The Emotional Nourishment Check-In

Here is a simple, sacred nourishment check-in practice—a five-minute ritual you can do after any contact, message, or energetic encounter with anyone.

It will help you stay rooted in truth over story, and body over fantasy, so that you can see clearly whether the connection is feeding your soul or fraying your edges.

Time required: 3–5 minutes

Tools needed: Just your body. Optionally: journal, candle, or hand on heart.

Step 1: Return to Your Body (30 seconds)

Close your eyes.

Breathe slowly.

Drop out of the head. Feel your belly.

Feel your chest.

Feel your throat.

Place fingertips on the collar bone with little fingers touching at the base of the throat charkra (Vishuddha) 💙

Ask: Where is the energy moving? Where is it stuck?

Step 2: Ask the Body👤, Not the Mind🧠 (1 minute)

Whisper aloud or journal:

• Did that contact open me or close me?

• Did it leave me feeling more whole or more fragmented?

• Did I feel seen or did I perform?

• Did I feel cherished or merely tolerated?

Don’t try to fix anything—just listen. Let the body speak.

Step 3: Ask the Heart 💚🫀💚(1 minute)

Place a hand over your heart.

Ask:

• Was that love? (Not fireworks—love.)

• Am I still in resonance with this? Or am I reaching out of habit?

• Would I want more of this exact energy in my life, or less?

If the heart feels tight, that’s information.

If it feels warm, open, clear—that too is information.

Step 4: Ground the Knowing 🔽✨ (1 minute)

Whisper:

“I deserve to feel nourished in connection.”

“I trust my body when it says yes, and when it says no.”

Light a candle or simply breathe deeply.

Allow the insight to settle without spiraling into action.

Just know it.

Let the knowing change how you move next time.

❓Why This Works:

Because longing can blur the truth.

Because fantasy can override the body’s warning.

Because your clarity doesn’t live in your mind. It lives in your nervous system.

And it’s waiting to tell you:

“This is love.”

Or,

“This is longing dressed as love.”

You are worth not abandoning yourself

❤️‍🩹