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EmotionsJanuary 8, 20267 min read

A Grounded Way To Work With Longing

Longing can become a teacher when it is felt honestly instead of turned into fantasy, fixation, or shame.

Longing may be pointing toward intimacy, safety, meaning, expression, or belonging that wants to be cultivated within your own life.

What is really happening

Unmet desire often gets projected outward so strongly that you lose contact with what it is really asking for inside.

Longing can become a teacher when it is felt honestly instead of turned into fantasy, fixation, or shame. Longing may be pointing toward intimacy, safety, meaning, expression, or belonging that wants to be cultivated within your own life.

A coaching reframe

In intuitive coaching, we slow the story down enough to notice what your body, your values, and your present reality are all saying at the same time.

Longing may be pointing toward intimacy, safety, meaning, expression, or belonging that wants to be cultivated within your own life. This is where compassion and discernment begin working together instead of against each other.

Try this today

Ask what quality the longing is asking you to build rather than only who it is asking you to chase.

Desire becomes clarifying when it is listened to skillfully.

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