What happens when we stop running from our emotions…and start listening to what they have to teach us? In Episode 228 of the Thrive and Aligned Healing Podcast, Carmen and Kim welcome Sabrina Mabel, founder of the Emotional Alchemy Academy, for a raw and wide-ranging conversation about emotional authority, nervous system regulation, vulnerability, spirituality, leadership, and personal power. Together, we explore why so many women have learned to suppress emotion, lead from survival patterns, or search outside themselves for something or someone to make them feel safe and whole. We also talk about the difference between understanding our patterns intellectually and actually developing the capacity to feel, process, and move through emotion. The conversation moves between neuroscience and spirituality as we unpack childhood conditioning, high-achievement patterns, emotional safety, the nervous system, spiritual communities, boundaries, and the courage it can take to stop recoiling from your own power. One question rises to the surface again and again: What part of your power are you still afraid to fully own? This is an honest, unfiltered conversation about learning to trust yourself, honor your emotions, and become more fully who you already are. This episode includes discussion of trauma, sexual assault, suicidal ideation, psychiatric hospitalization, substance use, and spiritual experiences. Please listen with care. Sabrina is an Emotional Intelligence Coach with a Master of Education in Developmental Psychology, host of the Emotional Embrace Podcast and Reflector 6/2 by Human Design. Teacher by first career and now in her 7th year of entrepreneurship guiding women to alchemize their ancestral wounds into their medicine and message. She is the leader and founder of The Emotional Alchemy Academy. https://www.instagram.com/iamsabrinamabel/ Loved this episode? Here’s what to do next: If you’re tired of living the same day on repeat...always busy, but never where you want to be, it’s time to break the cycle. Want to understand what’s really behind your burnout? Download the free Burned Out & Still Behind Guide for clear insight into what’s keeping you stuck and how to start shifting it: https://stan.store/Sovereign-Femme/p/burned-out-still-behind Ready to take action? Book a Get Clear & Move Forward Call. In this 1:1 session, we’ll identify your personal blocks and give you a customized plan rooted in science and strategy. https://stan.store/Sovereign-Femme/p/book-a-11-call-with-me-3mordckt This is for the woman who’s done waiting and is ready to lead her life...her way.