When Stillness Feels Loud: Sitting With Yourself Anyway

Hey love, I’m Chauna! Or Mama Icon, if you know what’s good.

I am the holistic life coach, soft life enthusiast, and your favorite spiritual confidante. With a tea bar dream and a velvet journal full of manifestations. This blog? It’s my little corner of the internet where we slow down, unpack the heavy stuff, and bloom out loud. I speak healing, softness, and all the wild magic in between.This is where stillness meets soul work.Think of me as your big sister, with a teacup in one hand and the truth in another.

There will be some days when silence doesn’t feel soft. It won’t feel like peace at all. It feels like pressure or maybe like the absence of noise is suddenly too heavy or revealing. In those moments, stillness can sound louder than any chaos. It can feel uncomfortable, even unbearable. Here’s the truth, stillness is calm. When stillness feels loud, it’s often because something inside of you has been waiting to be heard.

Sitting with yourself, means choosing not to run. It means breathing into the silence long enough to remember that you are safe — that presence itself is a practice. Your stillness is not pointless; it is full of whispers. Whispers of grief that never got space. Whispers you’ve muted. They can also be whispers of gratitude that want a chance to expand. The loudness is not punishment, it’s an invitation to listen.

Over time that loud stillness begins to soften. What first feels like a storm of noise, will eventually reveal clarity. The more you allow yourself to sit, the more your body learns you can trust this pause. So the next time the silence feels loud, lean into it. Write one sentence, or simply take notice of your breathing. Sometimes you’ve got answers waiting, they are hidden right there in quiet.

Later, Love

Chauna Alexis-Quamirah. Green