Episode 9: The Emotions We Avoid and How the Body Holds Them

Have you ever known you were upset, but couldn't quite put words to why? Feeling instead through a tight chest, clenched jaw, restlessness, or sudden numbness? 

Many of us have spent years learning to outrun, minimize, or intellectualize uncomfortable feelings. But emotions don't disappear just because we ignore them; our bodies often hold what our minds try to avoid. 

In this episode, we explore: 

- why emotions are information, not instructions, and why feeling something is not the same as being controlled by it 

- The somatic expressions and deeper roots of anger, grief, fear, and disappointment 

- how chronic busyness, over-functioning, and distraction can become subtle avoidance strategies 

- moving from self-judgement to gentle curiosity within your physical body 

- why bringing our raw, honest emotional lives to God is an invitation to deeper intimacy, not a sign of weak faith. 

Take a breath, slow down, and join me as we make room for honest presence, embodied awareness, and the reminder that you are both embodied and beloved.