Episode #14: From Suppressed to Expressed: Releasing Trapped Emotions with Sophie Kessner

In this week’s episode of The Fully Expressed Podcast, Karenna explores the intricacies of processing anger and rage with somatic experiencing practitioner, Sophie Kessner. As someone who struggled to healthily express difficult emotions for most of her life, Karenna understands the challenges but also the incredible freedom that comes from creating the capacity to feel your feelings. Sophie shares how our early childhood environments inform our relationship to emotions like anger. Without support in developing autonomy and boundary-setting, we adapt by either suppressing big feelings or letting them overwhelm us. Sophie explains the nuances between feeling fury versus constructively communicating, which prevents directing rage in harmful ways. They discuss the step-by-step process of unpacking anger through a somatic lens. This includes identifying layers of shame, fear and other self-protection mechanisms before even accessing the anger underneath. With attunement and slowly “titrating” intensity, we discharge trapped energy bit by bit without going into dissociation. Karenna and Sophie also talk about the importance of having proper support when entering deeply emotional spaces. They explore how even subtle childhood wounds can translate into struggles with expression in adulthood. Tune into this compassionate, thoughtful conversation around emotional healing. You can read the full podcast transcript for this episode below: Full Transcript0:00Welcome to the fully expressed podcast with Karenna.0:03I am really excited for today’s conversation because this conversation has been dear to my heart for such a long time.0:11And I didn’t realize to be honest that it was going to mean so much to me until someone gave me the permission to be able to step into what we’re going to be talking about today.0:21I have Sophie Kessner with me on the line and for anyone that’s listening, you know, Sophie and I met in the Phoenix Path with Jessica Benstock.0:32She also did the certification with me and I got to just fully embrace all of Sophie throughout that.0:40And it was such, I, what I loved about she’s listening.0:43Of course, what I loved about my time with you Sophie.0:46There was like, I feel like you taught me such a different part to the healing because I feel like we went through different things in that journey, which gave me so much light and understanding to your process.0:57So I just want to say thank you so much for sharing throughout that.1:00And then ever since I met Sophie at the Phoenix Path and just a simple conversations, like you are just hacked with information and intelligence and experience and that’s what it comes down to like business, which is why I really like was drawn to you and all that you’re doing within your online business and really wanted to work with you in that way.1:22And this beautiful human also has a huge background in somatics and somatic experiencing and being trauma informed, diversity and equity like inclusion, like literally like you just have so much to offer.1:37And so I feel like the conversation today is, is going to be so informational packed with really juicy takeaways.1:45And so with that being said, hi, Sophie, you did a great job trying to, I was like, how do I get everything that she does because you do it all.1:56It feels like you have so much to share with this world.1:59So thank you for coming on here.2:01Yeah, I appreciate the invite.<...