I’ve noticed a theme as of late. Between my coaching clients and intuitively sensitive friends, they’ve been reporting that their emotions have been flowing and fluctuating at an accelerated rate from what feels like out of nowhere. Like they’re caught in a flood that feels overwhelming without a source to pinpoint the cause.

As a result, they’re judging themselves as insane or broken. This self-judgment causes shame and the behavior of hiding. And if that wasn’t bad enough, this shame and hiding keeps them from seeking and receiving support. Support that can actually help them clear the discord and re-align themselves.

So I’m calling it out. I’m bringing it into the light to tell you that YOU ARE NOT INSANE, AND YOU ARE NOT BROKEN.

The world as a whole is shifting and transitioning. Regardless of where you sit on the political spectrum, we have come out of a global pandemic, which is trauma at the big T level. We are finally processing all that happened and accumulated over the past 3 years, now that it feels safe enough to our subconscious to do so. (And for some, it might not feel safe yet, but you’ve hit your maximum capacity and can’t hold the fear frozen inside anymore.)

In addition to this pent-up fear, anger and exhaustion, we are transitioning and transforming on an evolutionary level. We are processing and dissolving trauma that has been building up in our DNA for 14 generations. (Yes, that’s how much ancestral trauma our DNA stores…that equates to 32,766 lives worth.)

And for those of us that believe our soul experiences many lifetimes, I personally believe we’re clearing out distortions from all of our past lifetimes right now. Which is why so many people are experiencing what we’re calling a “Spiritual Awakening.”

So of course we’re not going to be able to pinpoint the exact “thing” that is the cause of this emotional upheaval…because it’s ALL THE THINGS (both that we are consciously aware of and unconscious to us). Even my peers with plenty of tools to self-support are feeling it.

There is no shame in that, nor is asking for help and seeking support something to feel ashamed about.

You are not alone. You are not broken. You are not insane.

You are a soul in a human body. You are having a human experience in alignment with the greater collective human experience. That may look different for different people depending on their journey to this point, but if you’re feeling all the feels…IT IS OKAY to be messy right now!

You are exactly as you should be. You will be okay. Ride the wave.

In the words of one of my favorite spiritual mentors, Matt Kahn: “It’s that time we spend feeling those feelings and supporting ourself as we feel those feelings that gives us permission to graduate into the next level of consciousness.”

There is no “right way” to do life. And if you’re overwhelmed, ask for support in whatever form feels right to you…but you don’t have to navigate this alone.

And you don’t have to hide your experience, or hide from your experience.

Be gentle with yourself. Be compassionate to the soft one inside you that has been doing the best they can.