Trusting the Unease: What the CARE Emoji Taught Me

I have a confession: I hate the CARE emoji.

Not in a lighthearted, exaggerated way. I mean a full-body recoil. A gut-level nope that’s lived in me since the day it launched.

At first, I couldn’t explain it. It was just an emoji, right? But every time I saw it—this little yellow face hugging a heart—my whole system tensed. Something in me knew it wasn’t what it appeared to be.

Five years later, that reaction hasn’t changed.

The Timing That Tells A Story

The CARE emoji appeared in early 2020, right as the world was entering one of the most fear-charged times in modern history. The pandemic was new, uncertainty was everywhere, and emotions were running high.

On the surface, the emoji was a sweet digital gesture. A way to say, I care, I’m with you, I see you. And many people embraced it—welcoming it as a symbol of comfort and connection.

But for me, it felt like a frequency mismatch. Like sugar coating wrapped around something my body recognized as false.

Why My System Registered It Differently

Here’s what I’ve come to understand since then: my system doesn’t fully resonate with the collective field.

🔥 I feel the undercurrents behind the obvious.
🔥 I resist systems that run on coercion, distortion, or control.
🔥 And I remember truths I was never taught.

That’s part of my soul work. I didn’t come here to echo what’s safe or socially acceptable. I came here to speak truth that sometimes goes against the grain—not to divide, but to help others begin to feel again. To remember how to discern what’s real and what’s resonance.

So when that emoji launched into the collective as a symbol of “comfort,” my body read something different. It wasn’t just an image—it was a frequency, and the frequency didn’t match.

Symbols Carry Power

The CARE emoji wasn’t just an emoji. Symbols condense entire narratives into a single image, sound, or gesture.

Throughout history, they’ve been used to unite, to inspire, and yes—to manipulate.

When the CARE emoji appeared, it seemed to whisper: Everything is okay. Stay calm. We care. But in reality, people were being silenced, shamed, and divided. Families fractured. Loved ones died alone. Communities turned against each other.

To me, that little yellow face became a signal of pressure—to conform, to mute my truth, to override my inner compass in order to belong.

Listening To The Compass Within

And this is where the deeper invitation lies.

When your body says something isn’t right, listen. Even if you can’t explain it in the moment. Even if others don’t feel the same way.

Because it’s often those subtle signals—the bile-in-your-throat unease, the tug in your chest—that remind you of who you are and what you came here to remember.

👉 If we don’t speak the truths we’re here to speak …
👉 If we don’t question the frequencies that keep humanity asleep …
👉 If we don’t reclaim the wisdom of our own knowing …

Then the remembering doesn’t happen. And real change never comes.

The Invitation To Listen

You don’t have to see the CARE emoji the way I do. This isn’t really about an emoji at all.

It’s about listening when your system says, no. It’s about honoring your remembering when something doesn’t resonate. It’s about trusting your inner compass, even when the world is pointing in another direction.

This is the work I live and breathe with others, too—helping them reconnect to the voice of their own system, their soul’s remembering. Because when we start listening to that truth, everything shifts.

Because the more we practice listening, the less we need outside signals to tell us how to feel.

And maybe, just maybe, it’s time to listen ✨

xo, Mitzi