This week we are answering a patron's question about something that is up for them in their life. It contains a lot of nuance about how to be with other people's emotions without feeling overwhelmed, as well as how to receive kindness and love without feeling overwhelmed by that either. The shortened version of the question is: "When I do let myself feel my emotions deeply I frequently get super overwhelmed and times that I am center of attention or receiving heartfelt love and support are still very uncomfortable for me in groups. Why is it so difficult to feel deep emotion in myself and from others still?"
In answering the question we talk about:
- The vulnerability of intimacy and connection
- Somatic approaches to receptivity and feeling safe in our bodies
- The energetic charge of trauma and how it makes a soma feel "too full" to be able to take in anything new
- How that charge can "off-gas" or burn off like clouds as we heal
- Conditioning around needing to be non-reactive and how to inquire about that
- Ability to receive joy and goodness and blocks to that
- How to shortcut shame at not being "farther along" in our healing process
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