You are being called home. Back to the body that knows you by heart.

There's a feeling in your chest that you can't quite name. A softer part, maybe. Or a more powerful, demanding one. You closed it off along the way. It wasn’t welcome in your leadership. You had reasons, good ones, and lately you feel the presence knocking at your sternum. You want to reclaim what’s missing. You just don't know what it is, or how.

Here's what I can tell you after twenty-plus years with leaders around the world: what you're sensing is real. And it isn't hiding in endless attention to the brilliant tool upstairs, your mind. What you're actually missing waits below, in the body. In the held breath. In the chest that closes before the hard conversation. In the half-second where you take the room or leave it.

That's where you walled off what was unacceptable. That's where I work. It is also where your aliveness lives.

The gap between knowing what to do and doing it was never a thinking problem. Your body has been holding what you thought you set down, practicing your patterns longer than you've had language, and it wants to trust you, but you have to become trustworthy.

I've watched leaders collect insights for years and shift nothing. Then the body opens, and everything they walled away comes home. They access the softness and the power. They were never two different things.

As a Master Somatic Coach and co-founder of McCarthy Rekart, I work with senior leaders and executive teams at the Gates Foundation, Microsoft, Automattic, Providence, and others to open that door. Deliberately. Skillfully. For good.