
← In Her Alchemy with Hayley Laurenson12. Aug. · 10 Min.
The Only Way Out Is Through
<p>What if you didn't need to fix the feeling, understand it, or make it go away?</p><p>What if you could simply let yourself be in it?</p><p><br></p><p>In this episode, I talk about learning to sit in the discomfort of our emotions instead of immediately trying to escape them, to distract, numb, solve, rationalise or rush ourselves back to feeling "okay."</p><p><br></p><p>Because we won't always have it together. We won't always know what to do next. And sometimes the most compassionate thing we can offer ourselves is permission to feel exactly what we're feeling without making it mean something has gone wrong.</p><p><br></p><p>Not every uncomfortable feeling needs a solution.</p><p>Sometimes it needs space.</p><p>Sometimes it needs to move through us.</p><p><br></p><p>Because as much as we might wish there were a shortcut, sometimes the only way out really is through.</p>