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Can you die from crying?
Living Unmuted Insider Weekly Guidance to Author Your Life through Self-trust February 10, 2026|Issue Archive Hey friend, I once found myself sitting on the bathroom floor with the shower running, crying so hard I couldn’t catch my breath. And in the middle of it, a thought crossed my mind that surprised me by how real it felt: Can you die from crying? Not as a metaphor.I genuinely wondered if my body could hold that much emotion. But here’s what I didn’t understand at the time. It doesn’t...
Living Unmuted Insider has a new look!
Living Unmuted Insider Weekly Guidance to Author Your Life through Self-trust February 2, 2026|Issue Archive Hi friend, I wanted to take a moment to let you know about an exciting and intentional shift happening with Living Unmuted Insider. Moving forward, this newsletter will only arrive once a week. I’m making this change because I want to give you the best value possible — not more noise, not more emails, but something you can actually sit with, come back to, and use. Here’s what you can...
The kind of guilt that asks the wrong question
Living Unmuted Insider Real stories. Real advice. Hey friend, The last couple weeks have been difficult for me. I have lived with chronic pain and inflammation for a long time, and I have learned how to move through it.Adjust. Adapt. Keep going. This injury was different. Not because I ignored signs, but because for the first time, I could not push past them. And what surprised me most was not just the limitation.It was the guilt. Guilt for not being able to pick up my toddler.Guilt for...
When even your favorite things feel like too much
Living Unmuted Insider Real stories. Real advice. When even your favorite things feel like too much Hey friend, There are days when you know what usually helps.You have the tools.You have the practices. And still, nothing feels reachable. Even the things you love.Even the things that usually bring comfort. If today is one of those days, I want you to hear this clearly: There is nothing wrong with you. Sometimes the nervous system isn’t asking for action.It’s asking for less. Less effort.Less...
Healing isn’t meant to be done alone
Living Unmuted Insider Real stories. Real advice. Hey friend, There was a long stretch of my life where I believed healing was something I had to do quietly. Independently.Privately.Without needing anyone. Not because I didn’t want supportbut because my body learned early that relying on myself was safer. And for a long timethat worked. What I didn’t understand back then is that survival skills don’t disappear just because the danger is gone.They stay.They protect.They keep us moving forward...
When you’re not okay
Living Unmuted Insider Real stories. Real advice. When you’re not okay Hey beautiful friend, Some days don’t need a plan.They don’t need answers or clarity or momentum. Some days you’re just… not okay. And the hardest part is that we’ve been taught that not being okay is something to fix or power through instead of something to meet with care. But here’s what I believe matters most on hard days: Allow yourself to feel the hard with compassion, without sitting alone in the dark with it....
What Febreze knew that changed the way nervous systems were understood
Living Unmuted Insider Real stories. Real advice. Hey friend, There’s a quiet gap between knowing what to do… and being able to do it consistently. Most of the world tells us that gap is about discipline.Willpower.Trying harder. But if that were true, change would be simple. And it’s not. The problem isn’t effort. It’s craving. Here’s a story I think about often. Febreze is now a billion-dollar brand.But when it first launched, it almost failed. It was marketed as a miracle solution for bad...
This might be the reason you feel stuck
Living Unmuted Insider Real stories. Real advice. Hi friend, I want to share something personal with you because it became the moment that changed the entire direction of my life and the reason I am creating something very special that is coming soon. There was a time in my life when I was doing everything I was supposed to do.I was eating healthy.I was trying to stay positive.I was pushing myself to keep going.But my body was telling an entirely different story. One day my doctor told me...
When boundaries don't feel safe.
Living Unmuted Insider Real stories. Real advice. Hey friend. Today I want to talk about something that often shows up when people begin protecting their nervous system. The first time you protect your nervous system, guilt usually shows up immediately. Not later.Not after reflection.Right away. You choose to pause.You choose not to engage the same way.You choose to protect your energy. And suddenly, there it is. The tightness in your chest.The awareness of someone else’s discomfort.The...
I stopped negotiating with the bathtub
Living Unmuted Insider Real stories. Real advice. Hey friend, Can we talk about bedtime for a second. Not the soft, Pinterest version.The real version.Where you have one hour to be a loving family and a competent adult, and somehow it turns into a courtroom drama over the bathtub. If you have smallish kids, you get it.If you have a spouse who sometimes scrolls like it’s their job, you also get it. And lately, I realized something kind of painful. I kept ending my evenings like I had...