If you’re noticing a gap between how you feel and how you want to feel, you’re not alone. I’ve got some tips on how to begin bridging that gap.

Spring has sprung. The birds are noisily catching up, and the air has that bubblegum scent of winter thawing and buds blooming. And yet, I know from personal experience that spring can be a challenging season when we’re struggling.

Spring’s arrival can feel invigorating, energizing and enlivening and, for some, it can also intensify feelings of sadness, loneliness, or something else. Just like the holiday season, spring can amplify our feelings and experiences—the joys glow brighter and the hurts feel heavier.

We may not experience spring’s cheer as exuberant, but rather as a constant reminder of how off we feel. Her warmth can intensify the contrast—the seismic gap—between how you feel and how you wish you felt.

So, how can we go from how we’re feeling to what we want to feel? We start where we are—acknowledging how we feel AND the not wanting to feel this way. Allowing your experience to be as it is and meeting it in a warm, welcoming way (instead of fixing it) creates the conditions for the change you want—to feel better.

And, for many of us, turning towards what’s uncomfortable in a welcoming way is something we need to learn how to do. Because, naturally, our first step is to turn away from what’s hard or uncomfortable—we try avoiding it, compartmentalizing it, or talking ourselves out of how we’re feeling, but that just keeps us even more stuck.

If what I’m sharing resonates with you, then you might be interested in a guided exercise I posted on YouTube. In this guided exercise I’ll help you go from feeling stuck in what you’re feeling to … being able to have your feelings. That may sound like a small difference, but it feels huge. It’s the first step to getting unstuck.

As you move through the exercise, you may be surprised to experiences shifts—a deeper breath, more steadiness or ease without anything being fixed or solved.

Watch the guided somatic exercise

Let me know what you think! I’m happy to answer any questions you have or read what you discovered. You can simply reply to this email.

If you want to explore more ways of getting unstuck, so you can live more fully and freely, let’s chat! Click here to book a free call to explore working together.

Here’s to living fully in these hard times!

Lauren

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