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Ep 47: Why Rest Can Feel Unsafe — And What Your System Is Trying to Tell You

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On Ep 47: Why Rest Can Feel Unsafe — And What Your System Is Trying to Tell You, Emily breaks down why rest can feel so unsafe for some folks and how to begin undoing the "go go go mentality" that many of us are chained to. This episode came out of a week in Bacalar that humbled Emily in a way she didn’t expect. Emily went to visit a healer she's known for over a decade, and the moment she arrived, her body stopped. Hard.
Not in a burnout collapse kind of way — in a you’re-not-listening-so-I’m-taking-over kind of way.

What unfolded over the next five days became a lesson in slowing down, listening to her body, and remembering the rhythms we belong to — not the ones we perform for.

Inside this episode, we explore:

  • why your body speaks long before your mind does

  • why rest, stillness, and emotional presence feel unsafe for so many high-capacity humans

  • the medicine tradition of listening to sensation rather than symptom

  • how cyclical living makes overwhelm easier to hold

  • how to sit with discomfort without collapsing into it

  • what my time with a local medicine woman unlocked in my own healing

  • how shadow work fits into all of this (and why it’s not about digging for pain)

You’ll also hear the prompts we're working with this week — the same ones that are being offered to you.

Here are the prompts for you to explore: 

 

If you need a moment to breathe, to hear yourself again, or to let your body’s truth catch up with you… this is that moment.

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