Processing emotions

I've found that taking an edible in the evening brings up a lot of intense emotions and fears. I am wondering if the intensity indicates emotions that I'm not quite ready to process. I feel the symptoms & physical sensations, am I'm trying to approach it with curiosity vs from a fearful dystegulated place. However, it seems like a contradiction - the fear and intensity makes it seem like I'm dysregulated, but in SE you're supposed to feel the emotions as sensations WHILE knowing you are safe.

I understand the concept. But it's been difficult for me to go through this. Right now I'm feeling this deep existential like fear in the pit of my stomach. And I'm asking myself what is that? Fears about the future, uncertainty, nostalgia for the past, and then sadness, grief & anger. I know feeling all this is important. You're able to feel more in order to move stuck energy & that means your nervous system understands you're safe now.

I can't tell if I'm still afraid to truly feel these emotions. It is reoccurring. So how do you cultivate inner safety in the present while confronting these emotions and fears? How do you accept your current life situation while still remaining hopeful for change? The deep fear of learned helplessness is still there, and I understand that this belief is the root of feeling stagnant. If I keep leaning into it, continue to feel it, then is it supposed to lose its intensity, because whatever trauma that caused that negative belief is no longer a threat? And that is part of brain rewiring in SE - keep cultivating inner safety so that you're equipped to navigate life through a new lens.

It's just such a slow and grueling process that any changes feel imperceptible and TBH, it's the uncertainty that bothers me. Wanting change so badly and to finally feel inner safety without the constant activation & shutdown.