Hearing Out Life Drama Blog

For many people, expressing emotions isn’t something they were ever taught. It wasn’t modeled. It wasn’t named. It wasn’t practiced. It simply… wasn’t done.

In some families, emotions were treated like interruptions. In others, they were ignored unt...

Yesterday, during my morning routine, after listening to my air conditioner app for meditation, I was enjoying a few minutes of Abraham Hicks. I wasn’t looking for anything in particular.

But then it hit me.

“You have not yet given yourself permiss...

I was heading out the door to the post office when a family member asked if I would pick up milk while I was out.

Normally that would have been a simple favor, but that particular day I already had several stops planned and was carrying a lot of st...

I remember standing in the grocery store line, trying to hold it together.

My phone buzzed in my hand. The glucose alarm was going off again. I was texting quickly, asking if he’d grabbed a Jolly Rancher, hoping he had seen the alert in time. My min...

Emotional dysregulation. It’s a big phrase with a very real impact—especially in parenting, relationships, and even leadership.

When someone is dysregulated, it means their brain has flipped into a stress response. They’re not thinking clearly, not ...

You know that moment when you take off a heavy backpack and suddenly realize just how much lighter you feel?

Not just physically — emotionally too.

Most of us are carrying more than we realize.

Old conversations. Unspoken guilt. Words we swallowed...