Every emotion that moves through you is trying to tell you something. But most of us learned a long time ago to talk ourselves out of listening.

We live in our heads. We analyse the feeling instead of having it, we explain it away, push through and get on with the day. And because that works for a while (and because we're often praised for it) we don't notice what it's costing us. But emotions are designed to guide us. Each one carries information about what matters to us, what we need and what has to change. When we override them, that guidance doesn't reach us, and the emotion itself doesn't disappear. It gets stored.

This is how you end up wondering where your vitality went. Why everything feels heavy, flat, vaguely off, and why you're so tired. And often it's how you end up with symptoms, an abnormal test result or a diagnosis that seems to arrive out of nowhere… it's your body having to get very loud to get your attention.

In this episode I'm sharing four practical and simple ways to start reconnecting with your emotions, especially if feeling them is not something you're used to or particularly good at yet.

In this episode I'm sharing:

✨ Why emotions are physical events happening in your body rather than thoughts happening in your head, and why that distinction changes everything about how you approach them

✨ How emotions move like waves, what happens when we cut them off before they peak, and how staying with one long enough is what lets you receive the message it came to give you

✨ Why emotional regulation is not the same thing as staying calm, and what it actually is

✨ The difference between genuinely feeling something in your body vs your head, which is where a lot of high-achieving, intellectual women stay stuck for years without realising

✨ Some journal prompts to uncover what you learnt about emotions as a child, which ones you were allowed to have, and how those early rules are still shaping the way you feel today

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