Befriending Life Force
On Tuesday, February 25, I was a guest on an episode of Ask Herbal Health Expert Susun Weed. I’ve written at length to my email list about my relationship with Susun over the years. From my first visit for work exchange, to being a live out apprentice, to now being beloveds - my entire relationship with Susun has transformed the way I attune to myself, to plants and to tapping into human potential.
Susun reinforced much of what I shared about Somatic Attunement as important. Especially, the concept of sensing the beauty around us as evidence of our relative safety to explore our internal experience. Yet when I shared my hope that people could step forward into the most expansive expression of themselves, she shared a story that made me pause.
Listen to my interview HERE, I start at the last 27 minute mark.
Susun shared that it’s not wrong to feel scared to fully experience being alive. “It’s a lot of energy,” she reminded me. And I’ve been reflecting on that ever since.
As a Somatic Attunement coach with several years of trauma training, I am able to intellectually understand how our experiences can cause us to suppress desire, emotion and therefore expression of ourselves. Certainly I don’t perceive constricting inside or holding back as a pathology or something to fix.
Susun Weed and Nicole Renée
And so, as an individual who is so full of tenacious, delicious, life force energy and courageous hope for humans to live fully as themselves - I had to check in with my ego. Am I operating from my own limited perceptions of what is possible when I cheer for you? Just as it’s not wrong to be scared or hesitant to live in an embodied state, it’s not wrong to befriend the ever available life force energy.
Through my own personal experience and from witnessing the process of my clients, I know that the path to embodiment is not about forcing yourself into expansion, but about attuning to your capacity in each moment. Some days that might mean taking a bold step forward. Other days it might mean simply allowing yourself to be exactly where you are, without judgment.
Susun’s words reminded me that true attunement is not about pushing past fear, but about recognizing it as a natural part of being alive. Fear and expansion exist side by side. The energy of life is vast, and sometimes it can feel overwhelming—but that doesn’t mean we aren’t meant to experience it fully.
Somatic Attunement isn’t about fixing or forcing. It’s about noticing, nourishing, and allowing. When you learn to sense your internal rhythms, your edges, and your openings, you gain the capacity to move through life with greater integrity and ease.
If you’re curious about what this could look like for you, I invite you to book a free 30-minute call with me. Together, we can explore what your body is communicating, where you feel stuck, and how you can gently expand into more of yourself—without pressure, without urgency, and always with deep respect for your own timing.
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