02. My Story - Part 1: The Power of Feeling Emotions & Feeling Seen

This is a big one!  In the first of a two-part series, Sam shares a story that taught her about the importance of feeling your emotions and letting others see and support you.  Specifically, Sam talks about a formative experience - a physical assault she experienced in college - and the perspective she has gained from processing this experience. 

Sam shares the story around the assault and her inability to process her emotions around it for several years.

She describes the way these unprocessed and deeply suppressed feelings of fear, grief, and shame manifested in intense anxiety, and her refusal to see the connection. 

Her moment of clarity at a crystal energy and sound bath healing (she randomly found herself at) where she suddenly understood her need to feel her emotions around this assault and to share this experience with others.

She describes the fear she experienced before sharing this story - the fear of disbelief, of judgment, of blame, of dismissal - and the intense support and love she was met with instead.

Sam describes one of the most profound lessons she has learned in her life: when you let others have the opportunity to see you - really see you in your full expression of who you are - you have the opportunity to receive their support in ways you couldn’t know before.  And that support can provide liberation. 

By sharing her story, Sam hopes that you can find ways to give yourself grace for whatever your story is and however you may feel about it.  Each of us have stories that have brought us pain, and maybe even fear and shame.  Whatever you are feeling - your feelings are valid and you have nothing to be ashamed of. 

The more we can look at and accept the parts of ourselves we struggle to reconcile, the more we can show up in our lives as our true and unique selves.  And that is where the magic happens!

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Mentioned on the show: Bryanna Dee’s podcast Shadow Light http://bryannadee.com 

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