Off the Beaten Path Healing: Grief, Love and Making Bad Art with Courtney Chandler

If your mind “gets it” but your body still feels stuck, this episode is for you. We talk with Courtney from Hearts for Hope Therapy about how art therapy, somatic practices, and yoga reach the places words can’t—helping women soften perfectionism, create nervous system safety, and move through grief and identity shifts with more ease. Through stories of motherhood, intuition, and messy creative expression, you’ll hear practical tools, gentle truth-telling, and real permission to reconnect with your body, feel deeply, and come alive again.About Keri MarinoSeasoned Somatic Yoga Therapist and mentor Keri Marino helps women feel alive, empowered, and at home in their bodies. Through her gentle, spiritual approach, she invites women back into pleasure, presence, and the deeper truth of who they really are.Connect on instagram @the_nourished_woman o www.KeriMarino.com.About Courtney ChandlerCourtney is a Somatic Art Therapist and Trauma-Conscious Yoga Teacher based in Greenville, SC, and the founder of HeARTS for Hope Therapy. She blends art therapy, somatic work, and EMDR to help women, teens, and young adults heal trauma, anxiety, and grief. With over a decade of experience in expressive arts and mindfulness, she guides clients to reconnect with their bodies, build self-trust, and use creativity as a path to resilience. Outside the therapy room, she draws inspiration from art-making, nature, poetry, and quiet moments of reflection