States

Empty, numb, stuck, too emotional, awake at 3 a.m. When a state takes over and nothing seems to explain it – what it may be asking of you, and what helps tonight.

15 articles

  1. How to Stop People Pleasing: Feel the Fear Behind the Yes Saying no makes your chest tight. How to stop people pleasing without a script or becoming harder: notice what your body does just before you say yes.
  2. How to Heal a Broken Heart: The Ache in Your Chest and What Helps Heartbreak doesn't mend by being explained, distracted or replaced. How to heal a broken heart when the ache lives in your chest, and a way to feel it.
  3. Highly Sensitive Person Overwhelmed? A Gentle Way Through It The sensitivity is rarely the problem. When a highly sensitive person is overwhelmed, a day of small unfelt feelings has piled up. A practice for too much.
  4. Emotional Exhaustion: Why Rest Isn't Helping and What Does The tiredness that sleep and weekends don't fix. Emotional exhaustion often comes from the effort of not feeling. The signs, and how to put it down.
  5. Anxiety for No Reason: Why It Comes and What Helps Right Now Life is quiet and still your chest won't settle. Anxiety for no reason is often an old feeling rising, and hunting for a cause feeds it. What helps.
  6. Why Do I Feel Stuck? What It Means and How to Move Again Why do I feel stuck? It may be the moment before a change, when the next step comes with a feeling you'd rather not have. A gentle way to move again.
  7. Why Do I Feel Numb Inside? What It Means and a Gentle Way In Numbness is a feeling too: a flatness, a fog, a dull weight. Why do I feel numb inside, what it may mean, and a 10-minute way to meet it in your body.
  8. Why Do I Feel Like a Burden? What It Means and How to Put It Down Why do I feel like a burden to everyone? Often it's an old feeling, learned in childhood, that your needs were too much, and how to set it down.
  9. Why Do I Feel Empty Inside? What It Means and a Way Back Why do I feel empty inside? The hollow is a feeling too, often sitting on top of others you learned not to feel. What it means, and a quiet way to meet it.
  10. Why Am I So Emotional Lately? What It Means and What Helps Why am I so emotional lately? Often feelings held back for a long time are coming up. What it can mean, when to check with your doctor, and how to meet it.
  11. Waking Up at 3am With Anxiety: Why It's Worse and What Helps Heart pounding in the dark, and the fear may not be new at all. Waking up at 3am with anxiety: why the quiet lets it in, and what to do without getting up.
  12. Spiritual Meaning of Anxiety: What It May Be Asking You to Feel Simpler than a sign or a test: a feeling in your body asking to be felt now. The spiritual meaning of anxiety, and a practice for when the hum starts.
  13. I Want to Cry but I Can't: Why Tears Get Stuck and What Helps I want to cry but I can't: the throat is tight and nothing comes. Why tears get stuck when sadness was held in for years, and a short way to meet them.
  14. How to Stop Overthinking at Night: Why It Gets Worse After Dark Counting, arguing and thinking harder keep you awake. How to stop overthinking at night by meeting what's behind the heavy thought, right there in bed.
  15. How to Stop Feeling Lonely at Night: Why It Hits After Dark The house goes quiet and the feeling that was there all day finally has room. How to stop feeling lonely at night, and what to do in bed when it comes.