Kate Collins* here…

I wanted to share a cool thing that happened for me...

This morning I went to a Warm Slow-Flow Yoga class at my local Yoga studio where I used to teach Pilates. I hadn’t been for quite some time and after class an old acquaintance approached me and said something along the lines of:

“Wow. It felt SO amazing to be on the mat next to you.
Your practice has deepened immensely, my gosh!
I could tell how present you were. I was just soaking up your energy and I felt so relaxed and so grounded and so glad I was in the room next to you!
You should hang out with us sometime.”

I knew very well that the last time she experienced me, I was operating primarily from a disregulated nervous system, and that what she felt from me today was a REALLY regulated one. She liked it. And she wanted MORE.

I smiled and thanked her for her kindness. I told her:

“Well, actually, I changed my brain since the last time you saw me!”

The thing about brain change is it doesn’t happen overnight. It can be messy and imperfect. So when you’re the one doing it, and you’re REALLY in it, you don’t always have your sights on your own change.

And your intimates who are in close proximity to your emotional self, also may not see it right away.

But this person knew me a handful of years ago and then she saw me today, BRAND NEW. A completely expanded version of myself, one that not only felt good to embody on my mat but also, for her, felt really good to be around.

It was lovely to be witnessed in this way, but also not at all surprising!

I used to be someone who couldn’t manage my own emotional content without relying upon survival reactivity to help me out, and who now, after all of my work with the Center for Emotional Education, am someone who can not only metabolize and integrate everything that’s going on in my own internal world, but I can sit in safety and support of others as they express and experience theirs.

For those of you intentionally working toward more regulation, I see you, I’ve been you, I am you.

Keep going, it’s worth it.

Love,
Kate

*Kate Collins is a Certified Coach with the Center for Emotional Education. Kate is actually the person who lit a fire under us to create our Certification program, so that she too could help people manage their emotional overwhelm and rewire their brains for greater Emotion Sovereignty.

You can learn more about becoming a coach, just like Kate, here.
(The next training course starts January 24)

You can apply to work with Kate here.