May 15, 2022
The ability to be aware of your emotional landscape and navigate your way through emotional debris is one of the most important aspects of your
Ability to connect vulnerably and intimately with your partners;
Integrity and accountability as a leader in your professional relationships;
Capacity to showing up for the messy humxn behind your business.
Because you lead with your body and because we are all energetic beings affected by one another, having a regulated nervous system regulates those around you.
Like most people of my generation especially, I didn't grow up in an environment where it was safe for me to express my feelings.
I was a highly sensitive person with nowhere to put my big inner experiences. I experience what most big feelers do, which is have their feelings made wrong or gaslit.
So I did what most people do, I put them away.
I buried them and numbed them.
Along with that came addictions, depression, anxiety, and chronic illness.
It wasn't until I got to my somatic training that I began to unwind stuck emotions and ancestral trauma from my system, which led to a:
more subtle awareness of emotions, energy, and intuition; deeper self-connection and self trust; calmer, more responsive nervous system.
Emotional awareness allowed me to insert that critical pause, that space between that allows you to name what's arising before it takes over and gets waaaay messy.
In this special eclipse episode embedded inside retrograde season, I offer
The cultural and body-based reasons why emotions get stuck in your body and how it affects your functioning;
How restriction of emotional range is linked to shame and overwhelm;
Mindset shifts for unapologetic emotional expression, permission giving, and unconditional approval;
Somatic tools for emotional trauma release.