How many of us were taught that we needed someone else’s validation of our emotional experience to feel okay? Or perhaps we identify as highly sensitive and always are on high alert to the emotional barometer of our environments in order to feel safe. How can we start to return to our own felt internal sense of safety? How can we call our energy back to ourselves and break the chains of emotional disregulation based on another’s emotional state? Awareness is key. Start there and see what happens with more curiosity and neutrality of our patterns