Somatic Healing Meditations

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 karena@helloinnerlight.com 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 karena@helloinnerlight.com 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.