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Learning to Trust Yourself Starts With Your Emotional Wisdom

February 04, 2026 • Kim Romain & Louise Neil • Episode 191

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Learning to trust yourself starts with your emotional wisdom - but most of us were taught to feel one emotion at a time, rush past the hard ones, and judge ourselves for being "too much."

In episode 191 of The Empowered & Embodied Show, Kim Romain and Louise Neil discuss the impact of societal conditioning on emotional expression and the journey towards self-trust and emotional awareness. They explore holding multiple feelings at once, the difference between processing emotions in your body versus your head, and why self-trust is built by tending to your inner wisdom like a garden - not by controlling or fixing yourself.

If you're doing inner work and want to move from performing to being, from inherited patterns to your own clarity, this conversation is for you.

Key Takeaways:

All emotions have a place at the table.
Conditioning affects how we express our emotions.
Self-trust is essential for emotional awareness.
We need both logic and emotion to understand ourselves.
Mutual support is crucial for emotional growth.
Trust with others starts with trust for ourselves.

Key Moments:

00:00 Welcome and Introduction
01:45 Holding Multiple Emotions Without Choosing One
04:34 The Rush to Get Through Negative Emotions
05:33 Growing Up Being Told You're Too Emotional
06:49 The Fear That Lives Around Our Emotions
09:01 When Your Head Tries to Control Your Body
14:20 Building Self Trust Through Emotional Awareness
20:15 Why Control and Empowerment Are Not the Same
29:44 The Garden Metaphor for Tending Self Trust
35:49 Take What You Need and Leave the Rest

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