Deep Within with Marina Triner, The Compassionate Somatic Coach
This podcast explores the wisdom held within the body, focusing on nervous system regulation, trauma healing, and emotional expression. Marina Triner, a somatic coach, guides listeners through body-based healing practices, including inner child work and parts work. The show aims to help people reconnect with their inherent wholeness through compassionate, gentle truths. Listeners can expect deep dives into somatic practices and self-discovery.
Episodes
Should I Stay or Go? How Somatic Healing Saved Her Marriage, with Becky Aste
If you're stuck in the question of whether to stay or go, anxious, exhausted, and wondering why your partner isn't doing the work, this conversation is for you. I sat down with Becky Aste, trauma-informed marriage coach, somatic practitioner, CEO of I Do Breakthrough, and host of the Your Breakthrough Blueprint Podcast, who took her own marriage from the brink of divorce to thriving after
169. The Scapegoat Role: How Dysfunctional Systems Take Your Power, with Dr. Deniz Ahmadinia
If you were the one in your family who saw the dysfunction clearly, named it, and then somehow ended up carrying all the shame for it, this episode is for you. I sat down with Dr. Deniz Ahmadinia, licensed clinical psychologist and trauma survivor, to talk about the scapegoat role: what it costs the person who sees clearly, and what it actually takes to take your power back.We get into how systems
168. Why We Keep Choosing People Who Hurt Us, with Dr. Galit Atlas
Why do we keep ending up with people who hurt us, even when we swear it won't happen again? I sat down with Dr. Galit Atlas, renowned psychoanalyst, faculty member at NYU's Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and at Columbia University, and author of the international bestseller Emotional Inheritance, to talk about exactly that. Her new book, Come Closer: Childhood Wou
167. The Real Reason You Feel Stuck in a Decision
If you've ever felt completely stuck in a decision, ruminating on it for weeks or months, heartbroken and looping and exhausted, this episode is for you. I'm sharing something that has changed my life more than almost anything else I teach: the realization that when we feel that intensely stuck, it's rarely about the thing in front of us. It's about something much older.I tell the
166. Growing Up With Emotionally Immature Parents: The Wound Nobody Names, with Morgan Pommells
Some of the deepest wounds are the ones you can't quite point to. Not a big, dramatic event, just an absence, an emptiness, a loneliness that never fully goes away. I sat down with Morgan Pommells, who specializes in helping adult children of emotionally immature parents, to finally put language to something so many of us have felt but couldn't name.We get into what emotional immaturity ac
165. Food, the Nervous System & Navigating Conflict Without Losing Yourself, with Luis Mojica
What if the food you ate today already decided how much conflict you can handle? I sat down with Luis Mojica, Somatic Educator, Certified Holistic Nutritionist, and author of Food Therapy, to talk about something most of us have never connected: the direct link between what we eat and how safe or threatened our nervous system feels. We get into his framework of food as stimulant, depressant, or ba
163. From the Dark Night of the Soul to Feeling Alive Again: Healing Shame and Finding Yourself
Two years ago I went through what I can only describe as a dark night of the soul. Divorce, financial loss, estrangement, war in the countries I am from, and the slow drifting of family. And recently — something has shifted. A profound sense of aliveness has returned to me that I had not felt in a very long time. In this episode I want to talk honestly about how I got here, because for those of yo
162. The Cost of Avoiding Hard Conversations: How to Speak Up and Feel Closer With Colette Fehr
In this episode I sit down with Colette Fehr, licensed psychotherapist, couples therapist, and author of The Cost of Quiet: How to Have the Hard Conversations That Create Secure, Lasting Love, whose 2025 TEDx talk Secrets of a Couples Therapist was selected as a TED Editors' Pick and whose work has been featured in The New York Times, Oprah Daily, and The Wall Street Journal. Colette makes suc
161. From 15 Years of Heroin Addiction to a PhD in Neuroscience: Surrender, Healing and Change with Brian Pennie
Every once in a while you speak to someone whose story just shakes you to the core. Brian Pennie is a former heroin addict turned doctor of neuroscience and psychology, a lecturer at Trinity College Dublin, an author, an award-winning TV presenter, and the founder of Change is Possible. He lost 15 years of his life to addiction before a near-death seizure became the moment everything shifted — and
160. The Truth About Narcissism: Myths, Healing and How to Cope With Wendy Behary
In this episode I sit down with Wendy Behary, one of the world's leading experts on narcissism with over 30 years of experience, founder of The Cognitive Therapy Center of New Jersey, and author of the international bestseller Disarming the Narcissist, selected by Oprah Daily as one of the top books on the subject and now in its third edition translated into 18 languages. Wendy cuts through th
164. Hypervigilance, Trauma & How to Tell If It's the Past or the Present, with Amy Fiedler
If you've ever sat across from someone you care about and felt your body go on high alert, unsure whether you're in danger or just remembering what danger used to feel like, this conversation is for you. I sat down with Amy Fiedler, Certified Trauma Support Specialist and relationship educator who has helped more than 2,000 clients worldwide understand how past trauma continues to shape th
159. Burnout, Flow State and the Yin and Yang of High Performance with Dave Nelson
In this episode I sit down with Dave Nelson, author of The Tao of Flow and performance coach to C-suite executives at Fortune 500 companies, whose work sits at the intersection of ancient Taoist wisdom, modern neuroscience, and elite performance science. Dave shares his own burnout story — the migraines, the exploding phone, the 2500 staff and the moment his body finally said enough — and we talk
158. The Pelvic Floor, Pleasure and Embodiment: Busting Myths With Lauren Ohayon
In this episode I sit down with Lauren Ohayon, creator of the Restore Your Core method and a renowned yoga and Pilates instructor with over 25 years of experience who has helped more than 10,000 women reconnect with their pelvic floor and core when nothing else worked. We talk about why the pelvic floor is so much more than what we have been taught, why Kegels are not the answer, what completing a
157. Narcissism, Codependency, Triggers and the Five Pillars of Healing with Michelle Chalfant
In this episode, I sit down with Michelle Chalfant, holistic therapist, life coach, and creator of The Adult Chair model, whose podcast has surpassed 11 million downloads and whose work has helped thousands of people heal codependency, emotional wounds, and relationship patterns at the root. Michelle shares her five-pillar methodology for living as a healthy adult — covering how to own your realit
156. Needs, Expectations and Standards: How to Stop Abandoning Yourself in Relationships
In this episode I want to talk about something that sits at the heart of so much relational pain for complex trauma survivors — needs. Specifically, why the needs we crave the most are usually the ones that were never met in childhood, why that creates a desperateness that can push people away, and how we end up in a cycle of repressing our needs until we finally explode. I share the distinction t
155. The Real Point of Healing — It's Not What You Think
For a long time I believed that healing would eventually land me somewhere close to permanent bliss — a place where I stopped getting triggered, stopped struggling, stopped feeling the weight of everything I was carrying. In this episode I want to talk honestly about why that idea kept me confused, and what I now understand the real point of healing actually is. I share what has been shifting for
154. How to Break Toxic Relationship Patterns, Heal Your Worth and Become Truly Detached with Sabrina Bendory
In this episode I sit down with Sabrina Bendory, bestselling author and relationship coach whose work has reached tens of millions of people, to talk about something so many of us know intimately — the cycle of chasing the ones who don't choose us, while pushing away the ones who do. Sabrina shares her own decade of toxic relationship patterns, dating narcissists and emotionally unavailable me
153. What Secure Attachment Actually Looks Like with Dr. Rachel Greenberg
What does it actually look like to choose yourself — not as a way of closing off from love, but as the very foundation that makes real love possible? In this conversation, I sit down with Dr. Rachel Greenberg, a psychologist and relationship expert who specialises in attachment healing, authentic connection, and embodied intimacy, helping individuals and couples create relationships rooted in emot
152. Are You Highly Sensitive, Traumatised, or Both? — with Kristen Schwartz
This one really blew my mind — and I was asking questions I'm genuinely grappling with myself. Kristen Schwartz is a certified trauma recovery coach, author of The Healed Empath, and founder of Realized Empath — a wellness community supporting highly sensitive people and empaths since 2016. Kristen and I dig into how to tell the difference between a trauma response and your highly sensitive na
151. Trauma Response vs. Discomfort: How to Tell the Difference in Your Body
One of the most confusing parts of the healing journey is not knowing whether what you're feeling is a trauma response or the discomfort of actually growing. I've been teaching about this in my group program and I wanted to bring it here too — because getting this wrong is one of the biggest ways we stay stuck. I walk through what a trauma response actually feels like in the body, what a d
150. Inner Child Healing, Narcissism & Re-Parenting Yourself with Dr. Nicole LePera
I was so excited for this one, and Nicole did not disappoint. Dr. Nicole LePera, the Holistic Psychologist, trained at Cornell University and the New School for Social Research, is the founder of SelfHealers Circle and the author of three books including the number one New York Times bestseller How to Do the Work. In this conversation, Nicole and I go deep into covert narcissism, how growing up wi
149. Religious Trauma, Embodiment & the Squiggle of Healing with Chelsea Horton
This one opened my heart wide open, and I cried with a friend straight after recording it. Chelsea Horton is a somatic coach, educator, and founder of Healing Embodied, where she trains wellness professionals to integrate somatics, creativity, and emotional healing into their work. A former worship leader with a master's in Dance and Movement Therapy, Chelsea went from the most devoted Christi
148. Why You Keep Attracting the Same Person, Parts Work, Attachment & Relational Healing with Sarah Baldwin
If you've ever wondered why you keep ending up in the same relationship with a different person, this episode is for you. I sit down with Sarah Baldwin — Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, member of the world-renowned Polyvagal Theory training team, and one of the most respected voices in trauma resolution working today — and together we go deep into parts work, attachment patterns, and why yo
147. Trauma Bonds, Love Addiction & the Hardest Healing with Andrea Ashley
If you've ever felt completely out of control in a relationship — knowing it's wrong, unable to leave, ashamed of yourself for staying — this conversation is going to make you feel far less alone. Marina sits down with Andrea Ashley, host of Adult Child and The Shitshow podcast, who grew up in an alcoholic home, spent her teens in and out of rehabs, got sober at 19, and still found herself
146. Dropping the Good Girl Mask: Shame, Sexuality & Reclaiming Yourself with Luci Lampe
If you grew up being the good girl — performing, people pleasing, shrinking yourself to stay safe and loved — this conversation is going to crack something open. Marina sits down with Luci Lampe, trauma-informed sex and relationship coach, four-time author, and award-winning singer-songwriter whose work has been featured in Forbes, the Huffington Post, CBS and Fox. Luci went from pastor's daug
145. The Hidden Trauma of High Achievers, Complex Trauma, Survival Mode & Somatic Healing with Lauren Auer
If you look functional on the outside but feel like you're running on survival mode underneath, this conversation was made for you. I sit down with Lauren Auer — trauma therapist, somatic practitioner, and the person behind the wildly popular Instagram @yourtraumatherapist_ — whose work has been featured in the New York Times, Vogue, and Time. Lauren specialises in EMDR, Brainspotting, IFS, and Ke
144. Over-Responsibility: Why You Feel Exhausted by Other People's Emotions
If you're the person who always steps in when someone is struggling — who manages the energy in the room, talks people down, absorbs what others can't hold — this episode is going to name something you may never have had words for. Over-responsibility isn't about taking on too many tasks. It's the belief, wired in from childhood, that other people's emotional states are yours t
143. Perimenopause, Your Nervous System & Why You Stop Tolerating What No Longer Serves You with Natasha Zajmalowski
If you're a woman over 35 and you've been feeling more triggered, more exhausted, less tolerant of the things you used to just push through — this episode is going to change how you understand yourself.I'm joined by Natasha Zajmalowskii, a naturopathic doctor and Menopause Society certified practitioner with over 24 years of clinical experience, and this conversation genuinely blew my
142. Familiar Safety vs Embodied Safety (Why You Feel Safe in What's Hurting You)
There's a kind of safety that doesn't actually feel safe — and most of us have been living inside it our whole lives.In this episode, I'm sharing something I've been sitting with for a while. Something personal and a little uncomfortable to say out loud: that even as someone who teaches nervous system healing, I spent years outsourcing my sense of safety to things outside myself —
141. Why You Fixate on People and Goals (It's Not What You Think)
If you fixate on people, partners, work, or goals — if something gets under your skin and won't let go — this episode is for you.What most people call desperation or clinginess is actually your nervous system trying to finish something it never got to complete. In this episode, I'm getting personal about my own patterns with fixation, codependency, and disorganised attachment — and I'm
140. The Unshaming Way: Transforming Shame into Self-Connection with David Bedrick
Shame is one of the most powerful and misunderstood forces shaping our lives. In this deeply insightful conversation, I sit down with author, counselor, and teacher David Bedrick to explore what it truly means to “unshame” ourselves. Rather than seeing our struggles as problems to fix, David invites us to view them as doorways into deeper self-awareness, compassion, and connection.We talk about ho
139. The Pain of Being Misunderstood And Learning to Stay With Yourself
In this deeply vulnerable solo episode, I share the emotional reality of what it feels like to be misunderstood, especially when you are doing deep healing work and your choices no longer make sense to others. This conversation explores the grief that arises when you begin to live more truthfully, and the nervous system responses that get activated when connection feels threatened.I speak about th
138. When You Finally Stop Trying to Be Chosen
In this deeply honest episode, I share the emotional turning point that came when I realised how much of my life had been shaped by the unconscious need to be chosen. Chosen in love. Chosen in friendships. Chosen in work. Beneath it all was a nervous system wired for survival, constantly scanning for signs of rejection and trying to secure safety through approval.I talk about the grief of recognis
137. Learning to Feel Safe Without a Man: Healing Generational Codependency
For most of my life, I carried a deep, visceral belief in my body that I wasn’t safe without a man. It wasn’t a logical thought — it was a felt sense in my nervous system. When my marriage ended, I didn’t just feel sad. I felt like I was going to die.In this deeply personal episode, I share the generational patterns of codependence I witnessed in the women in my family, how those patterns shaped m
The 4 Stages of Healing Childhood Trauma
There’s so much content out there about healing childhood trauma. And I’m here to tell you, from my heart to yours — it’s a bitch. It’s messy. It’s long. It’s layered. And even those of us who teach this work still cry, still get triggered, and still move through it in real time.In this episode, I share the four stages of healing that I teach my clients — and how they directly mirror what secure a
134. Disconfirming Experiences: Healing Emotional Expression Through Somatic Safety
In this heartfelt episode, I open up about two painful breakups and the unexpected healing that came from allowing myself to be witnessed in my most vulnerable moments. I explore the idea of disconfirming experiences — moments where the body learns safety in ways it never has before — and why they are so essential for healing childhood wounds, especially when it comes to emotions, expression, and
133. From Burnout to Boundaries: Redefining Success on Your Own Terms with Kate Turner
In this episode, I sit down with Kate Turner—a powerhouse coach with 15 years of experience in Sales and Technology. We explore her journey through the highs and lows of working in fast-paced tech environments, fundraising rounds, executive roles, and the personal transformation that came from burning out while "doing everything right."Kate shares how she rebuilt her life and career from
132. Why I Couldn’t Stop Being the “Good Girl”
In this deeply personal episode, I share the story of how my lifelong drive to be “the good girl” ruled my relationships, my nervous system, and even my sense of self. For most of my life, I played by the rules—always saying the right thing, doing the right thing, living up to everyone else’s expectations. But it wasn’t until I unexpectedly fell in love with someone society might label as "th
135. When Letting Go Means Holding Yourself
Have you ever loved someone so deeply that it made no logical sense—and yet, your heart wouldn’t let go? In this vulnerable solo episode, I share the story of an unexpected connection with someone living on the street, the whirlwind that followed, and the profound truths I learned about desire, acceptance, and self-abandonment.This isn’t a story about romance—it’s a story about listening to your b
131. The Exhaustion of Always Monitoring for Safety
In this deeply personal episode, I open up about the exhausting pattern of constantly scanning for safety—checking for signs of rejection, withdrawal, or disconnection—in our relationships, work, and daily life.I share the story of how I internalized this hypervigilance from a loving but emotionally inconsistent parent, and how it shaped my nervous system and sense of safety. This episode is not a
130. Unmasking Suppression: What Happens When We Finally Let Ourselves Be Seen
In this episode, I take you deep into a subject many of us are unconsciously living: emotional suppression. I share how years of censoring my emotions—especially excitement, joy, and sadness—impacted my nervous system, my digestion, and most of all, my relationships.This conversation isn’t just about understanding trauma; it’s about reclaiming the joy and vitality that’s been shut down for years.
129. Healing Anxious Attachment Through the Body with Valerie Rubin
What if your anxious attachment wasn’t something to fix—but a survival response to be understood and healed? In this powerful conversation, I’m joined by trauma-informed somatic coach Valerie Rubin to explore the deeper roots of anxious attachment and why nervous system regulation—not mindset work alone—is the missing piece for so many.Valerie shares her own journey from anxiety and people-pleasin
128. What If Holding It All Together Is Hurting You?
In this raw and honest episode, I share a moment of deep emotional truth. I’m recording not from a polished, perfect place—but from the messy, moody middle. The part where you feel like you should have it all together but deep down, you're exhausted from pretending.If you’ve ever been the one who’s always “good,” always responsible, always the one holding everyone and everything—this episode i
127. What If It Didn’t Have to Be So Hard?
In this episode is a love letter to anyone who feels like life is just… a lot. I’m sharing the real, raw truth of what 2025 looked like for me—heartbreak, financial struggle, estrangement, and navigating grief from multiple angles. But more than that, I’m sharing the deeper story underneath it all: the internal programming that made it feel like life had to be hard, and the powerful shift I’ve bee
126. Reclaiming Your Erotic Aliveness: Somatics, Safety & Power with Darshana Avila
What does it mean to be erotically alive—and how do we reclaim that connection after trauma, disconnection, or years of shutting down?In this intimate and illuminating conversation, I’m joined by trauma-informed somatic educator and Netflix’s Sex, Love & goop expert Darshana Avila. Together, we unpack the deeper meaning of erotic aliveness, the body as a gateway to truth, and how our capacity
Why High Achievers Often Feel Empty: A Deep Feeler’s Dilemma
In this solo episode, I open up about the unexpected connection between being a deep feeler and living life in performance mode. From my personal story of burnout and relationship misalignment to the experiences of my clients, I unpack how sensitivity, rejection, and the need for deep connection can drive us to overwork, people-please, and push ourselves beyond our limits. If you're a high-ach
124. The Courage to Want: Healing Desire, Shame & Emotional Survival
This week, I did something that felt incredibly vulnerable. I voiced a desire—openly, bravely—and then had to sit in the discomfort of waiting. That space between expression and response cracked me wide open. In this solo episode, I take you inside that raw experience and reflect on how I’ve spent most of my life suppressing my desires because they never felt safe to have.I explore how childhood m
123. Clinging, Collapse, and Coming Home to Myself
This was the hardest year of my life. I found myself in the deepest freeze — emotionally, physically, and spiritually. After walking away from a relationship I once thought was my forever, I faced the terrifying realization that I had been outsourcing my safety for most of my life. Safety in men. Safety in money. Safety in pretending everything was fine.In this solo episode, I walk you through the
122. Healing the Roots of Disconnection: Attachment, Trauma & Deepening Relationships with Dr. Diane Poole Heller
In this episode, I’m joined by world-renowned trauma expert Dr. Diane Poole Heller for a profound conversation on attachment wounds, healing relational trauma, and the path back to secure connection. Diane shares insights from decades of work in Somatic Experiencing and her DARe™ model, helping us understand why so many of us feel unsafe in intimacy—and what we can do about it.We explore the origi
121. Healing Through Words: A Conversation on Nonviolent Communication and Collective Healing with Jawdat
“Language can either divide us or bring us home to each other.”In this soulful conversation, Marina and Jawdat explore how Nonviolent Communication (NVC) becomes a bridge — between people, between cultures, and within ourselves. Jawdat, a lawyer and facilitator with Army of Healers, shares his work using dialogue, storytelling, and NVC to support trauma healing and collective reconciliation. Toget
120. From Heartbreak to Homecoming: Sarah May on Healing, Intuition, and Letting Go of “Doing It Right”
I’m joined by the radiant Sarah May—author, yoga teacher, Reiki healer, and intuitive guide—for a deeply honest and nourishing conversation about what it really means to come home to yourself. After doing everything she was “supposed” to do, Sarah found herself crying in a van in the middle of the desert, completely disconnected from her truth. That moment sparked a radical journey of healing, int
119. You Are Not Your Shame: Radical Acceptance & Healing What Feels Stuck with Ann Weiser Cornell, PhD
In this deeply nourishing episode, I’m joined by Ann Weiser Cornell, PhD—author, teacher, and a pioneer in emotional healing through the practice of Focusing and radical acceptance. Ann has spent decades helping people transform the parts of themselves they’ve been trying to fix, hide, or silence. Together, we explore what it means to turn toward the most painful emotions—shame, fear, self-doubt—n
118. The Pain of Over-Responsibility: Healing from Emotionally Immature Parents
In this solo episode, I’m opening up about one of the most tender and complex parts of my healing journey — growing up with emotionally immature parents and the lifelong impact it can have on our nervous systems, relationships, and sense of self.I share what it’s like to carry the invisible weight of over-responsibility, to be the emotional regulator in your family, and to navigate the guilt and g
117. When Love Isn’t Enough: Walking Away from the Fixer Fantasy
In this deeply personal and vulnerable episode, Marina shares the most transformative relationship experience of her life—the one that finally broke the cycle of being the fixer in love. With raw honesty, she opens up about falling for someone with immense potential, a soulful connection, and an incredibly difficult past. But more importantly, she shares how she finally walked away—not just physic
116. The Burnout You Didn’t See Coming: Why Emotional Labor is Exhausting You
What if the real reason you're exhausted isn’t your job, but the invisible emotional labor you’ve been carrying for everyone else? In this raw and vulnerable solo episode, Marina opens up about her own burnout—not from overworking, but from being the fixer, the emotional container, and the one who always says “yes.”This is a conversation for the silent supporters. The ones who grew up too soon
115. Unf*ck Your Money: Somatic Healing for Emotional Spending & Financial Worthiness
In this raw and deeply validating conversation, I sit down with Nadine Zumot—Certified Money Coach and Somatic Practitioner—to explore how emotional spending, undercharging, and money shame are often survival responses rooted in trauma. Nadine’s journey from financial chaos to embodied wealth wisdom is not only inspiring but incredibly relatable for anyone who’s ever felt like they were “bad with
114. Shame-Free Intimacy: Redefining Pleasure, Purity & Partnership with Lauren Elise Rogers
What if pleasure wasn’t something to be ashamed of—but a powerful, healing force that reconnects you to yourself and your body?In this raw and empowering conversation, I’m joined by Certified Holistic Sexuality Educator and Embodied Intimacy & Relationship Coach, Lauren Elise Rogers, whose pain-to-purpose journey has shaped her deeply compassionate and trauma-informed approach to sexuality and
113. Healing the Root: Somatic Practices for Emotional Release with Karena Neukirchner
In this deeply nourishing episode, I’m joined by somatic healing coach and podcast host Karena Neukirchner for a grounded, honest conversation about what it actually means to process emotions in the body — and why it’s often the missing link in our healing.Karena shares how unresolved trauma lives in the nervous system, how we internalize early life experiences in our tissues, and what it looks li
112. The Invisible Weight We Carry: Healing Trauma & Reclaiming Your Voice with Dr. Laryssa M. Creswell
In this deeply affirming conversation, I’m joined by Dr. Laryssa M. Creswell—therapist, author, speaker, and fierce advocate for trauma recovery. Known for her compassionate and practical approach to healing, Dr. Laryssa opens up about the invisible burdens many women and teen girls carry, how generational trauma shapes our lives, and the power of finally being seen and heard.We talk about what tr
111. Creating your chosen soul family
When you’ve spent your life making yourself smaller to keep the peace, it can feel terrifying to finally speak your needs, set boundaries, and let yourself be fully seen. But that’s where real connection begins.In this raw and deeply personal episode, I share the painful unraveling that led me to let go of a marriage, confront childhood trauma, and face the grief of family estrangement. But more i
110. How to stop being the fixer in your relationships: step by step
Have you always been the helper, the fixer, the one who jumps in to rescue everyone else—even when it leaves you drained, burnt out, or unseen? In this episode, Marina takes you step-by-step through the transformation from being the fixer in your relationships to embodying a new way of connection rooted in nervous system safety, vulnerability, and self-trust.Drawing from her own healing journey, M
109. The Origins of Fixing in Relationships and Why We Do It
"I thought being the fixer made me lovable—but it was just making me invisible."In this powerful episode, Marina explores the unseen weight of becoming the emotional adult too early in life, and how those childhood patterns quietly shape our adult relationships. From people-pleasing to overgiving, she unpacks why so many of us feel unseen and unsupported, and what it truly takes to relea
108: The Fixer / Rescuer / Helper in Relationships: My Story
Have you ever found yourself drawn to people who are “projects”? Do you tend to over-function in relationships, always fixing, rescuing, or holding everything together?In this vulnerable and powerful solo episode, I share my personal journey of becoming the fixer—how this survival strategy took root in my childhood, shaped my romantic and platonic relationships, and ultimately became an addiction
107. Processing emotions and physical pain: your period as a portal
What if your period wasn’t just something to endure—but a sacred portal for deep emotional healing?In this raw, real-time episode, I share an unfiltered experience of how physical pain—specifically menstrual cramps—can become a gateway to profound emotional release and ancestral healing. From a history of severe period pain and disconnection from my body to a spontaneous somatic ritual that reveal
106. Stop taking full ownership
If you’re someone who always takes the blame, analyzes your every move, and bends over backward to keep the peace, you’re not just self-aware. You might be stuck in a trauma response.In this powerful solo episode, I dive into the often-overlooked shadow side of the “take full responsibility” narrative in the self-development world. For those of us with complex trauma, over-responsibility is not gr
105. Spotting the Unseen: Covert Narcissism, Self-Trust & Coming Home to Yourself with Debbie Mirza
In this eye-opening and deeply healing conversation, I’m joined by Debbie Mirza, bestselling author of The Covert Passive-Aggressive Narcissist, to explore one of the most confusing and devastating relational dynamics: covert narcissism.We dive into the subtle signs of manipulation, why highly empathetic and spiritual people are often the targets, and how covert narcissists use spiritual language,
104. How to Release Attachments and Clinging from a Trauma Informed Perspective
In this episode, I explore what it really means to let go—from a nervous system perspective, not just a spiritual one. We’re often told to “detach” or “just let it go,” but when you’re clinging to something for survival—be it a relationship, money, validation, or identity—that kind of advice feels impossible, even cruel.I share how attachment strategies develop from early childhood experiences, ho
103. Why You Numb Out: Avoidant Attachment, Conflict & the Fear of Being Seen
In this episode, I’m exploring a topic that hits so close to home for so many of us—avoidant attachment and the ways we subtly (and not-so-subtly) numb out when intimacy, connection, or conflict feel overwhelming.If you find yourself scrolling instead of walking in the door, staying late at work to avoid closeness, or completely shutting down during an argument—you’re not broken. You’re protecting
102. Trauma Informed Spirituality and the Problem with New Age Bullshit
In this episode, I’m diving deep into the intersection of trauma and spirituality, and why so much of what we see in the modern spiritual space can be deeply harmful, especially for trauma survivors.I explore how spiritual bypassing shows up in well-meaning practices, how analyzing our pain without actually feeling it keeps us stuck, and why healing isn’t about avoiding the shadow, it’s about movi
101. The Change Triangle: Core Emotions, Healing & Coming Home to Yourself with Hilary Jacobs Hendel
In this deeply insightful conversation, I sit down with Hilary Jacobs Hendel, AEDP psychotherapist, author, and creator of the Change Triangle, to explore how emotions are not problems to fix—but pathways to healing and connection.We dive into why so many of us are stuck in anxiety, depression, and disconnection, and how avoiding our core emotions (like sadness, anger, and joy) leads to emotional
100. The Black Sheep & My Fear of Being Seen
Welcome to episode 100 — a milestone that brings with it a deeply personal reflection. In this solo episode, I open up about what it means to feel like the black sheep in your family, the pain of not belonging, and the protective walls we build to survive.I dive into how ancestral trauma, identity, and political disillusionment have shaped my internal world and why visibility often feels like a th
99. The Body Remembers: Trauma, Tremoring & Nervous System Intelligence with Dr. Siv Jøssang Shields
In this illuminating conversation, I sit down with Dr. Siv Jøssang Shields, co-founder of Neurogenic Integration and longtime leader in the world of trauma healing and nervous system regulation. Siv shares how the body stores trauma—not just as memory, but as energy—and how neurogenic tremoring can help us release old patterns, restore flow, and reconnect with our innate intelligence.We explore th
98. My 6 Month Dating Myself Experiment
In this episode, I share the truth behind my commitment to six months of dating myself, and why this isn’t just about being single, but about radically choosing me.After a lifetime of being in relationships, I’ve never truly had the space to be with myself, listen to my needs, and unlearn the patterns that kept me disconnected from my voice, my desires, and my boundaries. This journey is about mak
97. Body-First Healing with Brittany Piper: Trauma, Somatics & Reclaiming Power
In this powerful and grounded conversation, I’m joined by Brittany Piper, somatic practitioner, author, and global speaker on sexual violence prevention and trauma-informed care. Brittany shares her personal story of survival and her revolutionary body-first approach to healing, which invites us to gently reconnect with our nervous systems as the foundation of true recovery.We talk about why tradi
96. My Dark Night of the Soul - Personal Updates
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