One of the uncomfortable truths about human beings is that telling the truth and saying what's real is very difficult. In fact, some of us believe that lying about our experience preserves trust and makes our relationships stronger.

 

In reality, this discomfort with truth is a discomfort with feeling our feelings and expressing our real emotions.

 

That in turn dampens our spontaneity, disconnects us from our realness, and robs our relationships of the authenticity they need to be strong and fulfilling.

 

It’s impossible to truly BE WITH if we’re not expressing our unarguable truth. So many of us have spent years shoving our emotions down, and that means we’re actually living a lie with ourselves and the people around us.

 

Learning to feel our feelings starts with honoring what we’re experiencing.

 

How do we learn to tell our unarguable truth? In this episode, we talk about how to open up about your feelings and why it makes for better relationships.

 

As people, we all feel and that’s part of what makes us people. We’re messy and we’re structured - integrating those things is what makes us whole, not one or the other. -Sophie Chiche  

 

Four Things You’ll Learn In This Episode 

 

-Honor your feeling state

As humans, we’ve been taught to lean into logic because unlike our emotions, it’s neater and easier to control. Is that why so many people struggle to feel and tell the truth? How do we start speaking from discovery/experience?

 

-Give yourself a breath hug

When we don’t let sadness move through us and we push down our emotions, it disconnects us from ourselves and it creates a massive feelings backlog. How do we start to unravel our feelings? 

 

-Learn to love with a spine

For those of us who are immensely empathetic, it’s easy for someone else’s emotions to overpower ours. How do we love others without abandoning ourselves?

 

-The deliciousness of being real

Telling the truth clears up the emotional debris and allows us to experience the full range of our aliveness. How does it make our relationships better?

 

About Your Hosts

Kathlyn Hendricks, Ph.D., BC-DMT*, is an evolutionary catalyst and freelance mentor who has been a pioneer in the field of body intelligence and conscious loving for over forty years. Katie has an international reputation as a presenter and seminar leader, bodifying the core skills of conscious living–authenticity, response-ability and appreciation–with conscious enthusiasts from many fields. She is the co-author of twelve books, including the best-selling Conscious Loving, At The Speed of Life and Conscious Loving Ever After: How to Create Thriving Relationship at Midlife and Beyond. Katie has been a successful entrepreneur for over forty years. She specializes in turning concepts such as commitment into felt experience and igniting new actions that emerge from the inside out. Her unique coaching and leadership programs have generated hundreds of body intelligence and relationship coaches in the U.S. and Europe. She co-founded the Spiritual Cinema Circle and the virtual Body Intelligence Summit. Katie has appeared on over 500 radio and television programs and traveled well over one million air miles as the ambassador for the work that she and her husband Gay Hendricks have developed.

 

Sophie Chiche is a seasoned coach and consultant who has traveled the world working with thousands of people and dozens of teams. With a passion for fully expressed living, Sophie coaches, and facilitates group sessions to help people and teams remove what gets in the way of them living their most meaningful lives.Not only does she work with clients to design the life they want, but she's also developed methods, mindsets shifts, and healing modalities to create it elegantly. Born in Paris, raised in Barcelona, and lived in LA for 30 years, Sophie now lives in the middle of nowhere Arizona, where she rides her Harley with her boo, Wall. And plays a lot of pickleball.

 

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