Have you ever tried to think your way out of a limiting belief - repeating affirmations, reframing your thoughts, or practicing positive thinking - only to find yourself right back in the same emotional place again?

In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, we’ll explore why that happens.

From a somatic perspective, your limiting beliefs aren’t just thoughts to be changed. They’re living memories of who you had to be (and what you had to believe) in order to stay safe, loved, or connected earlier in life.

You’ll learn how these beliefs live deep within your body and subconscious mind, quietly shaping how you see yourself, others, and the world around you.

And you’ll discover why mindset work can feel like self-gaslighting when it doesn’t reach the parts of you that are still carrying the pain or fear from the past.

This episode is part of my new “Your Healing, Your Questions” series, where I answer listener questions about healing and emotional growth. It’s an insightful, conversation-style episode rather than a meditation.

Tune in to learn how to move beyond mindset and begin transforming the roots of your limiting beliefs through compassion, presence, and somatic awareness.

In this episode:

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

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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:

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:

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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

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

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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:

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

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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

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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:

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!

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Connect with Karena:

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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:

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!

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Connect with Karena:

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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:

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

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🌟 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!

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Connect with Karena:

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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:

Read more about living from the heart here

🌟 If you want to learn even more about how to regulate your nervous system and connect with your body and emotions in a deep and supportive way, enroll now in The Feel It To Heal It Mini-Course!

In 5 powerful mini-lessons, it will help you drop in, deepen your compassionate self-understanding, and find more clarity and healing on your journey.

Enroll for free now!

✨ Ready to find your center, quiet your mind, and step off the roller coaster of stress and overwhelm?

You’re invited to join me in Somatic Healing Hub!

SHH is a beautiful, deeply supportive online community filled with the structure, support, and somatic practices to help you actually feel better in your body - and create real change in your life.

💗💗💗 Inside, you’ll get ad-free access to the Somatic Healing Meditations podcast! 💗💗💗💗

Each week, I guide multiple live somatic healing classes - calming, grounded practices to regulate your nervous system and reconnect with your inner world.

There’s also monthly group coaching with me, heart-centered workshops, and an extensive library of powerful body-based resources to support your healing journey.

Your nervous system. Your emotions. Your healing — lovingly supported. 💛

Learn more and enroll now!

🐠 Join me in Costa Rica this winter for a deeply restorative Somatic Self-Love Retreat - a gentle, immersive experience designed to help you reconnect with your body, soften old self-protection, and return to your truest self.

Through daily somatic practices, heart-opening workshops, and healing time in nature, you'll learn how to cultivate embodied self-love from the inside out. ✨ Early bird discounted spots are almost gone!

Learn more at www.helloinnerlight.com/retreats

(Email me at [email protected] to get more information about the special discount that’s available until Sept 30th!)

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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

Read more (and get the script) for this 3-Step Process for Self-Compassion

Learn more about iffirmations here

🌟 If you want to learn even more about how to regulate your nervous system and connect with your body and emotions in a deep and supportive way, enroll now in The Feel It To Heal It Mini-Course!

In 5 powerful mini-lessons, it will help you drop in, deepen your compassionate self-understanding, and find more clarity and healing on your journey.

Enroll for free now!

🐠 Join me in Costa Rica this winter for a deeply restorative Somatic Self-Love Retreat - a gentle, immersive experience designed to help you reconnect with your body, soften old self-protection, and return to your truest self.

Through daily somatic practices, heart-opening workshops, and healing time in nature, you'll learn how to cultivate embodied self-love from the inside out. ✨ Early bird discounted spots are almost gone!

Learn more at www.helloinnerlight.com/retreats

(Email me at [email protected] to get more information about the special discount that’s available until Sept 30th!)

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Connect with Karena:

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