The Heart is the True Brain: Lead with Your Heart — Embracing Vulnerability as Strength
My Turning Point: Learning to Lead With My Heart
In 2014, I was 27 years old and going through one of the darkest times of my life. I was trying to become a completely different kind of mother than the one I
had growing up — while also learning how to reparent myself. To be completely transparent: I was struggling.
Struggling so much that I started questioning if I even wanted to stay on this planet.
But the thought of leaving my children alone… I couldn’t. That alone kept me tethered.
So one day, in my tiny two-bedroom apartment, I rolled out a yoga mat and laid down.
I went into meditation — not for peace, but for answers.
I spoke out loud into the silence:
“If you want me to stay… tell me why.” I laid there in stillness, eyes closed, back against the mat — waiting.
And then I heard it. Clear. Strong. Not from outside of me — but from deep within the silence.
“Teach.”
I whispered back in my mind, “Teach what?”
The voice responded:
“Love.”
I asked, “How does someone teach love?”
And then — in a rush of images and feeling and soundless words — the voice said:
“Be love. Be light.”
So what does leading from the heart mean ?
Let me be honest. Living this way hasn’t been easy. As someone with a history of trauma, moving from my heart required deep vulnerability.
It meant learning to love even when it felt unsafe. To forgive even when it felt undeserved. To remain open and build clear, compassionate
boundaries.
Here is what I have learned in this 11 year journey
When you move from your heart, you don’t lose power — you actually become more grounded in that power. Your heart becomes full of
compassion, hope, love and this unshakable peace. This practice of leading from one's heart is nothing new in many ancient spiritual
traditions; the heart is honored as the center of truth and wisdom. Today, modern science is finally beginning to understand and explain the
connections and power of the heart. Your heart contains its own neural network — often called the “heart-brain.” It sends more signals to your
brain than your brain sends to it. Research from the HeartMath Institute shows that your heart picks up emotional and energetic information
before your brain processes it. So when you “feel something in your heart,” you’re not imagining it — you’re perceiving something real.
Need further proof
Think of a mother and child. A mother senses distress before a cry — not through logic, but through connection. Their hearts are in
communication.The heart produces an electromagnetic field that extends several feet beyond the body. When two people are close, their
heart fields interact — which is why sensitive souls can feel when something is off, or beautifully aligned, without a word spoken.
Your heart is always speaking to you. You just need to listen and trust it. Your heart may not speak in full sentences. It might guide you through
subtle feelings, instincts, dreams, or a knowing you can’t explain. Sometimes you’ll ignore it. Sometimes you’ll misread it. But more often than
not… you’ll feel what is right.
I understand that for some this topics mentioned in this article maybe especially heavy. If you moved to please follow the gentle breathing exercise & heart-centered affirmation audio below
Final Reflection
If no one has ever told you this before, let me be the first:
You are not broken. You are not too sensitive. You are not too much.
You are exactly who you are meant to be — a soul who hears the music beneath the noise, a soul who feels the living heartbeat of the world.
And the world needs your light, exactly as it is.