Somatic Healing Meditations

Practicing compassionate self-acceptance is one of the most foundational things we can do for our healing. It helps us feel more grounded and peaceful, and over time, it creates a softer, safer, more loving relationship with ourselves. When we practice this kind of inner warmth, we're creating an inner relationship where we don't have to perform or prove or hold ourselves to an impossible standard just to feel okay. And in that softness, we find the strength to actually heal. In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, I guide you through a gentle body scan meditation combined with iffirmations for compassionate self-acceptance. As your body softens and settles, you'll be guided to cultivate self-compassion as a lived, felt experience in your body and your heart, so you can begin to feel what it's like to truly meet yourself with warmth and openness. Compassion is a transformative force, and learning to turn it toward ourselves is some of the most meaningful work we can do. Perfect for self-compassion, self-acceptance, self-love, emotional healing, and building a more loving relationship with yourself. Episode timing: The Healing Power of Compassionate Self-Acceptance Guided Body Scan Meditation for Self-Compassion Dropping In + Regulating Iffirmations to Cultivate Compassionate Self-Acceptance Body Scan Learn all about Iffirmations here Related: More Somatic Regulation Meditations Iffirmations To Cultivate Compassionate Self-Acceptance I wonder what it would be like to experience more compassionate self-acceptance. I wonder who I would become if I could honor and accept all parts of me. What if I’m worthy of love and acceptance exactly as I am? What if in this moment, I’m enough and deserving of kindness? What would it be like to look at myself through a more loving lens? What would it feel like to welcome all parts of myself, even the parts that feel confusing or vulnerable? What if today I choose to be gentle with myself, recognizing that my journey is unique? What would it be like to soften my heart to all parts of myself? What if compassionate self-acceptance gives me a safe place to land within myself, no matter what life brings? More and more, I choose to compassionately accept myself. More and more, I choose to soften. Get on the Priority Waitlist for my Somatic Self-Love Retreat in Costa Rica 2027 so you’ll be the first to get access to early bird pricing! https://helloinnerlight.com/retreats Ready to find your center, quiet your mind, and step off the roller coaster of stress and overwhelm? You’re invited to join me in Somatic Healing Hub! SHH is a beautiful, deeply supportive online community filled with the structure, support, and somatic practices to help you actually feel better in your body - and create real change in your life. Inside, you’ll get ad-free access to the Somatic Healing Meditations podcast! Each week, I guide multiple live somatic healing classes - calming, grounded practices to regulate your nervous system and reconnect with your inner world. There’s also monthly group coaching with me, heart-centered workshops, and an extensive library of powerful body-based resources to support your healing journey. Your nervous system. Your emotions. Your healing — lovingly supported. Learn more and enroll now! Connect with Karena: @helloinnerlight on Instagram and YouTube Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here Submit a question for the podcast: Your Healing, Your Questions Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course Join me on a retreat! https://helloinnerlight.com/retreats Get AD-FREE access to this podcast, plus live classes, workshops, and group coaching in Somatic Healing Hub Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

A quick somatic check-in can be a simple way to come back to your body and feel what you’re feeling, so you can find more regulation, gain more emotional clarity, and reconnect with yourself in a loving, supportive way. It’s easy to push through our busy lives without pausing long enough to check in with ourselves. But when we don’t tend to our feelings, they don’t just go away. They get held in the body and start to show up in other ways, like tension, inner agitation, or a low-level sense of overwhelm and exhaustion. Even a few minutes of attuned attention can begin to shift that, giving your body a chance to process what it’s been holding instead of continuing to carry it. In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, I guide you through a 15-minute somatic check-in to feel what you're feeling. We use Self-Havening, a gentle, neuroscience-based technique that helps calm the nervous system. As your body begins to settle, you’ll be guided to gently put words to what you’re feeling in a way that helps your system settle further and gives you a clearer sense of what’s going on inside. This is a simple, effective way to support your body, reconnect with your inner world, and build a more compassionate and embodied relationship with yourself. Perfect for feeling more regulated, gaining clarity, creating emotional release, and releasing built-up stress in the body In this episode: Why A Somatic Check-In Is A Simple Way to Feel Your Feelings 15-minute Guided Somatic Check-In Related: More Somatic Regulation Exercises Learn more about Havening Techniques and the science behind them Havening Techniques is a registered trademark of Ronald Ruden, 15 East 91st Street, New York. www.havening.org Ready to find your center, quiet your mind, and step off the roller coaster of stress and overwhelm? You’re invited to join me in Somatic Healing Hub! SHH is a beautiful, deeply supportive online community filled with the structure, support, and somatic practices to help you actually feel better in your body - and create real change in your life. Inside, you’ll get ad-free access to the Somatic Healing Meditations podcast! Each week, I guide multiple live somatic healing classes - calming, grounded practices to regulate your nervous system and reconnect with your inner world. There’s also monthly group coaching with me, heart-centered workshops, and an extensive library of powerful body-based resources to support your healing journey. Your nervous system. Your emotions. Your healing — lovingly supported. Learn more and enroll now! Connect with Karena: @helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here Submit a question for the podcast: Your Healing, Your Questions Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course Join me on a retreat! https://helloinnerlight.com/retreats Get AD-FREE access to this podcast, plus live classes, workshops, and group coaching in Somatic Healing Hub Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

So many of us spend most of our lives stuck in our heads, disconnected from our bodies and a bit removed from what we’re actually feeling. Embodiment offers us a different way of relating to ourselves. When we begin to develop more embodied awareness, we’re able to go deeper in our healing. It gives us a way to regulate and to understand what’s really happening within, including what we actually need to heal. And over time, practicing this kind of embodiment begins to change our inner relationship. We start to feel more connected, more supported from within, and less alone in what we’re experiencing. In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, I guide you through a gentle somatic meditation designed to help you come back into your body and deepen your self-connection. We’ll begin by grounding into your body and senses with body scan breathing, and then move into somatic emotional processing to help you connect with and gently work through any feelings that are being held within. As you follow along, you may find yourself feeling more connected to yourself, more supported from within, and more in touch with what’s actually true for you. This is where a deeper kind of healing begins to unfold. Perfect for building embodied awareness, reconnecting with your body, emotional release, and deepening self-connection Episode timing: 00:00 - What is Embodied Awareness? 06:16 - Embodiment Meditation To Deepen Self-Connection 28:40 - Conclusion and Reflections Read more about embodied awareness and how it deepens healing here Related: More Somatic Emotional Processing Meditations Ready to find your center, quiet your mind, and step off the roller coaster of stress and overwhelm? You’re invited to join me in Somatic Healing Hub! SHH is a beautiful, deeply supportive online community filled with the structure, support, and somatic practices to help you actually feel better in your body - and create real change in your life. Inside, you’ll get ad-free access to the Somatic Healing Meditations podcast! Each week, I guide multiple live somatic healing classes - calming, grounded practices to regulate your nervous system and reconnect with your inner world. There’s also monthly group coaching with me, heart-centered workshops, and an extensive library of powerful body-based resources to support your healing journey. Your nervous system. Your emotions. Your healing — lovingly supported. Learn more and enroll now! Connect with Karena: @helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here Submit a question for the podcast: Your Healing, Your Questions Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course Join me on a retreat! https://helloinnerlight.com/retreats Get AD-FREE access to this podcast, plus live classes, workshops, and group coaching in Somatic Healing Hub Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

You can feel calm and regulated during a meditation… but then you open your eyes, go back into your day, and you’re swept into overwhelm and stress again. This is something I hear so often! And if you’ve experienced it, you’re not alone. It can feel confusing, even discouraging, to know your body is capable of feeling calm, and still not be able to access that same sense of regulation when you’re in the middle of real life. So what do you do in that moment, when you’re in the middle of your day, and your body starts to feel overwhelmed again? This is where somatic anchors come in. Somatic anchors are present-moment sensations that help your nervous system remember it’s safe, reducing stress and overwhelm in a real way. These anchors give your body something it can ground into, so you can begin to feel more resourced and supported wherever you are. In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, I guide you through a simple and deeply effective practice so you can discover some somatic anchors that work for you. If you’ve been wanting a practical way to come back to yourself throughout your day, this episode will show you how to use somatic anchors to support your nervous system, reduce overwhelm, and make that sense of calm feel much more accessible in your everyday life. Perfect for nervous system regulation, grounding, stress relief, and learning how to feel safer in your body In this episode: What are somatic anchors? Somatic Anchor Practice to Feel Safer and More Grounded Read more about the somatic anchors and how to use them here Related: More Somatic Regulation Exercises Learn more about Havening Techniques and the science behind them Havening Techniques is a registered trademark of Ronald Ruden, 15 East 91st Street, New York. www.havening.org Ready to find your center, quiet your mind, and step off the roller coaster of stress and overwhelm? You’re invited to join me in Somatic Healing Hub! SHH is a beautiful, deeply supportive online community filled with the structure, support, and somatic practices to help you actually feel better in your body - and create real change in your life. Inside, you’ll get ad-free access to the Somatic Healing Meditations podcast! Each week, I guide multiple live somatic healing classes - calming, grounded practices to regulate your nervous system and reconnect with your inner world. There’s also monthly group coaching with me, heart-centered workshops, and an extensive library of powerful body-based resources to support your healing journey. Your nervous system. Your emotions. Your healing — lovingly supported. Learn more and enroll now! Connect with Karena: @helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here Submit a question for the podcast: Your Healing, Your Questions Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course Join me on a retreat! https://helloinnerlight.com/retreats Get AD-FREE access to this podcast, plus live classes, workshops, and group coaching in Somatic Healing Hub Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

You don’t have to be perfect. But if you struggle with perfectionism, it can feel like you do… Perfectionism can show up as overthinking, harsh self-judgment, or constantly pushing yourself to do better, even when you’re already exhausted. (And even if you cognitively understand where your perfectionism comes from, it can still feel like something that rules your life.) In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, I guide you through a Parts Work Meditation to Let Go of Perfectionism by helping you connect directly with the part of you that’s been driving that pattern. Rather than trying to fight or control this part, you’ll begin to understand what it’s been protecting, and offer it the support it actually needs to soften. As that happens, many people notice less inner pressure, less reactivity, and more space to be human (without that constant sense of judgment running in the background). This meditation helps you work directly with the subconscious roots of perfectionism, which is where real, lasting change happens. Perfect for perfectionism, self-criticism, overthinking, emotional healing, and creating a more compassionate relationship with yourself In this episode: Perfectionism is a self-protective strategy Parts Work Meditation to Let Go of Perfectionism using Regenerating Images in Memory Related: More Parts Work Meditations using RIM Ready to find your center, quiet your mind, and step off the roller coaster of stress and overwhelm? You’re invited to join me in Somatic Healing Hub! SHH is a beautiful, deeply supportive online community filled with the structure, support, and somatic practices to help you actually feel better in your body - and create real change in your life. Inside, you’ll get ad-free access to the Somatic Healing Meditations podcast! Each week, I guide multiple live somatic healing classes - calming, grounded practices to regulate your nervous system and reconnect with your inner world. There’s also monthly group coaching with me, heart-centered workshops, and an extensive library of powerful body-based resources to support your healing journey. Your nervous system. Your emotions. Your healing — lovingly supported. Learn more and enroll now! Connect with Karena: @helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here Submit a question for the podcast: Your Healing, Your Questions Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course Join me on a retreat! https://helloinnerlight.com/retreats Get AD-FREE access to this podcast, plus live classes, workshops, and group coaching in Somatic Healing Hub Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

What if you’re already worthy? What if you have nothing to prove? Most of us carry some version of “not enough” within, whether it shows up as self-doubt, pressure, or a quiet sense that we’re somehow broken or bad or wrong. And even when we understand where those feelings come from, they can still feel very real in the moment. In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, I guide you through a gentle practice that helps you feel into your worth in a direct, embodied way. We use a simple approach called iffirmations, which are “what if” questions that open your mind and body to new possibilities. As you listen, you may notice your body softening, your thoughts settling, and a more supportive, grounded sense of yourself beginning to come forward. If you’ve been stuck in patterns of self-doubt or feeling like you’re not enough, this meditation offers a different way in, one that helps you reconnect with your inherent worth in a gentle and relieving way. Perfect for self-worth, feeling good enough, emotional healing, and reconnecting with your authentic self Episode timing: 00:00 - What if you’re already worthy? 04:50 - Gentle Self-Worth Reset Meditation: Regulating Breathing 09:15 - Gentle Self-Worth Reset Meditation: Iffirmations for Worthiness 18:28 - Conclusion and Reflections Read more about this approach to cultivating more self-worth here Learn all about Iffirmations here Other episodes mentioned: Parts Work Meditation For The Part of You That Believes It’s Unlovable - EPS 115 Parts Work Meditation for Releasing Limiting Beliefs - EPS 102 Iffirmations to Feel Your Inherent Worth What if I’m already worthy? What if I don’t have anything to prove? What if my worth isn’t tied to my performance or my actions? What if I’m inherently worthy ... whether others see it or not? What if my thoughts and insecurities don’t truly understand the depths of who I really am? What if I’m an integral part of this world? What if my dreams matter? What if just being me is enough? What if it’s safe for me to connect with my inherent value? What if it’s safe for me to explore my deep worthiness? What if I’m deserving of all the good this world has to offer? More and more, I choose to connect with the part of me that knows my inherent worth. More and more, I’m open to the possibility that I’m worthy just as I am. Ready to find your center, quiet your mind, and step off the roller coaster of stress and overwhelm? You’re invited to join me in Somatic Healing Hub! SHH is a beautiful, deeply supportive online community filled with the structure, support, and somatic practices to help you actually feel better in your body - and create real change in your life. Inside, you’ll get ad-free access to the Somatic Healing Meditations podcast! Each week, I guide multiple live somatic healing classes - calming, grounded practices to regulate your nervous system and reconnect with your inner world. There’s also monthly group coaching with me, heart-centered workshops, and an extensive library of powerful body-based resources to support your healing journey. Your nervous system. Your emotions. Your healing — lovingly supported. Learn more and enroll now! Connect with Karena: @helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here Submit a question for the podcast: Your Healing, Your Questions Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course Join me on a retreat! https://helloinnerlight.com/retreats Get AD-FREE access to this podcast, plus live classes, workshops, and group coaching in Somatic Healing Hub Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

You want to relax… but you can’t. Does that sound familiar? Maybe you lie down and your body still feels tense. Or you try to slow down, but your mind won’t stop thinking. You want to rest, but something in you stays on. This is often due to nervous system dysregulation. With so much constant input and overstimulation in our modern world, our nervous systems can lose the natural rhythm of activation and settling. Instead of coming down when it’s time to rest, your body stays “on” leaving you feeling wired, exhausted, and unable to find true calm or relaxation. In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, I’ll gently guide you through a somatic meditation designed to help your body come out of that activated state and begin to relax again. We’ll use simple, body-based practices like self-havening, orienting, and body scan breathing to send clear signals of safety to your system. So, if relaxation has felt out of reach, this practice will help your nervous system shift so you can unwind, feel more at ease, and actually rest. Perfect for nervous system regulation, stress relief, and learning how to relax when you can’t relax In this episode: Why You Can’t Relax (from a nervous system perspective) Somatic Meditation to Settle Your Nervous System Self-Havening and Orienting Body Scan Breathing Read more about the somatic approach to deep relaxation Related: More Somatic Regulation Exercises Learn more about Havening Techniques and the science behind them Havening Techniques is a registered trademark of Ronald Ruden, 15 East 91st Street, New York. www.havening.org Ready to find your center, quiet your mind, and step off the roller coaster of stress and overwhelm? You’re invited to join me in Somatic Healing Hub! SHH is a beautiful, deeply supportive online community filled with the structure, support, and somatic practices to help you actually feel better in your body - and create real change in your life. Inside, you’ll get ad-free access to the Somatic Healing Meditations podcast! Each week, I guide multiple live somatic healing classes - calming, grounded practices to regulate your nervous system and reconnect with your inner world. There’s also monthly group coaching with me, heart-centered workshops, and an extensive library of powerful body-based resources to support your healing journey. Your nervous system. Your emotions. Your healing — lovingly supported. Learn more and enroll now! Connect with Karena: @helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here Submit a question for the podcast: Your Healing, Your Questions Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course Join me on a retreat! https://helloinnerlight.com/retreats Get AD-FREE access to this podcast, plus live classes, workshops, and group coaching in Somatic Healing Hub Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Deep relaxation can be surprisingly hard to find. This gentle breathwork practice is a simple, soothing way to help your body and mind actually settle. In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, I’ll guide you through Humming Bee Breath (Bhramari Pranayama), a beautifully simple yet profoundly healing practice, paired with a gentle healing light meditation. Humming Bee Breath has been studied for its effects on the nervous system and overall well-being. It can help calm the stress response, support immune function, and ease some of the tension your body has been holding. If you want to relax your nervous system, release built-up tension, or simply have a few minutes of quiet, this is a very gentle way to do that. As the body begins to settle through the breath, the healing light becomes a way of gently supporting and nurturing the areas within you that have been holding the most. It gives your system a felt sense of warmth and care, which can deepen the experience of relaxation in a way that goes beyond just the breath. A gentle, effective practice for deep relaxation, nervous system regulation, and giving your body the kind of rest that actually helps it reset. In this episode: How Humming Bee Breath helps us relax deeply Humming Bee Breath With A Healing Light Meditation Related: more deep relaxation meditations Read more about this gentle breathwork practice here Get on the Priority Waitlist for my Somatic Self-Love Retreat in Costa Rica 2027 so you’ll be the first to get access to early bird pricing! https://helloinnerlight.com/retreats Ready to find your center, quiet your mind, and step off the roller coaster of stress and overwhelm? You’re invited to join me in Somatic Healing Hub! SHH is a beautiful, deeply supportive online community filled with the structure, support, and somatic practices to help you actually feel better in your body - and create real change in your life. Inside, you’ll get ad-free access to the Somatic Healing Meditations podcast! Each week, I guide multiple live somatic healing classes - calming, grounded practices to regulate your nervous system and reconnect with your inner world. There’s also monthly group coaching with me, heart-centered workshops, and an extensive library of powerful body-based resources to support your healing journey. Your nervous system. Your emotions. Your healing — lovingly supported. Learn more and enroll now! Connect with Karena: @helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here Submit a question for the podcast: Your Healing, Your Questions Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course Join me on a retreat! https://helloinnerlight.com/retreats Get AD-FREE access to this podcast, plus live classes, workshops, and group coaching in Somatic Healing Hub Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

It’s okay not to be okay. But in a world that constantly asks us to keep going, stay positive, and hold everything together, many of us have learned to push away what we’re actually feeling. When emotions like sadness, anxiety, confusion, or overwhelm arise, we often try to push them down, analyze them away, or simply pretend we’re fine. Over time, that pattern leaves us tired, tense, and carrying a heavy load of emotional stress in our bodies. In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, you’ll be guided through a gentle somatic meditation designed to help you acknowledge and care for what you’re truly feeling. We’ll begin with slow, regulating breathing to calm the nervous system and help you settle into your body. From there, you’ll gently turn toward what’s present inside you, allowing your feelings to be noticed with compassion and care. As you make space for what you’re truly feeling instead of pushing it away, many people notice a sense of relief in the body, a quiet calm emerging within, and the compassion that comes from allowing every part of their experience to be here. Perfect for emotional healing, nervous system regulation, and gently caring for yourself when you’re not feeling okay. In this episode: It’s okay not to be okay Somatic Meditation for Emotional Healing and Nervous System Relief Learn all about Iffirmations here Read more about the somatic healing approach to caring for yourself when you’re not feeling okay here Related: More Somatic Emotional Processing Meditations Ready to find your center, quiet your mind, and step off the roller coaster of stress and overwhelm? You’re invited to join me in Somatic Healing Hub! SHH is a beautiful, deeply supportive online community filled with the structure, support, and somatic practices to help you actually feel better in your body - and create real change in your life. Inside, you’ll get ad-free access to the Somatic Healing Meditations podcast! Each week, I guide multiple live somatic healing classes - calming, grounded practices to regulate your nervous system and reconnect with your inner world. There’s also monthly group coaching with me, heart-centered workshops, and an extensive library of powerful body-based resources to support your healing journey. Your nervous system. Your emotions. Your healing — lovingly supported. Learn more and enroll now! Connect with Karena: @helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here Submit a question for the podcast: Your Healing, Your Questions Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course Join me on a retreat! https://helloinnerlight.com/retreats Get AD-FREE access to this podcast, plus live classes, workshops, and group coaching in Somatic Healing Hub Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

This body scan breathing practice offers a gentle way to help the body soften and the nervous system settle. You’ll be guided to notice your breath and your body in a way that supports grounding and regulation with surprising ease. In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, I guide you through a soothing breathing practice that combines slow, regulating breath with gentle interoceptive awareness. This combination sends clear cues of safety through the system and can create a noticeable shift in how grounded, centered, and at ease you feel. As attention moves through the body alongside the breath, many people notice tension easing, stress releasing, and a greater sense of presence in their bodies. The practice doesn’t require much effort and is designed to be supportive and accessible, even when you’re feeling tired, stressed, or overwhelmed. Listen now and take this time to reconnect with your body in a way that genuinely supports regulation. Perfect for grounding, soothing the nervous system, regulating stress, and easing tension in both body and mind In this episode: About Body Scan Breathing: A Simple Practice That Gently Regulates the Nervous System Body Scan Breathing Practice Related: More Deep Relaxation Meditations Get on the Priority Waitlist for my Somatic Self-Love Retreat in Costa Rica 2027 so you’ll be the first to get access to early bird pricing! https://helloinnerlight.com/retreats Ready to find your center, quiet your mind, and step off the roller coaster of stress and overwhelm? You’re invited to join me in Somatic Healing Hub! SHH is a beautiful, deeply supportive online community filled with the structure, support, and somatic practices to help you actually feel better in your body - and create real change in your life. Inside, you’ll get ad-free access to the Somatic Healing Meditations podcast! Each week, I guide multiple live somatic healing classes - calming, grounded practices to regulate your nervous system and reconnect with your inner world. There’s also monthly group coaching with me, heart-centered workshops, and an extensive library of powerful body-based resources to support your healing journey. Your nervous system. Your emotions. Your healing — lovingly supported. Learn more and enroll now! Connect with Karena: @helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here Submit a question for the podcast: Your Healing, Your Questions Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course Join me on a retreat! https://helloinnerlight.com/retreats Get AD-FREE access to this podcast, plus live classes, workshops, and group coaching in Somatic Healing Hub Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Most of us carry a quiet belief somewhere inside that we are unlovable, fundamentally flawed, or that there’s just something wrong with us. It’s rarely something we say out loud but it shapes how we relate to ourselves, how close we let others get, and how safe we feel being who we are. In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, I guide you through a gentle parts work meditation for the part of you that believes it’s unlovable. This practice is an invitation to turn toward that part with compassion and curiosity, and bring support and healing to this vulnerable part of you. The meditation uses a somatic emotional processing technique called Regenerating Images in Memory to help you connect with this inner part at a deeper level. Through deep listening, acceptance, and support, it becomes possible to ease the intensity of shame and soften the grip of this old wound. This is a supportive practice you can return to whenever you notice self-doubt, self-criticism, or a familiar sense of being “too much” or “not enough.” Perfect for: parts work, healing toxic shame, feeling unlovable, somatic emotional processing, and compassionate self-connection In this episode: We all feel unlovable sometimes… Parts Work Meditation For The Part of You That Believes It’s Unlovable (using RIM) Read more about how to heal this core belief here Related: More Body-Centered Parts Work Meditations Get on the Priority Waitlist for my Somatic Self-Love Retreat in Costa Rica 2027 so you’ll be the first to get access to early bird pricing! https://helloinnerlight.com/retreats Ready to find your center, quiet your mind, and step off the roller coaster of stress and overwhelm? You’re invited to join me in Somatic Healing Hub! SHH is a beautiful, deeply supportive online community filled with the structure, support, and somatic practices to help you actually feel better in your body - and create real change in your life. Inside, you’ll get ad-free access to the Somatic Healing Meditations podcast! Each week, I guide multiple live somatic healing classes - calming, grounded practices to regulate your nervous system and reconnect with your inner world. There’s also monthly group coaching with me, heart-centered workshops, and an extensive library of powerful body-based resources to support your healing journey. Your nervous system. Your emotions. Your healing — lovingly supported. Learn more and enroll now! Connect with Karena: @helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here Submit a question for the podcast: Your Healing, Your Questions Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course Join me on a retreat! https://helloinnerlight.com/retreats Get AD-FREE access to this podcast, plus live classes, workshops, and group coaching in Somatic Healing Hub Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

One of the deepest parts of real self-love is inner belonging. It’s the felt sense that all parts of you are allowed to be here, that you don’t have to push parts of yourself away in order to be okay, and that everything in your inner world has a soft place to land. In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, I guide you through a soothing meditation with regulating breathing and gentle “Iffirmations for Inner Belonging”. These iffirmations are “what if” questions that help your nervous system open, gradually, to the possibility that all parts of you are welcome. They invite curiosity and soften resistance, so new ways of relating to yourself can begin to feel possible. This is a gentle practice you can return to whenever you want to reconnect with yourself and feel more supported from the inside. Perfect for: inner belonging, somatic self-love, self-compassion, parts work, and gentle emotional safety In this episode: Cultivate Inner Belonging to Deepen Your Self-Love Somatic Meditation for Self-Love: Regulating Breathing Iffirmations for Inner Belonging Learn all about Iffirmations here Read more about a somatic approach to inner belonging here Get on the Priority Waitlist for my Somatic Self-Love Retreat in Costa Rica 2027 so you’ll be the first to get access to early bird pricing! https://helloinnerlight.com/retreats Ready to find your center, quiet your mind, and step off the roller coaster of stress and overwhelm? You’re invited to join me in Somatic Healing Hub! SHH is a beautiful, deeply supportive online community filled with the structure, support, and somatic practices to help you actually feel better in your body - and create real change in your life. Inside, you’ll get ad-free access to the Somatic Healing Meditations podcast! Each week, I guide multiple live somatic healing classes - calming, grounded practices to regulate your nervous system and reconnect with your inner world. There’s also monthly group coaching with me, heart-centered workshops, and an extensive library of powerful body-based resources to support your healing journey. Your nervous system. Your emotions. Your healing — lovingly supported. Learn more and enroll now! Connect with Karena: @helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here Submit a question for the podcast: Your Healing, Your Questions Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course Join me on a retreat! https://helloinnerlight.com/retreats Get AD-FREE access to this podcast, plus live classes, workshops, and group coaching in Somatic Healing Hub Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Most of us were never taught how to be with ourselves when things are hard. This gentle, heart-centered meditation offers a supportive way to slow down, reconnect with yourself, and learn how to hold space for your emotions with compassion and care. In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, you’ll be guided to hold space for yourself instead of pushing through, resisting or judging what you’re feeling. You’ll begin by connecting with your heart as a source of wisdom and emotional support, helping your nervous system soften and settle. This practice creates a quiet, safe space to listen inwardly, meet yourself with kindness, and build a more loving relationship with your inner world. Over time, this way of being with yourself can ease inner tension and make hard moments feel more workable. Perfect for: how to hold space for yourself, emotional support, self-compassion, heart-centered meditation, and somatic healing In this episode: The healing power of learning to hold space for yourself Guided Meditation to Hold Space For Yourself Related: More Self-Compassion Exercises Read more about the somatic healing approach to holding space for yourself here! Ready to find your center, quiet your mind, and step off the roller coaster of stress and overwhelm? You’re invited to join me in Somatic Healing Hub! SHH is a beautiful, deeply supportive online community filled with the structure, support, and somatic practices to help you actually feel better in your body - and create real change in your life. Inside, you’ll get ad-free access to the Somatic Healing Meditations podcast! Each week, I guide multiple live somatic healing classes - calming, grounded practices to regulate your nervous system and reconnect with your inner world. There’s also monthly group coaching with me, heart-centered workshops, and an extensive library of powerful body-based resources to support your healing journey. Your nervous system. Your emotions. Your healing — lovingly supported. Learn more and enroll now! Connect with Karena: @helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here Submit a question for the podcast: Your Healing, Your Questions Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course Join me on a retreat! https://helloinnerlight.com/retreats Get AD-FREE access to this podcast, plus live classes, workshops, and group coaching in Somatic Healing Hub Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

When the world feels jarring or scary or out of control, the weight of it is carried by our nervous systems, hearts, and bodies. I think a lot of us are feeling that right now. The constant stream of hard things, the ongoing uncertainty, and the sense of having to stay alert all the time can make it hard to feel settled or safe, even when we’re doing our best to take care of ourselves. In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, I guide you through a gentle, body-centered meditation for inner safety and support, inviting you to slow down, turn inward, and listen to what’s actually happening in your nervous system and body … so you can respond to yourself with care rather than pushing through. This practice is a way of staying with yourself when things are truly hard. Of coming back into your body when everything feels overwhelming. Of noticing where you’re holding, where you’re tired, where something inside you is asking to be met, and choosing not to turn away from those places. When we listen inward like this, we begin to create real inner safety. We begin building a relationship with ourselves that can hold us through difficult times. You deserve real support, especially when life feels unsteady. This meditation is a way of offering yourself that support from the inside out. This episode is lovingly dedicated to the memory of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. In this episode: Why So Many of Us Are Exhausted Right Now Meditation for Inner Safety and Support Related: More Self-Compassion Exercises Ready to find your center, quiet your mind, and step off the roller coaster of stress and overwhelm? You’re invited to join me in Somatic Healing Hub! SHH is a beautiful, deeply supportive online community filled with the structure, support, and somatic practices to help you actually feel better in your body - and create real change in your life. Inside, you’ll get ad-free access to the Somatic Healing Meditations podcast! Each week, I guide multiple live somatic healing classes - calming, grounded practices to regulate your nervous system and reconnect with your inner world. There’s also monthly group coaching with me, heart-centered workshops, and an extensive library of powerful body-based resources to support your healing journey. Your nervous system. Your emotions. Your healing — lovingly supported. Learn more and enroll now! Connect with Karena: @helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here Submit a question for the podcast: Your Healing, Your Questions Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course Get AD-FREE access to this podcast, plus live classes, workshops, and group coaching in Somatic Healing Hub Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

There’s something deeply relieving about having a five-minute practice that can actually help your nervous system calm down. This short episode was created for those moments when your system feels a little keyed up, a little stressed, or just in need of a grounding pause. In this gentle somatic practice, you’ll be guided through soothing touch, slow, settling breathing, and simple somatic awareness. These are all very direct ways of giving your nervous system signals of safety and support, so it can begin to soften and come out of high alert. If you’ve been wanting something that’s truly small, truly doable, and still genuinely supportive, this five-minute practice is a beautiful place to begin. Press play and let your nervous system slow down and settle. Related: More Short Somatic Practices for Nervous System Regulation Learn more about Havening Techniques and the science behind them Havening Techniques is a registered trademark of Ronald Ruden, 15 East 91st Street, New York. www.havening.org Ready to find your center, quiet your mind, and step off the roller coaster of stress and overwhelm? You’re invited to join me in Somatic Healing Hub! SHH is a beautiful, deeply supportive online community filled with the structure, support, and somatic practices to help you actually feel better in your body - and create real change in your life. Inside, you’ll get ad-free access to the Somatic Healing Meditations podcast! Each week, I guide multiple live somatic healing classes - calming, grounded practices to regulate your nervous system and reconnect with your inner world. There’s also monthly group coaching with me, heart-centered workshops, and an extensive library of powerful body-based resources to support your healing journey. Your nervous system. Your emotions. Your healing — lovingly supported. Learn more and enroll now! Connect with Karena: @helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here Submit a question for the podcast: Your Healing, Your Questions Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course Get AD-FREE access to this podcast, plus live classes, workshops, and group coaching in Somatic Healing Hub Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

So many of us have tried to “fix” our inner dialogue by replacing thoughts or forcing ourselves to be more positive. But when the inner voice is critical or relentless, it’s usually because something inside is hurting or under strain. The words are just the part we hear … but the tone and feeling state come from much deeper places within. In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, I guide you through a gentle somatic meditation that helps you turn toward the feelings underneath your inner dialogue. You’ll be invited to bring compassionate awareness to the sensations and emotions in your body, and to begin meeting the parts within that need support and understanding. When these deeper feelings are seen and cared for, the inner world often begins to soften on its own. Your inner voice changes when your inner world is cared for. If you’re ready for your inner dialogue to feel a little less harsh and a little more supportive, come listen now. In this episode Befriend your inner voice instead of fighting it Somatic Meditation to Soften Your Inner Dialogue Read more about the somatic approach to quieting your inner voice Related: More Somatic Emotional Processing Meditations Ready to find your center, quiet your mind, and step off the roller coaster of stress and overwhelm? You’re invited to join me in Somatic Healing Hub! SHH is a beautiful, deeply supportive online community filled with the structure, support, and somatic practices to help you actually feel better in your body - and create real change in your life. Inside, you’ll get ad-free access to the Somatic Healing Meditations podcast! Each week, I guide multiple live somatic healing classes - calming, grounded practices to regulate your nervous system and reconnect with your inner world. There’s also monthly group coaching with me, heart-centered workshops, and an extensive library of powerful body-based resources to support your healing journey. Your nervous system. Your emotions. Your healing — lovingly supported. Learn more and enroll now! Connect with Karena: @helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here Submit a question for the podcast: Your Healing, Your Questions Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course Get AD-FREE access to this podcast, plus live classes, workshops, and group coaching in Somatic Healing Hub Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

What if the reason your healing feels stuck isn’t that you’re doing it wrong… but that your system doesn’t yet feel safe enough to really feel? So many of us don’t just have emotions, we have feelings about our feelings. We might be afraid of our shame, ashamed of our fear, or judge ourselves as weak for feeling anxious or angry. Over time, this ties our inner world in knots and creates tension, self-judgment, and a quiet fear of our own emotions. Instead of our emotions moving through us and releasing, they get held at a distance. We don’t feel them deeply enough to truly heal. In this somatic meditation, you’ll gently cultivate cues of safety in your body and practice meeting your feelings in a grounded, supported way, so your system can learn emotional safety and emotions can finally move, complete, and resolve. Press play now and begin meeting your feelings with more safety and support. In this episode: Why emotional safety is the foundation of healing Somatic Meditation to Create Emotional Safety in Your Body Read more about the somatic approach to emotional safety Related: More Somatic Emotional Processing Meditations Learn more about Havening Techniques and the science behind them Havening Techniques is a registered trademark of Ronald Ruden, 15 East 91st Street, New York. www.havening.org Last chance to enroll! Enrollment is closing for Rooted + Resilient, my six-month small-group program for deep somatic healing. If you’ve spent years trying to change your patterns through mindset work or therapy but still feel stuck in the same emotional loops, this is the space where things finally shift. Rooted + Resilient is the best way to work with me because we go to the level that truly matters: the subconscious and somatic roots that shape everything you feel, fear, and believe. As those layers dissolve, you naturally begin to move through life with more confidence, ease, and inner steadiness. If you’re longing for real change, the kind that your body can actually feel, I’d love for you to join me: https://learn.helloinnerlight.com/GrQ1265 Connect with Karena: @helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here Submit a question for the podcast: Your Healing, Your Questions Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course ENROLLING NOW! Rooted + Resilient 6 month program Get AD-FREE access to this podcast, plus live classes, workshops, and group coaching in Somatic Healing Hub Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

It’s a really common (albeit frustrating!) thing to find yourself stuck in the same old patterns, even when you’re deeply aware of them and genuinely want to respond differently. In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, we explore why these patterns exist in the first place and why they’re not signs that something is wrong with you. From a somatic healing perspective, many of our most stubborn old patterns formed as self-protective responses long ago and are held in the body and subconscious, which is why insight alone doesn’t always lead to change. This compassionate, body-based meditation is designed to help you slow down and meet a part of you that’s been carrying an old pattern. You’ll be guided to connect with the deeper roots of this pattern that have been held beneath the surface, creating the conditions for those responses to begin to loosen. If you’ve been cycling through the same emotional reactions and wondering why they haven’t shifted yet, this practice offers a grounded, supportive way to start releasing old patterns from the inside out. Set aside a few quiet minutes, get comfortable, and join me for this somatic meditation to understand and begin to release old patterns. In this episode: You Make Sense: Understanding the Roots of Your Old Patterns Somatic Meditation to Understand & Release Old Patterns (using Regenerating Images in Memory) Related: Try more somatic emotional processing meditations! Read more about breaking your old patterns here Last chance to enroll! Enrollment is closing for Rooted + Resilient, my six-month small-group program for deep somatic healing. If you’ve spent years trying to change your patterns through mindset work or therapy but still feel stuck in the same emotional loops, this is the space where things finally shift. Rooted + Resilient is the best way to work with me because we go to the level that truly matters: the subconscious and somatic roots that shape everything you feel, fear, and believe. As those layers dissolve, you naturally begin to move through life with more confidence, ease, and inner steadiness. If you’re longing for real change, the kind that your body can actually feel, I’d love for you to join me: https://learn.helloinnerlight.com/GrQ1265 Connect with Karena: @helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here Submit a question for the podcast: Your Healing, Your Questions Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course ENROLLING NOW! Rooted + Resilient 6 month program Get AD-FREE access to this podcast, plus live classes, workshops, and group coaching in Somatic Healing Hub Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

If holiday stress and triggers are leaving you feeling tense, reactive, or emotionally worn down, this episode is here to support you. This time of year has a way of activating old patterns in the body and psyche, especially around family, belonging, and unmet needs. Even when we understand ourselves deeply, the holidays can still be a tender and challenging time. This episode of Somatic Healing Meditations is a somatic meditation for relief and healing when you’re triggered. It’s an embodied invitation to meet yourself with compassion right where you are, offering insight, grounding, and a chance to soften instead of pushing through. Using gentle somatic awareness and Havening Techniques, this practice helps your system feel safer and more supported, bringing warmth and care to the parts of you that are hurting. Press play to give your body a break from holiday stress and meet your triggers with compassion instead of self-judgment. In this episode: Meeting Holiday Triggers with Compassion Somatic Meditation for Relief and Healing How to Do Self-Havening Soothing Your Nervous System Getting a Felt Sense of Your Trigger Meeting Your Trigger with Compassion and Deep Understanding Learn more about Havening Techniques and the science behind them Related: More Somatic Emotional Processing Meditations Learn more about a somatic healing approach to holiday triggers here Havening Techniques is a registered trademark of Ronald Ruden, 15 East 91st Street, New York. www.havening.org FREE TRAINING: The Secret Wisdom of Your Triggers Join me for a powerful 75-minute free training where I’ll teach you a new, compassionate paradigm of emotional healing - one that helps you begin to understand your triggers in a deeper, more integrated way. You’ll learn how your triggers are connected to the subconscious mind, gain insight into the emotional patterns that shape your life, and explore the three biggest mistakes that keep so many of us stuck and spinning. Watch now: https://helloinnerlight.com/tswoyt Somatic Healing Hub gift certificates are now available for the holiday season! Somatic Healing Hub is a beautiful and deeply supportive online community with the structure, support, and somatic practices people need to feel better in their bodies and begin creating real change in their lives. It’s designed to help people regulate their nervous system, release built-up stress, and create a sense of peace from within. Many members describe feeling more grounded, less overwhelmed, and able to move through their days with greater ease. When someone you care about is stressed or carrying more than they let on, the most generous gift you can give is something that helps soothe their stress and nourish their nervous system. https://helloinnerlight.com/gift Connect with Karena: @helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here Submit a question for the podcast: Your Healing, Your Questions Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course ENROLLING NOW! Rooted + Resilient 6-month program Get AD-FREE access to this podcast, plus live classes, workshops, and group coaching in Somatic Healing Hub Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

If you’ve ever tried to “change your mindset,” only to find yourself stuck in the same patterns over and over again, this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations will help you understand why. The truth is, your thoughts aren’t the problem … they’re symptoms of deeper layers living in your body and nervous system. In this episode, you’ll learn why mindset work alone often falls flat, and how nervous system state, unprocessed emotions, and old conditioning shape your thoughts and mindset long before you’re aware of them. When you begin to work with the body instead of fighting with your thoughts, everything starts to make more sense. I’ll also guide you through a somatic meditation that helps you explore the roots of a mindset issue you’ve been struggling with. Through nervous system regulation and a gentle somatic emotional healing process, you’ll be guided to connect with the deeper emotional and subconscious material underneath the pattern. If you’re tired of trying to think your way into feeling better, this practice offers a compassionate, body-centered path toward real change. Episode timing: The Fallacy of "Changing Your Mindset" Somatic Meditation for Real Change (using Regenerating Images in Memory) Related: Try more somatic emotional processing meditations! Exciting Announcement! Applications are now open for Rooted + Resilient, my six-month small-group program for deep somatic healing. If you’ve spent years trying to change your patterns through mindset work or therapy but still feel stuck in the same emotional loops, this is the space where things finally shift. Rooted + Resilient is the best way to work with me because we go to the level that truly matters: the subconscious and somatic roots that shape everything you feel, fear, and believe. As those layers dissolve, you naturally begin to move through life with more confidence, ease, and inner steadiness. If you’re longing for real change, the kind that your body can actually feel, I’d love for you to apply: https://learn.helloinnerlight.com/GrQ1265 Connect with Karena: @helloinnerlight on Instagram and YouTube Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here Submit a question for the podcast: Your Healing, Your Questions Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course ENROLLING NOW! Rooted + Resilient 6-month program Get AD-FREE access to this podcast, plus live classes, workshops, and group coaching in Somatic Healing Hub Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Today’s meditation is a simple and soothing invitation to relax into your heart and calm your nervous system. In this gentle heart-centered breathing practice, you’ll be guided to slow down, to soften, and to reconnect with the steady, compassionate presence of your own heart in a deeply calming way. It’s a lovely, body-centered way to drop out of your head and shift your nervous system state. If you’re craving a moment of grounding or a gentle way to soften and reconnect, this practice can help your whole system settle. Perfect for: nervous system calm, reconnecting with your body, heart coherence, heart-centered breathing, and somatic breathwork. In this episode: Why Connecting With Your Heart is So Calming Heart-Centered Breathing Practice for Nervous System Calm Related: More Deep Relaxation Meditations Somatic Healing Hub gift certificates are now available for the holiday season! Somatic Healing Hub is a beautiful and deeply supportive online community with the structure, support, and somatic practices people need to feel better in their bodies and begin creating real change in their lives. It’s designed to help people regulate their nervous system, release built-up stress, and create a sense of peace from within. Many members describe feeling more grounded, less overwhelmed, and able to move through their days with greater ease. When someone you care about is stressed or carrying more than they let on, the most generous gift you can give is something that helps soothe their stress and nourish their nervous system. https://helloinnerlight.com/gift Connect with Karena: @helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here Submit a question for the podcast: Your Healing, Your Questions Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course ENROLLING NOW! Rooted + Resilient 6 month program Get AD-FREE access to this podcast, plus live classes, workshops, and group coaching in Somatic Healing Hub Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

There’s something really healing about slowing down enough to feel your body again. This week’s love and gratitude body scan meditation offers a gentle way to soothe your nervous system and reconnect with yourself in a warm, comforting way. In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, you'll be guided to bring gentle awareness to each part of the body, bringing in feelings of love and gratitude that help everything soften. These warm emotional states create subtle cues of safety, helping your tension to let go and encouraging your whole body to relax. This practice gives you a quiet place to let love and gratitude settle into your body in a way that feels real and nourishing. It’s also a wonderful way to unwind before bed, offering the kind of gentle support that helps you drift into deep, restful sleep. Perfect for: nervous system regulation, grounding before sleep, easing tension, reconnecting with your body, deep sleep meditation, and deepening interoception Episode timing: 00:00 - Why Body Scan Meditations Support Healing 04:51 - Love and Gratitude Body Scan Meditation Related: Deep Relaxation Meditations More Somatic Sleep Meditations Somatic Healing Hub gift certificates are now available for the holiday season! Somatic Healing Hub is a beautiful and deeply supportive online community with the structure, support, and somatic practices people need to feel better in their bodies and begin creating real change in their lives. It’s designed to help people regulate their nervous system, release built-up stress, and create a sense of peace from within. Many members describe feeling more grounded, less overwhelmed, and able to move through their days with greater ease. When someone you care about is stressed or carrying more than they let on, the most generous gift you can give is something that helps soothe their stress and nourish their nervous system. https://helloinnerlight.com/gift Connect with Karena: @helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here Submit a question for the podcast: Your Healing, Your Questions Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course ENROLLING NOW! Rooted + Resilient 6-month program Get AD-FREE access to this podcast, plus live classes, workshops, and group coaching in Somatic Healing Hub Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Stress settles into the body in ways we feel but rarely know how to release. When you’re overwhelmed or stretched thin, you deserve tools that bring real relief. This guided somatic meditation offers a gentle, body-centered way to de-stress your nervous system and feel more relaxed again. In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, we use self-havening, a touch-based somatic practice shown to calm the parts of the brain that activate during stress. This gentle touch supports your body in shifting out of high alert, which can help you regulate your nervous system and unwind the stress you’ve been carrying. This practice can help your system soften, settle your thoughts, and reconnect you with your inner world in a kinder way. It’s especially helpful when you’re overwhelmed, overstimulated, or longing for a moment to feel safe inside your own body again. Take this time to slow down, listen inward, and let your system unwind at a pace that feels right for you. In this episode: How Self-Havening De-Stresses Your Nervous System Guided Somatic Meditation to De-Stress Your Nervous System Related: somatic meditations to regulate your nervous system Read more about somatic ways to de-stress Learn more about Havening Techniques and the science behind them Havening Techniques is a registered trademark of Ronald Ruden, 15 East 91st Street, New York. www.havening.org Somatic Healing Hub gift certificates are now available for the holiday season! Somatic Healing Hub is a beautiful and deeply supportive online community with the structure, support, and somatic practices people need to feel better in their bodies and begin creating real change in their lives. It’s designed to help people regulate their nervous system, release built-up stress, and create a sense of peace from within. Many members describe feeling more grounded, less overwhelmed, and able to move through their days with greater ease. When someone you care about is stressed or carrying more than they let on, the most generous gift you can give is something that helps soothe their stress and nourish their nervous system. https://helloinnerlight.com/gift https://helloinnerlight.com/somatic-healing-hub Connect with Karena: @helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here Submit a question for the podcast: Your Healing, Your Questions Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course ENROLLING NOW! Rooted + Resilient 6 month program Get AD-FREE access to this podcast, plus live classes, workshops, and group coaching in Somatic Healing Hub Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Limiting beliefs can feel so hard to change, almost like something inside you keeps pulling you back to an old version of yourself no matter how hard you try to move forward. In this Parts Work Meditation for Releasing Limiting Beliefs, you’ll be guided beneath your limiting belief itself to meet the part of you that has been holding it. Instead of trying to override the belief with new thoughts, this practice helps you connect with the younger or more vulnerable part of your inner world that learned this belief in the first place. This kind of compassionate inner attunement is what allows real change to happen. When you work with the belief at its root, your body begins to soften, your patterns begin to shift, and your system finally gets a chance to reorganize around something truer and more supportive. Listen now and experience what happens when you meet your belief at its root, allowing a more honest and compassionate relationship with yourself to unfold. In this episode: How Body-Centered Parts Work Helps Us Change Our Limiting Beliefs Parts Work Meditation for Releasing Limiting Beliefs (using RIM) Listen to the educational episode that goes with this meditation - EPS 101: A Somatic Perspective on Limiting Beliefs Related: Try more somatic emotional processing meditations! Exciting Announcement! Applications are now open for Rooted + Resilient, my six-month small-group program for deep somatic healing. If you’ve spent years trying to change your patterns through mindset work or therapy but still feel stuck in the same emotional loops, this is the space where things finally shift. Rooted + Resilient is the best way to work with me because we go to the level that truly matters: the subconscious and somatic roots that shape everything you feel, fear, and believe. As those layers dissolve, you naturally begin to move through life with more confidence, ease, and inner steadiness. If you’re longing for real change, the kind that your body can actually feel, I’d love for you to apply: https://learn.helloinnerlight.com/GrQ1265 Connect with Karena: @helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here Submit a question for the podcast: Your Healing, Your Questions Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course ENROLLING NOW! Rooted + Resilient 6 month program Get AD-FREE access to this podcast, plus live classes, workshops, and group coaching in Somatic Healing Hub Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Have you ever tried to think your way out of a limiting belief - repeating affirmations, reframing your thoughts, or practicing positive thinking - only to find yourself right back in the same emotional place again? In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, we’ll explore why that happens. From a somatic perspective, your limiting beliefs aren’t just thoughts to be changed. They’re living memories of who you had to be (and what you had to believe) in order to stay safe, loved, or connected earlier in life. You’ll learn how these beliefs live deep within your body and subconscious mind, quietly shaping how you see yourself, others, and the world around you. And you’ll discover why mindset work can feel like self-gaslighting when it doesn’t reach the parts of you that are still carrying the pain or fear from the past. This episode is part of my new “Your Healing, Your Questions” series, where I answer listener questions about healing and emotional growth. It’s an insightful, conversation-style episode rather than a meditation. Tune in to learn how to move beyond mindset and begin transforming the roots of your limiting beliefs through compassion, presence, and somatic awareness. In this episode: Why Mindset Work Isn’t Enough to Change Your Limiting Beliefs What Limiting Beliefs Really Are (A Somatic Perspective) How Limiting Beliefs Live in the Body and Nervous System How Somatic Healing Helps You Shift Limiting Beliefs at The Roots Three Compassionate Truths About Your Inner Parts Related: Listen to more Your Healing, Your Questions episodes! Exciting Announcement! Applications are now open for Rooted + Resilient, my six-month small-group program for deep somatic healing. If you’ve spent years trying to change your patterns through mindset work or therapy but still feel stuck in the same emotional loops, this is the space where things finally shift. Rooted + Resilient is the best way to work with me because we go to the level that truly matters: the subconscious and somatic roots that shape everything you feel, fear, and believe. As those layers dissolve, you naturally begin to move through life with more confidence, ease, and inner steadiness. If you’re longing for real change, the kind that your body can actually feel, I’d love for you to apply: https://learn.helloinnerlight.com/GrQ1265 Connect with Karena: @helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here Submit a question for the podcast: Your Healing, Your Questions Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course ENROLLING NOW! Rooted + Resilient 6 month program Get AD-FREE access to this podcast, plus live classes, workshops, and group coaching in Somatic Healing Hub Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

If you often leave interactions feeling drained or emotionally overwhelmed, you’re not imagining it. Many of us unconsciously feel other people’s feelings, and it can leave us carrying emotional weight that doesn’t belong to us. In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, we’ll explore a somatic approach to creating energetic boundaries that support your sensitive nervous system. You’ll learn why your body feels other people’s feelings, why this leads to exhaustion, and how to reconnect with your own internal space. This Energetic Boundary Meditation for Empaths will guide you step by step as you rebuild a felt sense of “me” inside your own body. It’s soothing, protective, and deeply clarifying. If you’ve ever struggled to separate your emotions from someone else’s, this meditation is for you. In this episode: Why You Feel Other People’s Feelings Energetic Boundary Meditation for Empaths Learn more about boundaries and your nervous system: https://helloinnerlight.com/somatic-healing-meditations/when-you-feel-other-peoples-feelings-energetic-boundary-meditation-for-empaths Exciting Announcement! Applications are now open for Rooted + Resilient, my six-month small-group program for deep somatic healing. If you’ve spent years trying to change your patterns through mindset work or therapy but still feel stuck in the same emotional loops, this is the space where things finally shift. Rooted + Resilient is the best way to work with me because we go to the level that truly matters: the subconscious and somatic roots that shape everything you feel, fear, and believe. As those layers dissolve, you naturally begin to move through life with more confidence, ease, and inner steadiness. If you’re longing for real change, the kind that your body can actually feel, I’d love for you to apply: https://learn.helloinnerlight.com/GrQ1265 Ready to find your center, quiet your mind, and step off the roller coaster of stress and overwhelm? You’re invited to join me in Somatic Healing Hub! SHH is a beautiful, deeply supportive online community filled with the structure, support, and somatic practices to help you actually feel better in your body - and create real change in your life. Inside, you’ll get ad-free access to the Somatic Healing Meditations podcast! Each week, I guide multiple live somatic healing classes - calming, grounded practices to regulate your nervous system and reconnect with your inner world. There’s also monthly group coaching with me, heart-centered workshops, and an extensive library of powerful body-based resources to support your healing journey. Your nervous system. Your emotions. Your healing — lovingly supported. Learn more and enroll now! Connect with Karena: @helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here Submit a question for the podcast: Your Healing, Your Questions Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course ENROLLING NOW! Rooted + Resilient 6-month program Get AD-FREE access to this podcast, plus live classes, workshops, and group coaching in Somatic Healing Hub Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Sometimes the body just needs a small reminder that it’s safe to let go and release. When you need help shifting your nervous system state from stressed to relaxed, this 5-Minute Nervous System Reset — “The Squeeze and Sigh” Somatic Practice — offers a simple way to regulate your nervous system and restore a sense of inner softness. This gentle somatic practice can help you release tension, slow your racing thoughts, and bring your system back into a sense of grounded ease. It’s perfect for moments when you’re anxious, overwhelmed, or just need to reconnect with your body and breathe again. In this episode About this nervous system reset “The Squeeze and Sigh” guided somatic practice Reflections on the nervous system reset Exciting announcement! Related: try more nervous system regulation exercises here If after trying The Squeeze and Sigh you find yourself wanting to go deeper, the Somatic Healing Meditations Podcast has many other guided practices to support you! You’ll find meditations for emotional healing, nervous system regulation, and deep relaxation, all designed to help your body remember what calm feels like. Exciting Announcement! Applications are now open for Rooted + Resilient, my six-month small-group program for deep somatic healing. This is the most intimate and transformative way to work with me — a guided journey to help you heal emotional patterns from the inside out, regulate more deeply, and live from a grounded, authentic sense of self. If you know it’s time to move beyond surface-level healing and finally create lasting change in your body and your life, this program was made for you. You can learn more and apply here: https://learn.helloinnerlight.com/GrQ1265 Connect with Karena: @helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here Submit a question for the podcast: Your Healing, Your Questions Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course ENROLLING NOW! Rooted + Resilient 6 month program Get AD-FREE access to this podcast, plus live classes, workshops, and group coaching in Somatic Healing Hub Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Why do small things trigger such big reactions? Sometimes the tiniest moments … a look, a tone, or a comment can set off a wave of disproportionately big emotions. In this episode, we’ll explore why that happens and what your triggers are really trying to tell you through the lens of somatic healing. This is the first episode of Your Healing, Your Questions, a new mini-series within Somatic Healing Meditations where I answer real listener questions about nervous system regulation, emotional processing, and subconscious healing. These are short, educational conversations (not meditations) designed to help you understand your body’s responses and begin healing at their roots. You’ll learn how nervous system dysregulation can make you more reactive, what your triggers reveal about your deeper emotional history, and how to begin listening to your body with compassion instead of judgment. If you’ve ever thought, “I get triggered by the stupidest things,” this episode will help you discover the wisdom behind those moments and how they can become your greatest guides on the path to wholeness. Tune in now to explore somatic insights into what your triggers are really trying to tell you! In this episode: Why Small Things Trigger You Triggers & Nervous System Dysregulation The Deeper Meaning of Your Triggers Somatic Healing for Triggers Conclusion & Reflection Wonderfully effective regulation exercises mentioned: EPS 097 – Feel Safe in Your Body Again EPS 067 – Daily Nervous System Reset Happening TOMORROW: The Secret Wisdom of Your Triggers Join me for a powerful 75-minute free training where I’ll teach you a new, compassionate paradigm of emotional healing - one that helps you begin to understand your triggers in a deeper, more integrated way. You’ll learn how your triggers are connected to the subconscious mind, gain insight into the emotional patterns that shape your life, and explore the three biggest mistakes that keep so many of us stuck and spinning. Register for free at https://helloinnerlight.com/tswoyt Connect with Karena: @helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here 1:1 Somatic Healing Sessions with Karena Somatic Self-Love Retreat in Costa Rica Submit a question for the podcast: Your Healing, Your Questions. Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course Free training: The Secret Wisdom of Your Triggers Get AD-FREE access to this podcast, plus live classes, workshops, and group coaching in Somatic Healing Hub Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Have you ever wished you could ask me your personal questions about somatic healing … and have them answered right on the podcast? I’m so excited to announce a brand new listener-led mini-series on Somatic Healing Meditations called Your Healing, Your Questions. Each short episode in this series will explore real questions from our community about somatic healing, emotional processing, and the deeper layers of growth and transformation. Somatic healing is an entirely different paradigm from what most of us were taught. We’ve been conditioned to push away our feelings (to analyze, reframe, or think our way out of pain) but that approach misses what’s really happening inside the body. Somatic healing teaches us to honor our emotions instead of suppressing them, to listen deeply to the body, and to work with what’s truly living beneath the surface of our thoughts. Through this series, I’ll be answering your questions about how to apply this compassionate, body-based approach in real life, so you can deepen your self-awareness, regulate your nervous system, and reconnect with your authentic self. You can share your question with me by visiting: https://helloinnerlight.com/questions Your curiosity will help shape what we explore next, and I can’t wait to hear from you. P.S. If you’d love to go even deeper into this work, my free live training — The Secret Wisdom of Your Triggers — is happening in just two days! This workshop will help you understand your emotional triggers as powerful messengers from the subconscious and learn how to work with them in a somatic, body-centered way. You can reserve your spot here → https://helloinnerlight.com/tswoyt Connect with Karena: @helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here 1:1 Somatic Healing Sessions with Karena Somatic Self-Love Retreat in Costa Rica Submit a question for the podcast: Your Healing, Your Questions. Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course Free training: The Secret Wisdom of Your Triggers Get AD-FREE access to this podcast, plus live classes, workshops, and group coaching in Somatic Healing Hub Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

So many of us are living in bodies that have forgotten what safety feels like. Even when life is calm, our nervous systems can stay in protection mode, keeping us stressed, tense, and constantly scanning for what might go wrong. This somatic meditation is an invitation to change that. Using gentle Havening touch, orienting, and other soothing regulation techniques, you’ll learn how to create cues of safety that speak directly to your nervous system. These small, body-based signals tell your system, “It’s safe enough to soften now.” Over time, they help your body recalibrate from protection into connection, so safety becomes something you can actually feel. Whether your body feels anxious, disconnected, or just constantly “on,” this practice will help you re-establish a sense of grounded ease and inner steadiness. Take this time to slow down, reconnect, and recalibrate your nervous system so you feel safe in your body again. Perfect for: nervous system regulation, feeling safe in your body, grounding, trauma healing and emotional balance. In this episode: How to Create Cues of Safety to Heal Your Nervous System Somatic Meditation to Create Cues of Safety How to do Havening touch Havening and Orienting “Squeeze and Sigh” Noticing Cues of Safety Within and Around You Learn more about Havening Techniques and the science behind them Related: find more nervous system healing meditations here Read more about safety cues and how to feel safe in your body here Havening Techniques is a registered trademark of Ronald Ruden, 15 East 91st Street, New York. www.havening.org Upcoming free Training: The Secret Wisdom of Your Triggers Join me for a powerful 75-minute class where I’ll teach you a new, compassionate paradigm of emotional healing - one that helps you begin to understand your triggers in a deeper, more integrated way. You’ll learn how your triggers are connected to the subconscious mind, gain insight into the emotional patterns that shape your life, and explore the three biggest mistakes that keep so many of us stuck and spinning. Register for free at https://helloinnerlight.com/tswoyt Ready to find your center, quiet your mind, and step off the roller coaster of stress and overwhelm? You’re invited to join me in Somatic Healing Hub! SHH is a beautiful, deeply supportive online community filled with the structure, support, and somatic practices to help you actually feel better in your body - and create real change in your life. Inside, you’ll get ad-free access to the Somatic Healing Meditations podcast! Each week, I guide multiple live somatic healing classes - calming, grounded practices to regulate your nervous system and reconnect with your inner world. There’s also monthly group coaching with me, heart-centered workshops, and an extensive library of powerful body-based resources to support your healing journey. Your nervous system. Your emotions. Your healing — lovingly supported. Learn more and enroll now! __ Connect with Karena: @helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here 1:1 Somatic Healing Sessions with Karena Somatic Self-Love Retreat in Costa Rica Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course Free training: The Secret Wisdom of Your Triggers Get AD-FREE access to this podcast, plus live classes, workshops, and group coaching in Somatic Healing Hub Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

This somatic meditation is an invitation to explore a gentler (and more effective) way of working with your thoughts. 🌸 In a somatic approach to cognitive distortions, we do things differently. Instead of trying to challenge or replace difficult thoughts, we slow down and feel the feelings beneath them. Painful or looping thoughts don’t begin in the mind. They’re signals from deeper within, echoes of old emotions and experiences that never had the safety to be fully felt. 💗 When we tend to the feelings beneath our thoughts with gentleness and compassion, the body feels safer, the mind no longer needs to distort reality to protect us from pain, and the old emotions can begin to release. Using a body-centered emotional processing technique called Regenerating Images in Memory (RIM®), this meditation gently guides you beneath the surface of your thoughts to connect with what your body is holding, bringing relief, clarity, and a deep sense of inner understanding. 🌿 Take this time to listen inward, soften your mind, and let your body lead you home to healing. ✨ Perfect for: healing cognitive distortions, nervous system regulation, feeling your feelings, and releasing repetitive thought loops   In this episode: Why Cognitive Distortions Can’t Be Healed by Thinking Alone Somatic Meditation to Heal Cognitive Distortions Regulating Breathing Feel the Feelings Beneath The Thoughts Deepening Your Understanding With RIM Related: find more somatic emotional processing meditations here! Read more about the somatic approach to dealing with cognitive distortions here. 💫 Upcoming free Training: The Secret Wisdom of Your Triggers Join me for a powerful 75-minute class where I’ll teach you a new, compassionate paradigm of emotional healing - one that helps you begin to understand your triggers in a deeper, more integrated way. You’ll learn how your triggers are connected to the subconscious mind, gain insight into the emotional patterns that shape your life, and explore the three biggest mistakes that keep so many of us stuck and spinning. 👉 Register for free at https://helloinnerlight.com/tswoyt ✨ Ready to find your center, quiet your mind, and step off the roller coaster of stress and overwhelm? You’re invited to join me in Somatic Healing Hub! SHH is a beautiful, deeply supportive online community filled with the structure, support, and somatic practices to help you actually feel better in your body - and create real change in your life. 💗💗💗 Inside, you’ll get ad-free access to the Somatic Healing Meditations podcast! 💗💗💗💗 Each week, I guide multiple live somatic healing classes - calming, grounded practices to regulate your nervous system and reconnect with your inner world. There’s also monthly group coaching with me, heart-centered workshops, and an extensive library of powerful body-based resources to support your healing journey. Your nervous system. Your emotions. Your healing — lovingly supported. 💛 Learn more and enroll now! __ Connect with Karena: @helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here 1:1 Somatic Healing Sessions with Karena Somatic Self-Love Retreat in Costa Rica Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course Free training: The Secret Wisdom of Your Triggers Get AD-FREE access to this podcast, plus live classes, workshops, and group coaching in Somatic Healing Hub Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

We all know what it feels like to be stuck. That quiet frustration of seeing the pattern so clearly, wanting so badly to change it, and yet somehow ending up in the same place again. 😔 It can be exhausting … and when we push harder, set stricter goals, or shame ourselves into trying, it often leaves us even more stuck. What we sometimes forget is that stuckness isn’t a personal failure, it’s our nervous system holding on to old protective patterns. 💛 And often, beneath those patterns are feelings and needs that were never fully acknowledged and are now keeping us stuck. In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, I guide you through a soothing somatic practice to help you get unstuck by working gently with your nervous system. Together we’ll bring safety to the body, gently meet what’s been unacknowledged, and allow what feels stuck to finally begin to move. As your nervous system softens, new choices and possibilities naturally open. 🌱 If you’ve been longing to break free, this practice is for you. In this episode: How the Nervous System Holds Our Stuck Patterns Somatic Practice To Get Unstuck: Havening to soothe the nervous system Feel the stuckness in your body “Iffirmations” and sentence leads to go deeper Learn more about Havening Techniques and the science behind them Learn all about Iffirmations here Related: Enjoy more somatic practices to allow (and heal) your emotions here Read more about healing the nervous system to get unstuck here Havening Techniques® is a registered trademark of Ronald Ruden, 15 East 91st Street, New York. www.havening.org ✨ This episode is brought to you by Gut/Brain Sleep - a microbiome-focused sleep supplement with probiotics, prebiotics, postbiotics, and fermented tart cherry extract. By supporting gut health and the gut-brain connection, it helps set the stage for more restful sleep. 💖 Use code KARENA for 15% off Check out this innovative new sleep supplement here! 🌟 If you want to learn even more about how to regulate your nervous system and connect with your body and emotions in a deep and supportive way, enroll now in The Feel It To Heal It Mini-Course! In 5 powerful mini-lessons, it will help you drop in, deepen your compassionate self-understanding, and find more clarity and healing on your journey. Enroll for free now! ✨ Ready to find your center, quiet your mind, and step off the roller coaster of stress and overwhelm? You’re invited to join me in Somatic Healing Hub! SHH is a beautiful, deeply supportive online community filled with the structure, support, and somatic practices to help you actually feel better in your body - and create real change in your life. 💗💗💗 Inside, you’ll get ad-free access to the Somatic Healing Meditations podcast! 💗💗💗💗 Each week, I guide multiple live somatic healing classes - calming, grounded practices to regulate your nervous system and reconnect with your inner world. There’s also monthly group coaching with me, heart-centered workshops, and an extensive library of powerful body-based resources to support your healing journey. Your nervous system. Your emotions. Your healing — lovingly supported. 💛 Learn more and enroll now! __ Connect with Karena: @helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here 1:1 Somatic Healing Sessions with Karena Somatic Self-Love Retreat in Costa Rica Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course Get AD-FREE access to this podcast, plus live classes, workshops, and group coaching in Somatic Healing Hub Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Your heart carries an intelligence all its own … and it's waiting for you to drop in and listen. 🫶 Learning to live from the heart offers us a different way of moving through life - one that’s guided by a deeper and more authentic intelligence. 💗 Our hearts carry a gentle yet powerful wisdom, always connected to our truest selves and deepest values. When we listen to this wisdom, clarity rises, and we feel aligned and supported even when life is uncertain. Living from the heart also offers us comfort when things are hard. It connects us with compassion inside ourselves and helps us see from a wiser perspective. This guided meditation to live from the heart is a soothing invitation into that way of being. We’ll begin with a gentle heart coherence practice from the HeartMath Institute to bring your system into balance. Then, through a somatic process called Regenerating Images in Memory (RIM), you’ll be guided into deeper connection with the intelligence of your own heart. 🌿 As you listen, you’ll reconnect with your heart’s wisdom and feel the clarity that’s been within you all along. Press play and experience how it feels to live from the heart. ✨ In this episode: The Healing Power of Living From The Heart Guided Meditation to Live From The Heart Regulating Breathing Heart Coherence Exercise Connecting with the Wisdom of Your Heart (using RIM) Related: Embodied Self-Love Series Read more about living from the heart here 🌟 If you want to learn even more about how to regulate your nervous system and connect with your body and emotions in a deep and supportive way, enroll now in The Feel It To Heal It Mini-Course! In 5 powerful mini-lessons, it will help you drop in, deepen your compassionate self-understanding, and find more clarity and healing on your journey. Enroll for free now! ✨ Ready to find your center, quiet your mind, and step off the roller coaster of stress and overwhelm? You’re invited to join me in Somatic Healing Hub! SHH is a beautiful, deeply supportive online community filled with the structure, support, and somatic practices to help you actually feel better in your body - and create real change in your life. 💗💗💗 Inside, you’ll get ad-free access to the Somatic Healing Meditations podcast! 💗💗💗💗 Each week, I guide multiple live somatic healing classes - calming, grounded practices to regulate your nervous system and reconnect with your inner world. There’s also monthly group coaching with me, heart-centered workshops, and an extensive library of powerful body-based resources to support your healing journey. Your nervous system. Your emotions. Your healing — lovingly supported. 💛 Learn more and enroll now! 🐠 Join me in Costa Rica this winter for a deeply restorative Somatic Self-Love Retreat - a gentle, immersive experience designed to help you reconnect with your body, soften old self-protection, and return to your truest self. Through daily somatic practices, heart-opening workshops, and healing time in nature, you'll learn how to cultivate embodied self-love from the inside out. ✨ Early bird discounted spots are almost gone! Learn more at www.helloinnerlight.com/retreats (Email me at [email protected] to get more information about the special discount that’s available until Sept 30th!) __ Connect with Karena: @helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here 1:1 Somatic Healing Sessions with Karena Somatic Self-Love Retreat in Costa Rica Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course Get AD-FREE access to this podcast, plus live classes, workshops, and group coaching in Somatic Healing Hub Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

What if self-love didn’t have to be something you force or fake? 🌸 So often, the invitation to “love yourself” can feel confusing or even out of reach. We long for it, but we don’t always know how to bring love into our daily experience in a way that feels true. This is why self-compassion matters. It’s the pathway that helps us turn toward ourselves with kindness, honesty, and care. 💗 In this guided somatic meditation, I’ll lead you through a gentle 3-step process for self-compassion. You’ll learn how to find the part of you that longs for love, honor your feelings as deeply human, and soften toward yourself in a tender and real way. When we begin to cultivate compassion for ourselves in this way, our nervous system softens, our inner voice gets gentler, and love becomes something we can actually feel within us. ✨ 🎧 Soften into self-love as you listen today. In this episode How self-compassion helps us soften into real self-love 3-Step Process for Self-Compassion (Guided Meditation) Related: Embodied Self-Love Series Read more (and get the script) for this 3-Step Process for Self-Compassion Learn more about iffirmations here 🌟 If you want to learn even more about how to regulate your nervous system and connect with your body and emotions in a deep and supportive way, enroll now in The Feel It To Heal It Mini-Course! In 5 powerful mini-lessons, it will help you drop in, deepen your compassionate self-understanding, and find more clarity and healing on your journey. Enroll for free now! 🐠 Join me in Costa Rica this winter for a deeply restorative Somatic Self-Love Retreat - a gentle, immersive experience designed to help you reconnect with your body, soften old self-protection, and return to your truest self. Through daily somatic practices, heart-opening workshops, and healing time in nature, you'll learn how to cultivate embodied self-love from the inside out. ✨ Early bird discounted spots are almost gone! Learn more at www.helloinnerlight.com/retreats (Email me at [email protected] to get more information about the special discount that’s available until Sept 30th!) __ Connect with Karena: @helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here 1:1 Somatic Healing Sessions with Karena Somatic Self-Love Retreat in Costa Rica Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course Get AD-FREE access to this podcast, plus live classes, workshops, and group coaching in Somatic Healing Hub Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

✨ So often, we move through our days carrying feelings we haven’t had time to notice. When our feelings go unacknowledged, they don’t disappear… they linger in the body, showing up as stress, tension, and a sense of being disconnected from ourselves. In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, I guide you through a Daily Emotional Reset. It’s a soothing somatic practice to gently check in with yourself, shift your emotional state, and calm your nervous system. Think of it as daily tending: a compassionate reset that gives your emotions the care they’ve been asking for. This practice combines soothing self-touch with the simple but powerful act of naming what you feel (inspired by a process called Transpirational Havening). Together, these tools help quiet the amygdala, soften emotional intensity, and open space for more clarity and compassion. If you’ve been longing for a simple, supportive way to feel calmer, clearer, and more connected to yourself, this episode is for you. 💛 In this episode: The Power of a Daily Emotional Reset Daily Emotional Reset: How to do self-havening Feeling your emotions in your body Name it to tame it Learn more about Havening Techniques and the science behind them Related: Try more Self-Compassion meditations here Read more about this somatic emotional reset here Havening Techniques® is a registered trademark of Ronald Ruden, 15 East 91st Street, New York. www.havening.org ✨ Ready to find your center, quiet your mind, and step off the roller coaster of stress and overwhelm? You’re invited to join me in Somatic Healing Hub! SHH is a beautiful, deeply supportive online community filled with the structure, support, and somatic practices to help you actually feel better in your body - and create real change in your life. 💗💗💗 Inside, you’ll get ad-free access to the Somatic Healing Meditations podcast! 💗💗💗💗 Each week, I guide multiple live somatic healing classes - calming, grounded practices to regulate your nervous system and reconnect with your inner world. There’s also monthly group coaching with me, heart-centered workshops, and an extensive library of powerful body-based resources to support your healing journey. Your nervous system. Your emotions. Your healing — lovingly supported. 💛 Learn more and enroll now! 🐠 Join me in Costa Rica this winter for a deeply restorative Somatic Self-Love Retreat - a gentle, immersive experience designed to help you reconnect with your body, soften old self-protection, and return to your truest self. Through daily somatic practices, heart-opening workshops, and healing time in nature, you'll learn how to cultivate embodied self-love from the inside out. ✨ Space is limited! Learn more at www.helloinnerlight.com/retreats __ Connect with Karena: @helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here 1:1 Somatic Healing Sessions with Karena Somatic Self-Love Retreat in Costa Rica Join me in Somatic Healing Hub! Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Looking for a gentle way to regulate your emotions? In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, Karena guides you through a Somatic Meditation for Emotional Regulation using a powerful process called Regenerating Images in Memory® (RIM). True emotional regulation isn’t about being calm all the time or forcing difficult feelings to go away. It’s about having a way to return to safety and clarity inside, even in the middle of strong emotions. And the key to doing this is deep listening: turning toward your emotions with presence instead of pushing them aside. Instead of pushing your emotions down or trying to control them, this meditation will help you practice deep listening and inner attunement - so your nervous system can settle and you can return to a place of safety and clarity within. This practice is a simple yet profound way to care for your inner world and experience how emotional regulation naturally unfolds when you meet yourself with compassion and inner listening. In this episode What Emotional Regulation Really Means Somatic Meditation for Emotional Regulation (using Regenerating Images in Memory) Related: Try more Somatic Emotional Processing meditations here! Read more about emotional regulation here! ✨ Ready to find your center, quiet your mind, and step off the roller coaster of stress and overwhelm? You’re invited to join me in Somatic Healing Hub! SHH is a beautiful, deeply supportive online community filled with the structure, support, and somatic practices to help you actually feel better in your body - and create real change in your life. 💗💗💗 Inside, you’ll get ad-free access to the Somatic Healing Meditations podcast! 💗💗💗💗 Each week, I guide multiple live somatic healing classes - calming, grounded practices to regulate your nervous system and reconnect with your inner world. There’s also monthly group coaching with me, heart-centered workshops, and an extensive library of powerful body-based resources to support your healing journey. Your nervous system. Your emotions. Your healing — lovingly supported. 💛 Learn more and enroll now! 🐠 Join me in Costa Rica this winter for a deeply restorative Somatic Self-Love Retreat - a gentle, immersive experience designed to help you reconnect with your body, soften old self-protection, and return to your truest self. Through daily somatic practices, heart-opening workshops, and healing time in nature, you'll learn how to cultivate embodied self-love from the inside out. ✨ Space is limited! Learn more at www.helloinnerlight.com/retreats __ Connect with Karena: @helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here 1:1 Somatic Healing Sessions with Karena Somatic Self-Love Retreat in Costa Rica Join me in Somatic Healing Hub! Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

If you’ve ever longed for a bedtime story that feels both magical and deeply calming, you’re in for a treat. ✨ In this week’s episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, I’m sharing a special feature from the beloved podcast Sleep & Sorcery, created by Laurel Hostak Jones. 🌙 Sleep & Sorcery is one part bedtime story, one part guided meditation, and one part dreamy adventure. Laurel weaves together original folklore and fantasy-inspired tales with soothing meditations, wrapping you in magic while gently guiding you toward deep rest. I truly love her creative and soothing stories! 💖 This fantasy sleep story is called Sea of Stars. In it, you step into the role of a cosmic caretaker, tending to constellations on a gentle journey across the night sky. As dawn approaches, you return to your own cozy resting place in the cosmos. It’s a dreamy and restorative way to drift into sleep. I hope you enjoy this special episode! I’ll be back next week with a new somatic meditation for you. 🌸 xoxo, Karena Learn more about Sleep & Sorcery here Related: Enjoy more Deep Sleep Meditations here Something That’s Really Helped My Sleep 😴 I’ve been using a small handheld device called The Chill Pill for the past six months, and it’s made a noticeable difference in my sleep. You just hold it in your hand, and it sends soft electrical pulses into your palm that help calm your nervous system. It’s subtle, but so effective - especially when your body feels wired but tired. If your system struggles to settle at night (or you just want a gentle way to support your regulation), I really recommend it. Use code KARENA for 10% off (or 15% off during the month of August 2025)! 👉 Support your sleep and save! https://chillpillshop.com/?ref=KARENA ✨ Ready to find your center, quiet your mind, and step off the roller coaster of stress and overwhelm? You’re invited to join me in Somatic Healing Hub! SHH is a beautiful, deeply supportive online community filled with the structure, support, and somatic practices to help you actually feel better in your body - and create real change in your life. 💗💗💗 Inside, you’ll get ad-free access to the Somatic Healing Meditations podcast! 💗💗💗💗 Each week, I guide multiple live somatic healing classes - calming, grounded practices to regulate your nervous system and reconnect with your inner world. There’s also monthly group coaching with me, heart-centered workshops, and an extensive library of powerful body-based resources to support your healing journey. Your nervous system. Your emotions. Your healing — lovingly supported. 💛 Learn more and enroll now! __ Connect with Karena: @helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here 1:1 Somatic Healing Sessions with Karena Somatic Self-Love Retreat in Costa Rica Try The Chill Pill now! Join me in Somatic Healing Hub! Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

You might feel completely exhausted at night, but if your nervous system is still “on,” your body won’t fully let go into rest. 🌙 This is why so many of us lie awake with racing thoughts, tension in our bodies, and a sense that deep sleep is just out of reach. The truth is, the quality of your sleep is directly tied to the state of your nervous system. If you go to bed dysregulated, your system stays on high alert, which makes it harder to stay asleep through the night. 😴 But when you regulate before bed, everything changes. Your breath slows, your muscles release, your heart rate settles, and your mind begins to soften. In this state, sleep not only comes more easily, it’s also deeper and more restorative. ✨ In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, I guide you through a Bedtime Nervous System Reset - a gentle somatic meditation designed to help you regulate, release the day, and prepare your whole body for the kind of nourishing rest you’ve been longing for. 💤💤💤 🎧 Give yourself these few minutes before sleep and notice the difference: falling asleep more quickly, waking less often, and rising in the morning with more clarity, energy, and ease. #forsleep #somaticmeditation #nervoussystemcalm #deepsleep #sleepmeditation #somaticsleepmeditation Episode timing: 00:00 - Deep Sleep and Nervous System Regulation 04:32 - Bedtime Nervous System Reset (Gently Wind Down for Deep Sleep) Related: Enjoy more Deep Relaxation Meditations here Read more about this Bedtime Nervous System Reset here Something That’s Really Helped My Sleep 😴 I’ve been using a small handheld device called The Chill Pill for the past six months, and it’s made a noticeable difference in my sleep. You just hold it in your hand, and it sends soft electrical pulses into your palm that help calm your nervous system. It’s subtle, but so effective - especially when your body feels wired but tired. If your system struggles to settle at night (or you just want a gentle way to support your regulation), I really recommend it. Use code KARENA for 10% off (or 15% off during the month of August 2025)! 👉 Support your sleep and save! https://chillpillshop.com/?ref=KARENA ✨ Ready to find your center, quiet your mind, and step off the roller coaster of stress and overwhelm? You’re invited to join me in Somatic Healing Hub! SHH is a beautiful, deeply supportive online community filled with the structure, support, and somatic practices to help you actually feel better in your body - and create real change in your life. 💗💗💗 Inside, you’ll get ad-free access to the Somatic Healing Meditations podcast! 💗💗💗💗 Each week, I guide multiple live somatic healing classes - calming, grounded practices to regulate your nervous system and reconnect with your inner world. There’s also monthly group coaching with me, heart-centered workshops, and an extensive library of powerful body-based resources to support your healing journey. Your nervous system. Your emotions. Your healing — lovingly supported. 💛 Learn more and enroll now! __ Connect with Karena: @helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here 1:1 Somatic Healing Sessions with Karena Somatic Self-Love Retreat in Costa Rica Try The Chill Pill now! Join me in Somatic Healing Hub! Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

😴 Do you find yourself lying in bed, exhausted… yet unable to fully let go? You’re not alone. So many of us carry the tension of the day, or even the weight of years, into the night. Our bodies may be tired, but our nervous systems haven’t yet gotten the message that it’s safe to rest. 🌙 This soothing somatic sleep meditation is here to help. Designed to gently calm your nervous system and guide your body into a deeper state of regulation, this practice supports rest from the inside out. Through breath, soft inner attunement, and a gentle body scan, we’ll begin to send a powerful signal to your system: 🫶 You’re safe now. You can let go. There’s nothing you need to do. 💤 You can’t force good sleep. But when you give your body what it needs - support, regulation, and nervous system calm - deep rest begins to emerge on its own. ✨ That’s what this Somatic Sleep Meditation for Deep Rest & Nervous System Calm is here to offer. #forsleep #somaticmeditation #nervoussystemcalm #deepsleep #sleepmeditation #somaticsleepmeditation Episode timing: 00:00 - Why Calming Your Nervous System Is the Key to Deep Rest 05:10 - Somatic Sleep Meditation for Deep Rest & Nervous System Calm Related: Enjoy more Deep Relaxation Meditations here Read more about Somatic Sleep Meditations here Something That’s Really Helped My Sleep 😴 I’ve been using a small handheld device called The Chill Pill for the past six months, and it’s made a noticeable difference in my sleep. You just hold it in your hand, and it sends soft electrical pulses into your palm that help calm your nervous system. It’s subtle, but so effective - especially when your body feels wired but tired. If your system struggles to settle at night (or you just want a gentle way to support your regulation), I really recommend it. Use code KARENA for 10% off (or 15% off during the month of August 2025)! 👉 Support your sleep and save! https://chillpillshop.com/?ref=KARENA ✨ Ready to find your center, quiet your mind, and step off the roller coaster of stress and overwhelm? You’re invited to join me in Somatic Healing Hub! SHH is a beautiful, deeply supportive online community filled with the structure, support, and somatic practices to help you actually feel better in your body - and create real change in your life. 💗💗💗 Inside, you’ll get ad-free access to the Somatic Healing Meditations podcast! 💗💗💗💗 Each week, I guide multiple live somatic healing classes - calming, grounded practices to regulate your nervous system and reconnect with your inner world. There’s also monthly group coaching with me, heart-centered workshops, and an extensive library of powerful body-based resources to support your healing journey. Your nervous system. Your emotions. Your healing — lovingly supported. 💛 Learn more and enroll now! __ Connect with Karena: @helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here 1:1 Somatic Healing Sessions with Karena Somatic Self-Love Retreat in Costa Rica Try The Chill Pill now! Join me in Somatic Healing Hub! Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

✨ You’re more YOU when your nervous system feels safe. In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, we’ll explore the neuroscience behind what it really means to be your best self (and how nervous system healing makes that possible). When you're dysregulated, you have less access to your prefrontal cortex, the part of your brain responsible for clarity, compassion, nuanced thought, emotional regulation, and values-based decision making. Instead, your system shifts into survival mode, leading to reactivity, rigidity, or disconnection. But when you’re regulated, you reconnect with the best qualities that make you who you truly are. You become more grounded, more present, and more able to live from wisdom, compassion, and care. 🌿 I’ll also guide you through one of my favorite gentle regulation practices, a tool you can return to again and again as you reconnect with your best self. This episode is an invitation to pause, settle your system, and expand into more of who you really are. 🌸💫 In this episode: How Nervous System Healing Helps You Be Your Best Self Nervous System Healing Helps You Expand and Grow Simple + Soothing Nervous System Regulation Exercise Related: Try more nervous system regulation exercises here! Read more about how nervous system regulation helps you be your best self here! ✨ Ready to find your center, quiet your mind, and step off the roller coaster of stress and overwhelm? You’re invited to join me in Somatic Healing Hub! SHH is a beautiful, deeply supportive online community filled with the structure, support, and somatic practices to help you actually feel better in your body - and create real change in your life. 💗💗💗 Inside, you’ll get ad-free access to the Somatic Healing Meditations podcast! 💗💗💗💗 Each week, I guide multiple live somatic healing classes - calming, grounded practices to regulate your nervous system and reconnect with your inner world. There’s also monthly group coaching with me, heart-centered workshops, and an extensive library of powerful body-based resources to support your healing journey. Your nervous system. Your emotions. Your healing — lovingly supported. 💛 Learn more and enroll now! 🐠 Join me in Costa Rica this winter for a deeply restorative Somatic Self-Love Retreat - a gentle, immersive experience designed to help you reconnect with your body, soften old self-protection, and return to your truest self. Through daily somatic practices, heart-opening workshops, and healing time in nature, you'll learn how to cultivate embodied self-love from the inside out. ✨ Space is limited! Learn more at www.helloinnerlight.com/retreats __ Connect with Karena: @helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here 1:1 Somatic Healing Sessions with Karena Somatic Self-Love Retreat in Costa Rica Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course Join me in Somatic Healing Hub! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

What if your emotions aren’t the problem? What if it’s the resistance to them that’s making everything feel harder? 💭 So many of us were taught to push down our emotions, power through, or stay “in control.” But that constant inner tension doesn’t bring peace … it keeps your nervous system stuck in a state of stress and overwhelm. In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, we’ll explore how resisting your emotions actually activates your nervous system, and how allowing (even just a little) can begin to bring relief, calm, and connection. You’ll learn why this shift matters, and how to begin making it in a safe and supportive way. 💗 Then we’ll move into a soothing somatic meditation to help you practice that shift. Through self-havening and gentle “iffirmations,” you’ll be guided to soften resistance, reconnect with your body, and experience the peace that comes when every part of you is allowed to be here. This is a powerful, body-based way to calm your nervous system and return to yourself with more compassion and ease. 🫶 In this episode: How Allowing Your Emotions Calms Your Nervous System Somatic Meditation To Allow Your Emotions: Self-Havening explained Gently dropping in Feeling your emotion in your body Iffirmations To Allow Your Emotions Havening Techniques® is a registered trademark of Ronald Ruden, 15 East 91st Street, New York. www.havening.org Learn more about Havening Techniques and the science behind them Learn all about Iffirmations here Read more about how to allow your emotions here! ✨ Ready to find your center, quiet your mind, and step off the roller coaster of stress and overwhelm? You’re invited to join me in Somatic Healing Hub! SHH is a beautiful, deeply supportive online community filled with the structure, support, and somatic practices to help you actually feel better in your body - and create real change in your life. 💗💗💗 Inside, you’ll get ad-free access to the Somatic Healing Meditations podcast! 💗💗💗💗 Each week, I guide multiple live somatic healing classes - calming, grounded practices to regulate your nervous system and reconnect with your inner world. There’s also monthly group coaching with me, heart-centered workshops, and an extensive library of powerful body-based resources to support your healing journey. Your nervous system. Your emotions. Your healing — lovingly supported. 💛 Learn more and enroll now! 🐠 Join me in Costa Rica this winter for a deeply restorative Somatic Self-Love Retreat - a gentle, immersive experience designed to help you reconnect with your body, soften old self-protection, and return to your truest self. Through daily somatic practices, heart-opening workshops, and healing time in nature, you'll learn how to cultivate embodied self-love from the inside out. ✨ Space is limited! Learn more at www.helloinnerlight.com/retreats __ 🌿 Iffirmations to Allow Your Emotions What if it’s okay to feel this way right now? What would it be like to make space for what I feel, without needing to resist it? What would it be like to make space for what I feel, without needing to deny it? What would it be like to make space for what I feel, without needing to fix it? What if all of my emotions are valid and worthy of care? What if it’s safe to feel whatever I’m feeling? What if I don’t have to push my feelings away? What if I can meet them with compassion? What would it be like to meet this emotion with softness instead of judgment? What if I am allowed to feel it all, gently and at my own pace? What if the more I allow my emotions, the more I reconnect with myself? What if every feeling I have is trying to guide me back to myself? What if allowing my emotions is a good step toward deeper healing? What if allowing my emotions is a good step toward greater peace? What if allowing my emotions is part of accepting and loving myself as I am? More and more, I choose to allow my feelings More and more, I choose to come home to me. Connect with Karena: @helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here 1:1 Somatic Healing Sessions with Karena Somatic Self-Love Retreat in Costa Rica Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course Join me in Somatic Healing Hub! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

No one taught you how to love yourself. We’re learning now. 🌿 No one taught you how to meet your needs with kindness. Or how to sit with emotion without shame. Or how to stop performing worth, and begin feeling it instead. 💗 In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, I guide you through a quick (but powerful) self-love practice. Just 12 minutes to slow down, check in, and begin building the kind of inner relationship that helps you feel safe, grounded, and truly supported from within. 🧘‍♀️ Because self-love isn’t a feeling you chase. It’s a relationship you cultivate through presence, honesty, and care. ✨ 💫 Listen now and take a moment to return to yourself. In this episode: How to love yourself right now Quick Self-Love Practice Related: Embodied Self-Love Series Meditation for Secure Attachment with Yourself (Because Self-Love Isn’t a Feeling. It’s a Relationship) 🌟 If you want to learn even more about how to regulate your nervous system and connect with your body and emotions in a deep and supportive way, enroll now in The Feel It To Heal It Mini-Course! In 5 powerful mini-lessons, it will help you drop in, deepen your compassionate self-understanding, and find more clarity and healing on your journey. Enroll for free now! 🐠 Join me in Costa Rica this winter for a deeply restorative Somatic Self-Love Retreat - a gentle, immersive experience designed to help you reconnect with your body, soften old self-protection, and return to your truest self. Through daily somatic practices, heart-opening workshops, and healing time in nature, you'll learn how to cultivate embodied self-love from the inside out. ✨ Early bird discounted spots are almost gone! Learn more at www.helloinnerlight.com/retreats (If your heart is whispering yes to this retreat, but your mind needs a bit more clarity, I’d love to connect! You can book a 20-minute chat with me right here: https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=16736577&appointmentType=80654090 ) __ Connect with Karena: @helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here 1:1 Somatic Healing Sessions with Karena Somatic Self-Love Retreat in Costa Rica Get AD-FREE access to this podcast, plus live classes, workshops, and group coaching in Somatic Healing Hub Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course Join me in Somatic Healing Hub! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

We all struggle to love ourselves sometimes. Even when we truly desire to be kind to ourselves, to feel our worth, and to see ourselves through loving eyes … something inside of us resists, or pulls away, or shuts down. In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, we’ll explore the deeper reasons why we experience blocks to self-love. You’ll be gently guided through a Somatic Meditation to Heal Your Blocks to Self-Love using Regenerating Images in Memory (RIM®). This practice invites you to connect with the parts of you that may be holding fear, pain, or resistance - and to meet them with warmth, curiosity, and compassionate attention. Together, we’ll create space for those parts to soften, so that self-love can begin to feel safer and more possible. If self-love has felt distant or unreachable, this episode offers a quiet turning point. A space to breathe, to reconnect with yourself, and to take one soft step closer to the love that’s already waiting within you. In this episode: Why we struggle to love ourselves Somatic Meditation To Heal Your Blocks To Self-Love (using Regenerating Images in Memory) Related meditations: Meditation for Secure Attachment with Yourself (Because Self-Love Isn’t a Feeling. It’s a Relationship) Self-Love Body Scan Meditation Try more Regenerating Images in Memory Meditations here! Read more here about our blocks to self-love here: https://helloinnerlight.com/somatic-healing-meditations/struggling-to-love-yourself-somatic-meditation-to-heal-your-blocks-to-self-love 🌟 If you want to learn even more about how to regulate your nervous system and connect with your body and emotions in a deep and supportive way, enroll now in The Feel It To Heal It Mini-Course! In 5 powerful mini-lessons, it will help you drop in, deepen your compassionate self-understanding, and find more clarity and healing on your journey. Enroll for free now! 🐠 Join me in Costa Rica this winter for a deeply restorative Somatic Self-Love Retreat - a gentle, immersive experience designed to help you reconnect with your body, soften old self-protection, and return to your truest self. Through daily somatic practices, heart-opening workshops, and healing time in nature, you'll learn how to cultivate embodied self-love from the inside out. ✨ Early bird discounted spots are almost gone! Learn more at www.helloinnerlight.com/retreats (If your heart is whispering yes to this retreat, but your mind needs a bit more clarity, I’d love to connect! You can book a free 20-minute chat with me right here: https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=16736577&appointmentType=80654090 ) __ Connect with Karena: @helloinnerlight on Instagram and YouTube Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here 1:1 Somatic Healing Sessions with Karena Somatic Self-Love Retreat in Costa Rica Get AD-FREE access to this podcast, plus live classes, workshops, and group coaching in Somatic Healing Hub Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course Join me in Somatic Healing Hub! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Authentic self-love is something we practice into being. 🌸 It’s something we cultivate gently, over time. And when we do, something beautiful happens: our relationship with ourselves starts to feel like home. A place where we can soften, rest, and meet ourselves with compassion, no matter what we’re feeling. This week’s Self-Love Body Scan Meditation is a soothing, regulating journey to connect with an authentic sense of self-love in your body. We’ll begin with gentle breathwork, followed by a series of iffirmations - open-ended, curiosity-based prompts to soften into authentic self-love. From there, you’ll be guided through a slow, spacious body scan designed to help you connect with yourself with true compassion and care. Think of it as an invitation to discover what self-love feels like in your body … and to anchor that feeling a little more deeply with every breath. ✨ If you’ve ever longed to feel more love from within, this episode offers a gentle path back—one breath, one moment at a time. 💗🌸 In this episode: How to Cultivate Authentic Self-Love Self-Love Body Scan Meditation Regulating Breathing to Drop In Iffirmations For Authentic Self-Love Feeling Authentic Self-Love in Your Body Rotation of Consciousness Related: Meditation for Secure Attachment with Yourself (Because Self-Love Isn’t a Feeling. It’s a Relationship) Related: Try more Deep Relaxation Meditations here! Read more here: helloinnerlight.com/somatic-healing-meditations/self-love-body-scan-meditation 🌟 If you want to learn even more about how to regulate your nervous system and connect with your body and emotions in a deep and supportive way, enroll now in The Feel It To Heal It Mini-Course! In 5 powerful mini-lessons, it will help you drop in, deepen your compassionate self-understanding, and find more clarity and healing on your journey. Enroll for free now! 🐠 Join me in Costa Rica this winter for a deeply restorative Somatic Self-Love Retreat - a gentle, immersive experience designed to help you reconnect with your body, soften old self-protection, and return to your truest self. Through daily somatic practices, heart-opening workshops, and healing time in nature, you'll learn how to cultivate embodied self-love from the inside out. ✨ Early bird discounted spots are almost gone! Learn more at www.helloinnerlight.com/retreats __ Iffirmations for Authentic Self-Love: I wonder what it would be like to experience more self-love. I wonder who I could become if I learned to love and accept myself as I am. What if I can soften my heart to myself today? What would it be like to consistently treat myself with more warmth and kindness? What would it feel like to look at myself through a more loving lens? What if it’s safe for me to see the good in myself? What if nothing in me needs to be “fixed” in order to be worthy of love? What if I could feel more appreciation for the beauty within me? What if I could feel more compassion for the struggle within me? What if all parts of me belong, right here and right now? What if all parts of me belong, right here and right now, even the ones that feel unlovable? What if there’s a quiet part within me that never forgot my true worth? What if there’s a quiet part within me that knows how to love? What would it be like to look beneath the stories of self-judgment and connect more with that part of me? What if it’s safe for me to slow down and show myself the warmth and kindness I truly deserve? __ Connect with Karena: @helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here 1:1 Somatic Healing Sessions with Karena Somatic Self-Love Retreat in Costa Rica Get AD-FREE access to this podcast, plus live classes, workshops, and group coaching in Somatic Healing Hub Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course Join me in Somatic Healing Hub! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

What if self-love isn’t something you feel… but something you create? 💫 In this episode, we explore a completely different way of understanding self-love. It’s a view rooted in developmental psychology, somatic healing, and the attachment patterns that shape our inner world. You’ll learn how the four-step attachment cycle becomes a powerful, research-backed blueprint for creating secure attachment with yourself. Even if you didn’t grow up with consistent emotional attunement, your body can still learn what it feels like to be truly seen, supported, and loved from the inside out. We’ll talk about why so many of us struggle to feel safe with ourselves, how to gently re-pattern those old dynamics, and what it means to create a felt sense of inner trust and belonging. 🌱 Then, I’ll guide you through a somatic meditation based on the attachment cycle using Regenerating Images in Memory®. This is a deeply intuitive process that helps you attune to your real needs and respond with care. 💗 If you want to move from thinking about self-love to feeling implicitly loved, this episode is for you. In this episode: Secure Attachment with Yourself: Creating Real Self-Love The Attachment Cycle - Your Inner Blueprint for Secure Attachment with Yourself When It Feels Hard to Love Ourselves Meditation For Secure Attachment with Yourself (using Regenerating Images in Memory) Related: Try more Somatic Emotional Processing Meditations here! Learn more about secure attachment and self-love here. 🌟 If you want to learn even more about how to regulate your nervous system and connect with your body and emotions in a deep and supportive way, enroll now in The Feel It To Heal It Mini-Course! In 5 powerful mini-lessons, it will help you drop in, deepen your compassionate self-understanding, and find more clarity and healing on your journey. Enroll for free now! 🐠 Join me in Costa Rica this winter for a deeply restorative Somatic Self-Love Retreat - a gentle, immersive experience designed to help you reconnect with your body, soften old self-protection, and return to your truest self. Through daily somatic practices, heart-opening workshops, and healing time in nature, you'll learn how to cultivate embodied self-love from the inside out. ✨ Space is limited! Learn more at www.helloinnerlight.com/retreats __ Connect with Karena: @helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here 1:1 Somatic Healing Sessions with Karena Somatic Self-Love Retreat in Costa Rica Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course Join me in Somatic Healing Hub! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Have you been feeling disconnected from yourself - like you’re going through the motions but not really here? Like somewhere along the way, you lost touch with your own presence? In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, you’ll be guided through a calming somatic meditation to help you reconnect with yourself from the inside out. Through breath, gentle touch, and Havening Techniques®, you’ll be invited back into your body with care and curiosity. You’ll also be guided through soothing “iffirmations” to support your compassionate return to yourself. If you’re longing to feel more grounded, more like yourself, and more at peace in your body, this meditation is for you. Take a breath. Let go of the doing. Come home to you. 💗 In this episode: Reconnect With Yourself Deeply Somatic Meditation To Come Home To Yourself: Self-Havening explained Reconnect and Regulate using Havening Iffirmations To Reconnect With Yourself Havening Techniques® is a registered trademark of Ronald Ruden, 15 East 91st Street, New York. www.havening.org Learn more about Havening Techniques and the science behind them Learn all about Iffirmations here https://helloinnerlight.com/somatic-healing-meditations/reconnect-with-yourself-deeply-a-somatic-meditation-to-come-home-to-yourself ✨ Ready to find your center, quiet your mind, and step off the roller coaster of stress and overwhelm? You’re invited to join me in Somatic Healing Hub! SHH is a beautiful, deeply supportive online community filled with the structure, support, and somatic practices to help you actually feel better in your body - and create real change in your life. 💗💗💗 Inside, you’ll get ad-free access to the Somatic Healing Meditations podcast! 💗💗💗💗 Each week, I guide multiple live somatic healing classes - calming, grounded practices to regulate your nervous system and reconnect with your inner world. There’s also monthly group coaching with me, heart-centered workshops, and an extensive library of powerful body-based resources to support your healing journey. Your nervous system. Your emotions. Your healing — lovingly supported. 💛 Learn more and enroll now! 🐠 Join me in Costa Rica this winter for a deeply restorative Somatic Self-Love Retreat - a gentle, immersive experience designed to help you reconnect with your body, soften old self-protection, and return to your truest self. Through daily somatic practices, heart-opening workshops, and healing time in nature, you'll learn how to cultivate embodied self-love from the inside out. ✨ Space is limited! Learn more at www.helloinnerlight.com/retreats __ 🌿 Iffirmations to Reconnect With Yourself What if I can gently come home to myself? What if I don’t have to force myself back? What if I can just return to my senses in this moment? What if I can allow my presence to soften into this moment, more and more? What if it’s safe for me to be here now? What if every time I come back to my body and feelings, I come back to myself? What would it be like to welcome myself back, more and more, with each breath? What would it be like to meet myself with gentleness and curiosity right here and right now? What would it be like to feel a sense of home within myself? What if I’m safe in my own presence? What if I could release all pressure to be anything other than myself? What if I wasn’t as far away from myself as I thought? What if I have always belonged to myself? What if my true essence is always here, even if I feel disconnected from it? What would it be like to reconnect with the part of me that’s never forgotten my true essence? What if it’s safe for me to slow down and listen to my inner world? What would it be like to release what’s not mine and come home to who I truly am? More and more, I choose to reconnect with myself. More and more, I am coming home to me. Connect with Karena: @helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here 1:1 Somatic Healing Sessions with Karena Somatic Self-Love Retreat in Costa Rica Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course Join me in Somatic Healing Hub! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

What if your anxiety isn’t a problem to fix… but a message to listen to? 💛 We’re so often told to silence anxiety - override it, out-think it, distract ourselves from it. But what if real relief comes not from resisting our anxiety, but from turning toward it with care? In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, I guide you through a powerful somatic meditation for anxiety relief - a practice that helps you shift from control to compassion. You’ll explore what happens when you stop bracing against your anxiety and begin to gently feel it, listen to it, and honor the wisdom it holds. This 4-step anxiety relief process is rooted in neuroscience, somatic emotional processing, and deep inner attunement. It’s not about forcing yourself to be calm - it’s about becoming a safe place for the parts of you that feel anxious. 🎧 If you’ve been longing for a way to meet your anxiety that feels gentle, real, and deeply healing… this episode is for you. In this episode: A Somatic Approach to Anxiety Relief Somatic Meditation For Anxiety Relief Step 1: Feel The Anxiety in Your Body Step 2: Turn Toward This Feeling Step 3: Iffirmations For Anxiety Relief Step 4: Understanding The Message Within Related: Try more Somatic Emotional Processing Meditations here! Read more about this somatic approach to anxiety relief here. Iffirmations for anxiety relief What if it’s okay that I’m feeling this anxiety right now? What would it be like to make space for this anxiety without needing to push it away or fix it immediately? What if it’s safe for me to feel this right now? What if there’s nothing wrong with me for feeling this way? What would it be like to soften my heart to myself in this moment? What would it be like to soften my heart to this anxiety in this moment? What would it feel like to welcome all parts of myself, even the parts that feel anxious? What would it be like to meet this anxious feeling as an invitation to go deeper? What would it be like to listen to this feeling and honor the message within it? What if these anxious feelings actually make sense in a way? Sentence leads for going deeper What if these feelings make sense in a way because… Because what I’m really feeling deep down is… What I really want or need when I feel this way is… What feels most supportive to me when I’m feeling anxious is… What I’m realizing now is… How it feels to realize that is… Giving voice to anything else that wants to be known until that feels complete. ✨ Ready to find your center, quiet your mind, and step off the roller coaster of stress and overwhelm? You’re invited to join me in Somatic Healing Hub! SHH is a beautiful, deeply supportive online community filled with the structure, support, and somatic practices to help you actually feel better in your body - and create real change in your life. 💗💗💗 Inside, you’ll get ad-free access to the Somatic Healing Meditations podcast! 💗💗💗💗 Each week, I guide multiple live somatic healing classes - calming, grounded practices to regulate your nervous system and reconnect with your inner world. There’s also monthly group coaching with me, heart-centered workshops, and an extensive library of powerful body-based resources to support your healing journey. Your nervous system. Your emotions. Your healing — lovingly supported. 💛 Learn more and enroll now! 🐠 Join me in Costa Rica this winter for a deeply restorative Somatic Self-Love Retreat - a gentle, immersive experience designed to help you reconnect with your body, soften old self-protection, and return to your truest self. Through daily somatic practices, heart-opening workshops, and healing time in nature, you'll learn how to cultivate embodied self-love from the inside out. ✨ Space is limited! Learn more at www.helloinnerlight.com/retreats __ Connect with Karena: @helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here 1:1 Somatic Healing Sessions with Karena Somatic Self-Love Retreat in Costa Rica Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course Join me in Somatic Healing Hub! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Ever find yourself spiraling into panic, shutting down in a conversation, or overreacting in a way that just doesn’t feel like you? You’re not alone - and you’re not broken. You may be experiencing something called an amygdala hijack. In this episode, we’re diving into what amygdala hijack really is - why it happens, how it feels in the body, and what’s going on in the brain when your amygdala takes over. Understanding this can be a game-changer for anyone who’s ever struggled with reactivity, shame after conflict, or feeling out of control in moments of stress. We’ll also talk about why you can’t think your way out of an amygdala hijack - and why somatic tools like Havening Techniques® are so effective at calming the emotional brain and bringing the thinking mind back online. You’ll then be guided through a gentle, body-based practice to calm your amygdala and return to a felt sense of safety. If you’ve ever wished you could stop the spiral in real time, this episode is for you. In this episode: What is Amygdala Hijack? How to Calm Amygdala Hijack Somatic Practice to Calm Your Amygdala using Havening Related: Try more nervous system healing meditations here! Learn more about Havening Techniques and the science behind them Havening Techniques® is a registered trademark of Ronald Ruden, 15 East 91st Street, New York. www.havening.org 🌟 If you want to learn even more about how to regulate your nervous system and connect with your body and emotions in a deep and supportive way, enroll now in The Feel It To Heal It Mini-Course! In 5 powerful mini-lessons, it will help you drop in, deepen your compassionate self-understanding, and find more clarity and healing on your journey. Enroll for free now! 🐠 Join me in Costa Rica this winter for a deeply restorative Somatic Self-Love Retreat - a gentle, immersive experience designed to help you reconnect with your body, soften old self-protection, and return to your truest self. Through daily somatic practices, heart-opening workshops, and healing time in nature, you'll learn how to cultivate embodied self-love from the inside out. ✨ Space is limited! Learn more at www.helloinnerlight.com/retreats __ Connect with Karena: @helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube helloinnerlight.com Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course Join The Co-Regulation Community: https://helloinnerlight.com/the-coregulation-community 1:1 Somatic Healing Sessions with Karena Somatic Self-Love Retreat in Costa Rica Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

We all avoid our feelings sometimes … but even when we’re not actively thinking about them, those emotions don’t disappear. They stay with us - in our bodies, in our breath, in our inner dialogue - quietly shaping our experience from underneath the surface. This gentle somatic meditation is an invitation to stop running and start listening. You’ll be guided to turn toward what you’ve been holding inside and meet it with compassion and care - creating space for insight, integration, and emotional release. Using a powerful emotional healing technique called Regenerating Images in Memory® (RIM), this practice helps you connect deeply with what’s really going on within you in a way that can facilitate a deep emotional release. RIM works with your body and imagination in a deeply intuitive way, supporting healing that feels organic, safe, and surprisingly relieving. If you’ve been feeling stuck, overwhelmed, disconnected, or just sensing that something’s unresolved beneath the surface, this episode is for you. Let this be a soft place to begin again. 🎧 Press play when you’re ready to gently feel what’s here - and release what no longer needs to be held. In this episode: The power of turning toward our feelings instead of avoiding them Gentle Meditation For Healing And Emotional Release (using Regenerating Images in Memory) Related: Enjoy more Somatic Emotional Processing Meditations here! 🌟 If you want to learn even more about how to regulate your nervous system and connect with your body and emotions in a deep and supportive way, enroll now in The Feel It To Heal It Mini-Course! In 5 powerful mini-lessons, it will help you drop in, deepen your compassionate self-understanding, and find more clarity and healing on your journey. Enroll for free now! Connect with Karena: @helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube helloinnerlight.com Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course Join The Co-Regulation Community: https://helloinnerlight.com/the-coregulation-community 1:1 Somatic Healing Sessions with Karena Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

You don’t need to think harder. You need to listen deeper. 💗 When it comes to making decisions (big and small), most of us try to think our way to clarity. But real clarity doesn’t come from overanalyzing - it comes from reconnecting with the quiet wisdom of your body and heart. This guided somatic meditation for intuitive decision making helps you shift out of the mind and into the felt sense of what’s true. You’ll explore the heart as a powerful center of intuitive intelligence - and learn how to access the deeper knowing that lives within you. Intuitive decision making isn’t something you have to figure out. It’s something you can feel into. And your heart - your beautifully intelligent, deeply connected heart - knows the way. Whether you’re in the middle of a big life decision or you’re just longing to trust yourself more deeply, this meditation is for you. In this episode: Your Body is Home To A Deep, Intuitive Intelligence Somatic Meditation For Intuitive Decision Making Breathing to Reconnect And Regulate Centering In Your Heart Asking Your Heart For Guidance Related: Enjoy more Deep Relaxation Meditations here 🌟 If you want to learn even more about how to regulate your nervous system and connect with your body and emotions in a deep and supportive way, enroll now in The Feel It To Heal It Mini-Course! In 5 powerful mini-lessons, it will help you drop in, deepen your compassionate self-understanding, and find more clarity and healing on your journey. Enroll for free now! Connect with Karena: @helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube helloinnerlight.com Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course Join The Co-Regulation Community: https://helloinnerlight.com/the-coregulation-community 1:1 Somatic Healing Sessions with Karena Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.