Marta Luzim, MS
As a survivor and forty-year practitioner of trauma, I guide individuals through cathartic, intuitive writing, visual art, dreams, and embodied approaches to recover from trauma.
My calling is to work with highly creative, sensitive, and imaginative women and men who mask the pain of misunderstood and undiagnosed trauma and PTSD with walls of unconscious defense. I build safety and trust in order to explore what feels chaotic, painful, and frozen in your life.
As a sacred healer, wisdom teacher, mystic, metaphysician, psychospiritual body-oriented counselor, creative coach, somatic writing coach, intimacy trainer, breathworker, and emotional intuitive. I utilize holistic approaches. Integrating mind, body and soul. I move you deeply into your emotions, dreams a body and psyche to expand self -awareness. Repetitive, unhealed thoughts, traumatized frozen feelings and memories, are softened and excavated through, techniques such as, EMT, mindfulness, dream work, rebirthing, art, writing, movement, breathwork and recovery processes, which frees you to relate from a primal, instinctual and authentic expression.
Since, trauma is in the body, not the head, my experiential method guides you to discover your core woundedness. My process of-coming into the body- is a uniquely individual, instinctive, creative, and spiritual path for each person. I listen deeply. I observe and feel the pieces of your story that need to be mended and made whole.
I have worked with women, families, children and couples from every walk of life for over forty years. I have a practice as a Alternative Healing Arts Psycho-Spiritual Counselor, with an MS in Counseling Psychology from Nova University and BS in Education.
I have studied with master teachers of depth psychology, dream work, shamanism, Kabbalah, mythology, and mysticism. I am a Next Level Practitioner of trauma, as a member of NICABM, studying with experts in the field of trauma. I am certified as a Kaizen creative coach, certified Hypnotherapist, certified Metaphysician through Lao Russell’s Science of the Cosmostraining, somatic bodyworker, breath worker, Sandra Ray, and intimacy trainer under the guidance of Doug and Naomi Moseley.
As an educator, I taught third, fifth and gifted students through right hemispheric, holistic approaches using imagery, mindfulness, and creative processes. After leaving the public school system I taught in colleges and libraries, holding workshops for teachers for Creative Learning.
I am an expert on women’s issues, family issues, trauma, abuse, addiction, and recovery. As an artist, writer, and healer I advocate for and pioneer work with female trauma, to evoke women’s voices, visions, and healing.
I have written five books: The Calling, Heart of a Woman, Little Book of Consciousness, Conscious Companion, and Cry Kali, Voices From My Soul. I have had two staged productions, Breathing Under Water in 2000 and Vows of Love in 2004. In addition, I produced a docudrama called Primal Urgency. I’ve published articles on women’s issues and creativity. I am President and founder of Give Her A Voice, Inc, a 501c3 nonprofit producing multi-media plays called, The Telling. The production showcased women’s gutty, gritty stories of recovery from abuse. www.giveheravoice.org. I am currently working on my memoir and continue to expand, grow and create.
Getting Personal
Who Am I
Promise
I promise to stay. Along the way, I forgot to Tell. I will tell you to heal. It is my choice and only mine to find my voice to Tell. It is my spiritual-creative divine right to Tell. I am alive, supported, and able to stand by my own telling. The Telling is my creative soul, reaching, touching, feeling— I connect and belong.
- Marta Luzim, Give Her A Voice –
“Trauma is generational and carried in your cells. It causes a spiritual rupture in your heart. The study of the mind/brain/body connection and how trauma affects chemical imbalance can set off a domino effect of disorientation, disassociation, depression, chronic sadness, anxiety, PTSD, and other mental, emotional, and medical disorders. It can show up as fear of intimacy, exhaustion, procrastination, mood swings, digestive problems, migraines, hyperarousal, addiction, co-dependency, unworthiness, social anxiety, and other generalized fears.” - Marta Luzim MS
From the moment I was born, I was called to heal.
I was a five-pound incubator baby born in Brooklyn, New York, on January 1, 1950. The fifties taught me to close my legs and be quiet. The sixties showed me to burn my bra and say fu*k you to the establishment.
Being raised by a borderline mother, a sexist father (whom I got my sense of humor from), and an OCD, jealous, narcissistic sister, I developed deep, dark insecurities. I felt ugly, stupid, and a stranger in my own family.
I was six, and my sister was nine, when one night while watching television, my mother stormed into the room and held a knife over our heads. I stopped breathing and catapulted out of my body into a mystical reality.
For many years, I did not know the difference between this altered reality and the physical reality I was raised in. My imagination spun a web of emotional chaos and psychic madness that painfully awakened my generational, family, and tribal roots and story.
My internal nature, wild, instinctual, mystical, creative, and traumatized, is the root of my artist and healer. Through my childhood trauma, my artist child, soulful curiosity, and emotional sensitivities were awakened and recovered.
I lived in fairytale worlds and imaginative play. Movies, books, theatre, and art were my friends.
By the time I was seventeen, I had entered Jungian therapy.
Once I began therapy, the seed of being a seeker, writer, artist, mystic rebel, and healer emerged. The visions I channeled as a child, ancestral wisdom, feminine knowing, psychic awareness, and an ability to see emotional energy emerged along with the impact of long-term childhood trauma.
At the time from 1967 to 2004, trauma was undefined and misdiagnosed. For years, I struggled to untangle, emotionally handle, and make sense of my visionary gifts and generational mental illness.
“Survivors of early trauma often report that an essential part of themselves retreated into a spiritual world to take refuge and support when such a human person is absent in their lives. Sometimes, this spiritual world gives the trauma survivor mystical connections to animals, nature access to healing capacities, psychic powers, intuitive wisdom, and artistic talent. On the other hand, sometimes the spiritual world also torments the trauma survivor.”
- Trauma and the Soul, Jungian therapist Donald Kalsched
I lived in fragmented realities, mending and pulling together all the pieces of me.
My personal recovery led me to excavate new feminine myths and truths to transform “madness” and inner chaos into self-love, art, writing, and intimacy.
I have been married for fifty-three years to a funny, brave, and heartfelt man, Ron. I have created a home and life different from the abusive turmoil that I grew up in. I have a creative, courageous, compassionate daughter, Lara, and a beautiful, smart, and strong granddaughter, Bella.
I am still learning to love myself and others. I navigate my PTSD, chronic medical conditions, and complexes into creative expression, mystical healing, story-telling, and humor, which can be sarcastic and R-rated and allows me to use laughter as a tool for healing and soul awakening.
My resilience is a gift from my tough, chain-smoking, vodka-drinking Russian-Polish grandmother, Sarah. She brought grief, silence, and anger to the Land of Gold of America.
Her darkness trickled down to my mother, then me. rupturing my heart and soul. She also brought Jewish soul food, blintze, chicken soup, pot roast, sweet and sour meatballs, which gave me a lifeline to my Jewish heritage
Excavating the stories of the Hebrew Matriarchs, training in the healing arts, psychic stories, writing, and art guided me on how to come home to my body. In my flesh, the truth of the feminine to recover my feelings, breath, senses, and the complexity and joy of the multi-dimensionality of living
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