Dare to Feel

The Transformational Path of the Heart

By: Alexandra Roxo

Narrated by: Alexandra Roxo

Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins

Publisher's summary

Explore the language of feeling as a spiritual practice, reclaim your full self, and expand in ways you haven’t known before.

“Most of us weren’t taught how to feel. In fact, we were taught not to feel,” says Alexandra Roxo. Though we have been taught to deny, repress, and lock away our feelings to get by in our emotionally illiterate culture, our bodies and hearts long to be open and free. With Dare to Feel, Alexandra shares a powerful resource for reclaiming the lost parts of yourself and rediscovering the full richness of your human experience in all 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 invites you to explore:

• Why we’ve learned not to feel—the social and internal reasons we retreat from emotions
• Courage and curiosity—guidance for navigating intense feelings in a safe and loving way
• The body’s wisdom—how to awaken your heart’s capabilities through somatic exercises
• The openhearted way—daily practices and steps for becoming more open, joyous, and present to your miraculous life

It takes courage to shed our armor—to stop checking out, overthinking, 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.”

©2024 Alexandra Roxo (P)2024 Sounds True

Critic reviews

“At once relatable, heartbreakingly personal, and joyfully liberating, Dare to Feel reveals a path to embodied, heart-centered expression and experience that is so deeply needed at this time.” —John Wineland, author of From the Core

“Alexandra’s vulnerable tales draw us into the relief of honesty and the fires of transformation, inviting us all to live openhearted and free.” —Rebecca Campbell, bestselling author of Rise Sister Rise

“Roxo’s crystal clear ability to communicate the intricacy of our inner worlds as humans is liberating. She puts words on the complexities of our shadows and light, our pain and pleasure, and the magic and mystery of our humanity.” —Sah D’Simone, bestselling author of Spiritually, We

Transformational on a very deep level

We all learn through story: listening to stories helps us to make sense of life and our own experiences - especially the difficult ones. In a world that encourages us to window dress who we really are / what we’re truly feeling, Alexandra’s raw honesty about her own experiences is not only refreshing, but deeply cathartic. It brings long-buried emotions to the surface and helps to transform them.

Most of us have learned from a very young age to suppress our true feelings because they’re not socially acceptable. Alexandra blows the lid on this unhealthy practice and offers ways to heal from years of bottled up emotions.

This book is a must-read especially if you’re curious about how to fully feel and engage with life, It will help you to be present to whatever is happening instead of taking refuge behind a device or in unhealthy habits that numb what you’re truly feeling.

Grateful

I listened to this within a few days. I loved her first book and have been waiting to hear this one. She did it again!

Thank you, Alexandra for such a relatable, vulnerable, inspiring, and healing book. I enjoyed listening to experiences from your own journey and all the helpful insights and tools you shared.

Entertaining, Soulful and Life Giving

If you are ready to level up and step into a world of allowing yourself to be fully you and free to do so.. then this book is for you. The stories were relatable, the rituals and reflections were thought-provoking. It’s inspiring, moving, challenging and overall a great book. I have already recommended it to several friends.

Love love this book!

Wow, this book has cracked me open and taught me so much! Fantastic audio narration! Gorgeous writing! Relatable! Will listen again and again throughout the years.