Why Thinking Can’t Set You Free (But Your Body Can)
You Can’t Think Your Way Into Healing
You’ve tried mindset shifts. Affirmations. Problem-solving. But the loop keeps repeating.
Why? Because your body remembers what your mind tries to forget.
Healing doesn’t happen through logic. It happens through feeling.
What Does "Feel to Heal" Actually Mean?
Your body holds everything—stress, shame, grief, and even joy. When you avoid feeling it, that energy stays stuck. Over time, it can turn into fatigue, anxiety, control, or emotional numbness.
"Feel to heal" means giving your system space to process what it never got to complete. To pause. To breathe. To listen.
It’s not dramatic. It’s subtle. But it’s deep.
Why Your Nervous System Needs Safety First
You can't release or change anything if your body doesn’t feel safe.
That’s why somatic work matters. Breathwork, slow movement, nervous system tools—they help regulate your system so that deeper emotions can rise and release.
Without safety, the mind tries to control. The body braces. The patterns stay.
With safety, the system softens. Truth surfaces. And something begins to shift.
The Trauma Beneath the Trauma
Sometimes the trauma isn’t just the event itself. It’s what didn’t happen after.
No one asked. You didn’t speak. No one saw. You didn’t feel safe enough to share.
And so the nervous system didn’t just hold the pain—it held the belief:
“I’m alone in this.”
“I can’t trust anyone with this part of me.”
That becomes its own wound.
This is why healing often takes us deeper than we expect. It’s not just about releasing the moment. It’s about feeling safe enough to rewrite the part that came after. The part where connection could happen. The part where you're no longer alone.
When Silence Becomes a Lie
The body gets weak from lying.
And sometimes, not speaking your truth is a kind of lie—one the body feels.
Holding back what’s real for you, silencing your needs, or shrinking your voice to stay safe… can create a quiet conflict inside.
Over time, that unspoken truth becomes tension. Disconnection. Fatigue.
Healing invites honesty. And that begins with being honest with yourself.
Signs You Might Be Storing Emotions in the Body
Tight chest or jaw
Constant overthinking
Feeling stuck or flat
Reacting strongly to small things
Not knowing what you feel—but knowing something’s there
This is where the body speaks. And this is where we begin.
Breathwork + Somatic Practices = Emotional Access
In my work, we use breath not just to relax, but to reveal. To meet the emotional energy beneath the surface. To let what’s been held… move.
I often say: you don’t need to explain your pain to heal it—you just need to feel safe enough to meet it.
This is where breathwork, energy work, and shadow work all come together. To move you from stuckness to softness. From numbness to feeling. From just surviving… to living.
You Already Know What Needs to Be Felt
And when you’re ready to meet it—gently, safely, supported—I’m here.
Feel to heal isn’t a slogan. It’s a remembering. One that lives in your body.
Want to experience it? Try a free session or book a 1:1 to explore it together.
You don’t have to do it alone.
Breathwork Stockholm & Breathwork Online
Join Kia at Studio Hember, Döbelnsgatan, for lovely and liberating Group sessions of Breathwork. You can be a pro, or never have tried it before - it does not matter as every singe breathwork sessions is unique. Kia combines these sessions with Reiki Energy Healing and Tarot.
If you prefer to try a session in the safety of your own home, Kia offers group online sessions monthly.
These sessions are an invitation to deep dive into you with the help of a specific breathing pattern that has the ability to silent our noise and controlling mind, and instead land in our body and all of our felt emotions. It has the ability to alter state of consciousness, support emotional release, create clarity, regulate nervous system.
”I just need to be in a better place before trying Breathwork…”
No. That’s the simple answer. You can be on top of the world, or in a low state - breathing will help you. If you are feeling lost, stagnant, stuck, in love, confused, burnt out, happy, want to boost creativity… anything ;) this is a session for you.
But if you feel unsure, reach out before - Kia is a lovely email recipiant.
Book a 1:1, duo or group Breathwork session with Kia in Stockholm at magical Studio Hember. No available slots? email
