Reframing Anxiety: A Spiritual & Somatic Guide for Sensitive Women
Anxiety Is Not the Enemy: It’s Sacred Feedback from Your Soul
Why anxiety rises after the storm, and what your body is trying to say
💬 If you've been feeling anxious lately, even when life is finally working out, you're not alone.
You’re not doing anything wrong. You’re not self-sabotaging.
You’re not broken.
You’re simply becoming. And your body is asking you to catch up with your own growth.
What if this painful tightness you feel is simply massive energy that you are resisting that is asking you to step into your own power.
🔥 Anxiety Is Sacred Feedback. Not a Flaw
We’re often taught that anxiety is something to fix, medicate, or eliminate. That it’s a flaw. A failure of mindset. A weakness.
But anxiety isn’t a malfunction. It’s a message.
It’s your nervous system, your soul, your energy, trying to protect you, and trying to get your attention.
Your anxiety isn’t trying to sabotage you…
…it’s asking you to step into your own power.
It’s a signal that something isn’t aligned with how we are holding the circumstances.
And when we learn to listen to anxiety, rather than fight it, it becomes a portal to deeper self-trust, peace, and power.
Sometimes, the most anxious moments come after the chaos ends.
When your mind says, “We’re safe,” but your body says, “Are we sure?”
Anxiety often shows up when we’re:
Saying “yes” when we mean no
Ignoring our intuition to stay comfortable
Holding energy that doesn’t belong to us
Overriding our body’s signals in the name of performance or perfection
It’s easy to label anxiety as a “problem.”
But what if it’s your soul’s way of saying: “This isn’t true. This isn’t you.”
Instead of numbing anxiety or trying to “solve” it, what if we started to decode it?
You don’t need to fix your anxiety. You need to decode it.
✨ Reframe: Anxiety as a Superpower
Anxiety often appears because your system is alert to change, possibility, or something that deeply matters. When you stop fighting it and start translating it, anxiety becomes guidance—pointing you toward growth, truth, and purpose.
Anxiety isn’t a flaw. It’s capacity you haven’t learned to channel yet.
Instead of constricting the energy, we need to expand our capacity.
Real Story: When Things Got Better, Her Anxiety Got Louder
A client of mine recently reached out in tears after accepting what she described as her “dream job.” She had negotiated her salary, rekindled a loving relationship, and finally secured housing after months of uncertainty.
But instead of feeling excited… she was gripped with anxiety.
In the months leading up to that moment, she had:
Lost her last grandfather — and was the one who found him deceased
Left a high-stress job with no backup plan and spent months unemployed
Lived out of a suitcase for months while pet sitting
Broken up with her partner and later reconnected
Struggled to find housing and a sense of emotional ground
She had no family support and no place to land emotionally
She had been surviving. Holding it together. Making it work.
So when things finally started to work, her body didn’t exhale. It tightened.
She texted me:
“Why do I feel more anxious now that everything’s falling into place?”
And my response was simple:
“Because your body is still braced for impact.
It hasn’t caught up to the safety your mind sees.
This isn’t fear — it’s residue. You’re not broken.
You’re recalibrating.”
That shift changed everything. She stopped trying to resist the anxiety and started tending to it.
💡 Anxiety Is What You’re Holding. Not Who You Are
So many heart-centered, high-achieving women internalize anxiety as identity:
“I’m just an anxious person.”
“This is how I’ve always been.”
“I can’t help it. I overthink everything.”
But here’s the truth:
You are not anxious.
You are holding anxiety.
And what you’re holding can be released, re-patterned, and re-rooted.
Sometimes we carry:
Collective fear or grief
Old survival strategies or childhood coping mechanisms
Unrealistic expectations
Pressure to perform, achieve, figure it all out, or hold it all together
Residue from moments where we didn’t feel safe, seen, or supported
Your anxiety isn’t you. It’s energy in motion.
It’s an echo of what you’ve lived through.
It’s an invitation to return to yourself.
Anxiety as a Portal, Not a Punishment
Most of us resist anxiety. We fear it, shame it, or try to logic it away.
We clench against it, numb it, avoid it.
But what if your anxiety isn’t a sign that something’s wrong,
…it’s a portal to what’s most right?
Anxiety says:
“There’s a part of you that wants to be heard.”
“There’s a truth that hasn’t been honored.”
“There’s something sacred here, waiting to be reclaimed.”
When we stop judging it. And start listening. We find our way back to what matters most.
What if it’s here to initiate you?
What if it’s inviting you into:
A deeper relationship with your body
A redefinition of what safety means
A more honest version of your life
A slower, more spacious, more soul-aligned way of being
Anxiety can be a doorway to truth.
If we stop running from it and start listening to it, it will reveal what’s ready to be seen and healed.
Ask yourself, “How is this an opportunity for even greater love?”
From Resistance to Flow
Much of what we call anxiety is the effort of holding back our own life-force, like bracing against a wall of water. The pain isn’t “who we are”; it’s the strain of resisting what wants to move.
When we stop damming the current and let it flow, the same energy that felt like panic often reappears as clarity, momentum, even excitement.
What feels like anxiety is often your bigness asking to be allowed.
Your Nervous System Isn’t Wrong. It’s Wise
You don’t have to silence your mind.
You can anchor in your body.
Your anxiety isn’t always mental. It’s often physical, energetic, and ancestral.
It’s your nervous system trying to protect you, not just from the present moment, but from everything you’ve lived through.
Sometimes, when life finally gives you what you asked for...the job, the love, the stability. Your body still whispers:
“Are we sure it’s safe to relax?”
This doesn’t mean you’re ungrateful or self-sabotaging.
It means your body needs time to believe the danger has passed.
Even if your outer world has stabilized, your inner world may still be catching up.
This is where true healing begins.
Safety doesn’t just mean things are okay.
Safety means your body believes it’s okay.
And that’s a practice, not a moment.
Healing doesn’t mean never feeling anxious again.
It means knowing how to return to safety from within.
🧘♀️ Mini Practice: “Anchor in the Now”
A 2-Minute Somatic Reset for Anxiety
When anxiety rises, try this:
1. Hand to Heart + Belly
Breathe deeply. Feel your body. Say gently:
“I am here. I am safe in this moment.”
2. Engage Your Senses
3 things you can see
2 things you can hear
1 thing you can touch
3. Ask your body:
“What do you need right now?”
Let the answer be simple: water, breath, stillness, nature, softness.
🔥 Somatic + Spiritual Tools for Moving Anxiety Through You
These are simple but powerful tools for nervous system regulation
Breathwork: Humming, long exhales, box breathing
Movement: Shaking, stretching, walking barefoot
Water: Cold rinse, hot bath, herbal tea
Sound: Moaning, singing, voice journaling
Energetics:
Hands on your heart or womb
Visualize anxiety as color and breathe it out gently
You don’t need to fix it.
You just need to move with it and trust that it’s here to guide you home.
Expansion Practice (Make More Room for You)
Close your eyes. In your awareness, expand your hands, feet, heart, head, then your whole field. Feel more space inside your chest and belly so emotion can move.
Add Love to the System
Ask, “How would pure Love meet this sensation?”
Breathe the word Love into the tight place for 10 breaths. Track the shift from pressure to charge.
You don’t need to control the outcome; you need to increase your allowance.
💌 From My Heart to Yours
Dear one,
You’ve held so much. You’ve risen through so much. And I want you to know: you are not behind, and you are not broken.
Your anxiety is not a problem to solve.
It is your soul asking you to come back into integrity, into gentleness, into safety.
You are safe now.
You are supported.
And you are so loved.
Let your next breath be a return to that knowing.
Love,
Sharon
🕊️ Closing Reflection
You don’t have to go back to fight-or-flight.
You don’t have to stay in survival.
You don’t have to be anyone but who you are becoming.
Anxiety is not your enemy.
It’s your body calling you home. You are ready for more peace.
Anxiety isn’t the end. It’s the invitation.
Back to the body.
Back to the breath.
Back to the truth.
It’s your invitation to soften, to trust, and to begin again with presence.
✨ Aligned Next Step: Let Your Body Catch Up to the Woman You’ve Become
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