Healing Through Feeling | A Self-Care Journey - by Olivia Vallecillo

COURSE

Healing Through Feeling | A Self-Care Journey

With Olivia Vallecillo

During this 11-day self-care journey, you will better understand your emotions. The main goals of this course are to guide you in recognizing and validating the spectrum of your deep feelings through creative exercises, visualization, somatic therapy techniques, journaling, mind-body integration practices, interpersonal skills training, and self-compassion work. You will learn effective ways to work with various feelings, set boundaries, develop coping skills, and practice calming techniques. Ultimately, this course aims to empower you to know yourself, care for yourself, and confidently communicate your emotions and needs to others as an act of profound self-care.

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Meet your Teacher

Olivia Vallecillo
Vilas, NC, USA

Olivia is a psychotherapist specializing in emotionally focused therapy and somatic therapy. She helps her clients explore all their deep emotions and find inner strength. Her course combines somatic psychotherapy and emotionally focused techniques to offer nurturing support for all your emotions. She recognizes the significance of feeling heard, understood, and supported through your big emotions. Olivia has developed this course based on her professional expertise and personal journey to share these valuable practices with others.

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11 Days

229 students

5.0 stars

14 min / day

Anger

English

Lesson 1

Part 1: Opening The Heart

We will begin this magical journey into your beautiful and powerful emotions with a visualization practice. Today's visualization practice will help you connect with your body and drop into your emotional world.

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Lesson 2

Embracing Grief & Sadness

Today, we explore grief and sadness. Ultimately, all emotions seem to lead back to these foundational feelings. You will dive into your reservoir of sorrow and mourning through visualization and a bodily experience.

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Lesson 3

Embracing Worry & Anxiety

Today, we will explore anxiety through visualization and somatic therapy. We will tune into where we feel these emotions in our bodies. We will end with an emotional release practice to help you soothe and respond to worry and anxiety.

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Lesson 4

Embracing Anger & Frustration

Today, we're delving into anger and frustration. We'll look deeper into how to recognize these emotions when they arise so we can respond skillfully without repressing, resisting, or denying them. We will acknowledge, validate, and let go of our anger and frustration.

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Lesson 5

Releasing Shame

Today, we will explore shame, delving into its hidden depths and understanding its influence. After today's practice, you will feel valuable, worthy, and whole again. We will use visualization and free writing to release shame.

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Lesson 6

Embracing Overwhelm & Burnout

In today’s practice, instead of trying to avoid being overwhelmed, I invite you to face it with curiosity and kindness—approaching it without judging or interrupting, listening to what it says—and responding to it with tenderness rather than toughness. Today, you will embrace overwhelm and burnout in a new way. We will use visualization to experience and release overwhelm and burnout.

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Lesson 7

Part 2: "Seeing" Your Emotions

Today, we begin Part 2 of our course. In Part 2, we will discover practical and simple techniques to promote deeper emotional awareness and effective coping strategies. Today, we will focus on expressing the unexpressed by shifting our attention from our minds to our bodies and hearts. Please have colored pencils, markers, pens, and paper ready for today's activity.

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Lesson 8

Sensations, Images, Feelings & Thoughts

Today, we are focusing on recognizing the physical signs of our emotions by being mindful of the specific sensations, images, feelings, and thoughts that come with intense emotions. This helps us understand how our emotions are closely linked to what we feel in our bodies, and how our thoughts can both influence and arise from our feelings.

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Lesson 9

Meeting Your Needs

Today is a good day to reflect on your emotions and address any issues that have come up. For today's activity, get a journal and something to write with, or take some time to think about the situations, emotions, thoughts, and feelings you identified during yesterday's practice. Whether it's finding ways to feel better or taking action to change a situation, your feelings are important and deserve attention.

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Lesson 10

Asking For Support

Healthy relationships involve setting boundaries and asking for support. Both caring for yourself and seeking support from others are critical. It's important to know how to communicate your needs effectively. Today, I will guide you in finding effective ways to express your emotions and communicate your needs to others using clear and simple language that fosters meaningful connections.

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Lesson 11

Cultivating Joy & Serenity

As we wrap up, let's take some time to think about the things that truly bring us joy. It's important to embrace difficult emotions while also nurturing joy, as both are genuine and significant parts of our experiences. In today’s final exercise, we will reflect on simple routines that promote serenity and joy.

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5.0 (10)

Recent Reviews

Monique

Monique

July 15, 2025

A very special course with a variety of sessions. Definitely a course with a lot of depth. Thank you so much

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