Case Study: Laura Converted Body Disconnection Into Intuitive Decision-Making

Laura is a curious creative professional, copywriter, mother, and community builder who specializes in connecting people through teaching, business coaching and co-working spaces. When we began working together, she was experiencing disconnection from her body that was blocking her creativity and causing chronic digestive issues.

What was happening before we worked together?

"At the moment I needed to start working with Olivier, I was completely stuck in my body. I felt like I couldn't make a deep connection with my body. This manifested in different ways - the biggest was that I felt creatively stuck. I couldn't create.

Physically, I had a lot of digestive problems. Intestinal problems. And really a bad relationship with my lower abdomen, with my womb. This was also a result of a traumatic birth that had happened years before.

So yes, the feeling of really being stuck. Not being able to get to the core of myself and my body. For me, that was visually really literally the womb. Although the intestinal problems and belly problems were also there. So it was a tangle of symptoms that I also couldn't pinpoint. Why is this happening? That was the biggest pattern - this tangle of confusion.

I couldn't connect. Connection is the core factor for me. So I had to find a way to... through the door of the symptoms to the source of where all that comes from."

What was the transformation process like?

"I think you cultivate any relationship by not putting too much pressure on it, by being open, by taking time, by regularly engaging that connection, by having tenderness, I think.

How I approach it in practice - we have our sessions together, but outside of that are the moments, the way we do it in the sessions, also just lying down and checking in with yourself, those are for me kind of dates with myself where I go listen and hear how it is with my body and that it may be felt and freely moved.

The way my body speaks, in the first sessions, that was often very subtle. I did have one real release moment that I was really impressed by, but every session, not every session, but often things happen with my body that I think, what is it doing now? And that's maybe also the beginner's mindset you're talking about. I have to remind myself every time, try not to steer anything and just let your body speak now."

What specific results did you achieve?

"My relationship with my body feels very good now. Because I've also realized that it's a relationship. And that it's something of give and take. A relationship that needs to be nourished, that may be deepened.

I can now make decisions from my intuition again. I think that was one of the things. I feel much more confident. I'm more decisive. I think that has to do with it. Less filter that's on it, less friction that's not yours or no longer necessary.

And something else that really surprised me - I never thought this work would help me solve my chronic intestinal problems. I don't know if it's completely solved, but I'm now able to feel when it's going the wrong way and to restore that. And I find that just mind-blowing.”

What would you tell someone considering this work?

"The body work that we can do with you, is a kind of listening to your body, getting to know your body and letting it speak. I remember you once said to me that you should let your body write and that you should let it write and let it tell.

I think that's the core. Throughout your life, all kinds of things come at you. Tension comes into your body. Sometimes trauma, sadness, anger, other things. That all gets into your body. And that actually has to come out. You can't let that keep sitting there.

If that keeps sitting there, you start to get ailments. If you don't respond to that, those become more serious things. Even cancers. That's not what you want for yourself. So the work you do is learning to let tension grow out of your body. Crystal clear.

Someone who's ready for this? I think being open to... It's a combination of curiosity and wanting to tackle it. You have to be fed up with yourself in all ways. I've had it with all the symptoms and all the friction. It's time. How much longer will I wait for it to change? Then I think it's time."

The Deeper Transformation - In Laura's Own Words:

"Body is wisdom. I think that's maybe the biggest shift for me. Body is also a tool. But a tool with tremendously much wisdom. Something to cherish.

It's really a tool with which you live life. With which you take and give and spread energy. That's something to be conscious of. To nourish, to love. So there's a deeper definition.

The body has mysterious ways. But it's as if every individual, or constitution, or makeup, has their symptoms. And the symptoms themselves are often perceived negatively, but the symptoms are precisely the door to that connection. That's the language.

I think that's the big mindset switch - that when your body starts to writhe and do things, and certain symptoms come up, that there's a curious attitude toward it of oh, what is this, what is it trying to tell me. And just that gentleness toward your own body already changes everything."

Ready to convert your body disconnection into natural intelligence and vibrant health?

Laura's transformation shows what becomes possible when you learn to work WITH your body's wisdom instead of against it. From creative blocks and chronic digestive issues to intuitive decision-making and physical vitality.