WELCOME
a HEALing STUDIO
This is both the experimental, process-oriented side of the inner work and the sacred container.
Maybe you've done the work, read the books, attended the circles, sat in the rooms. And still something feels unfinished, not fully alive.
This is the threshold I work from.
An Artful Recovery provides soul-centered practices rooted in 19 years of lived recovery experience, shamanic principles, expressive arts, and the quiet intelligence of the lunar cycle. It exists for the woman standing at the edge of who she was and who she is becoming, and who is ready to cross that threshold with more than just some "willpower."
Here, in concert with traditional arts, you will engage with deep, inner work like the art of allowing, the art of noticing, the art of letting go, and even the art of doing nothing. These sacred practices have the potential to shift your life profoundly, as they have mine.
Here, being human isn't a project to complete. It's a practice to inhabit and a life-long experience of co-creating.
If something here is calling to you, I'd love to talk.
ways to work together
Communication Skills Workshops
for teams and organizations
An Artful Voice: Empowered Communication provides practical, engaging workshops that help individuals and teams communicate with greater clarity, confidence, and connection. Participants strengthen essential skills such as active listening, nonverbal communication, conflict resolution, and navigating group dynamics. Grounded in two decades of teaching communication in higher education, communication science research, and real-world application, these trainings help create healthier workplace relationships, stronger teams, and more effective leaders.
Explore communication as a human skill that builds trust, belonging, healthy cultures, leadership effectiveness, and authentic connection.
Lunar Alchemy - a community for evolution and transformation of the human soul
Lunar Alchemy is more than a moon circle—it's an invitation to remember who you are beneath the noise, the expectations, and the endless demands of daily life. Each gathering follows a gentle but powerful arc of transformation, guiding you through the wisdom of an archetype, the intention of the New Moon, and the illumination of the Full Moon. Together we'll explore who you are becoming, discover where this season of growth is already unfolding in your life, and engage in meditation, reflection, and creative practice that allow insight to become embodied wisdom. This isn't about collecting more information or striving to become someone new. It's about participating in a living process that helps you see yourself with greater honesty, compassion, and courage—so that month by month, you gather the quiet gold of your own experience and step more fully into the woman you were always meant to be.
I didn't build this practice to fill a niche.
I built it because I couldn't find what I needed - work that held both the rawness of recovery and the depth of a genuine spiritual life, without collapsing one into the other.
An Artful Recovery integrates expressive arts, Jungian psychology, lunar and elemental frameworks, and somatic practice into something I call whole-woman healing. It's not a program. It's a living approach, one that has been shaped by two decades of my own becoming, and refined through years of walking alongside other women in theirs.
I work as a consultant, not a therapist. I don't diagnose or treat. I witness, reflect, and help you find the thread back to yourself through creativity, ceremony, doing the real inner work, and the kind of honest conversation that most spaces don't make room for.
I revel in the liminal spaces of life and happily explore what it means to belong to myself. Fully. Finally.
Laura Waters
Advocate, Facilitator, Educator, Creative Guide, Artist
I am a woman in long-term recovery on a wisdom path that unfolds in surprising ways.
TESTIMONIALS
" I felt seen. I felt heard. And I felt understood. Laura is a massage therapist for the soul. She has a true gift."
Angela Suarez
"I came home to myself by finding my own personal way of allowing creativity to flow through me."
Tina Connor
"Laura helped me to see things I had never considered before and now I have a clear vision of the next step."
Mariea DeRosia
"Every session was just what I needed. Laura provided clarity, encouragement and the feedback I needed most."
Margaret Rafferty
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