Monthly Workshop with Serena  

The first and most essential root. In those early moments when we expressed ourselves through emotions but were met with rejection or disconnection, we unconsciously repressed both the emotion and the aspect of ourselves that was expressing it. Why? Because maintaining connection — love, safety, and acceptance — especially with our parents, became more important than expressing our authentic self. This is the moment when the mechanism of emotional repression was born and started operating within us — shaping how we relate to ourselves and others ever since, inside a narrow, contracted frame.

I mean literally. Whether it’s our partner, men, women, nature, money, our boss, our body, thoughts, physical pain — or even a bird, a tree, or a piece of chocolate — every connection holds the imprint of emotional repression. Whenever something triggers us in a relationship, it reveals an unseen and unmet emotional layer waiting to come into awareness. By consciously meeting what arises in these moments, we can release the unconscious blocks and the repressed emotions held in that particular connection, allowing us to be free and breathe fully again.

Every relationship in our life — whether with people, things, or ourselves — holds the emotional repression formed in our earliest relationship with our parents and closest family members. The origins of emotional repression always trace back to those formative years, and it can only be unwound at the root through emotional repression processing. (While some of us may have experienced trauma later in life, which adds layers to our emotional burden, in 99,9% of cases, the core repression leads back to childhood.)