Heal 2 Thrive Counselling & Breathwork

Heal 2 Thrive Counselling & Breathwork I am a psychotherapeutic counsellor, hypnotherapist and Integral eye movement therapist.

My Therapy room is in Rayleigh Essex, but I offer online & telephone counselling to clients based anywhere in the UK

19/06/2026

A beautiful one-to-one breathwork session in The Nest This week

One of the things I love most about working 1:1 is that every session is completely unique.
We begin with a conversation before the session about what’s been happening for you, what feels heavy, and what you are hoping to gain from the session. From there, I can tailor the entire experience the theme, the visualisation, the playlist, and the space I hold.

People come to breathwork for all sorts of reasons

Stress and overwhelm
Anxiety and overthinking
Grief and loss
Self-doubt and low self-worth
Life transitions
Letting go of old stories
Reconnecting with themselves
Inner child healing

Our stories are often carried not only in our thoughts, but in our bodies they sometimes show up as tension, tightness, or a feeling of heaviness in the body.
Through the breath, we gently soften these layers, creating space for emotions that may have been held beneath the surface to be acknowledged, felt, and released.

Last nights session was incredibly powerful. The energy in the room felt tangible, and
witnessing someone begin to release some of what they’ve been carrying and leave feeling lighter and more connected to themselves is such a privilege.

Moments like these remind me why I love this work so much. The power of our breath continues to amaze me

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17/06/2026

🌗 Meeting Your Shadow

We all have parts of ourselves we’d rather not look at.

The jealous part.
The angry part.
The needy part.
The fearful part.
The part that wants to be chosen.
The part that feels resentful.
The part that becomes critical when it’s hurting.

Often, we spend so much energy trying to hide these parts that we never stop to ask what they’re trying to tell us. But healing isn’t about becoming all light.
It is about becoming whole.

I love exploring shadow work with clients because it gently brings unconscious patterns into conscious awareness. When we begin to notice these hidden parts, we gain more choice over how we respond rather than reacting automatically.

By meeting these parts with curiosity and compassion, we can begin to understand them, integrate them, and learn from them.

❤️ Every part of us has a story.
❤️ Every part of us has something to teach us.
❤️And every part of us helps make us whole.

The shadow isn’t something to fear.It’is simply a part of you waiting to be seen.

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✨ Sometimes Our Minds Forget About The MagicThey remind us of everything that could go wrong, all the problems we haven’...
12/06/2026

✨ Sometimes Our Minds Forget About The Magic

They remind us of everything that could go wrong, all the problems we haven’t solved yet, and all the ways life might disappoint us.
A few days ago, Charlie and I set out for a walk in the rain.
As the clouds cleared, I heard the sound of a handpan drifting through the air and discovered a highway maintenance worker sitting on the back of his lorry playing while he waited to return to work.

As we chatted, he told me his previous handpan had been stolen something he had worked hard and saved for, this made my heart sink.
Then he told me that another handpan player had heard his story through Facebook and gifted him one of their old handpans.
In just a few minutes I was reminded of both the highs and lows of humanity.
The people who take.
The people who give.

It also reminded me of something else important. While our minds are busy preparing us for what might go wrong, life is quietly preparing moments of beauty too.

✨ An unexpected conversation.
✨ An act of kindness.
✨ A moment of connection.
✨ A little magic on an ordinary day.

Difficult things will happen.
But beautiful things will happen too.Sometimes life doesn’t give us answers.Sometimes it simply reminds us to look up and notice.

💛 Don’t become so focused on preparing for the storms that you forget to leave room for the sunshine,magic & joy

Ps. Image created. I have a beautiful video of the real moment but I didn’t ask his permission to share and would hate to get him in trouble.

Website Update ✨I have been updating my website. Alongside counselling, you’ll now find information about:❤️Conscious Co...
04/06/2026

Website Update ✨

I have been updating my website.
Alongside counselling, you’ll now find information about:

❤️Conscious Connected Breathwork for Emotional Release

❤️1:1 Breathwork Sessions

❤️ Intimate Group Breathwork at The Nest

❤️ Retreats, Events & Collaborations

Breathwork has become a natural extension of the work I already do as a counsellor. Sometimes talking is exactly what we need. Sometimes we need to gently reconnect with the wisdom of the body too.

If you’d like to take a look, you can find all the details here:

❤️ heal2thrive.co.uk

Thank you to everyone who continues to support and encourage. It means more than you know 🫶💖❤️

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02/06/2026

A little introduction ❤️

I am Laura a counsellor, breathwork facilitator, dog mum to Charlie, and the person behind
The Nest, a warm, grounded space in Rayleigh, Essex for therapy, breathwork, healing, growth, and gently coming back to yourself 💛

Thank you for being here 💛

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Tidying yesterday and this photo fell out. Me and my dad at his 60th birthday.Looking at it took my breath away for a mo...
22/05/2026

Tidying yesterday and this photo fell out. Me and my dad at his 60th birthday.

Looking at it took my breath away for a moment and the tears flowed. I looked at us and thought, neither of us had any idea that four years later he would be gone.

I feel very blessed to have had him as my dad for 32 years. But in that moment, we both believed there would be so much more time.

Most days now, 16 years on, grief sits more quietly. I think of him every day and all that he has missed , like my nephew’s 21st last weekend, and how proud of him he would be.

But then there are moments like yesterday a song, a smell, a photograph falling from an old drawer and suddenly grief is standing right beside you again.

Grief doesn’t disappear. It changes shape as we learn how to carry it.

Losing my dad was also part of what eventually led me into counselling and training as a bereavement counsellor in a hospice. It taught me that grief doesn’t need fixing. Most grieving people don’t need someone to take the pain away. They need someone willing to sit beside them in it, to hold them in their grief, to not rush them, and to not look away.

Sometimes grief needs words. Sometimes it needs us to tell the story again, even years later when it feels like everyone else has moved on.

To say their name.To remember who they were.To speak about them as though they still matter because they do.

This isn’t a sympathy post. It’s just a gentle reminder to anyone carrying grief quietly alongside everyday life: I see you and there is nothing wrong with you for still feeling the pain so strongly years later. ❤️ Counselling

Some days I wake up, don’t look at my phone, make a herbal tea, and do breathwork while listening to a meditation. Other...
12/05/2026

Some days I wake up, don’t look at my phone, make a herbal tea, and do breathwork while listening to a meditation.

Other days I switch the telly on straight away, have coffee for breakfast, whilst doom scrolling and my brain immediately starts running through everything I need to today and basically for the rest of my life 🤣 while also replaying every awkward thing I’ve ever done and said since about 1997.

Years ago, I would’ve thought one version of me was doing life right and the other was failing.
I used to believe that If I can’t stick to healthy routines perfectly every day, then there’s no point doing them at all.
Psychologically many brains especially anxious,perfectionistic, neurodivergent, or trauma affected ones don’t respond well to too many rigid rules.

Sometimes wellness and self care quietly becomes more pressure.However, our nervous systems don’t heal through shame. They heal through safety, flexibility, self-compassion, and gently returning to the things that help us.

One thing I do personally find useful though, is trying not to completely abandon the habits that support me for too long.
If I stop doing them for too many days in a row, I usually notice the difference in myself and instead of using that as proof I’ve failed, I try to use it as a gentle reminder to come back to myself again. 💛

Maybe the real win isn’t perfect consistency. Maybe it’s learning to return to the healthy habits without guilt tripping ourselves and causing more shame.

(As you can see from the picture… today was a herbal tea day 😉)👌🤣☕️🫖❤️


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14/02/2026

Roses are red
Violets are blue
Romantic love is lovely
But first you need to love you ❤️🫶❤️

Give yourself some of the love you give away ❤️

“ What If “ A powerful phrase I’m hearing a lot this weekWhat if I fail What if it isn’t the right thing for me What if ...
13/02/2026

“ What If “ A powerful phrase I’m hearing a lot this week

What if I fail
What if it isn’t the right thing for me
What if I have made the wrong decision
What if It sends me backwards

What if often holds our fear of getting it wrong or of not being enough. What ifs are usually our minds trying to protect us from risk, regret & disappointment. But sometimes this can keep us small and hold us back.

What if always make me think of this line….

“ what if I fall? Oh but my darling what if you fly

We rarely ask the hopeful “what if.” The one that leaves room for things to go right.

What if it works out?
What if this is the turning point?
What if you’re more capable than you think?

What if you learn something valuable either way?

What if this decision leads you closer to yourself?

Sometimes freedom begins
when we let possibility speak as loudly as fear.

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