The Difference Between Carrying and Digesting Emotion

We often speak about healing, release, and self-awareness—but few of us are taught how to actually move emotions through the body. In this post, I’ll break down a truth I shared in a recent Embody Your True Essence session on Instagram Live: there’s a profound difference between carrying emotion and digesting it.

There’s a difference between carrying emotions in the tissue—trapped, tight, avoided—

versus holding emotions in the heart—felt, safe, and surrendered.

Most of us are walking around with unfelt emotions tucked into our fascia—memories, heartbreak, guilt, grief, self-betrayal.

We say we’ve “let it go,” but the body remembers.

And here’s the truth:

✨ Emotion is just energy in motion.

Like food, it’s meant to be digested, metabolized, and optimized.

But digestion doesn’t happen through force.

It happens through safety, acceptance, and presence.

When we surrender fully to the feeling, without judgment or analysis, the body relaxes and lets the emotion be absorbed.

Only the wisdom remains.

The rest—what no longer serves—flushes out naturally.

Here’s the deeper truth we’re reclaiming now:

✨ Emotion just wants to be digested, metabolized, and alchemized.

When you observe your emotions without resistance—when you feel them without fear—they become medicine.

Even the heaviest emotions can become portals to liberation.

We’re meant to feel.

We’re safe to feel.

And when we do, we set ourselves free.

So your self-actualization?

It’s not about fixing or ascending out of your humanness.

It’s about becoming the one who can digest your truth and embody your frequency.

This is the essence of what we practice each morning inside Embody Your True Essence.

If you’ve been carrying emotional weight you can’t name—come move with us. Come feel with us.

Your body is waiting for safety. Let’s give it that, together.

Join me, Fascia Oracle, Monday through Friday at 11am PST on Instagram Live (@ikuedancer). 💃✨💞