Listen to Your Body Like a Baby: The Power of Somatic Awareness

If you’re anything like the incredible women I work with, you’ve always been the one who holds it all together.

You were the responsible one growing up. The good girl who got the grades, smiled through it, took care of everyone else’s needs, and never wanted to be a burden. Now, you're the woman who shows up for everyone—your colleagues, your partner, your kids, your friends.

You’re smart, capable, and self-aware. You've built a solid life. But underneath the daily grind, there's this ache—this quiet, growing discomfort that says:
"Something’s off. This isn’t it anymore."

Maybe your job used to excite you. But lately? You’re waking up exhausted before the day even begins. You scroll Seek job ads on your lunch break or online courses on the weekend, binge Netflix on the weekends just to switch off, low key online shopping because you work your butt off, you deserve a treat right!?!? or pour a wine and tell yourself it’s just stress.

But deep down, you know it’s not just stress.

You’re disconnected from yourself. From your body. From your truth.

Your Body Is Speaking—You Just Learned Not to Listen

The truth is, your body has been trying to get your attention. But for so many high-functioning women, it’s become normal to override those signals.

You feel the tightness in your chest before a meeting.
You feel the tension in your neck when you're overgiving.
You feel the gut-drop Sunday night dread before another work week.

But you’ve trained yourself to push through.

Why? Because a long time ago, you learned that rest is indulgent. That emotions are inconvenient. That slowing down is dangerous. So you keep smiling, keep achieving, keep pretending everything is fine—while your nervous system is screaming for relief.

What If You Treated Your Body Like a Baby?

If your body were a crying baby, would you ignore it?
Would you tell it to stop being dramatic? Or tell it to just be grateful?
Or would you pause and respond with care?

We’re so good at tending to others. But when our own bodies cry out—from tension, anxiety, overwhelm—we shame it, numb it, or push it down.

It’s time to treat yourself with the same tenderness. Your body isn’t betraying you. It’s begging you to listen.

Why You’re Living in Your Head (And What It’s Costing You)

For many of us, especially those with unresolved trauma or burnout, the mind became the safe place. Your control center. Your survival strategy.

You learned to think your way through everything.
But healing? Presence? Purpose?
Those live in the body.

Living in your head might help you feel in control, but it’s also what’s keeping you stuck—spinning in indecision, overthinking every move, and unable to access that deeper clarity and confidence.

Somatic Awareness: The Missing Piece

Somatic awareness is the practice of coming home to your body. It’s learning to recognize that gut feeling, that lump in your throat, the butterflies of intuition—not as noise, but as guidance.

It’s pausing to ask:
“What am I actually feeling right now?”
“What does my body need from me?”

These are the clues that lead back to yourself.

IFS: The Gentle Path to Reconnection

This is where Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy comes in. Because it’s not just about “feeling more”—it’s about safely reconnecting with the parts of you that learned to disconnect for a reason.

IFS helps you find the part of you that numbs out with wine or online shopping.
The part that says “Don’t make a fuss.”
The one who’s terrified to be seen, so she hides behind overachievement.

Each part has a story. A role. A belief it’s been carrying for years.

IFS allows you to get curious about those parts—not with judgment, but with deep compassion—and gently help them release their burdens, so you can live from your center again.

This Work Is for You If…

• You’re in a career that looks good on paper, but feels lifeless inside

• You come home emotionally flatlined and creatively starved

• You’ve tried mindset work, but still feel stuck

• You fantasize about “something more,” but freeze at the thought of actually doing it

• You’re tired of holding it all together, but don’t know how to let go without falling apart

If you nodded at any of this—please know, you are not broken.
You’re just disconnected from your body’s wisdom.

Coming Home to You

When you stop pushing through the tension and start responding to it…
When you stop silencing your body’s signals and start listening…
When you stop living in your head and return to your body…

Everything shifts.

You reconnect to your truth.
You make decisions from a grounded place.
You stop abandoning yourself for the sake of being “good” or “grateful.”
You begin to move through the world with a quiet, magnetic confidence.

You don’t need to do more.
You need to listen more deeply—to you.

Because your body has always known the way.
You’ve just been too busy surviving to hear it.

And now? It’s time to come home.