supporting you to reconnect with yourself.Our bodies have incredible wisdom, always communicating with us.Pain, symptoms and difficult emotions are often signals calling us back into alignment. Rat...

05/06/2025

Hi everyone!
I’m so excited to launch my website today.💖

This online space has been created with love, care and excitement, a home for all of my offerings and info in one place!

You’ll find info about me, Reiki, testimonials, a jam-packed resource page with so many links, a healing diary and self-care menu…and a blog! (coming soon). Building this site has been such a fun, creative pursuit! It’s felt so energetically satisfying to bring all of my healing work together in one space too.✨️

Since my interview on The Cure for Chronic Pain podcast with Nicole Sachs in 2024, I’ve received so many kind, thankful messages, along with questions from people asking how they too can recover from OCD and chronic pain. As someone who has lived through both and made it to the other side, I feel deeply called to share what I’ve learned, to raise awareness and offer tools, hope and guidance to support others. It may not be a ‘one-size fits all’ approach, but I trust you will find what works for you. 🧡

I also love sharing info about Reiki and Mindfulness Meditation ~ they can be such beautiful complimentary modalities for today's ever busy lifestyles, helping us anchor into our bodies and the present moment.

One more thing ~ I’m so grateful for the people who shared their healing stories before me. Their courage and stories became my guiding light. A few years ago, while in debilitating bladder pain, I prayed to the Universe: “If you show me how to heal myself, I will help others do the same.” And so… here I am. 😊

✨️Website link in bio✨️

P.S. I'm still in the process of fixing formatting issues and glitches! If you have any issues, please reach out. Thank you ❤️



Cover photo taken by Sigrid Petersen Photography at .wellness.collective Oshun Yoga

Sweet nature pic by sweet

01/06/2025

Little reminder to start the week 🧡

01/06/2025

Self-kindness is self-healing. 🌸

I created these new biz cards as little reminders, for myself and others, to practice a little bit of kindness, just for ourselves, to ourselves.

Kind self-talk has become a key element of my healing journey, especially in navigating OCD and chronic pain. It’s been powerful to learn that self-compassion is one of the three pillars of healing in Nicole Sachs’ Chronic Pain healing work — and it's also also one of the Five Reiki Principles:

✨️“Just for today… I will be kind to every living thing.”✨️

…and that includes ourselves. I believe that every mini moment of self-kindness matters. The way we speak to ourselves can re-write neural pathways of low self-worth and establish self-compassion, kindness and confidence within. Of course there will be moments where I fall off the Self-kindness wagon, but that's ok too! It's all just practice. 🌸





❤️ What's your self-talk vibe?