There's a space most women know intimately but rarely talk about - the gap between where you are and where you want to be. It's uncomfortable in a quiet, persistent way. Often confusing and conflicting. Sometimes grief tinged. And filled with the urge to control, fix, shut down, gaslight or force your way through it. 

This episode is an invitation to try something different. 

Through the yogic concept of Ishvara Pranidhana - the practice of surrender and trust - we explore what it actually means to accept your reality without giving up on what you want or abandoning your feelings. This isn't about giving up or pretending you're fine, it's about learning to take hold of your life with open hands. To take wise, embodied action while releasing the white-knuckled grip on how it's al supposed to look. 

If you’ve been wrestling with trust, struggling to accept what is, or exhausted from holding others emotions while not tending to your own — this one is for you.

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Next steps ⬇️

Grab a free yoga practice to Come Home to Your Body

-> https://kerimarino.eo.page/comehome

Start a consistent daily yoga practice in Daily Devotion - 21 days of 10 minute yoga practices plus email support to keep you on track

-> https://thenourishedwoman.heymarvelous.com/product/92272/lessons

Find out how deep your yoga practice is going - a free quiz to help you sort out of you're getting the most out of your practice

-> https://kerimarino.eo.page/deepenyourpractice

Help spread the word. If this episode resonated, share it with a friend and leave a review on Apple Podcasts.

Connect with Keri or learn more about her offerings at www.KeriMarino.com  and on instagram @the_nourished_woman

A gentle note: The Nourished Woman Podcast is educational and not a substitute for medical or mental health care. Please listen to your body and consult your provider when needed.

I've never told this story publicly before now. 

In this episode, I'm sharing the real reason I became a somatic yoga therapist - not the professional biography version, but the actual lived truth. The childhood that was full of love and also full of trauma. The religious upbringing that taught me my body was a problem. The relationship at 14 that became two years of sexual and emotional abuse I couldn't name until a class gave me the words. The eating disorders, chronic pain, body image struggles and anxiety. 

And yoga - finding me at the height of suffering and showing me for the first time what it felt like to feel light, safe and at ease in my own skin. This episode is for everyone who's wanted my story over the years but hasn't known where to find it. For every woman who has been carrying something quietly for a long time. Who has done the therapy, the inner work, the journaling and still feels like they're living from the neck up...like something essential is just out of reach. 

Reminder, you are resilient AF, you were never broken, there is a roadmap forward and you are not alone. I'm here with you and so many other are too.

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Next steps ⬇️

Grab a free yoga practice to Come Home to Your Body

-> https://kerimarino.eo.page/comehome

Start a consistent daily yoga practice in Daily Devotion - 21 days of 10 minute yoga practices plus email support to keep you on track

-> https://thenourishedwoman.heymarvelous.com/product/92272/lessons

Find out how deep your yoga practice is going - a free quiz to help you sort out of you're getting the most out of your practice

-> https://kerimarino.eo.page/deepenyourpractice

Help spread the word. If this episode resonated, share it with a friend and leave a review on Apple Podcasts.

Connect with Keri or learn more about her offerings at www.KeriMarino.com  and on instagram @the_nourished_woman

A gentle note: The Nourished Woman Podcast is educational and not a substitute for medical or mental health care. Please listen to your body and consult your provider when needed.

You’ve journaled about it.
Talked about it in therapy.
You understand your patterns…
So why do you still feel stuck?
In this episode, we’re talking about the gap so many self-aware women find themselves in — where you know what’s going on… but your body hasn’t caught up yet.
Because healing doesn’t happen in your mind alone.

Your body has to feel safe enough to actually process what’s there, in this espisode Yoga Therapist Keri Marino shines some light. 
If you’ve been stuck in overthinking, analyzing, or trying to “figure yourself out”… this will help you understand why — and what’s actually missing.

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Next steps ⬇️

Grab a free yoga practice to Come Home to Your Body

-> https://kerimarino.eo.page/comehome

Start a consistent daily yoga practice in Daily Devotion - 21 days of 10 minute yoga practices plus email support to keep you on track

-> https://thenourishedwoman.heymarvelous.com/product/92272/lessons

Find out how deep your yoga practice is going - a free quiz to help you sort out of you're getting the most out of your practice

-> https://kerimarino.eo.page/deepenyourpractice

Help spread the word. If this episode resonated, share it with a friend and leave a review on Apple Podcasts.

Connect with Keri or learn more about her offerings at www.KeriMarino.com  and on instagram @the_nourished_woman

A gentle note: The Nourished Woman Podcast is educational and not a substitute for medical or mental health care. Please listen to your body and consult your provider when needed.

Ever cried or had a surprising emotional release during yoga and wondered what just happened? In this episode, we get into the why (the science and the subtle) of these common tender moments, trace it back to something powerful and name part of what makes yoga so healing. If you're on a journey know yourself more, grow, heal and expand you might find answers here to why emotions rise, tears flow and ease settles in every time you roll out your mat. 

This episode was a direct response to a question I've been asked too many times to count over the years. If you have a question you'd like me to answer email or DM on Instagram. 

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Next steps ⬇️

Grab a free yoga practice to Come Home to Your Body

-> https://kerimarino.eo.page/comehome

Start a consistent daily yoga practice in Daily Devotion - 21 days of 10 minute yoga practices plus email support to keep you on track

-> https://thenourishedwoman.heymarvelous.com/product/92272/lessons

Find out how deep your yoga practice is going - a free quiz to help you sort out of you're getting the most out of your practice

-> https://kerimarino.eo.page/deepenyourpractice

Help spread the word. If this episode resonated, share it with a friend and leave a review on Apple Podcasts.

Connect with Keri or learn more about her offerings at www.KeriMarino.com  and on instagram @the_nourished_woman

A gentle note: The Nourished Woman Podcast is educational and not a substitute for medical or mental health care. Please listen to your body and consult your provider when needed.

Have you ever journaled for hours, talked it out with your therapist, listened to every podcast episode about healing — and still felt stuck? If you're a woman who lives deeply in her mind, constantly analyzing her emotions instead of actually feeling them, this episode is for you. In today's conversation, we're diving into the pattern of over-intellectualizing emotion — what it looks like, why so many of us default to it, and why all the self-awareness in the world won't set you free if it stays in your head.

Through the lens of devotional somatic yoga for women and nervous system healing, we'll explore how to gently move out of analysis mode and back into your body — where real transformation lives. Whether you're new to gentle and restorative yoga and inner work or you've been on this path for a while, this episode will give you practical, embodied tools to start feeling, expressing, and releasing what you've been carrying. This is the heart of what we do here at The Nourished Woman — and it just might be the permission slip you didn't know you needed.

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Next steps ⬇️

Grab a free yoga practice to Come Home to Your Body

-> https://kerimarino.eo.page/comehome

Start a consistent daily yoga practice in Daily Devotion - 21 days of 10 minute yoga practices plus email support to keep you on track

-> https://thenourishedwoman.heymarvelous.com/product/92272/lessons

Find out how deep your yoga practice is going - a free quiz to help you sort out of you're getting the most out of your practice

-> https://kerimarino.eo.page/deepenyourpractice

Help spread the word. If this episode resonated, share it with a friend and leave a review on Apple Podcasts.

Connect with Keri or learn more about her offerings at www.KeriMarino.com  and on instagram @the_nourished_woman

A gentle note: The Nourished Woman Podcast is educational and not a substitute for medical or mental health care. Please listen to your body and consult your provider when needed.

Perimenopause doesn’t just shift your hormones — it often shifts the questions you’re willing to ask about your life. In this episode, I sit down with yoga teacher, Enneagram teacher, and TEDx speaker Kat Smith for an honest conversation about midlife, motherhood, and the moment many women realize they’ve been holding everything together while quietly running on empty.

We talk about self-trust, desire, and how yoga and nervous system practices can support women through the emotional and physical changes of perimenopause. If you’re navigating midlife, feeling stretched thin, or craving a deeper connection with yourself, this conversation offers perspective, compassion, and practical insight.

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Connect with Keri at https://www.kerimarino.com/ and @the_nourished_woman

Connect with Kat at https://www.theyogasmith.com and @the_yoga_smith or on her podcast Enneagram + Yoga.

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Next steps ⬇️

Grab a free yoga practice to Come Home to Your Body

-> https://kerimarino.eo.page/comehome

Start a consistent daily yoga practice in Daily Devotion - 21 days of 10 minute yoga practices plus email support to keep you on track

-> https://thenourishedwoman.heymarvelous.com/product/92272/lessons

Find out how deep your yoga practice is going - a free quiz to help you sort out of you're getting the most out of your practice

-> https://kerimarino.eo.page/deepenyourpractice

Help spread the word. If this episode resonated, share it with a friend and leave a review on Apple Podcasts.

Connect with Keri or learn more about her offerings at www.KeriMarino.com  and on instagram @the_nourished_woman

A gentle note: The Nourished Woman Podcast is educational and not a substitute for medical or mental health care. Please listen to your body and consult your provider when needed.

If you’ve been waiting for meditation, breathwork, or restorative yoga to “finally feel easy”… this is your loving reality check.

Learning to be still is a skill. And like any new skill — playing guitar, lifting weights, having hard conversations — it’s awkward at first. Your mind will wander. Your body will fidget. You will feel anything but enlightened and likely come up against anxiety at some point.

That doesn’t mean you’re bad at meditation or restorative yoga. It means you’re building capacity.
In this episode, we talk about why high-functioning women especially struggle with stillness — and why that’s not a flaw, it’s a training ground. We move beyond the fantasy of instant calm and into what actually creates embodied confidence and nervous system resilience: repetition, honesty, and small, devotional reps. 

If you’re ready to stop waiting for calm to magically descend and start practicing your way into steadiness, this conversation will give you both the gentle nudge and the grounded truth you need.

Want to get better at meditation and restorative yoga?

Get My -> Good at Meditation and Restorative Yoga Guide 

For self-aware women who feel like you’re bad at meditation and are ready to feel successful. https://kerimarino.eo.page/meditationguide

Want to hear other episodes on meditation?

Check out:

• Why Meditation Feels So Hard - and How to Finally Find a Practice You Love
• On Meditation, God & Relationships with David Harshada Wagner

Come Home to Your Body - free somatic yoga practice for women

->https://kerimarino.eo.page/comehome

Daily Devotion - 21 day therapeutic home yoga practice 

-> https://www.kerimarino.com/daily-devotion-21-day-program.html

The Nourished Woman Sanctuary - on-demand and live somatic yoga for women ready to feel wildly whole & free

-> https://www.kerimarino.com/the-nourished-woman-sanctuary.html

If this episode resonated, share it with a woman who needs it and leave a review on Apple Podcasts. 

Connect with Keri at KeriMarino.com - @the_nourished_woman

In this episode, Kat Beck and I speak honestly about healing from body image issues, sexual trauma, chronic health concerns, and the long road back to feeling at home in your own body. We share what it actually took for us to become women who embody real self-confidence — not the loud, performative kind, but the grounded kind that comes from honoring your intuition, leaning on community, and learning to feel safe inside yourself again.

If you’ve ever longed for the seemingly effortless confidence another woman has while feeling disconnected from your body and doubting your intuition — this conversation offers an illuminating and deep take on how to get there.

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Come Home to Your Body - free somatic yoga practice for women

->https://kerimarino.eo.page/comehome

Daily Devotion - 21 day therapeutic home yoga practice 

-> https://www.kerimarino.com/daily-devotion-21-day-program.html

The Nourished Woman Sanctuary - on-demand and live somatic yoga for women ready to feel wildly whole & free

-> https://www.kerimarino.com/the-nourished-woman-sanctuary.html

If this episode resonated, share it with a woman who needs it and leave a review on Apple Podcasts. 

Connect with Keri at https://www.kerimarino.com/ and @the_nourished_woman

Connect with Kat at https://www.mysticmedicineschool.com/ or on YouTube @mysticmedicinewithkatbeck.

In this episode, Keri calls out the habit of “performing peace” and why so many high-functioning, self-aware women confuse numbness and people pleasing with resilience. If you see yourself in that and are curious about feeling the kind of freedom that's rooted in authenticity, want the confidence to be your whole Self and have lasting real peace (that you now on some level is possible for you but aren't sure how to get to)...this episode is for you love.

Come Home to Your Body - free somatic yoga practice for women

->https://kerimarino.eo.page/comehome

Daily Devotion - 21 day therapeutic home yoga practice 

-> https://www.kerimarino.com/daily-devotion-21-day-program.html

The Nourished Woman Sanctuary - on-demand and live somatic yoga for women ready to feel wildly whole & free

-> https://www.kerimarino.com/the-nourished-woman-sanctuary.html

If this episode resonated, share it with a woman who needs it and leave a review on Apple Podcasts. 

Connect with Keri at https://www.kerimarino.com/ and on instagram @the_nourished_woman

When the world feels loud and heavy, it’s easy to feel pulled away from yourself. If you find yourself doom scrolling, skipping your yoga practice and sitting with quiet ache of fear, anger, grief, and hope about what's going on in the world. In this episode, Keri speaks directly to that moment—when your nervous system is overwhelmed and even the tools you trust feel just out of reach.

FREE Breathwork and Meditation practice for when you are feeling triggered. 

Enjoying the podcast? Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts & share with a friend so more women find it.

Come Home to Your Body - free somatic yoga practice for women

->https://kerimarino.eo.page/comehome

Daily Devotion - 21 day therapeutic home yoga practice 

-> https://www.kerimarino.com/daily-devotion-21-day-program.html

The Nourished Woman Sanctuary - on-demand and live somatic yoga for women ready to feel wildly whole & free

-> https://www.kerimarino.com/the-nourished-woman-sanctuary.html

If this episode resonated, share it with a woman who needs it and leave a review on Apple Podcasts. 

Connect with Keri at https://www.kerimarino.com/ and on instagram @the_nourished_woman