Laura Oswald, Fort Collins, CO (2025)

09/24/2025

✨ When we feel stuck, it’s usually not because something is wrong with us, it’s often because a part of us is resisting what wants to be felt.

•We might be striving for happiness while holding down anger.
•Longing for clarity but avoiding confusion.
•Wanting presence but skimming over grief.

In Somatic Experiencing, we talk about how unprocessed sensations and emotions can get “stuck” in the body. Not because they’re bad, but because they haven’t yet had the space to move through.

When we soften and allow ourselves to touch the truth of what’s here, the fear, the sadness, the confusion, energy shifts. What felt like stuckness becomes movement again.

💡 Stuck isn’t a sign you’re failing. It’s an invitation to listen more deeply to your body, your emotions, and your inner truth. 🩵🪶

👉 If you’re feeling called to explore your own “stuckness,” in a safe and manageable way, I’d love to support you through Somatic Experiencing.

09/23/2025

I can’t wait to share this space with you on Sunday! ✨🩵✨

If this sounds supportive please feel free to sign up on
Link in the Be Free bio!

✨ Join us for a restorative workshop exploring practical, body-based tools to calm, ground, and reconnect in times of stress, anxiety, or overwhelm. Through gentle movement, guided somatic practices, and nervous system education, you’ll learn how to work with your body—not against it—to find steadiness and resilience in everyday life.

This experiential session is rooted in Somatic Experiencing®, a trauma-informed approach to healing and regulation. No prior experience is necessary. Come as you are, and leave with tools you can use anytime, anywhere.✨

09/11/2025

Are you projecting your love, or are you projecting your pain? Something to ponder.❣️

If it is pain, the responsibility is yours — to meet it, to learn to be with it, and, with support if needed, to hold it in a way that does not wound others. 🙏

Meeting your pain with compassion and curiosity is the first step toward transforming it into love. ❤️

09/05/2025

Nothing transforms from a space of force, judgment, shame, resentment, or hate.

Transformation happens through presence, compassion, curiosity, tenderness, and most of all, love.♥️

📸 .luminous

08/26/2025

What if your anxiety wasn’t a flaw… but a sign your body is working hard to protect you?

Anxiety often gets labeled as something “wrong” with us. But from a nervous system lens, anxiety is survival physiology. It’s the body shifting into fight-or-flight—an ancient, built-in way of keeping us safe in the face of threat.

✨ Instead of seeing anxiety as the enemy, what if we could recognize it as our body’s protective attempt?

✨ What if, rather than trying to silence it, we got curious about what it’s trying to tell us?
In Somatic Experiencing®, we learn to befriend these signals, to work with the body’s natural responses instead of against them.

Over time, this helps restore regulation and bring a deeper sense of safety from the inside out.

You are not broken. Your body is wise. Your anxiety makes sense. 💛

Take a moment today to notice what your body might be trying to protect you from. What do you feel? Where do you feel it? 🌱

08/09/2025

We stand in love,
hands warmed by one another,
hearts stitched together
by the man we call Dad.

Though the earth holds his body,
The sky holds his spirit,
woven into our laughter,
carried on every tear.

He lives in our stories,
In the way we show up for each other,
In kindness given freely,
In love without end.

Here, at his resting place,
We see it clearly,
He is not gone.
He has only become
The space between us
That keeps us whole.

We love you so very deeply, Dad.
You live on in every one of us, forever, and ever. 🙏🏼❤️‍🩹🪽🥹

07/23/2025

When we embrace what is painful and challenging, and choose to ask, What is this teaching me? How can I grow from this? ~ we soften the edges of pain and reclaim our power.

In the asking, we grow. In the growing we rise. Instead of letting hardship run our lives, we learn to gently let it lead us home to ourselves.

This gentle reframe can profoundly change your life. Practice this and know that I am always here to guide you along the way! Link in bio for more info on how to book a session with me. ✨

Fee free to screenshot this if it’s helpful, come back to it as many times as you need. Let it be your guide! 🦋🩵🙏🏼

07/06/2025

Last night, Mike and I saw Phish — and it was soul medicine. 🩵⭕

We’ve both been carrying so much lately. Between visiting our aging parents and navigating the quiet heartache of watching the people who raised us begin to fade, there hasn’t been much space to simply be. We’ve been living in the in-between — suspended between responsibilities, travels, my illness, emotions, and a lot of exhaustion.

But last night… for a few hours, under the swirl of lights and sound, we were just two humans held by the music we’ve loved for decades.

Phish was one of the first bands I ever saw live — back in 1997. I was coming from a strict, structured world: Catholic school, house rules, and a disconnection from my own body and spirit that I didn’t yet know how to name. But I remember that night so clearly — how I closed my eyes, let the music move through me, and felt, for the first time, free. Alive. Embodied.

Last night reminded me of that younger version of myself. The one who was just beginning to awaken. And it reminded me that no matter how heavy life gets, there’s always a way back — to joy, to presence.

It was nourishing in the truest sense of the word.

Grateful for the dancing, the music, the memory, and most of all, for sharing it with someone who feels like home. 🦋

06/19/2025

There are mornings—like today—when getting out of bed feels nearly impossible.

My limbs feel like lead, my thoughts are clouded with brain fog, and even something as simple as standing in the shower takes more energy than I have.

This is the reality of living with chronic Epstein-Barr Virus.

It’s taken a toll—on my energy, my clarity, my ability to work and feel independent.
It’s taken time I can’t get back—time I wanted to spend with my kids, my loved ones, or simply doing the things I care about.

I’ve missed out on moments, plans, and opportunities not because I wanted to, but because my body couldn’t keep up.

Still, I’ve done my best to keep going. To support others. To hold hope.
But the truth is: this has been deeply challenging.

I’m not sharing this for sympathy—I’m sharing it because I need support.

For the first time, I’ve found a recovery program with a specialist that offers real hope. It’s a 10-month protocol designed specifically for people like me. The only thing standing between me and starting is the cost—appointments, labs, supplements, and support I can’t afford alone right now.

With incredible generosity, we’ve already raised over $3,473—and I’m getting close to what I need to begin! 🙏🏼✨🙏🏼

If you feel moved to donate, share, or simply send a kind word—it means so much. Truly. 💛

The link to donate is in my bio.
Any amount is a huge help. 🙏🏼

This isn’t just about surviving—it’s about reclaiming my life.
To be the mom, friend, and healer I know I am beneath this illness.

Thank you for being with me on this journey.
With love and gratitude,
Laura 🩵

06/12/2025

I’m sitting here feeling deeply moved — we’ve raised over $3,000 in just 6 days and I can’t express how grateful I am for each and every person who’s donated, shared, or sent kind words and solidarity. 💛🙏🏼

This journey with chronic Epstein-Barr Virus has been long, painful, and often invisible. Some days, even getting out of bed is a win. But this healing program — a 10-month protocol with EBV expert Dr. Kasia Kines — has given me something I haven’t felt in a long time: hope. ✨

I’m so close to being able to begin — and time matters. The sooner I start, the sooner I can support my body in real recovery and begin reclaiming my life and my kid’s lives from this illness.

If you feel moved to support or share, it would mean the world to me. Truly — every bit of help gets me closer to beginning. 💛
The link to donate is in my bio.

Thank you for seeing me, believing in my healing, and holding space in a world that often doesn’t understand what it means to live with a chronic illness. You’re helping me feel not so alone. 🥹🙏🏼

06/08/2025

A few people have said to me in the last month since I shared more openly about my health struggles, “But you seem fine… you always look so happy.”

And I get it. I do smile. I show up. I laugh. I do my best to live fully — because that’s how I survive. But the truth is: I’m also suffering in ways that simply can’t be seen.

I’ve been living with chronic Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) for years. It affects my energy, my body, my nervous system — every single day. It’s invisible, but it’s real. And it’s very hard.

I know I “seem ok” to some but that doesn’t mean that I am ok. 🥹

This illness has brought me to my knees more times than I can count. And right now, I’m doing something hard: I’m asking for help — to afford a recovery program that could finally shift things for me. 🙏🏼

If you feel called to donate or share, the link is in the comments below. 🩵

And to everyone who’s already reached out — thank you so much. You’re helping me feel seen in a journey that’s often very lonely. 💛

Thank you, thank you, thank you. 💞🙏🏼

06/05/2025

A sweet addition to our beautiful hanging basket! 🩵

Beauty is everywhere. 🌱

Slow down, pause, and take a look around!! ✨

Laura Oswald

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