Rekindle Joy and Aliveness: Creative arts Therapy for Chronic Conditions and spiritual wanderers
There are times when life can feel overwhelming, confusing, or empty—especially when you are living with a chronic condition or navigating an existential or spiritual crisis that deeply challenges your sense of self and the life you once knew.
Your body and heart may be aching. You might feel tired, lost, frustrated, sad, lonely, or misunderstood.
At times, you may wish for a quick solution—a pill or treatment that makes everything better. Yet, somewhere inside, you may also sense that true healing unfolds through holistic processes that include your active participation.
Beyond wanting to feel better, there may be deeper longings calling for attention: a longing to come home to yourself; to rediscover meaning, purpose, and hope; to feel reconnected with life and the world around you; and to open to new ways of seeing, being, and understanding life.
Reconnecting to Life is an invitation and a wake-up call for transformation and reconnection. It is a creative, holistic, soulful and compassionate therapeutic process that fosters well-being and inspires a reconnection to the intelligence and divinity of Life.
Are you ready to reconnect to the wisdom of your body, heart and soul?
THIS IS FOR YOU IF...
THIS IS FOR YOU IF...
You are moving through an existential or spiritual crisis, or living with a chronic condition or persistent symptoms like anxiety, fibromyalgia, chronic pain, endometriosis or adenomyosis, depression, chronic stress, migraines, chronic fatigue syndrome, or others like them.
You are ready to participate in the wisdom and the process of healing and transformation that longs to unfold from within you.
You feel the quiet knowing that it is time to tend not only to your body, but also to your emotional, mental, spiritual, ancestral and existential well-being.
You are open to exploring holistic and groundbreaking processes that blend creative arts therapy, Indigenous wisdom, somatic and imaginal practices, and findings from the latest neurobiological research on individual, collective, and ancestral trauma.
I am an enthusiastic student of Life and the soul’s journey. Originally from Mexico, I called New Zealand home for 16 years. I recently moved to the Yarra Valley in Melbourne, Australia.
I've been on my own journey with chronic conditions. After facing limited treatment options and feeling intense frustration at being unable to work and function properly, I made a heartfelt intention: To trust my body, listen to Life and explore the depth and layers of healing.
This made me reconnect with my body, nature, ancestral wisdom, intuition, compassion, and creativity. What started as a wish to feel better, heal, and return to my ‘normal life’ turned into a profoundly transformative path, where confusion, sadness, anger, chronic pain, and exhaustion shifted into clarity, peace, presence, and gratitude for Life. I understood that healing goes far beyond the ‘removal’ or improvement of symptoms.
I am a registered Creative Arts Therapist (ANZACATA) and an Inner-Work facilitator with 15 years of experience as a facilitator, educator, and Nutritionist. Through my work, I support people in their journeys of reconnection, self-love, transformation and healing.
In my path, I’ve been fortunate to learn from and be inspired by many wise teachers and spiritual traditions. You can read more about my training and studies here.
Hi, I’m Norma Hernandez
When we work together....
When we work together....
You’ll be safely and compassionately guided to tap into your own innate wisdom. Together, we’ll explore new possibilities and perspectives in your life, helping you find your way to healing and wholeness.
You’ll rekindle your curiosity, creativity, inspiration, and playfulness—because yes!, you can embrace these qualities even while facing difficult challenges.
You’ll learn to reconnect with your precious, unique self. You’ll rediscover your connection to nature, your breath, the present moment, the imaginal realm and the divine essence of life.
You’ll be supported and accompanied on whatever spiritual or faith path you follow—whether you belong to a specific tradition or feel drawn to exploring depth and meaning in your own way.
You’ll befriend and learn to understand how your nervous system works with chronic conditions. You will experience practices to help you integrate unprocessed personal, ancestral or collective wounds and patterns that once served to protect you.
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Why reconnecting?
This logo transmits the essence of my work, and the understanding that we are deeply interconnected with other human hearts, plants, Earth, Sky, animals, Life, and Divinity. The nervous system in our bodies, the roots of the trees, and the fungus mycelium mirror how we relate, communicate and interweave within ourselves and with each other.
Reconnecting to Life (with a capital letter) means a reconnection to wholeness. It is a process, a journey, designed to help you reconnect to yourself, others, nature, Life and Divinity through the wisdom of your body, heart and soul.
It aims to strengthen your emotional, mental, physical and spiritual well-being, providing insights into your chronic condition(s) while restoring a sense of safety, peace, awe, and aliveness.
Our bodies have a natural capacity for connection and empathy. This program taps into that innate ability, helping you open your heart and access a deeper sense of aliveness, compassion, presence, and peace. From this place of open-heartedness, connection, and wholeness, you not only support your own healing—you also become a true force for healing and transformation in the world.
Book your online sessions
( In-person sessions from March 2026 in Yarra Junction in Melbourne, Australia)
One-off Session
AU /NZ $150
Ten individual sessions
(Weekly or fortnightly, 60 minutes each)
AU/NZ$1,400
Can be paid in 3 monthly instalments
6-month Group Sessions
FROM MARCH 2026
Book your space
Twelve small group sessions over six months + two 1:1 sessions
90 minutes each group session.
60 minutes 1:1 sessions.
Between 2 and 4 people in a group.
Working in a group is insightful & powerfully healing
AU/NZ$1,500
Can be paid in 4 monthly instalments
* If it’s your deep desire to start your journey of reconnection and you are struggling financially, please get in touch with me, and together we can find a way to make it happen.
In a session, you engage with what Life is presenting to you. It’s not a fixed-session curriculum. It is a dynamic process that helps you understand the landscape of your autonomic nervous system and your emotional, mental, ancestral and collective fields through holistic, creative, intuitive, somatic and presence practices.
In this process, you reconnect with the force of Life and rediscover your sense of self beyond your chronic condition.
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FAQ
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Research has found a link between chronic conditions and chronic stress and trauma. Some theories suggest, that in chronic conditions, the body often becomes trapped in a defence mechanism. This can manifest as a hyperactivated nervous system (e.g., pain, inflammation, anxiety, stress, nervousness, a desire to escape) or as an underactive nervous system (e.g., brain fog, shutdown, exhaustion, lethargy, feeling disconnected from one’s surroundings). I’ve found that in chronic conditions, both responses can occur simultaneously.
Reconnecting to life helps you understanding the landscape of your autonomic nervous system. It aims to strengthen your emotional, mental, physical and spiritual well-being, providing insights into your chronic condition(s) while restoring a sense of safety, peace, awe, and aliveness.
The body is a physical container of your individual, ancestral, and collective history. When emotions or parts of yourself are silenced or repressed, they get lodged in your body, no matter how long they have been repressed. Your body does this for protection. There is an intelligence behind the body’s tensions, pain, and stagnation. When you tenderly explore these pains and tensions with the help of creative arts, somatics and the imaginal realm, you can release stuck emotions and protective patterns, which reduce pain and fatigue and increase the availability of energy.
Other benefits can include emotional release, physical relaxation, stress reduction, increased present-moment awareness, feelings of safety, playfulness, self-compassion, and self-care.
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Creative Arts Therapy uses expressive processes such as art, creative writing, movement, sculpting, sound, nature, symbol work, and imaginative play to promote mental, emotional, and spiritual health and well-being. It supports the exploration and expression of inner experiences—feelings, emotions, perceptions, and thoughts and connects us with the imaginal realm (the in-between) the physcial and the spiritual world.
By fostering present-moment awareness, Creative Arts Therapy aids in regulating emotions and calming the nervous system, it can also serve as a powerful tool for stress and pain relief, enhancing overall quality of life.
Creative Arts Therapy helps reintroduce the experiences of play, curiosity, creativity, and aliveness, which are essential for restorative imagination and healing.
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Not at all! You DON’t need to have artistic abilities. The focus of this process is on expression, exploration, and self-discovery rather than on creating “art” in a traditional sense. Everyone has a unique way of expressing themselves, and the creative activities are meant to help you tap into your feelings, thoughts, experiences and the imaginal realm.
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Weekly sessions are recommended to help maintain consistency and keep you engaged in your journey. They make the process more effective and supportive.
The group sessions are spread out over six months. Most of them occur on a weekly basis, with a break of one or two weeks after every 8 to 10 sessions.
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Refund Policy
If you decide to withdraw for any reason, you may cancel your participation within 7 days of your payment to receive a full refund (minus the first session if it has already occurred), or a credit for future use. Refund requests must be made in writing. Refunds will be issued to the original payment method and may take up to three weeks to process. No refunds will be granted after this period.Even if you choose not to participate or don't use all your sessions, the remaining balance of the package is still due in full and must be paid according to the original timeline, unless otherwise agreed upon.
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