Finding Truth in a Confusing World

The Alchemy of Truth: Finding What’s Real in a Post-Truth Era

We live in a time where nearly everything is knowable, yet nothing feels certain. Open your phone and you’ll see two headlines contradicting each other, experts arguing, and friends debating about what’s real.

The term post-truth era was coined almost a decade ago to describe a culture where emotion and belief often outweigh fact. Ten years later, the tension has only intensified. Truth has become harder to locate.

And that confusion doesn’t stay “out there.” It seeps into our relationships, our intimacy, our ability to trust what we know in our bones. When the world feels unstable, we start doubting our own compass. We second-guess instincts. We perform connection instead of feeling it.

In a world where truth feels negotiable, trusting our bodies, intuition, and lived experience becomes an act of rebellion and deep intimacy. Because when we reconnect with truth, we don’t just see more clearly; we allow ourselves to be seen.

1. The Post-Truth Era: A Crisis of Discernment

In 2016, post-truth was named Oxford’s Word of the Year describing an age where facts mattered less than feelings. It began as political commentary but has become a collective crisis of discernment.

We’re inundated with information yet starved for clarity. Algorithms reward outrage over accuracy. Conversations turn into performances of certainty rather than exchanges of understanding.

Even AI mirrors this confusion. We treat it like a calculator that should deliver the correct answer, when in reality it produces a probable answer. Most of us do the same, speaking from conditioning, habit, or fear rather than grounded knowing.

Meanwhile, most major media outlets are owned by billionaires shaping narratives that serve their interests. We live in a landscape where confidence masquerades as credibility and noise passes for knowledge.

The paradox is this: the more distorted the outer world becomes, the more essential it is to refine our inner signal. Truth isn’t something we find externally, it’s something we feel internally.

1. Why It Feels Louder Than Ever

If it feels like the world has grown noisier, it’s because it has. Three forces are colliding in our collective nervous system: speed, volume, and disconnection.

• Speed: Information moves faster than we can process. Reflection has been replaced by reaction.
• Volume: We’re flooded with opinions, hot takes, and conflicting “truths.” Algorithms reward outrage, not nuance.
• Disconnection: We consume with our minds, not our bodies. Our senses dull; our nervous systems stay braced.

This constant stimulation leaves us anxious and detached from what’s real. We lose track of what’s ours and what’s been projected onto us. We stop trusting our own instincts  and that disconnection ripples through everything: how we lead, parent, and love.

When our attention is fractured, intimacy becomes harder to access. How can we feel closeness when our bodies are tense, our minds overstimulated, and our hearts unsure what’s true?

We can’t hear truth in the noise, but we can feel it in the stillness.
And that’s where the real alchemy begins: not escaping the world, but remembering how to orient ourselves within it.

III. The Personal Cost of Collective Confusion

When we stop trusting ourselves, we struggle to trust others. Intimacy starts to feel risky; vulnerability feels unsafe. We edit ourselves, staying polished but distant. It sounds like:

• “I can’t tell if I’m tired or just disconnected.”
• “Everyone thinks I have it together, but inside I feel scattered.”
• “My body feels tense all the time, like I’m bracing for something.”
• “I keep waiting for something to change, but I don’t know what.”

When we ignore the body’s cues, the expansion that whispers yes, the contraction that warns no, we lose the map. We confuse overthinking with discernment, productivity with purpose, control with strength. But truth doesn’t live in the mind; it lives in sensation - the body’s language that never lies.

1. Truth as a Felt Experience, Not a Mental Concept

The mind seeks logic and certainty. The body speaks in sensation. It warms, tightens, opens, chills. It doesn’t argue, it tells the truth.

Most of us learned to override those signals. Think back to elementary school when we were rewarded for being agreeable rather than authentic. Over our lifetimes, we’ve quieted the gut whisper that said, this isn’t it. We rationalized tension and exhaustion instead of trusting them.

But our nervous system is the bridge. When it’s calm, intuition speaks clearly. When we’re in survival mode, fear dresses up as knowing.

Embodiment practices like breathwork, movement, meditation  tune that instrument. They regulate the body so we can feel again, sense again, trust again. Truth isn’t always comfortable, but it’s always clarifying. The moment you feel it in your breath or belly, the noise fades and your signal returns.

1. Intimacy as the Mirror of Truth

Intimacy reveals our relationship with truth. We can only meet another as deeply as we’ve met ourselves.

Truth erodes quietly: small lies to keep the peace, silent nods when we mean no, pretending we’re fine when we’re anything but. We trade honesty for harmony, not realizing that every time we suppress truth, we create distance where we crave closeness.

Intimacy is built on the courage to be real. Your body knows when to open, when to pause, when to speak. When you honor that knowing, connection deepens. Truth becomes the ultimate aphrodisiac creating safety, openness, and space for desire to breathe again.

1. Remembering How to Trust Yourself Again

Rebuilding trust with yourself is about becoming present. The first step is noticing. When something feels off, pause before rushing to fix it. Breathe into the space where the discomfort lives. Ask your body, What are you trying to show me? Sometimes the message will come as a clear knowing. Other times, it is a release. You aren’t trying to decode it perfectly, you are simply making space for your body’s language again.

Here are three ways to begin rebuilding connection with your body:

1. Start the day with sensation, not information.
   Before you reach for your phone, reach for yourself. Place a hand on your heart or lower belly and simply notice: What does aliveness feel like this morning? Warm? Tight? Heavy? Neutral? Let that awareness guide how you move into your day.
2. Pause before you say yes.
   When someone makes a request, take one slow breath. Feel into your body’s response. Does it open or constrict? Expansion is usually a yes. Tightness is often a no, even if your mind disagrees.
3. Move just to feel, not to achieve.
   Stretch, dance, shake, or walk without a goal. Let your body move the way it wants to, not the way it “should.” This kind of movement helps release stored emotion and brings you back to your natural rhythm of truth.

Create small rituals like these, and your body begins to trust that you’re listening again. Each act of awareness becomes an offering, a way of saying, I’m here. I’m paying attention. Trust is built through repetition.

VII. From Confusion to Alchemy

Truth is a living relationship. Alchemy happens when we stop outsourcing wisdom and start listening inward again  when we bring breath to the numb places and let feeling become the doorway.

Those same small practices, sensing, pausing, moving, transform confusion into clarity. They regulate your nervous system, bringing you back to the present, where truth always lives.

This is the Alchemy of Truth: turning noise into knowing, tension into tenderness, uncertainty into alignment. When you live this way, the world doesn’t get quieter you become still enough to hear through the noise.

If you’re ready to find your way back to yourself, join me for The Alchemy of Truth, a FREE guided evening of breathwork, hypnosis, and ritual to help you reconnect with your body’s wisdom and remember the sound of your own knowing.

Because in a world obsessed with being right, the real revolution is being true.