11/20/2025
We’d all love to believe we can keep the “good” feelings and toss out the painful ones.
Maybe you learned early on that certain feelings weren’t welcome.
Perhaps fear was punished, or sadness was shamed. So you shut those feelings down to survive.
But our emotions are not isolated experiences; they live in the same system.
You cannot go numb to pain and still expect to feel alive with passion.
That’s why when we start doing relational work, it can feel overwhelming, because as one feeling rises to the surface, the rest begin to stir too.
You allow yourself to feel anger, and beneath it, grief emerges.
You soften into sadness, and underneath, you find love.
Living a full, relational life means trusting that you can survive feeling what you feel and stay connected in the midst of them.
To feel alive is to feel it all.
