Hey ,

Happy Valentine's Day!

I've been thinking about how this day is so often framed around romance, but the first people who taught us what love meant were the ones who held us when we were young.

Their arms, their voices, the way they looked at us or didn't – that became our first template for what love is.

I facilitated a few private sound sessions today, and the same insight kept revealing itself:

So many of the tensions and imbalances we carry in our bodies didn't start as physical problems. They started as emotional impressions from those early relationships.

A moment we felt abandoned, or too much.

A grief we couldn't express.

A fear we swallowed to stay safe.

The body, loyal and wise, held those memories in the tissues, the fascia, the nervous system – sometimes for decades.

But here's another insight that keeps landing:

The body heals when it's freed from emotional memory.

We spend so much time trying to improve, optimise and biohack the body from the outside – routines, protocols, all the things we can control – when often what it's actually asking for is permission to forget.

When we can recognise true love from within our own heart (not the conditional version we learned as children, but the quiet, unconditional presence in our centre), the body begins to let go.

It doesn't need the bracing anymore.

It remembers its natural state: open, coherent, alive.

To me, that's what Valentine's could really be about:

Remembering that the love we needed then is not the same love we're capable of now.

That loving from our pure heart, rather than from old imprints, is one of the most healing things we can offer our own system (and another).

They say love grows when it's expressed.

So today, I'm expressing mine.

This email wasn't written to sell you anything or propose a next step – I just wanted to share some reflections and say thank you.

Thank you for being here, for supporting this work, and for the quiet courage it has taken for you to continue walking the journey you have been on.

I'm deeply grateful for you,

Aknes x