When you start healing your nervous system old memories and “forgotten” experiences may resurface…

This doesn’t mean you are doing anything wrong. It’s not a sign your are getting worse.

As you regulate your nervous system, your body will start to feel safer. And because you are now more in touch with your body, when you feel your emotions you might have the impression that they are more intense. Whereas before you would normally just dissociate or use other survival strategies, you are now able to be more in the body when you feel these emotions.

If you are getting adequate titrated support and if you have been slowly and safely building up your nervous system capacity. You are now finally ready to start feeling these emotional memories; in ways you could not do before.

With more capacity comes the ability to feel buried wounds.

As you heal, it’s extremely important to reevaluate your relationships. Choosing safe and supportive people to be in your life, as you process and integrate these deeply buried emotions.

Many of us are so afraid of our emotions that any hint of them can freak us out.

It helps to remember that:

🌿 When we were young we often could not express uncomfortable emotions, without losing connection with our caregivers. Our caregivers felt uncomfortable with them and that’s why we started to bury them very deep inside. Now that your nervous system is more stable, these deep emotions finally have the space to be felt, released and integrated.

🌿 Emotions are an integral part of the human experience. We are ‘feeling beings’.

🌿 Your body has innate intelligence and your nervous system knows how to keep you safe. It has done a great job so far. You can trust it.

It is safe to feel now. It’s possible to feel your emotions and still have a daily productive life. Both can beautifully co-exist.