🖤 Metabolizing Shadow: The Missing Step in Emotional Alchemy

Most people say: “Feel it. Release it. Alchemize it.”

But that’s not how the body really works.

We don’t just release emotions like steam.

We store them—until we feel safe enough to look, observe, and metabolize.

When we carry shadows unconsciously, they show up as tension, pain, shutdowns, or overreactions. We may think we’re being strong by holding it together—but really, we’re delaying digestion.

True alchemy begins with:

• Regulating the nervous system

• Acknowledging the stored emotion

• Feeling it fully and safely in the body

• Observing without judgment

• Metabolizing it through sensation and surrender

Your body knows what to keep and what to release.

Sometimes it exits as a yawn.

Sometimes it’s a fart, a skin breakout, a hot flash, or a deep cry.

However it leaves, it’s wisdom in motion.

After metabolizing, the shadow doesn’t just go away—it becomes light.

It integrates into your being as embodied wisdom, not a memory to be feared.

💎 This is how we stop looping trauma and start living truth.

Ikue | Fascia Oracle™