Earlier this week, Leah felt rage. The kind that burns — that arrives without warning and makes your body feel too small to contain it. And her first instinct, like most of ours, was to shut it down. To manage it. To make it stop. This episode begins with that moment and the choice she made instead: to let the feeling be there, to give it space, and then — once it had moved through — to regulate her nervous system back to ground.

Because most of us were never taught how to feel. We were taught how to manage. And there's a difference.

This episode explores what happens when we treat difficult emotions — rage, disappointment, grief, disgust — as problems to be solved rather than messages to be heard. The physiological cost of suppression. The surprising power of simply naming what you feel. And what it might look like to let an emotion  ...