The Collective Intellectualization of Emotion (i.e. Dishonouring the Feminine)

One of the greatest ways we have collectively dishonoured & disconnected from the feminine (who resides in each of us) is through the intellectualization of emotion.

Understanding, justifying, and bypassing emotion altogether.

𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 about our emotions without legitimately 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 them in their fullness.

This occurs so rampantly among those in the early stages of personal growth & spiritual seeking.

In fact I see many spiritual & growth-oriented people still unconsciously trying to overcome their emotions.

We are collectively lacking the healthy masculine imprint of bringing pure PRESENCE to emotion.

- The ability to truly BE WITH emotion in the body without escaping into the mind or trying to solve our way out of it.

- The nervous system capacity to allow the intensity of emotion to flow while remaining IN THE BODY.

This begins in childhood when parents cannot be present to strong emotion that is expressed through their children.

(Of course - because the parents never received an imprint for how to be with their own emotion either).

So the child cannot resource & co-regulate with the parent amidst experiencing strong emotion in the body.

Which is actually a fundamental NEED for children.

A child’s nervous system does not have the capacity to be present to itself and it requires this from a caregiver.

As a result, most of us have grown up without developing adult capacity in the nervous system to be present with emotion.

And yet, this is the masculine safety that the feminine longs for.

We long for this healthy masc-fem relationship within our own bodies AND in relationship with each other.

Pure unconditional acceptance and 𝒘𝒆𝒍𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈 of emotion.

The collective healing we are seeking around this will not occur through intellectual understanding.

It occurs as each of us begins to MEET & integrate our developmental trauma IN THE BODY.

Somatically. At the nervous system level.

And this must be done in connection to others. Just like a child - we receive the imprint externally in order to develop the map internally.