Interoception: Your Hidden Superpower

And how it supports better decision-making, emotional regulation, and greater nervous system health.

I spoke about nervous system health earlier this week, and I’m here to share with you the key to navigating it like a pro.

Not only your nervous system, actually, but your entire life; this is about learning to listen more to how you’re doing, and take the steps to feel better.

I actually think one of the biggest and most important skills we can build as humans is the ability to feel what we need at any given moment and respond accordingly. It’s not just with food, hydration, or sleep either. This is also about the people we spend time with, the communications we need to have with others and ourselves, the activities we say yes to, the things we spend our precious time doing and working on. The things we spend money on. The TV we watch (or don’t watch). Hobbies. Books. The mattress you buy. The colour you paint your walls. Your job. And yes, the contents of your fridge and snack cupboards.

What do you actually need right now? Not what you think you should have or do or be, what others are doing, or what you’ve been told you should do. What do you actually need and want right now?

It involves us stripping back the layers of bullshit society’s layered into our psyches, the best-intentions your parents lived by that made you a little traumatised in some way, and all that trauma you’ve lived through—heartache, death, ruin, collapse, all of it… and quietly, softly, gently, and with a heart full of kindness, learn to listen to ourselves again.

What do you truly want? What’s your body calling for right now? What—with all your layers of goodness, love, and compassion—is the right thing to do for yourself right now? 

Below, I share a class that will help you learn this skill (this is the feeling equivalent of bicep curls to build muscle) and the reasoning behind it. Let’s dive in.