Reconnect Space, Melbourne (2025)

27/10/2025

Creativity is medicine.

It gives us an opportunity to play and get out of our minds, to return back to our body. It allows us to share what words alone can’t capture.

Art therapy allows us to go deeper than many talk therapies, processing your emotions on a subconscious level.

While we have known the benefits of creativity for much longer, it was in the 1940’s that the term “art therapy” began appearing in clinical settings. We have since found countless evidence-based benefits including:

• Reducing stress and supporting emotional balance
• Helping to process trauma and express difficult emotions safely
• Building self-awareness, confidence, and resilience
• Promoting mindfulness, calm, and mental clarity
• Restoring creativity, connection, and a sense of joy.

But the best way to really feel those benefits is to experience it!

Next week you’ll have the wonderful opportunity to join my workshop: Healing Through Creativity. It’s a 90-minute online workshop on Thursday 6 November 2025 from 7pm - 8:30pm (AEDT, Melbourne time). A creative reset for body and mind.

It’s free to join and no creative skill is required. Limited spots available.

We’ve had great feedback from previous attendees:

✨ “Thank you for the relaxing and really useful evening tonight. Oh, if the wider world knew that making art is so, so useful, grounding and meditative.” - Sue

✨ “I thoroughly enjoyed the workshop. It was thought-provoking (...) All of it - the activities, the music, the timing, the prompts, Julia’s calming tone.” - Jouleigh

Book your ticket here: https://www.reconnectspace.com/healing-through-creativity-workshop

15/10/2025

Are you curious to learn how creativity can support your wellbeing? Join my upcoming online workshop: Healing Through Creativity.

No artistic skill is required.

In this 90-minute experiential workshop, you’ll learn how creativity can support your well-being. You’ll be guided through therapeutic art activities focusing on self-expression, relaxation, and reflection. We’ll also practice mindfulness, and there’ll be an opportunity to connect to the community during some optional group sharing.

It’s free to join and beginner-friendly. So it’s a great way to try out therapeutic artmaking and take some time out for self-care :)

Join me on Thursday 6 November 2025 from 7pm - 8:30pm (AEDT, Melbourne time).

This workshop is open for anyone who’d like to learn to use creativity to support their well-being.

Don’t miss this opportunity to connect to your creative expression. Limited spots available.

Book now: https://www.reconnectspace.com/healing-through-creativity-workshop

Sign up at the link in bio - “Join the Free Workshop”.

08/10/2025

When was the last time you slowed down and truly listened to what your body was trying to say?

If you’ve been feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or disconnected from yourself, this is your invitation to pause.

Join me for a 90-minute online workshop where we use therapeutic artmaking and mindfulness to release stress and reconnect with your body.

No artistic skills needed, just curiosity and a willingness to show up.

🗓 Thursday 6 November 2025
7:00–8:30 PM AEDT (Online)
Free to join - limited spots available.

Save your seat via the link in bio: “Healing Through Creativity”.

01/10/2025

After 2 years of intensive training, I’m officially a Hakomi graduate. A mindfulness-based and somatic psychotherapy training from the Hakomi Institute.

I’m feeling incredibly grateful for a profound and heart-opening experience, that’s hard to put into words. This was definitely one of those life-changing experiences where there is a clear before and after.

I’m excited to be integrating this somatic modality into my therapeutic work with clients.

If you’d like to learn more about personal therapy sessions in Melbourne, I have limited spots opening up this month.

Learn more: https://www.reconnectspace.com/therapy

09/05/2025

It’s not every day that cows wander into your therapy session.

I’ve just returned from a week of ecotherapy training in nature surrounded by cows, kangaroos, birds and bees. It was a profound and precious experience, supporting others and connecting to Country.

There’s a saying that modern culture is only three days deep. Every extended nature immersion reaffirms that truth for me.

I’m coming home inspired, grateful, and ready to bring more of my client sessions outdoors.

05/03/2025

Healing doesn’t have to be all in your head.

What if you could reconnect to yourself through your body and mind?

What if you could let yourself use creativity and play to move through challenges?

Stress, trauma and overwhelm can disconnect you from your present moment experience. One of the keys to healing is returning to the present moment without overwhelming your nervous system.

One way we can support this process is by engaging your senses.

In art therapy, it’s the use of different art materials that helps you gently become more mindful and present.

• Exploring textured paper to engage the sense of touch
• Painting with vibrant colours to stimulate visual senses
• Sculpting with clay to deepen tactile awareness
• Working with warm or cool materials to explore temperature sensations
• Mixing natural elements like leaves or stones for diverse textures

By exploring a diversity of materials and working with your trauma symbolically, you can process emotions beyond words. The artmaking offers you a safe distance to explore from. Children do this very naturally without any prompting.

As you do this work, you’ll notice that your mind slows down and you’ll gain new perspective over your challenges. You step out of the patterns of overthinking and rumination, finding clarity through creative expression.

11/02/2025

“I’m just not creative.”

When did you start believing this lie?

Creativity is innate. You are a creative being.

This can look different for everyone, perhaps it’s:

• Putting paint to a canvas
• Writing in a journal
• Planting a garden
• Putting together a meal
• Starting a business
• Solving a problem

Our creative expression can take so many forms.

But what often accompanies creativity is the inner critic. So we can sometimes find ourselves feeling overwhelmed and stuck.

Do any of these sound familiar?

• “I have to make it perfect, or why bother at all?”
• “It’s not good enough. I can never do it right.”
• “I hate how this looks.”

But what if none of that was true? You were just so in the habit of believing this that you don’t even give yourself a chance to try.

What if you could:

• Be creative without any pressure to make it look good?
• Enjoy the process of making without focusing on the end result
• Reconnect to that childlike sense of play
• Let go of perfectionism
• Allow yourself to experiment with ideas

If this sounds like something you’re curious about, come and join me at my upcoming workshop “Healing Through Creativity”. It’s free to join and no creative skill is required.

https://www.reconnectspace.com/healing-through-creativity-workshop

09/02/2025

Changing your relationship with the past changes what’s possible in the present.

Physician Dr. Gabor Maté defines trauma as:

“Trauma is not what happens to you. Trauma is what happens inside you as a result of what happens to you.”

Two people can experience the same event and make radically different meaning from it. One might walk away with a PTSD diagnosis, while the other could emerge unscathed.

It is all about the relationship we form with what happened and the resulting beliefs we form about the world.

While you cannot change what has happened to you in the past, you can change the meaning you made back then. Changing the meaning of your challenging experiences can change your whole life. It is where you reclaim your power.

Have you heard of post-traumatic growth? Adversity can propel us to understand ourselves in new ways and find deeper meaning in life, even after experiencing trauma.

Post-traumatic growth transcends resilience. Instead of purely enduring hardships, it’s the ability to reflect, evolve, and fundamentally transform one’s outlook on life.

Consider the more challenging events that have shaped your life. What would it look like to take your power back?

What if your hardest experiences could also be the catalyst for the biggest growth and most meaningful changes in your life?

03/02/2025

From overthinking to embodied healing.

Traditional talk therapy can often feel like an uphill climb. While sharing your struggles might offer temporary relief, it rarely reaches the root of your pain.

Studies show that our emotions, stress, and trauma stay in the body, not just the mind. Our experiences shape the very fibres of our being.

So, how do you work through these deep-seated emotions? Genuine transformation comes from new, embodied experiences. To truly heal, you need to move beyond talking and into feeling.

Somatic therapy addresses the body directly, providing a more integrated and impactful path to healing. Working with the body doesn’t mean making bold yoga moves. It involves slowing down the subtle gestures and movements you are already making - but are often unaware of.

By expanding your awareness of your subconscious movements, you learn about yourself and your behaviour. You start to see the beliefs that have shaped your life and are given the opportunity to reframe your story. Many of these beliefs are simply not true, yet they have built the foundation of your worldview.

While you cannot change what has happened to you in the past, you can change the meaning you made back then. How different would your life look today if you could change your story of the past?

You deserve to live a life that is the full expression of your being.

At Reconnect Space, we blend somatic and arts therapy to guide you toward meaningful, lasting change from within. It’s not the only way to heal, but it’s what works for me. From traditional personal development to talk therapy and yoga - nothing has changed my inner experience as much as somatic therapies have.

27/01/2025

Welcome to Reconnect Space! So lovely to have you here.

We help you to get out of your mind and into your body with arts and somatic therapies.

It was my own lived experience of moving through grief and trauma that led me to discover the incredible healing power of these therapies.

Like many, I tried talk therapy, meditation, yoga, and other modalities. While they helped in some ways, they didn’t fully address the deeper layers of what I was experiencing. It wasn’t until I found arts and somatic therapies that I truly began to feel a shift. It was like finally coming home to myself after years of disconnection.

At Reconnect Space, my mission is to support you in moving through stress, overwhelm, and trauma so you can step into a life of authentic alignment and purpose.

✨ Here’s how we do it:
• Creative Wellbeing Workshops: These are perfect for self-care, relaxation, and reconnecting to your creativity in a supportive community.

• 1:1 Art and Somatic Therapy: For those ready to dive deeper, we’ll work together on core traumas and emotions using creativity and mindfulness to rewire deep-rooted subconscious beliefs.

True transformation happens through new sensory experiences, talking about what happened is not enough for deep change. Art and somatic therapies help regulate your nervous system, release stored trauma, and reconnect you with yourself on a profound level.

If you’re curious, I’d love for you to join one of my upcoming Healing Through Creativity workshops. It’s a wonderful way to get started and it's free to join. I can’t wait to get creative with you soon.

Join the upcoming workshop: https://www.reconnectspace.com/healing-through-creativity-workshop

10/10/2024

It’s been lovely to hear the great feedback from the recent Healing Through Creativity workshop this week.

“Thank you for the relaxing and really useful evening tonight. Oh, if the wider world knew that making art is so, so useful, grounding and meditative.” - Sue

“It really surprised me how rich with meaning each painting felt, and how cathartic it was to create them. And Julia helped make sense of them in the most compassionate way. I will definitely be back for more.” - John

A participant was also happy to share some of their artwork - which you can see in the carousel.

Are you curious to try art therapy? Click the link below to sign up for the group workshop waitlist:

https://www.reconnectspace.com/group-sessions

25/09/2024

Are you curious to learn about how artmaking can support your well-being? Join my upcoming online workshop: Healing Through Creativity!

No artistic skill is required.

In this 90-minute experiential workshop, you’ll learn how creativity can support your well-being. You’ll be guided through therapeutic art activities focusing on self-expression, relaxation, and reflection. We’ll also practice mindfulness, and there’ll be an opportunity to connect to the community during some optional group sharing.

It’s free to join and beginner-friendly. So it’s a great way to try out therapeutic artmaking and take some time out for self-care :)

If you missed the session last time, this gives you a chance to join us again live. If you did join us, I’d like to invite you for another evening of artmaking. Although we’ll be using the same prompts as last time, you’ll find that each time we revisit these therapeutic art exercises, it’s an opportunity for new insights to emerge.

Join me on Tuesday 8 October 2024 from 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm (AEDT, Melbourne time).

This workshop is open for anyone who’d like to learn to use creativity to support their well-being.

Don’t miss this opportunity to connect to your creative expression. Limited spots available.

Sign up today at: https://www.reconnectspace.com/healing-through-creativity-workshop

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