I’m Emma Freeman, a Heart-Led Artist, Teacher, Reiki Practitioner and Massage Therapist. I focus on supporting peaceful, calm, joyful living through creative expression, compassionate care, healing touch, loving community relationships, and abundant kindness towards myself and others. I’m a Highly Sensitive Person, sober and Buddhist.

Wings of Light is the name of my business to reflect my love of beautiful butterflies, dragonflies, owls, hummingbirds and eagles and their natural ways journeying through life true to who they are, both connected to the earth and soaring, fluttering and flying freely. They inspire me.

My own very difficult healing journey has led me to the path of self-discovery and learning gentle, caring practices that help me find my balance, cultivate calm and ease inside my mind and body and show me that warm, soft love is always right here inside my heart underneath the pain, confusion, heartbreak and loss. My healing journey has involved recovery from addiction, an eating disorder, traumas, and an episode of psychosis. I have struggled through anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive behaviors, overwhelm and disassociation. Mental health, emotional well-being, self-expression and understanding my physical body and the needs I have as a very sensitive person are the foundation of my wellness practice now.

I love to support people on their own healing journeys to help them feel cared for and aware of their own beautiful inner wisdom. I believe when we are honest with ourselves and then share our vulnerable stories of loss, pain and struggle in loving, compassionate, gentle community, we heal. Our hearts open and release pain. Our minds can stop racing for solutions and safety. Dark thoughts begin to turn into the light of loving, inner awareness and we can feel so much better. We can make more loving choices. We can see more clearly through a heart of kindness, compassion and calm.

And when my body receives healing touch that feels safe, gentle and caring with a mindfulness component that gives my mind somewhere positive to focus, incredibly restorative and hopeful things happen inside me. I feel like the heaviness gets lighter. I find new insights arrive without me trying to force them. The frantic fears go quieter and I notice beauty and joy inside my heart. My body feels better. I smile and take a deep sigh of relief. Healing touch for me is using tactile art making practices, touching nature, receiving and giving Reiki, somatic movement and receiving and giving mindful massages.

Cultivating tactile art making practices like slow stitching with lovely, soft fabrics, painting with rich, beautiful colors that bring out my emotions, making collages with symbolic imagery that help me process memories, journaling and writing poems that help me learn to put my feelings into words and making altars that feel like visual anchors of beauty for me to hold on to are so powerfully healing and inspiring for me.

My approach to art making, Reiki, somatic movement and mindful massage is that it is all bodywork and all bodywork, for me, is heart work and mind work. They weave together holistically because that’s who we are has humans. We are amazing beings. All of us. We each have a brilliant mind, heart and body that want to be in harmony with each other. When we tend to our whole selves with intention and kindness, we can discover our capacity for relief, for joy, for compassion and for love that can be so healing and transformative.