Conversations from the Heart
A weekly, soul-nourishing podcast offering psychologically grounded, heart-centered reflections on human relationships, inner healing, and compassion-based communication.
Focused on live mini-coaching moments to help callers shift from reactive, domination-based communication to collaborative, heart-centered connection. Listen for new scripts for stuck situations, new ways of responding to old relationship dynamics and guidance on how to approach these situations with empathy, self-awareness, and effective communication strategies. Here, we emphasize understanding both one's own needs and the needs of others, creating safe spaces for vulnerable conversations, and finding ways to express ourselves authentically while respecting others' boundaries.
Conversations from the Heart
157 - Can I Trust Myself When I Feel This Much?
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There are moments in life when our inner world gets so loud that we stop trusting ourselves.
We feel everything (love, grief, longing, confusion) and instead of clarity, we find ourselves pulled in different directions. It's difficult to tell if our feelings are guiding us or misleading us.
In this episode, I talk with Kate, who is navigating the end of a relational “pause” with someone she still deeply cares about. As the moment of decision approaches, she finds herself overwhelmed by conflicting emotions and unsure how to access her own discernment.
What unfolds is a powerful exploration of:
- Why clarity becomes so difficult when emotions are intense
- The tension between wanting repair and wanting to move forward in relationships
- How emotional flooding is often a sign of healing, not dysfunction
- Why learning to relate to your feelings is more important than trying to control or interpret them
We learn we don’t need to trust every feeling, but we can learn to trust our capacity to stay with ourselves inside our feelings.
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