What if your body is speaking first and your thoughts are just catching up? We kick off a three-part journey into emotional sobriety by reframing feelings and thoughts as information, not identity, and by teaching a grounded, practical way to listen from the neck down. Through personal story, science-informed insights, and a guided practice, we explore how childhood conditioning trained us to override our nervous system and why that keeps us stuck in loops of overthinking, exhaustion, and disconnection.
I share how a health crisis forced me to stop analyzing emotions and start feeling them, and what changed when I learned to befriend fear instead of outrun it. We unpack the gap between insight and integration why you can explain your patterns yet repeat them and show how embodiment transforms triggers into signals. You'll learn simple steps to locate sensations, stay present without creating a story, and let memories surface just long enough to gather the message before returning to the breath.
This approach builds capacity so emotions stop hijacking your day and start guiding your choices. We close by anchoring the practice of self-regulation alongside healthy co-regulation. When you can create safety within, intuition sharpens, discernment strengthens, and connection with others deepens because you're actually present.
Consider this your invitation to come home to a feeling body that thinks, and to prepare for the next episode where we unpack one of the most misunderstood emotions: anger what it protects, why it's maligned, and how to befriend it.
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