Amanda A Carpenter

01/25/2026

Hey, friends 🤍 it’s Amanda.

So many of you are still feeling heaviness, emotional waves, sleep disruption, and that “something’s off” feeling in your body — and I want you to hear this clearly:

👉 Don’t attach a story to the sensation.
A LOT is moving right now. The nervous system is responding. The heart field is being impacted. Emotions are rising to be felt, not fixed or suppressed.

Today, I felt like a little girl left home alone in a snowstorm.

And instead of pushing it away… I let myself feel it. I cried, I screamed. I shook. And then I came home to my heart.❤️

Because here’s the magic ✨
When you give yourself permission to feel an emotion and move it — you give your body the opportunity to shift.

Drop into your heart.

Breathe into the center of your chest.

Stay present with what’s there.

And just like that…
You can go from uncomfortable ➝ light
From heavy ➝ playful

From depleted ➝ joyful

Think toddler energy 🧸

They cry. They fall. They feel it all.
And minutes later? They’re laughing, running, fully alive again.

That’s emotional resilience.

That’s nervous system health.

That’s freedom.

There will be highs. There will be lows.

But as we keep clearing the lows…
✨ the highs get higher ✨

Be gentle with yourself today.

Feel it. Move it. Shift it.

I love you. 💛

01/23/2026

Heartbreak isn’t the end of you.

It’s the gym for your heart. 🫀❄️

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been shedding sadness… grief… heartbreak.

And on the other side of that shedding?
✨ More energy
✨ More capacity
✨ More space for love

Just like muscles grow by being broken down and rebuilt, our nervous system expands when we allow ourselves to feel.

When we suppress emotions, we contract.

When we feel them fully, we cleanse (although it sucks! And is the bravest thing a human can do😩)

And when we cleanse, we create space for compassion, connection, and deeper love for ourselves and others.

Here’s the truth we forget:

We don’t always get to choose what happens to us…but we always get to choose how we respond.

Victimhood or sovereignty.
Fear or an open heart.
Contraction or expansion.

I experienced it in real time yesterday —
every time I shut down, things got heavier, more doom and gloom.

Every time I softened and came back into my heart, life met me there, and in the end it all worked out.

So if you’re in the middle of grief, heartbreak, or shedding right now…
this is not your breaking point.

There will be ups and downs, and nothing lasts forever when you’re willing to let go.

This is your becoming.
Rise above it.

Make the best of your circumstances, you’ve got this!

I love you. 🤍

01/20/2026

Does everything feel… off lately?

Sleep disrupted. Emotions louder. Old routines not fitting anymore.

You’re not broken. You’re in transition.

We’re in that in-between space:
✨ no longer who we were
✨ not yet who we’re becoming

When the nervous system gets dysregulated, the mind scrambles for meaning.

It starts spinning stories.
Trying to fix.
Trying to figure it out.

But here’s the truth most people don’t tell you 👇

You don’t need a reason to regulate your nervous system.

Your only job right now is to come back online.
Into your body.
Into your heart.
Into this moment.

Ground. Breathe. Co-regulate if you need to.

Drop the story. Drop the future-tripping.
Because the monkey mind will exhaust you…
and you’re the only one who pays the price.

You are not alone in this.
So many of us are feeling it.
And when we drop into coherence,
we’ll find each other
I love you!❤️

01/19/2026

I slept like s**t last night.

Three hours. Puffy face. Racing mind.

Replaying everything I’ve done “wrong.”
Trying to fix my future.
Trying to fix myself.

And then it hit me —
what a complete mind f**k.

I wasn’t healing.
I was turning my addiction inward.
Fixing.
Figuring.
Analyzing myself like a problem that needed solving.

Here’s the truth I landed in while walking the dog at dawn:
You’re not broken.
I’m not broken.
My partners weren’t broken.

We’re just humans moving along a spectrum —
from fear to love.
And the closer we are to fear,
the more dysregulated our nervous system becomes.
The closer we are to love,
the more regulated we feel.

That’s it.
That’s the whole game.
The currency of the future isn’t productivity.
It isn’t perfection.
It isn’t “doing the work” endlessly.

It’s nervous system regulation.

Not fixing your childhood.
Not endlessly healing your past.
Not hunting for what’s wrong with you.

Regulation happens through relationship.
Through co-regulation.
Through community.
Through being with people who are grounded enough in love to hold those who are in fear.

Healing culture has convinced us we’re endlessly broken.

That’s scarcity.

What we actually need is safety.
Connection.
Regulation.
Some days you’ll be in fear.
Some days you’ll be in love.
And when you’re grounded in love, your job is simple:
Share your regulated presence.
Bring coherence.
Help others come home.

That’s the work.
That’s the future.

I’m walking it — messy nights, honest mornings, all of it.

If you’re ready to stop fixing and start regulating, come with me.

I love you.🤍

01/18/2026

What if your power isn’t in avoiding pain…
but in how you respond to it?

Here’s what I know after 25 years of working with the human body:
✅The body can tolerate an incredible amount of pain.
✅What breaks us isn’t the pain — it’s the resistance to feeling it.
✅Feeling is brave.
✅Feeling is honest.
✅Feeling is the doorway.

Right now, life is asking a lot of us to look at the versions of ourselves that show up when fear is in the way.
When we’re triggered.
When we feel out of control.

For me, that’s meant coming face to face with the fixer and the people-pleaser.
Versions of me that once saved me.
Built my career.
Helped me survive.

And now?
They’re ready to die.

Letting go of an identity is brutal — because you’re not just releasing a pattern, you’re releasing who you thought you were.

So if you’re in that uncomfortable space between no longer and not yet…

If you’re confused, untethered, unsure of what’s next…

You are not alone.
I’m in it too and I am grateful I know this terrain.
I know how to surrender faster.
I know the pain may still come — but the suffering doesn’t have to stay as long.

We are in a collective initiation.
A massive transformation from fear to love.
And everything that doesn’t serve us is rising so we can choose differently.

So here’s the invitation — simple, but not easy:
In this moment… choose love.
Again. And again. And again.

I love you.

PS. We are getting through this together.

01/17/2026

I was at a funeral last night.

And funerals have a way of stripping everything down to what actually matters.

They remind us that none of this is promised.
Not tomorrow.
Not next week.
Not even the next conversation we assume we’ll get to have.

So let me ask you something that might feel uncomfortable — If someone in your life were to die tomorrow…

Is there anything left unsaid?
Any apology you’re holding back?
Any truth sitting heavy on your heart?
Any love you’re waiting to give when it feels “safer”?

Don’t wait.

Fear tells us to stay quiet.
To stay guarded.
To stay in control.

Love asks us to be brave.
To be vulnerable.
To risk rejection in service of truth.

One day, each of us will have two dates on a stone.
And all that will matter is what took place between them.
Not what we owned.
Not what we achieved.
But how we loved.
How we showed up.
How people lived differently because we were willing to share our hearts.

Look at your dash.
If your life ended soon, what would it say about you?
What legacy are you leaving — right now?

The world doesn’t need more fear.
Fear is easy. Fear is familiar.

The bravest thing any of us can do in this moment is to choose love anyway.

I love you.

Go say the thing.🤍

01/17/2026

We talk a lot about trauma.
We analyze it.

We understand it intellectually.
But trauma doesn’t live in our thoughts — it lives in the body.

Our fascia, our tissues, our nervous system remember everything.

And until those memories are released from the physical body, we keep living out the same patterns… even when we “know better.” Our addictions become what we do to avoid the feelings of trauma.

For a long time, I wouldn’t have called my early experiences trauma.
They were small.
They were subtle.
They were “little T” moments.
And yet, they shaped me.
One of the biggest patterns that came from them became my superpower:
Fixing things.

Figuring everything out.
Being the one who knew, solved, handled.

It served me for years — until it didn’t.
Because eventually I realized:
I wasn’t fixing because things were broken.

I was fixing to avoid feeling lonely.
To feel worthy.
To feel enough.
To feel valued.

That was my addiction.
And the hardest part?
It didn’t look bad on the surface.
Healing, for me, has been about learning discernment —

What is mine to tend to…
And what is not mine to carry.
Letting go.
Surrendering.
Trusting a higher power.

And allowing myself to feel instead of fix.

As we step into 2026, I’m curious…
What patterns are you shedding?
What fear are you loosening your grip on?

And what does love-based living look like for you?

Share in the comments 🤍

Together, we rise.
I love you.

01/15/2026

Did you feel *off* today?
Or
Wide awake at 2–3am?

Anxious, unsettled, or emotionally charged?

You’re not broken. And you’re not alone.

Today was a big **nervous system irritation day**—and I felt it too.

The Earth has a rhythm (called the **Schumann Resonance**), and when that rhythm shifts, it can directly impact:
• our heart rhythm
• our heart rate variability
• our nervous system state

When this happens, many of us go straight into **storytelling mode**—trying to mentally explain why we feel the way we do… and getting stuck in a stress loop.

But sometimes it’s not *your life* that’s dysregulating you.
Sometimes it’s the **environment your nervous system is responding to**.

Research from the HeartMath Institute shows that dropping out of the mind and into the **heart**—using heart-focused breathing—can help your nervous system recalibrate and ground into a new rhythm.

So if today felt intense:
✨ Pause before making big decisions
✨ Breathe into your heart
✨ Ground your body
✨ Stay connected

We’re moving through a massive collective shift—from fear to love.
And nervous system regulation is becoming the **superpower of the future**.

Community and connection are the currency of what’s coming next.

You’ve got this!

I love you. 🤍

How’s your nervous system feeling right now? Share in comments.

01/15/2026

I’ve been teaching self-regulation for nearly a decade.

And recently, I had to get very honest with myself.

Is it possible that we can *regulate* in a way that actually numbs us?

During a disagreement with my partner, I noticed myself “doing the right things” to calm my nervous system…
but underneath, my old trauma lens—fear of abandonment, old wounds—was still running the show.

Instead of showing up as love, I showed up emotionally distant.
Not because I didn’t care.
But because I regulated *on top of* what was still stored in my body.

Trauma lives in the body.
It shapes how we respond long before our conscious mind catches up.
And if we don’t release what’s stored, regulation can sometimes look like dissociation, emotional coldness, or self-abandonment.

For me, the work right now is this:
✨ **Release first.**
✨ **Then regulate.**
✨ **Then recalibrate—so I can truly show up as love.**

Triggers are the gift of awareness.
They show us what’s still asking to be felt, witnessed, and released.

I’m curious—
Have you ever noticed yourself “regulating” but still feeling disconnected?

Tell me in the comments. 🤍
More on this work at **carpenterpt.com** and amandaAcarpenter.com


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01/14/2026

What emotion are you feeling in your body right now?

So often we try to think our way through emotions, when what our body is actually asking for is permission to *feel*.

Today, I worked with several clients experiencing grief — and I found myself right there too. Not as something to fix, but as something to listen to. Because emotions don’t just belong to the present moment. They live in the body, often from times when they were never fully expressed.

Grief especially has a way of showing up physically — in the belly, the chest, the breath. And while that can feel alarming, it’s actually a sign that energy is moving.

Emotions are energy in motion.
They’re meant to move *through* us — not be suppressed, and not be lived in forever.

We’re not meant to wallow.
We’re meant to move in and out.
To feel… and then return to safety.

If you’re in a tender place right now, please be gentle with yourself. Let your body speak. Give it grace. And remember — we are collectively in the middle of a massive transformation, learning how to move from fear back into love.

I’m in it with you.
I love you.

If you want to explore this work more deeply, you can find me at
👉 CarpenterPT.com and amandaAcarpenter.com

And tell me in the comments 🤍
What emotion do you notice in your body right now?


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01/14/2026

So much of our exhaustion doesn’t come from doing too much —
it comes from where our energy quietly leaks.

Our thoughts, our emotional loops, the moments we go into fear or self-judgment all ask our nervous system to work overtime.

Learning to care for your energy isn’t selfish.
It’s self leadership.

When we become conscious of what restores us and what drains us, we create more space for presence, creativity, and love.

I’m practicing this right alongside you.

If this resonates, tap like 🤍 and follow along.

And tell me👇 where do you notice your energy draining — or returning — lately?


>fear

06/25/2025