Feel what you feel.

Need what you need.

The Emotion Project is for the deep feelers, the intuitives, the ones who have been told they were “too sensitive” their whole life. The ones who are deeply attuned and deeply reflective. I created it to subvert the old ideas about emotion being something that weakens us when it is in fact one of our most powerful gifts. This is obvious when we can see the degree of emotional labor we put into our marriages, our parenting, and many of our relationships. Our ability to feel is an intelligence that far outweighs logic in its importance. Emotion is our fuel, it is our fire, and it is at the heart of transformation.

    You can also follow the project on Instagram @TheEmotionProject.

    Women come to me because they think they cry too much. They want to be able to speak about things that mean a lot to them without crying. . I get the frustration. We don’t want to cry in front of our bosses or our employees. We don’t w
    Directing your thoughts is no small tool. The feminine has the capacity to imagine and FEEL the deep intricacies of another person’s experience. It is a gift that can sometimes entangle us, strangle us, and keep us stuck if we don’t set
    Sometimes the words come fast and all at once. Not unlike the feelings. Get the support you need but keep feeling. Keep breaking open. Sometimes it’s not a soft landing coming home to ourselves but the anxiety is just a layer, protecting us
    It is normal to feel lost at times, to feel overwhelmed and confused, and to not know - really - what the hell you are doing. It is normal to sometimes feel completely disembodied, like you are watching yourself do the thing you know you shouldn&rsq
    Privilege lives in the blind spots. The things we don’t even consider or think about because we don’t have to. .. The Emotion Project (which is all about helping women trust their feelings and inhabit their bodies) had a major blind spot
    The intensity of the last few weeks came on fast. Flooded with information and calls to action, people to listen to, read, and follow, all mixed with a sense of urgency to DO something now and fast, all delivered at the hammering pace of IG stories
    Emotion helps us adapt and evolve.  That is its purpose.  But if we have strong emotion and let it pass without using it to push us forward into change, into NEW ways of engaging, then we miss an opportunity for transformation. .. Certainly
    If there was one single message I could send out into the world, it would be this one: the feeling in your body means something and it has the information you are looking for. ... When you are wondering why you are stuck or why you are anxious, quest
    It’s not just the emotion that feels like a tsunami, it’s the vulnerability. Any emotion we were overwhelmed by, left alone with, or shamed for having will be intense to feel - especially around other people. .. Our body won’t easi
    I cringe a little at the expectation of “self-soothing” because I know how HARD it can be to do this. How do you soothe a surging panic attack? How do you soothe yourself when you are free-falling into despair over a seemingly “sm
    “Your life is a path,” my Dad told me at age 15, “and you are meant to grow as you walk it.” Such a simple teaching and yet it changed my life. I had just run away from my mother, shattering her heart, and shattering mine. T
    It’s not always easy to get clear in ourselves or get clear in our relationships. Clarity can feel like a loss. That’s why we don’t always want to know the truth. We are afraid the truth will hurt us or force us to make a decisio
    When people suffer from a great deal of anxiety, I know they have feelings that must be felt - and it’s normal to sometimes need help to feel them. . Almost always when my clients go toward their anxiety, what ends up happening is they start to
    It’s hard to feel everything. What I feel most right now is anxiety. Subtle, but there. How could I not? It’s pervasive. It’s like a stream running through all of us. We are all connected to it, feeling it. The foundation of
    We have so much more capacity than we realize to FEEL what we feel. To meet the challenges we face. What overwhelms us tends to be our thoughts. Our thoughts are powerful regulators of emotion. One thing I realized when I became a mother was that
    We turn to our phones to feel connected. We keep the television on to feel less alone. All of this is PERFECTLY FINE but consider adding something else to your surroundings when you are feeling lonely or anxious or sad: FIRE. . . Fire has presence 
    


    
  
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