Episode #113: Here We Are Anyway: Managing Big Emotions When the World Feels Heavy
Here We Are Anyway: Managing Big Emotions When the World Feels Heavy
Nervous System Care, Movement, and Gentle Ways to Stay With Yourself
When the world feels loud, heavy, and overwhelming, it can feel impossible to know how to take care of yourself without shutting down or pushing through.
This is not a conversation about bypassing hard feelings or “just thinking positive.” It’s about staying with yourself when things feel unmanageable.
All Emotions Are Valid
Your nervous system doesn’t respond well to being argued with.
When we tell ourselves, “I shouldn’t feel this way,” the body hears danger. But when we say, “This makes sense,” the body softens. Validation alone can reduce the intensity of an emotion not because the feeling disappears, but because you’re no longer fighting it.
Sadness, anger, grief, joy none of them are wrong. They are signals, information, and part of being human.
Why Movement Helps When Stillness Feels Hard
During times of acute stress, the body often moves into fight, flight, or freeze. In those states, stillness can feel unsafe.
This is why meditation or breathwork can sometimes feel impossible, not because you’re failing, but because your body needs movement first.
Walking, shaking, tapping, bouncing, swaying, or dancing allows the nervous system to complete the stress response. These movements activate the vagus nerve, interrupt looping thoughts, and help the body release what it’s holding.
You don’t need to feel calm. You don’t need to be positive. You just need to move.
Even 30–60 seconds can shift your internal state.
Let Joy and Grief Coexist
Joy does not betray grief.
Seeing beauty, laughing with your child, enjoying a quiet moment these are not signs that you don’t care. They are signs that your nervous system is finding safety again.
Joy builds capacity. It refuels you so you can keep caring.
Small Actions Matter
Regulation isn’t about doing more. It’s about creating safety.
A warm shower. A joyful moment. A short walk. A song that makes you smile.
The size of the action doesn’t regulate your nervous system jsut doing something does.
Gentle “Woo” Support
Sound healing frequencies, visualization, prayer, lighting a candle these practices direct attention and energy. They help the body soften and remind you that you’re not holding everything alone.
This isn’t about pretending things are okay. It’s about staying connected when they aren’t.
When life feels unmanageable, the goal isn’t to fix everything.
It’s to stay connected to yourself, to the next right thing, to the small ways you can keep going.
Here we are anyway.
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