Emotions are full-body nervous system signals—not just thoughts. A somatic lens on the limbic “lizard brain,” urges and building choice without self-abandoning.

Feeling your emotions might seem like a personal practice — something you do privately or in therapy — but in times of rising authoritarianism, emotional awareness becomes something else entirely: a political and collective act.

Fascism relies on overwhelming the nervous system. This essay explores how emotional suppression serves authoritarianism—and why feeling our grief, rage, and fear in community is a powerful tool for collective resistance, agency, and embodied liberation. Read how fascism overwhelms our psyches and why somatic, communal feeling restores agency & power.