Healing the Root: Trauma, Spiritual Awakening, and Finding Wholeness| Spiritual Friction
The Long Way Home
A conversation on trauma, the body's wisdom, soul fragmentation, and the long way home — with Laura Ellen
You have everything you need inside of you to heal.
There are some healing journeys that don't unfold gradually.
They take us all the way down.
To the wound under the wound.
To the story under the story.
To the root.
My conversation with Laura Ellen is one of those journeys.
It's the kind of conversation you settle into with both hands wrapped around something warm. The kind where you forget you're listening to a podcast and start to feel like you're sitting on the floor of a friend's living room, hearing her tell you the truth.
Laura is an artist, jeweler, spiritual teacher, and founder of Sacred Heart Healing in Northern California. In this episode, she opens her life to us with tenderness and care.
When the Body Begins to Speak
For years, Laura held her sensitivity quietly.
She had been an empathic child—having paranormal experiences she didn't yet have language for, sensing things she didn't know how to name.
Then, at five years old, she experienced sexual abuse.
And the world, as it does for so many sensitive children, became too much.
What followed was a long season of numbing.
Drugs.
Alcohol.
Pushing her body past its limits in the way so many of us do when feeling is unbearable.
And then—slowly, layer by layer—the body began to speak.
First her lungs.
Then her skin.
Then, eventually, a chronic wound at the base of her spine.
A fistula.
A wound few people talk about.
A wound Western medicine had limited answers for.
"Our bodies are incredible vessels of knowledge. It's just that we're not taught to really listen to them."
This is the work Laura was eventually asked to do.
Not to fix.
Not to override.
But to listen.
Healing the Root
The root chakra holds our sense of safety.
Our foundation.
Our belonging to the earth and to ourselves.
And Laura's wound was literally at her root.
Her body—wise, patient, persistent—was telling her something her mind had not yet been ready to hear.
That she was carrying years of unprocessed trauma.
That the foundation underneath her had cracked.
That the marriage, the substances, the over-functioning, the soul fragmentation—all of it had been preparing her for a return.
"Laura, you have everything you need inside of you to heal. Just call on faith. Call on a miracle. Miracles happen every day."
So she listened.
Layer by layer, the onion peeled.
Layer by layer, she came home.
What I Want You to Know
There's a moment in our conversation where Laura says something I found deeply comforting.
"We don't heal hiding under a rock. We heal when we reach out and we share and we co-create and we lean on people for support when we need it."
This is the part of healing no one tells you about.
The body can be tended.
The nervous system can be regulated.
The spiritual practices can be learned.
But the deepest healing happens when we are willing to let ourselves be seen.
In the rawness.
In the unfinished places.
In the parts of our story that don't yet have a tidy ending.
The Bigger Picture
We talk about past lives.
Soul contracts.
The Earth as a living being.
Collective awakening.
And the ways we return home to ourselves after years of running.
We talk about coming home:
To the body
To your gifts
To the Earth
To the Self you may have spent decades trying to outrun
A Reflection for You
There's a part of every deep feeler that has always known.
That the sensitivity wasn't a flaw.
That the body wasn't the enemy.
That the longing for something deeper, slower, truer, and more whole was not you being dramatic—it was you remembering.
If you've been carrying a story your body has been trying to tell you...
If you've been numbing what is asking to be felt...
If you've been quietly wondering whether you have what it takes to heal...
You do.
You always have.
You don't have to figure it all out today.
You don't have to know how the healing will unfold.
You just have to be willing to listen.
For the Deep Feelers
You are not too sensitive.
You are not too much.
You are a deep feeler—and your knowing matters.
The body has been listening this whole time.
Maybe it's your turn to listen back. 🤍
About the Guest
Laura Ellen is an artist, jeweler, spiritual teacher, and founder of Sacred Heart Healing in Northern California. She offers tarot and oracle card readings, guided meditation, healing stone therapy, Angelic Reiki, and Access Consciousness Bars facilitation.
Connect with Laura
Personal Instagram: @laurelleflower
Business Instagram: @sacredhearthealing1111
Final Reflection
"You have everything you need inside of you to heal."
You always have.
Your voice helps others feel seen.
