Caroline Rena

18/09/2026

Why Am I Always Waiting for the Other Shoe to Drop? | Elizabeth Kipp

You can spend years feeling like something is about to go wrong, even when everything around you seems fine. When your nervous system learned early to stay watchful, that way of moving through life can become so automatic you don't even realize it's happening.

In this conversation, Elizabeth Kipp explores how growing up walking on eggshells shaped her nervous system—and what she has discovered about resistance, reconnecting with the body, the breath as a bridge, and allowing the body to remember the safety it already knows.

Topics in this episode:
-Walking on Eggshells & Hypervigilance
-Resistance & the Stress Habit
-Reconnecting with the Body
-The Breath as a Bridge
-Nervous System Safety & Returning to Balance

Watch full episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiuT3TLa2pc

17/09/2026

How much of your life have you spent feeling responsible for making sure everything is okay?

For me, that question became part of a much bigger discovery about my highly sensitive nervous system—and how much energy I have spent watching, anticipating, preparing, protecting and taking responsibility for what was happening around me.

My nervous system knew how to keep me alive.

Now I'm discovering what it might mean to actually live.

Beyond Survival: Learning to Live — Part 2

What if my nervous system was never standing in the way of my life, but trying to keep me alive long enough to finally live it?

17/09/2026

What happens when you've lived with pain for so long that you begin to wonder if this is simply how your life is going to be?

You try to manage it. Push through it. Find something that will make it stop. And after a while, the pain can begin to shape how you see yourself and what you believe is possible.

**Today at 12:00pm ET**, my conversation with Elizabethe Kipp goes live on YouTube.

Together, we explore chronic pain, trauma, addiction, the connection between the body and what we've lived through, and what can begin to shift when we stop fighting our experience and learn to meet ourselves differently.

If you've been exhausted from trying to make the pain go away, perhaps this conversation offers another way of being with what your body has been carrying.

The link is in the comments.

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13/09/2026

For most of my life, I thought I was simply reacting too strongly to things other people barely seemed to notice.

Sounds. Smells. Energy. People. Environments. Something very subtle that I could feel before I could explain it.

And then I began learning about my nervous system alongside what it actually means to be a Highly Sensitive Person.

Suddenly, pieces of my life started coming together in a way they never had before.

What My Nervous System Knew Before I Did — Part 1

This one is deeply personal. And it may speak to anyone who has ever wondered why they seem to experience the world so differently.

I knew I was highly sensitive. I knew I carried trauma. I just never understood how the two had been living together inside me.

05/09/2026

Sometimes life has a strange way of putting exactly what we need to see right in front of us.

Or, apparently, right outside our door. 🤣

This Reflection started with a pile of p**p on my doormat, a lot of flies, and a morning that went somewhere I definitely wasn’t expecting.

When the P**p Shows Up at Your Door...

I thought I had a mess to clean up.

Life had something else in mind.

I thought I had a mess to clean up. Life had something else in mind—a strange moment that showed me exactly what I needed to see.

04/09/2026

Why Do I Know What I Need to Do But Still Avoid It? | Steve Ray

You can know exactly what you need to do and still find yourself avoiding it. Sometimes avoidance becomes so automatic that, before you realize it, your whole life is on hold.

In this conversation, Steve Ray explores what lies underneath his lifelong pattern of avoidance—and what he is beginning to discover about fear, shame, losing his voice, and learning to meet himself differently.

⇧Topics in this episode:
-Avoidance & Putting Your Life on Hold
-Fear, Shame & Childhood Patterns
-Losing Your Voice
-Learning to Trust Yourself
-Surrender, Presence & Self-Acceptance

Watch full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnukMB7_7Tw

29/08/2026

Sometimes we become so busy thinking, analyzing, working on ourselves, and trying to figure everything out that there’s no space left for our actual life.

This Reflection started with a squirrel, a fallen drey, and something I suddenly saw differently.

Enough Space to See

The life I kept trying to find was here all along.

I just needed enough space to see it.

The life I was looking for was here all along.

21/08/2026

I've Taken Care of Everyone Else. What About Me? | Tae Harris

You can spend years taking care of everyone else without realizing how little space you've left for yourself. Work, family, responsibilities, and keeping everything going can slowly become the way you live.

In this conversation, Tae Harris shares what he began to see when he finally asked, **“What about me?”**—and what becomes possible when you stop putting yourself last and begin making room for your own life.

⇧Topics in this episode:
-Putting Everyone Else Before Yourself
-Fear of Success
-Childhood Recognition & Self-Worth
-Learning to Trust Yourself
-Making Space for Your Own Life

Watch full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CIhRxIj_Ig

20/08/2026

How long can you keep showing up for everyone else while quietly wondering when it’s finally going to be your turn?

You take care of what needs to be done. You support the people you love. You keep moving forward. Somewhere in all of that, your own life keeps getting pushed a little further down the list.

Today at 12:00pm ET, my conversation with Tae Harris goes live on YouTube.

What began as a conversation about success became something much deeper as Tae and I explored childhood experiences, the difficulty of receiving acknowledgment, the pressure to be there for everyone else, and what can happen when you finally recognize that you don’t have to be anyone’s savior.

Sometimes coming home to yourself begins with something as simple—and as difficult—as allowing yourself to take your turn.

If you’ve spent so much time being there for everyone else that you’ve forgotten where you fit into your own life, perhaps this conversation is arriving at exactly the right time.

The link is in the comments.

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💜 Coming Home

A weekly gathering for empaths, highly sensitive people, and seekers of truth navigating the very human experiences that shape our lives.

https://carolinerena.com/coming-home/

14/08/2026

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