A Path to Self-Healing: Tuning into Your Body’s Signals

From the comfort of my best friend’s couch, my path to healing and self-discovery took flight. My journey, fueled by a burning desire to prove my worth, was littered with countless books, podcasts, and coaching programs. However, I quickly realized that healing from a place of wanting to be enough for others was severely unhealthy. I’m inviting you to join me in this transformative journey where we prioritize our own worth, lean into what is currently present in our lives, and identify the next steps for our healing journey. We are multi-diverse humans, possessing the power to initiate transformation through mind and body. This episode highlights the importance of tuning into our bodies to understand their signals and initiating a dialogue with ourselves to gain insights into our current situations. But healing isn’t always comfortable; it’s about being present with all parts, even the uncomfortable ones, and always starting the journey from a place of love. Paying attention to our body sensations is a crucial part of our healing journey; it’s our personal compass to understanding where we need to start. From feelings of disconnection, numbness, anxiety, contraction, or unsafety, our body can guide us in identifying areas that need healing. Encourage yourself to trust in your own intuition and inner knowing to make decisions. Remember, this journey is yours alone, and it’s important to extend grace to yourself. You can read the full podcast transcript for this episode below: Full Transcript0:00:00 – Speaker 1Welcome to the Fully Expressed podcast with Karenna. I am your podcast host, Karenna Soto, and today I’m going to provide you with a few tips on how to know what’s the next step in your healing journey, or how do I identify what that is for yourself. Depending on where you’re at on your healing journey, this episode is going to be perfect for anyone that is just starting. Maybe you’re finding yourself overwhelmed of like I don’t even know where to start, or I don’t know what to do. Or it’s going to be really, really helpful for someone that has been on this for a really long time. Maybe you’ve been doing the inner work for a while. You’ve been deep diving into just learning more about who you are, but you find yourself up against the wall of like I don’t really know where else to start. You know, or what’s the next thing that I can work on, or what’s been coming up for me. So this episode is really going to help answer that lot of those questions. So go ahead and listen in, all right? So before I dive into giving you all the tips around, what’s the next thing that you can tackle on your healing journey, or what does that mean to you at this time? One. I want to give you a little bit of light into my personal healing journey and what that really looked like.You know, for me in my initial phases of quote unquote this healing journey or learning more about myself, I really dove into learning a lot about myself. It all started on the, on the couch of my best friend and learning about the enneagram and learning a little bit more about this personality test and the results that I got and what they meant and what they meant to me and gave me so much insight into how I show up, why I show up and where that came from. That really ended up pushing me into and kind of initiating more than anything into this space of consuming a lot of information. So I was consuming a lot of information from different books. I was reading podcasts, instagram posts, I mean anything like that. I was consuming Instagram lives and coaching programs I m...