Livingfromtheheart

09/07/2026

This morning, my friend in Mexico sent me a photo of a tea bag.

It said:

“What unites us now is an undefined bond.”

I smiled because I had just been telling her about a connection I can’t quite get out of my head.

And maybe that’s the lesson.

Not every connection needs to be defined right away.

Sometimes we have to learn to let something be meaningful without needing to know what it means or where it’s going.

To tolerate the uncertainty.

To stay present.

To stay with ourselves.

Because you can know exactly why you do what you do; and still keep doing it.

We can understand our attachment patterns.
Know our triggers.
Learn how to regulate.

And then someone pulls away.

We aren’t chosen.

Something doesn’t go according to plan.

And suddenly knowing isn’t enough.

Healing isn’t just understanding your story.
It’s learning how to stay with yourself inside of it.

Can I feel fear without trying to make it disappear?

Can I tolerate not knowing?

Can I love someone without abandoning myself?

Can I hear the old story without letting it become my reality?

This is the work I’m increasingly devoted to.

Not becoming perfectly healed.

Learning how to STAY.

Stay present.
Stay curious.
Stay connected to yourself.

This is what we’ll practice together inside Living From the Heart, beginning September 20.

Not more information about healing.

A place to practice living it.

DM me HEART for details. ❤️

09/05/2026

I really love being alive.

Not because everything is figured out.
Not because everything went according to plan.
Not because I know exactly what comes next.

But because I’m here for it.

The beauty.
The uncertainty.
The people.
The laughter.
The fear.
The connection.
The adventure.
The moments I never could have planned.

I came to Mexico thinking I was coming for a ceremony.

I’m leaving realizing something much bigger:

Life itself is the ceremony.

And maybe Living From the Heart is simply learning to stop standing outside of our lives waiting for them to become something else…

and becoming fully available for the life that is already here.

Mexico, you gave me more than I knew I needed. 🇲🇽

And I’m bringing it home. ❤️

09/03/2026

Take a minute and slow down… see what’s here… the medicine is in you.

08/29/2026

08/27/2026

There is a season for tending.
And there is a season for receiving what has grown.

This morning, I found myself gathering elderberries.

Tonight, women will gather here under the Full Moon.

Tomorrow, I leave for Mexico.

And I’m noticing the invitation in all of it:

Not everything needs to be figured out before we move.

Sometimes we tend.
Sometimes we wait.
Sometimes we harvest.
Sometimes we simply take the next step and allow the path to meet us there.

Living From the Heart, for me, is becoming less about knowing the answer;

and more about being present enough to recognize what life is already offering.


Today, I gather.

Tonight, we gather.

Tomorrow, I go. 🌿🌕

08/23/2026

I Don’t Need to See the Other Side

I’ve been sitting with surrender.

And I’m realizing I’ve often thought surrender meant letting go.

But maybe surrender is something different.

Maybe it is standing at the entrance of something when I cannot see the other side; and resisting the urge to know exactly where it leads.

I want to know.

I want to know what something means.
Where it is going.
How it will turn out.
Whether I should stay or leave.
Whether I will be chosen.

Uncertainty can make me want to reach for an answer before the answer actually exists.

And lately I am practicing something different.

I don’t need to see the other side to take the next step.

I can surrender what I cannot control without abandoning what I know to be true for me.

I can love someone without controlling what they choose.

I can want something deeply without making my peace dependent upon receiving it.

I can stay open and still have boundaries.

I can allow life to unfold and still say, this is what I need.

Maybe that’s where surrender and discernment meet.

Surrender says:

Release your grip on the outcome.

Presence says:

Stay with what is here.

Discernment says:

Listen for what is true.

And the boundary says:

Don’t leave yourself while you wait to find out.

Maybe healing isn’t reaching a place where old fears, longing or attachment never return.

Maybe healing is discovering who we are now when they do.

So today, I don’t need the whole road.

I don’t need to know what’s waiting on the other side of the bridge.

I only need enough presence for the step that is actually mine to take.

Heart open.
Hands unclenched.
Feet underneath me.

Stay.
Surrender.
Discern.
Be here. 🤍

This is some of what we’ll be exploring together at Thursday’s Full Moon Ceremony. Details in Stan store link in bio

08/22/2026

Maybe healing isn’t always about understanding more.

Maybe sometimes it’s about letting ourselves be here.

To receive.
To connect.
To laugh.
To love.
To let ourselves be affected by another living being.

I’ve been thinking a lot about how much healing happens in relationship.

Not when we learn one more thing about ourselves—but when we have an opportunity to experience something different.

Can I let myself be seen?

Can I have needs?

Can I stay connected without abandoning myself?

Can I be present when I don’t know what happens next?

Can I belong without performing?

This is what Living From the Heart is becoming.

Not another place to consume information about healing.

A place to practice it.

Come as you are.
Practice being human.
Belong while becoming. 🤍

Enrollment is open. Link in bio.

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.

🤍

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. ❤️