Feeling Resistance and Finding Truth
- Jo Kelly
- Aug 18
- 3 min read
You know that sensation.Your throat tightens, your chest contracts, your mind races. Whether you are with another person — in a rehearsal, an audition, a meeting, or even on a date — or alone with your own emotions, resistance shows up. You feel tense, ashamed, doubtful, anxious. You want to be authentic, but instead you find yourself blocked.
And what do you usually do when this happens? You try harder. You pretend more. You go searching outside yourself for the next book, the next teacher, the next healer, the next tool. You convince yourself that once you learn more, buy more, improve more, then the resistance will finally be gone.
But when you watch my training below you will discover that here is the truth: there is nothing wrong with the resistance.
Your human technology — your body, your nervous system, your feelings — is perfect. It was never designed to be fixed. It was designed to be felt. Rage, sadness, joy, fear, ecstasy — every sensation is part of your fullness, part of your truth. When you allow yourself to feel what arises, without trying to bypass or improve it, you return to reality. You return to life moving through you.
Resistance is not your enemy. It is not a problem to solve. It is an invitation to presence.
When you feel what you feel — resistance included — you allow it to complete its arc, to alchemise into your next step. And that step will always be truthful.
This is the work we do in our community. Not adding more layers, not fixing you, not teaching you who to be. But undoing the programming that made you believe you were broken, unworthy, or in need of improvement. You were never broken. You were born perfect.
Your uniqueness, your instinct, your truth — this is what you came here to experience. And when you experience yourself, others finally get to experience you too. That is when you become impactful, not by faking or performing, but by being.
So instead of resisting your resistance, feel it. Let it be the doorway back to your freedom.
Because if you are not going to experience your truth, what are you experiencing?
🎥 Watch the full training below to hear all my thoughts on this topic
After you watch the training
I’d love for you to join in the conversation happening in our private Facebook Group THE INSTINCTIVE ACTORS’ SOCIETY. You can get answers for your specific situation directly from me and connect with THOUSANDS of like-minded actors across the globe, so we can move things forward faster together.
See you there!
Jo Kelly
Creator, The Reset Journey From Resistance to Freedom
✨ Want to taste this work?
If something in you stirs as you read this — if you know you are ready to stop pretending and start experiencing yourself — I invite you to come taste the work.
The Reset Taster is a 5-day introduction to our full 33-Day Reset Journey — our immersive process for actors, artists, and humans who are ready to reclaim their truth.
You’ll begin to:
Undo the internalised pressure to “get it right.”
Meet your feelings without trying to fix them.
Reconnect with your instinct and presence.
Experience the relief of not needing to improve, but simply to be.
It is pay what you can. Truly. We work inside the gift economy, which means you join at the level that honours both your reality and this work.
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You don’t need to add anything to yourself.
You just need to undo what was never yours to begin with.
Come back to you.
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