Part 1: The Cry We Silence – Reclaiming the Wisdom of Feeling

We live in a culture that has trained us to mistrust our feelings. From the earliest age, we are taught to prize logic over emotion, control over vulnerability, and rationality over the very instincts that rise from the depths of our being. The United States, in particular, is steeped in a paradigm that exalts objectivity, productivity, and detachment. Emotions are seen as weaknesses, liabilities to be managed, hidden, or eradicated.

And so we numb.

We numb with food, with alcohol, with overwork, with endless scrolling. We numb with psychiatric drugs—neuroleptics and psychotropics prescribed not to heal, but to suppress. To control the behaviors and feelings that don’t fit the mold. That make others uncomfortable. That dare to challenge the status quo.

But what if those very feelings are the gateway? What if our sadness, our rage, our despair are not pathologies, but invitations?

When we cry, tremble, or break open, we are told we are unstable, dramatic, or “too much.” Yet in truth, these expressions are sacred. They disturb denial. They shake the foundations of pretense. They awaken not only us, but those around us. They open space for truth to emerge.

But our culture doesn’t want truth that disrupts comfort. So it teaches us to stay asleep.

And in this sleep, we disconnect—not just from each other, but from ourselves. From our soul. From the divine. We begin to feel hollow, empty, fragmented. A longing stirs deep within, but we don’t know what it is. We’ve silenced the cry of our own heart for so long, we’ve forgotten how to listen.

The feelings we suppress hold the very messages we need to hear.

In a world teetering with disconnection, where division and destruction abound, it is time to remember that feeling is a sacred act. It is not a sign of weakness, but of life force. Of our divine intelligence speaking.

So the next time a wave of feeling arises, don’t shut it down.

Pause. Listen. Celebrate.

You are being called to awaken.

You are preparing to take a leap in consciousness.