Episode 48
Have you been noticing extreme fluctuations in your energy lately?
Moments where you feel clear, productive, even joyful — and then, almost without warning, your energy drops and you think,
Wow, I need to lie down right now?
Have you found yourself feeling perfectly fine — smiling, engaged — and then out of nowhere, sadness moves in? Maybe your eyes well up and you can’t quite explain why.
Have you felt the ups and downs not just emotionally, but in how you’re experiencing the world around you? More sensitive. More porous. More easily impacted.
If so, this episode is for you.
Because what many of us are moving through right now isn’t random.
What we’re navigating is a kind of collective emotional detox and nervous system recalibration.
When there are global shifts — uncertainty, conflict, acceleration, rapid change — our nervous systems register it. Even if we’re not consciously tracking headlines. Even if we think we’re “doing fine.”
And for those of us who are energetically attuned, sensitive, aware — we often process more than just our own personal experience.
So today, I want to share about what this has looked like in my own system — because I know that many of you are moving through something similar — and I want to normalize it.
And I’ll walk you through a three-layer process that can help you move through this with more steadiness and more ease.
Not to make it go away.
But to stay embodied while it moves.
So if you’re ready, pull up a comfy chair. Invite in your soul. And be open to receive exactly what you need to live, be, and thrive as the embodied soul you are.
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This week has been incredible highs and lows — waves of emotion, many of them coming out of nowhere, with no explicable catalyst or ignition point. You know…Just moving along in my day, feeling fairly productive, and then I watched one short video — something relaxing and engaging. Five minutes later, I felt myself move into sadness. My body went heavy. I felt tears well up in my eyes.
And to be clear, the video had nothing to do with sadness. It wasn’t highly emotional. It was about how your brain works — very mental, very focused.
And like many of us do, I questioned it. What provoked that? What stimulated this emotion? We’re so taught to ask: what was the thought I was thinking that created this emotion?
But in this case, there was nothing I could put my finger on.
What I later recognized is this: yes, we are navigating individual emotions catalyzed by our lived experiences and what we consume. But we’re also navigating and processing the collective energetic field.
The majority of you listening to this are also processing and navigating collective energies. Even when things are not specifically in our awareness, we are innately energetically connected. We are experiencing the things in the world around us.
Now, here’s the nuance.
For those of you would just said: “Oh good, it’s not me. I didn’t do something wrong,” there are two things I want to say.
You are absolutely not doing anything wrong.
And — if you are experiencing it, it means you still have a thread of that energetic signature within you. Not because you failed, but because you have the capacity — even unconsciously — to process collective energies.
Yes, you still have your own vibrational resonance of that experience within your field, your cells, your mental structure. And you may also be metabolizing it for the collective.
So if you’ve been feeling waves, unidentifiable emotions, sudden ups and downs — know this is what we’re moving through right now. Many are going through it. You are not alone.
Even if you don’t think you have a reason, know there is a version of you that is releasing something on a cellular level — even if it’s not a version that you are consciously aware of.
Because remember, we’re working on multidimensional layers right now, including our ideas of past, future, parallel versions of us.
So even if it feels disruptive — “I don’t have time to cry for 15 minutes” — this is the opportunity to allow yourself to fully experience it.
And this is another place where nuance matters.
You may hear me describe this process, my process.
You may hear others describe theirs.
You may recognize yourself in parts of it.
But your experience will be your own.
This isn’t about copying someone else’s way of processing. It isn’t about getting it “right.”
It’s about learning to stay embodied in your own system while emotions move through.
Take what resonates.
Leave the rest.
Because your nervous system, your history, your timing, your path — are unique.
And yes, we are connected. We are influenced by the collective. We learn through one another.
But this is not a passive way forward.
You don’t hand your authority to someone else’s framework.
You don’t compare your pace.
You don’t collapse into fear because someone else moved through something aster or differently.
You stay with your body.
You stay with your knowing.
And from that place, here is how I see it unfolding in three layers.
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Step 1: Regulate First
So before you dive into the emotion — regulate your body.
Stabilize enough so that the feeling doesn’t overwhelm you.
This isn’t about calming down so you don’t feel.
It’s about creating enough safety in your system that you can feel without being flooded.
What does this look like?
There are a number of tools you can use. Here are a few:
Use your breath by taking longer exhales than inhales. So for instance breathe in for the count of 4, and then exhale for the count of 6.
Next, bring awareness to your body by placing one hand on your heart and other hand on your belly and gently breathing.
You can run cold water over your wrists or face.
You can ground yourself back to the present moment by naming 5 things you see in the room around you.
You can lie flat on the floor, letting gravity hold you.
You can just gently hum to stimulate the vagus nerve.
Choose whichever feel right to you, or something other.
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Step 2: Discern
Once your body and system feel a little steadier, then you can ask yourself:
Is this mine? Or am I witnessing something move through me?
And then allow yourself to notice what you feel — not what you think. What you feel.
If it feels sharp and has a story or explanation attached to it → it’s likely yours.
If it feels diffuse, unlocated, untethered, almost a global feeling → it’s often collective.
If it feels layered → it’s likely both.
Because remember, even if it’s collective, if you’re feeling it, there’s a thread in you that’s ready to clear.
And this is where discernment is important
Discernment isn’t just about identifying the origin of the emotion — it’s about staying anchored in your own knowing as you move through it.
Discernment means noticing what is yours to move — and what is simply moving through the field.
Now, community can normalize what you’re experiencing. It can help you feel less alone. It can offer language that creates an “A-ha, that’s what this is” moment.
But, again, this is not passive work.
We are connected. We are collaborative. We learn through each other.
But discernment means you use others’ experiences as tools — not instructions.
You stay embodied in your own process.
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Step 3: Move it
Once you’ve regulated.
Once you’ve discerned what you’re touching.
Then — allow it to move.
Let it metabolize.
This is where you allow the emotion to actually move through your system — even without a visible catalyst in your physical life.
And I know some of you get irritated when I say we have to feel what’s coming up.
But feeling is how we release it.
It’s how we integrate it.
If we don’t feel the emotions, they solidify within us.
And later, this has it’s own impact on us, both mentally, and physically.
So give yourself permission to feel the feelings for as long as you need to.
Cry until the tears run out.
Get angry until the anger subsides. (Just don’t direct it at someone else.)
Go outside and move your body.
Run. Dance. Shake.
Scream into a pillow if you need to.
Let the energy move.
You may also want to journal. Write the frustration out.
Let the questions come. The answers will follow. They may come in stillness. In dreams. In a video. In a moment of “a-ha” recognition.
Intend to receive the answer in a way you will recognize.
As you allow yourself to feel your emotions, you metabolize them.
You allow cellular release.
You allow energetics to release so they can re-pattern.
New energy begins to fill that space.
Something more aligned. More resourced.
When emotion is felt and moved, it completes its cycle.
What I’ve noticed is that with every layer I move through, another one is waiting for me.
Why? Because the nervous system expands in pulses. But we integrate in spirals.
This is not a one-and-done. This is not a destination. This is something we are moving through long term.
So it’s about learning how to navigate it.
Learning how to regulate your nervous system through it.
Learning not to judge it.
Learning to still give yourself pockets of peace, joy, play, lightness.
There’s no outrunning it.
Because here’s the thing, if you don’t process your emotions… it doesn’t disappear.
It hardens.
It can turn into irritability.
It can turn into numb scrolling.
It can turn into snapping at someone you love.
It can show up as body tension, headaches, exhaustion that doesn’t quite make sense.
This isn’t punishment. It isn’t failure.
It’s just energy that didn’t get to move.
And this is why I keep saying — feel what’s coming up.
Not because we want to live in it.
Not because we want to make it our identity.
But because when you allow it, it moves.
Feel the mud on your toes.
Notice it.
Experience it.
And then keep walking.
You don’t have to stay there.
You don’t have to build a house in it.
You don’t have to make it who you are.
Just let it move — and as it moves, something else fills the space.
Clarity.
Lightness.
Capacity.
The vaster You.
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The goal is not to be unaffected. The goal is to be embodied while affected.
I’m sending you so much love as you navigate the energetics of this week — and the years ahead.
I would love to hear what stood out for you. What you’re moving through. What realizations you’ve had.
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And I look forward to being with you again next week on Embodied Soul.
