Paths To Your Heart: A Guide Back To Vulnerability - by Olivia Vallecillo

COURSE

Paths To Your Heart: A Guide Back To Vulnerability

With Olivia Vallecillo

In this course, you will learn about the urge to avoid emotions and the conditioned patterns of hardening around emotions that you learned from primary attachment figures. You will: - re-establish safety in your body to allow you to feel again - explore your body for old, stuck emotions - increase vulnerability to create more connections with others - differentiate your feelings from those of others - practice inner nurturing to continue to express your needs in a self-compassionate way

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Meet your Teacher

Olivia Vallecillo
Vilas, NC, USA

Olivia is a psychotherapist in private practice. She uses a client-centered, compassionate therapeutic approach to engage her clients in reconnecting with their emotions. She supports people coping with anxiety, processing grief and trauma, experiencing relationship concerns, and moving through significant life transitions. Olivia lives with her teenage daughter and husband in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

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8 Days

330 students

4.8 stars

9 min / day

Acceptance

English

Lesson 1

Emotional Container

Today is all about relaxing into your body and learning tools for safely experiencing your emotions. To prepare for your first deep emotional experience, you will create a visualized container that can hold emotions until it is time to take them out one by one for short periods. *Note: This session may include discussion around topics such as sexual assault. I acknowledge that it may be difficult to engage with this content. I encourage you to care for your safety and well-being.

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Lesson 2

Attachment Conditioning

Today we will look at the messages we got from our primary attachment figures about emotions and sensitivity. What did your primary attachment figures teach you about emotions? We will practice a reparative exercise to help you identify and shift any harmful beliefs about emotions.

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Lesson 3

The Urge To Avoid

Today we will explore avoidance itself, identify how strong our avoidance is, and where we hold avoidance in our bodies. We will learn WHY avoidance does not want us to feel. This session is a precursor to feeling emotions fully in future sessions.

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Lesson 4

SAFE Stories

Today we will build safety in our bodies to become more open to our emotions. We will use the acronym SAFE to explore the elements of safety: Story, Action, Feeling, and Embodied Sensation.

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Lesson 5

Opening To Emotion

This is a practice of recognizing old, repressed emotions held in the body. We will pay attention to sensations and connect them to emotions. We will end the session by giving soothing self support to move emotions through us and from our bodies.

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Lesson 6

Differentiation: Enmeshment And Isolation

We will learn to separate our emotions from others' emotions through exploring the two extremes of enmeshment and isolation. We will create more balance and increase our ability to differentiate our emotions from others' emotions.

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Lesson 7

Autonomy As Expression

Today you will reflect on how to express your emotional and physical needs using assertive language. Assertiveness allows another person to choose how to respond with no pressure.

Lesson 8

Creating An Inner Nurturer

We will begin with identifying a nurturing person either from experience or imagination. We will consider how this inner nurturer might respond to our emotions. We will then practice listening to this inner nurturing voice to continue to encourage us to express our emotions freely.

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Recent Reviews

Monique

July 23, 2025

Took the course a second time. Just to feel the soft compassionate presence of the teacher and the beautiful music throughout.

Josefin

September 29, 2024

This really helped me open to some avoided inner places and to understand my needs better. Very gentle and supportive guidance and such beautiful music 🎶💞✨

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