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We don't cultivate our heart. We reveal it. Throughout my decades-long search for deeper meaning, I consumed hundreds, if not thousands, of books searching for an answer. But lo and behold, the answer was within me all along. All that is really required is a drop. A drop from our brain into our heart.

Awakening begins in the settling of silence. Silence is not absence. It is presence. Undiluted. Unforced. Profoundly alive.

Emotions are meant to be in motion. They rise with intensity and then crest and break. The physiological arc of an emotion, when met with presence rather than resistance, lasts approximately ninety seconds. The reason we feel stuck inside the experience of an emotion longer is not because of the emotion itself. It is the story our mind pours onto it.

On the sympathetic nervous system and the power to modulate our own energy. Flexibility is its natural rhythm.

On burnout, being, and the fire that's waiting to be harnessed. Being → Doing → Having. Not someday. Not after enough has been proven or earned. Healed or learned. But now. Simply in this one conscious breath.

The threat is over. Your body just doesn't know it yet. Intellectually understanding what safety means is not the same as feeling it. Many of us have been trying to think our way back into feeling safe in our bodies for a very long time.

Fear will win out over love, every single time, unless and until, we feel safe. Not just a semblance of safety. A felt-sense of safety, within our own bodies.

Underneath the protecting. Underneath the performing. Underneath the surviving. Our core self remains ~ whole, intact, untouched ~ patiently waiting to be remembered.

It is a love letter. Written weekly, from my heart, first and foremost. Healing is not a destination you arrive at and then you're done. It is a practice. A returning. Again and again, with grace and compassion, to the heart that is always there.

We have a very sophisticated intelligence system within us. It is structured entirely in service of our survival. It runs beneath our conscious awareness and communicates in sensation.

Today's issue is about embodied knowing. Something lived, felt and ultimately remembered. Not just intellectually. Whole-heartedly. We were never broken. Your heart is whole. It has been whole this entire time.

There is a space between who you were and who you are becoming. Most of us rush through this space. This is your invitation to slow down. To pause. And notice it.

Feeling stuck isn't a character flaw. It's a nervous system repeating survival strategies you've long since outgrown. Let's update them now.

A somatic psychotherapist explains why getting triggered isn't something to avoid — it's an accelerated pathway to nervous system healing, emotional release, and returning to your core self. By Jody Allen, LCSW.

Emotions are energy in motion. They are not a problem to be analyzed nor fixed. They are the signals offering us the pathway back to our core self, back to our heart.

The trigger is not the enemy. The trigger is the signal. When you avoid the wound, you ultimately avoid the love. They are in the same place. They've always been in the same place.