I heard myself tell a client this the other day.

“Allowing your emotions will connect you to YOU.”

Your emotions align you to what you are currently thinking and as a result what you are currently creating in your life.

Your emotions are your guidance system.

They are an indicator, a signal pointing to where you are at the moment.

Emotions offer necessary information we need to sit with.

When we resist our emotions, we resist where we are.

When we hide from our emotions, we end up hiding from ourselves.

We disconnect from our body and our guidance system.

It’s as if we put on a blind fold to our self awareness.

Running blindly from ourselves, our guidance system, our inner wisdom, and our ability to make a difference in any situation at least for ourselves.

When we learn to use our emotions FOR us, we learn we can trust them and discover what will align us to the solutions we are after.

The foundational relationship you have with YOU is the foundation to every other relationship you have.

Evaluate your ability to love yourself unconditionally.

Are there conditions for you to feel “love” for yourself?

What are those conditions?

What do you believe about yourself if you don’t meet those expectations?

What do you feel thinking those beliefs?

How do those same conditions, beliefs, and feelings come up in your other relationships? 

What’s the connection?

There is one.

When we experience trauma, in an effort to create certainty, we choose a story to believe that helps us make sense of what we’ve experienced.

We are meaning making machines desperately wanting to make sense of our lives and sometimes we make up painful stories that erodes at our self-love, self-trust, and our self-worth in an effort to create certainty.

It’s time to start doing the work to uncover what is eroding our foundation and impacting all our other...