Dare to Feel: The Transformational Path of the Heart

Explore the practice of passionate living and deep feeling as a spiritual path of opening the heart as you reclaim your full self, expanding in ways you haven’t known before.

Dare to Feel is a guide on the “transformational path of the heart,” a spiritual practice for connecting more deeply with yourself, others, and the world by accessing the power of your emotions, sensations, and intuition.

"Most of us weren't taught how to feel. In fact, we were taught not to feel," says teacher Alexandra Roxo. Though we have ben taught to deny, repress, and lock away our feelings to get by in our emotionally illiterate culture, our hearts long to be open and free. Now Alexandra shares a powerful resource for reclaiming the full richness of your human experience in al its breathless passion, tender vulnerability, and boundless love.

Dare to Feel is a guide on the "transformational path of the heart," a spiritual practice for connecting more deeply with yourself, others, and the world by accessing the power of your emotions, sensations, and intuition. Through personal stories, poems, rituals, and reflective exercises, Alexandra helps you unearth the reasons you've closed down your emotions, offers guidance for exploring intense feelings in a safe and loving way, and shares somatic practices for awakening your heart's capabilities—and becoming more open, courageous, and present to your miraculous life.

It takes courage to shed out armor—to stop checking out, grabbing for phones, or running for the door. Yet the effort is worth it. "It is when you dare to feel, even when it hurts, that you open the heart and soul," says Alexandra. "You become the sculptor of your reality and free yourself to experience all your life can be."