Livingfromtheheart

05/28/2026

Emotional Capacity Is Not Overfunctioning

Most of us were praised for being “strong.”

But many of us were not actually emotionally regulated.
We were adapted.

We learned how to:
keep going,
take care of everyone else,
stay productive,
push through exhaustion,
and suppress our own needs.

That is not always emotional capacity.

Sometimes that is survival.

Real emotional capacity may look more like:

• staying present during discomfort,
• allowing emotions without immediately fixing them,
• tolerating uncertainty,
• receiving support,
• resting without guilt,
• and remaining connected to yourself while life unfolds.

Overfunctioning can look powerful externally while disconnecting us internally.

Healing is not always becoming “more capable.”

Sometimes it is learning how to stop abandoning yourself in the process of carrying everything else.

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Where do you already feel most alive, present, and connected in your life right now?

Jamie Kruse, LCSW
🤍 Living From the Heart 🤍

04/26/2026

There is a moment I keep finding myself in lately.

Right before I speak.

I can feel the words forming.
I can feel the urge to say them well.
To be clear.
To be understood.
To not disrupt the moment.

And then something interrupts that.

Not loudly.
Not dramatically.

But enough.

I can feel that if I speak from there
I am not actually in myself.

I am managing something.

So I stop.

And what is left is not clarity.

It is presence.

A feeling in my chest that has not been organized yet.
A truth that does not have the right language.
A moment that could go in many directions.

This is the edge.

The place where I used to reach for words
to bring things back into control.

To make sure I am felt the right way.
To make sure I do not lose connection.

But something in me no longer wants to do that.

So I stay.

Not knowing how it will land.
Not knowing what it will create.
Not knowing if it will be received.

Just staying.

There is a quiet unraveling happening here.

The version of me who knew how to speak in a way
that kept everything intact

is loosening.

And what is left is simpler.

More honest.

Less certain.

But more real.

I can feel how much of my identity
was built in the space between feeling and speaking.

In the shaping.
In the softening.
In the making it land.

And now

there is less space between those things.

There is just this.

Breath.
Sensation.
A truth that has not been perfected.

And the choice

to stay with it.

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This is what presence feels like for me right now.

Not peaceful.

Not resolved.

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But here.

If you’re feeling this too
you’re not losing your voice.

You’re coming closer to it.

If you want to keep walking this in a supported space, I’m holding a one day retreat on May 17.

A place to slow down, feel, and stay with yourself without needing to have it all together.

You’re welcome there.

04/24/2026

Can you remain curious and allow life to unfold naturally?
Stop gripping; and let goooooooo…🦅
Yesterday I let life unfold no gripping. Just staying. In my truth. Was given a random gift from strangers; crystals of all things.. from two random men. Hit the water. Held space. Listened to innocent hearts sing; and was given an amazing complement about my energy being like ocean waves. Writing on freedom before I hit the pillow; and woke to a song sent about freedom.
That was my sign to post. I let things unfold; and life comes. It’s a hard skill to learn. But the more I let go; the more blessings I receive. ❤️

04/20/2026

For those who have done the work…
but don’t yet feel it fully living in their body.

I’m creating something for that space.

A place where healing isn’t just understood,
but lived.

More soon..
Www.livingfromtheheartcoach.com

04/20/2026

Day retreat Announcement! May 17th! Come join us in nature for a reset!!

For the ones who hold it all together. The ones who everyone leands on. The ones who figure it out. The ones who keep moving, even when something underneath is telling you to stop. But underneath… It is a lot! This day is to put everything down. Join us for a full day to reset. May 17

03/31/2026

There are moments where nothing externally changes,
but the way you see does.

And suddenly ordinary things stop feeling ordinary.

Light on a ceiling.
A fixture on a wall.
A shape against a glow.

Not because they are trying to say something.
But because you are finally quiet enough to notice them.

This is not about meaning.
It is about perception.

And perception shifts
when the nervous system is no longer organizing around urgency.

When you are not reaching.
Not resolving.
Not trying to make something happen.

Just here.

And in that…
something subtle begins to open.

Not louder.
Not more intense.

Just clearer.

J🤍mie

I’ve been writing more about this phase; where things don’t feel intense, just clear. It’s different than what most people expect from healing.

https://open.substack.com/pub/jamiekruse

03/19/2026

There was a time I thought peace was something I had to earn.
Something I would reach once things were settled… clearer… easier.

But I’m starting to see-

Peace isn’t something I create.
It’s what’s here when I stop leaving the moment I’m in.

Stop fixing.
Stop reaching.
Stop trying to make life different than it is.

Just… stay.

Even in the discomfort.
Even in the unknown.
Even in the in-between.

This is the work now.
Not escaping life-

but learning how to be in it.

Jamie Kruse, LCSW
🤍Living From the Heart🤍
healingjourney

03/17/2026

Most people think healing is about fixing what’s wrong with them.

It isn’t.

The work I do is about helping people become free.

Free from the stories that keep repeating in the mind.
Free from nervous system patterns that recreate the same pain.
Free from the belief that life should look different than it does.

Healing is really about building capacity;
in the mind, body, heart, and energy field;
so we can meet life as it is.

Because when we stop fighting life… something shifts.

Peace becomes possible.
Presence becomes natural.
And a different way of living opens.

~Jamie Kruse, LCSW
🤍 Living From the Heart

03/16/2026

🌑 New Moon Circle

The new moon is a moment of beginning again.

A pause in the sky where the light disappears so something new can emerge.

Join me Wednesday evening for a New Moon gathering; a space for reflection, intention, and reconnecting with the deeper rhythm of life.

Through meditation, conversation, and shared presence we remember that healing isn’t about controlling life…

It’s about growing the capacity in our mind, body, and heart to meet life as it is.

🌑 Wednesday 7:00–8:30 PM
1745 Kesslinger Rd

Bring a journal if you’d like.
Come as you are.

🤍 Jamie Kruse, LCSW
Living From the Heart

02/18/2026

🤍 Heart Teaching

There is a version of strength that looks impressive.

She builds.
She sustains.
She absorbs.
She keeps everything running.

But often, she is bracing.

Over-responsibility is not always power.
Sometimes it is a nervous system that learned early
that love required competence.

Mature feminine leadership feels different.

It does not rush to rescue.
It does not over-explain.
It does not over-fund what has already completed.

It listens.
It leans back without collapsing.
It allows systems to rebalance.

Letting go is not weakness.
It is precision.

You are not the infrastructure.
You are the woman who built it.

And sometimes the most powerful thing you can do
is loosen your grip
not in fear,
but in clarity.

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Full article https://open.substack.com/pub/jamiekruse/p/when-the-woman-who-holds-it-all-learns?r=4uwl2x&utm_medium=ios