You are not your story,
you are the light of your heart.
About
Anne Byrne
In my psychotherapeutic practice, I have sat with clients for over 24 years and have held a safe space of integrated psychotherapeutic practices. Informed by the modalities of Person-Centred, Jungian, Gestalt, CBT, Existential Therapy, Expressive Arts, and Nervous System Healing, I guide you through the awareness and understanding of root causes and what your symptoms mean, placing a strong emphasis on somatic experiencing of living in a safe body.
Core Values
Restoring the connection back home to our heart. I believe all healing is the embodied, experiential process of transcending beyond our experiences, the stories we tell ourselves, the feelings and symptoms we experience, back into the realms of living into the restored connection to the love of our heart. I believe this transcendence is facilitated through the process of mindful awareness and embodied practice.
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I believe all healing must hold the chalice of hope. This chalice of hope must act as a container that teaches us how to stay with each breath in our sense of hopelessness and despair. It must guide us gently inwards, where we feel held in our body, by our breath, allowing us to experience a safety that can only come from within. I believe all healing modalities must hold a mirror for the other, reflecting back, the light that is within each of us.
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I believe that true empowerment is the lived experience of reconnecting back to our own natural resources, living in unison with our intuition, and inner guidance. It is the ability to know the wisdom of our own inner voice, beyond the need for external validation.
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I believe that to change anything in our lives, we must firstly become aware of the choices we are making and the place inside ourselves that we make these choices from. We must become aware if we are choosing from unconscious aspects of ourselves, unhealed wounds from our past, rather than our adult, resourced, conscious self. In its offering of the gift of choice, we can choose to realign with our own path, our innate gifts, and unique qualities.
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I believe all healing is the process of restoring the connection to our truest selves.
It is the rediscovery of and reconnection to the voice in each of us, that is constantly guiding and whispering to us, tirelessly, redirecting us back to the path of our soul.
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I believe healing is the process of transcending beyond the false identities, roles and stories we hold onto. It requires conscious awareness and embodied spiritual growth. The outcome of this transcendence is an ability to listen deeply and trust in our wisdom within.
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“Your path is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
All change and healing occur in the present moment. We may not be happy in our present circumstances, but we are exactly where we are meant to be in our lives. If we listen deeply into the anxiety, depression, emptiness and turbulence we experience in our body, as we stay patiently with it moment by moment, one day we hear it tell us what it needs. This is most often a subtle, gentle, softly spoken whisper that comes from deep within. It appears like a stranger, shy in its introduction. Its words are precise, and sentences short, and as we are unfamiliar with this inner voice, we may choose to ignore it many times. As we re-enter this empty space within, we notice a quiet, gentle voice, clear in its direction and simple in its guidance. It has never left. We may hear words like 'eat something,' 'wash,' 'walk,' 'make a call,' 'stretch,' 'dance,' 'buy flowers,' or 'sit by a tree.' This voice cannot be ignored; it is your deepest wisdom and intuition.
