06/12/2025
We’ve been taught to meditate by quieting the mind, focus harder, breathe deeper, try to find stillness.
But for so many women, especially the high-performing ones, the mind doesn’t soften just because you ask it to.
It loops.
It analyzes.
It works overtime, even in meditation.
And when meditation is happening through the mind, the body never gets a chance to speak.
Somatic meditation works differently. It asks you to feel before you interpret. To sense before you name. To notice the movements inside you that don’t need fixing,
only space.
Because beneath the thoughts is sensation.
Beneath the sensation is your nervous system.
And beneath your nervous system is the part of you that has been holding everything together
for far too long.
This is why stillness has felt impossible. Not because you’re doing it wrong, but because you’ve been trying to meditate from the very part of you that’s exhausted.
The moment you let the breath become your anchor, your identity loosens its grip.
Your mind softens just enough for your body to speak.
And this, this quiet in-between space, is where somatic healing begins.
Where tension unwinds without force.
Where emotion moves without overwhelm.
Where your system remembers how to settle, without you managing it.
If you’ve been trying to meditate your way out of burnout,
but your body still feels tight, tired, or on guard…
this is why. Your healing won’t come from thinking harder.
It comes from feeling differently.
🍠 Comment 'POTATO' and I’ll send you a simple practice to help your body, not just your mind, meditate.
In devotion to your aliveness,
Lynn 🤍
