These are tools you may find useful as you are riding the waves of emotions

I’ve been traveling but happy to say I’ve landed home in Panamá. I understand there are a few glitches going into the second and third section. If you have experienced any difficulty, please let me know so I can try to make all the fixes at once. I will also be posting a call in a couple of weeks to check in and see where you’re at what you need. The interest is growing in this framework and I’m super excited to be able to share it widely. Thank you for your participation.

Today I had an unexpected moment during a bodywork session. A memory surfaced of being held by my mother, and emotion came up with it. What caught my attention wasn’t the emotion itself. It was how quickly shame appeared alongside it. Not shame about anything I had done. Shame about being seen feeling something. I sat with it instead of shutting it down. And after a few minutes, the shame faded while the emotion remained. It made me wonder how often the feeling isn’t actually the hard part. Maybe the hard part is the story we learned about having feelings in the first place. Today was a reminder that emotions tend to move when we let them. Shame is often what keeps them stuck. This is what we’ve been working on in the first wave and places I’m still navigating.

The beta is still very much underway. We have three more sections ahead of us, and I’m excited about where we’re headed next. What is changing is that the first section, Foundations, is getting close to being ready for public release. The feedback you’ve provided has helped me refine the content, improve the exercises, and make the experience stronger than it was when we started. As I continue building and testing the remaining sections with this group, Foundations will soon become available for purchase as a standalone section within the classroom. New participants will be able to begin with those first five modules while we continue developing and refining the rest of the framework together. As First Wave members, you’ll continue to have access to the beta process and upcoming sections as we move through them. You’ll also continue to play an important role in shaping what this becomes through your feedback and experience. My goal has never been to create a course people watch once and forget. I’m building practical tools that can be returned to again and again, and your insights are helping make that possible. Thank you for being part of this process. What we’re creating together is already better because of your willingness to engage with it, test it, question it, and share what you’re discovering along the way.

The final scene of Call Me by Your Name is one of the most beautiful portrayals of emotion I’ve seen. There are no words. The camera simply stays with him as he sits in front of the fire. You can watch the emotions move through him in real time. Grief. Love. Longing. Loss. Memory. Gratitude. They rise and fall across his face without explanation. What struck me is that he doesn’t seem stuck in any one emotion. He moves through them. At moments he looks heartbroken. Then reflective. Then almost peaceful. Then the sadness returns. By the end, there is a subtle shift. Not because the pain is gone, but because he has allowed himself to fully feel it. It’s such a powerful reminder that emotions are meant to move. When we stay with them long enough, they often change on their own. Not because we fixed them or analyzed them it, but because we gave them room to be felt. That scene feels less like acting and more like watching someone be human. Here is the link to the final scene https://youtu.be/LDGhW1X-q4M?is=3T_79tE9JGm4xPaI