Somatic Wellness Hub

Welcome

If your nervous system feels like it's running the show and talk therapy, self-help books and trying harder haven't been enough..... then you are in the right place.

This is where somatic healing happens, not just in your head but in your body.

I'm Laura, and I work with people who have spent years holding it all together, managing high-functioning anxiety, navigating neurodivergent nervous systems and surviving by staying in control, who are ready to move from understanding their patterns to actually feeling different in their bodies.

Many of the people I work with have ADHD, or recognise themselves in the description even without a formal diagnosis. They are thoughtful, capable and often exhausted by the gap between what they know and what they can actually feel.

For many people that missing piece is the body.

We need to find safety to feel

Perhaps you can recall a moment of genuine ease — an afternoon cup of tea, the warmth of a friend's hug, curling up with your dog on the sofa. In those moments you are experiencing a regulated nervous system. That is how we naturally restore ourselves after times of dysregulation, whether that shows up as anxiety and reactivity, or as shutdown and numbness.

The nervous system will not open to emotion, connection or change until it senses enough safety to do so. This is why the work begins there, rather than with pushing into what hurts. And because regulation is something we first learn through connection with another person, I bring my own regulated nervous system to our work together — supporting yours as you find your way back to a felt sense of steadiness and aliveness.

Somatic meditation for the busy, distracted mind

If your mind moves quickly and traditional meditation has always felt impossible, that is not a personal failing. It is a nervous system pattern - and it has a different solution.

HeartSomatics Foundations of Meditation is a live 6-week somatic meditation journey designed specifically for people with ADHD or those who have always found it hard to settle. Rather than asking you to quiet the mind first, we begin in the body — with breath, sensation and simple somatic awareness — so that stillness becomes something that emerges naturally rather than something to force.

You do not need a quiet mind to meditate. You need a body that feels safe enough to settle.

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1:1 Somatic Therapy

For those who feel ready for deeper, personalised work around trauma, identity patterns and relational healing, I offer a small number of 1:1 sessions.

This is focused, body-based therapy for complex work that needs individual attention.

Current availability can be limited. If you're interested, book a free connection call to explore whether this is the right fit.

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FREE: Somatic Practices to Ease Anxiety & Overwhelm

A short mini-course to help you understand why your nervous system often feels in charge with simple micro-practices to start restoring steadiness.

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Workshops & Events

I offer occasional free HeartSomatics™ taster sessions and live meditation events. Check the calendar for what's coming up.

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Want to Know More?

You can learn more about me, my approach and somatic therapy on my main website:

www.somatic-wellness.com

Or email me directly: hello@laurastarky.co.uk

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You can add the Somatic Wellness Hub as an app on your phone’s home screen. On most phones, just tap the share icon in your browser and select ‘Add to Home Screen.’

About

For many years, I lived with disconnection and dissociation. I adapted to survive in ways that left me cut off inside, using alcohol to numb anxiety, quiet my mind and cope with the exhaustion of overworking and perfectionism.

If any of that feels familiar, you're in the right place.

Choosing a different path, a somatic path, changed everything. It became my way back to aliveness, connection and ease.

Now, I help people restore the connection they have lost: with themselves, with others and with life. This is a path I have walked myself, and it's the heart of everything I offer through the Somatic Wellness Hub and HeartSomatics™

I'm a trauma-informed somatic therapist and meditation teacher with over 25 years' experience, including 19 years specialising in mental health, trauma and substance misuse.

I am neurodivergent (ADHD) and, like many people, I fell through the cracks of a system not built to recognise how it shows up in us.

The thread running through all of my work is disconnection and the way back from it. That might look like complex trauma, a neurodivergent nervous system, high-functioning anxiety or recovery from alcohol. It might look like grief that asks to be felt in the body rather than explained, or a spiritual awakening in which intensified energy, sometimes called kundalini or prana shakti, feels hard to ground and integrate.

I know these territories from the inside because I have lived them, and I believe the depth a therapist has met in their own life shapes the depth they can accompany in another's. For those on a contemplative or awakening path, this matters in a particular way: facing our samskaras (the deep imprints of past experience, including trauma) asks for a companion who is grounded in non-dual awareness as well as in the psychology and physiology of trauma, someone who can meet what arises without needing it to be other than it is.

My approach blends body-mind awareness with nervous system regulation and somatic practices that work with developmental and relational trauma (also called complex trauma), the kind that often sits beneath language.

Change doesn't come from forcing ourselves to be different. It comes from creating the right conditions for connection to reawaken, and meeting what's here now so that new experiences of safety, belonging and self-trust can emerge.

This isn't about fixing what's broken. It's about remembering what was never lost.

If something here resonates, the simplest next step is a free connection call (use the book a free call link at the top of the page), where we can talk about what's bringing you and whether this work feels right for you. You're also welcome to email me at hello@laurastarky.co.uk