Chapter 5 : Emotional Detox

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Chapter 5: Emotional Detox

 

Awakening isn’t all calm and clarity - it often unleashes a wave of emotions you’ve spent years avoiding. In this raw and powerful chapter, Paula explores what happens when rage, despair, and grief surface during the awakening process - and how to feel them without fueling them.

 

You’ll hear:

 

• Why big emotions are a sign of safety, not failure
• How to distinguish emotional release from emotional rumination
• Why expressing your emotions somatically is key to healing—not just mentally understanding them

 

✨ This chapter’s practice:

A somatic shake-off and a scream into a pillow - to move stuck energy safely through the body

 

📝 Journal Prompt:

What emotions am I avoiding because they feel too big?

What might be waiting underneath them?

 

You’re not too much. You’re just finally feeling what’s been held in for too long.

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