This tool is designed to help you tune into what your body might be communicating. It draws on emotion research from Dr. Lauri Nummenmaa (body sensation mapping), Dr. Gloria Willcox (The Feeling Wheel), Dr. Brené Brown (Atlas of the Heart), and cultural perspectives from Resmaa Menakem, Dr. Howard Stevenson, Dr. Thema Bryant, and Dr. Lillian Comas-Díaz.
This is an invitation to explore, not a diagnosis. What resonates for you is what matters.
How we feel, name, and express emotions is shaped by culture, family, gender, race, and history. Some of us were taught to suppress anger. Some of us carry ancestral grief. Some of us learned that joy was unsafe, or that needing others was weakness. If an emotion feels foreign, inaccessible, or forbidden, that is information too. This tool invites you to notice not just what you feel, but what you were taught about feeling.
Deep Listening is part of Somasana, a healing practice in Lausanne for women doing the slow, honest work of coming home to themselves.