Many of us learned to read a room before we learned how to remain inside ourselves. This letter explores what becomes possible when sensitivity becomes a way of tending what is alive rather than a responsibility to regulate the room.

You can feel when someone is applying a life. You can feel when someone is inhabiting one. This week’s Notes on Courage letter explores embodiment, emotional aliveness, self-trust, and the ancient human work of transformation through relationship, truth, and presence.