Somatic Healing Meditations

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) [https://helloinnerlight.com/somatic-healing-meditations/meditation-for-secure-attachment-with-yourself-because-self-love-isnt-a-feeling-its-a-relationship] Related: Try more Deep Relaxation Meditations here! [https://helloinnerlight.com/somatic-healing-meditations?category=deep%20relaxation] 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! [https://helloinnerlight.com/mini-course] ---------------------------------------- 🐠 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 [http://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 [https://www.instagram.com/helloinnerlight/], and YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/helloinnerlight] * Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here [https://helloinnerlight.com/podcast] * 1:1 Somatic Healing Sessions with Karena [https://helloinnerlight.com/hack-your-subconscious] * Somatic Self-Love Retreat in Costa Rica [https://helloinnerlight.com/retreats] * Get AD-FREE access to this podcast, plus live classes, workshops, and group coaching in Somatic Healing Hub [https://helloinnerlight.com/somatic-healing-hub] * Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course [https://helloinnerlight.com/mini-course] * Join me in Somatic Healing Hub! [https://helloinnerlight.com/somatic-healing-hub]

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! [https://helloinnerlight.com/somatic-healing-meditations?category=Somatic%20Emotional%20Process] Learn more about secure attachment and self-love here. [http://helloinnerlight.com/somatic-healing-meditations/meditation-for-secure-attachment-with-yourself-because-self-love-isnt-a-feeling-its-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! [https://helloinnerlight.com/mini-course] ---------------------------------------- 🐠 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 [http://www.helloinnerlight.com/retreats] __ Connect with Karena: * @helloinnerlight on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/helloinnerlight/], and YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/helloinnerlight] * Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here [https://helloinnerlight.com/podcast] * 1:1 Somatic Healing Sessions with Karena [https://helloinnerlight.com/hack-your-subconscious] * Somatic Self-Love Retreat in Costa Rica [https://helloinnerlight.com/retreats] * Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course [https://helloinnerlight.com/mini-course] * Join me in Somatic Healing Hub! [https://helloinnerlight.com/somatic-healing-hub]

Have you been feeling disconnected from yourself - like you’re going through the motions but not really here? Like somewhere along the way, you lost touch with your own presence? In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations [https://helloinnerlight.com/podcast], you’ll be guided through a calming somatic meditation to help you reconnect with yourself from the inside out. Through breath, gentle touch, and Havening Techniques®, you’ll be invited back into your body with care and curiosity. You’ll also be guided through soothing “iffirmations” to support your compassionate return to yourself. If you’re longing to feel more grounded, more like yourself, and more at peace in your body, this meditation is for you. Take a breath. Let go of the doing. Come home to you. 💗 ---------------------------------------- In this episode: * Reconnect With Yourself Deeply * Somatic Meditation To Come Home To Yourself: * Self-Havening explained * Reconnect and Regulate using Havening * Iffirmations To Reconnect With Yourself Havening Techniques® is a registered trademark of Ronald Ruden, 15 East 91st Street, New York. www.havening.org [https://havening.org/] Learn more about Havening Techniques and the science behind them [https://helloinnerlight.com/havening-techniques-what-it-is-and-how-it-works] Learn all about Iffirmations here [https://helloinnerlight.com/iffirmations-library] https://helloinnerlight.com/somatic-healing-meditations/reconnect-with-yourself-deeply-a-somatic-meditation-to-come-home-to-yourself [https://helloinnerlight.com/somatic-healing-meditations/reconnect-with-yourself-deeply-a-somatic-meditation-to-come-home-to-yourself] ---------------------------------------- ✨ Ready to find your center, quiet your mind, and step off the roller coaster of stress and overwhelm? You’re invited to join me in Somatic Healing Hub [https://helloinnerlight.com/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! [https://helloinnerlight.com/somatic-healing-hub] ---------------------------------------- 🐠 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 [http://www.helloinnerlight.com/retreats] __ 🌿 Iffirmations to Reconnect With Yourself * What if I can gently come home to myself? * What if I don’t have to force myself back? What if I can just return to my senses in this moment? * What if I can allow my presence to soften into this moment, more and more? * What if it’s safe for me to be here now? * What if every time I come back to my body and feelings, I come back to myself? * What would it be like to welcome myself back, more and more, with each breath? * What would it be like to meet myself with gentleness and curiosity right here and right now? * What would it be like to feel a sense of home within myself? * What if I’m safe in my own presence? * What if I could release all pressure to be anything other than myself? * What if I wasn’t as far away from myself as I thought? * What if I have always belonged to myself? * What if my true essence is always here, even if I feel disconnected from it? * What would it be like to reconnect with the part of me that’s never forgotten my true essence? * What if it’s safe for me to slow down and listen to my inner world? * What would it be like to release what’s not mine and come home to who I truly am? * More and more, I choose to reconnect with myself. * More and more, I am coming home to me. ---------------------------------------- Connect with Karena: * @helloinnerlight on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/helloinnerlight/], and YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/helloinnerlight] * Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here [https://helloinnerlight.com/podcast] * 1:1 Somatic Healing Sessions with Karena [https://helloinnerlight.com/hack-your-subconscious] * Somatic Self-Love Retreat in Costa Rica [https://helloinnerlight.com/retreats] * Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course [https://helloinnerlight.com/mini-course] * Join me in Somatic Healing Hub! 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What if your anxiety isn’t a problem to fix… but a message to listen to? 💛 We’re so often told to silence anxiety - override it, out-think it, distract ourselves from it. But what if real relief comes not from resisting our anxiety, but from turning toward it with care? In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations [https://helloinnerlight.com/podcast], I guide you through a powerful somatic meditation for anxiety relief - a practice that helps you shift from control to compassion. You’ll explore what happens when you stop bracing against your anxiety and begin to gently feel it, listen to it, and honor the wisdom it holds. This 4-step anxiety relief process is rooted in neuroscience, somatic emotional processing, and deep inner attunement. It’s not about forcing yourself to be calm - it’s about becoming a safe place for the parts of you that feel anxious. 🎧 If you’ve been longing for a way to meet your anxiety that feels gentle, real, and deeply healing… this episode is for you. ---------------------------------------- In this episode: * A Somatic Approach to Anxiety Relief * Somatic Meditation For Anxiety Relief * Step 1: Feel The Anxiety in Your Body * Step 2: Turn Toward This Feeling * Step 3: Iffirmations For Anxiety Relief * Step 4: Understanding The Message Within Related: Try more Somatic Emotional Processing Meditations here! [https://helloinnerlight.com/somatic-healing-meditations?category=Somatic%20Emotional%20Process] Read more about this somatic approach to anxiety relief here. [http://helloinnerlight.com/somatic-healing-meditations/somatic-meditation-for-anxiety-relief] ---------------------------------------- Iffirmations for anxiety relief * What if it’s okay that I’m feeling this anxiety right now? * What would it be like to make space for this anxiety without needing to push it away or fix it immediately? * What if it’s safe for me to feel this right now? * What if there’s nothing wrong with me for feeling this way? * What would it be like to soften my heart to myself in this moment? * What would it be like to soften my heart to this anxiety in this moment? * What would it feel like to welcome all parts of myself, even the parts that feel anxious? * What would it be like to meet this anxious feeling as an invitation to go deeper? * What would it be like to listen to this feeling and honor the message within it? * What if these anxious feelings actually make sense in a way? Sentence leads for going deeper * What if these feelings make sense in a way because… * Because what I’m really feeling deep down is… * What I really want or need when I feel this way is… * What feels most supportive to me when I’m feeling anxious is… * What I’m realizing now is… * How it feels to realize that is… * Giving voice to anything else that wants to be known until that feels complete. ---------------------------------------- ✨ Ready to find your center, quiet your mind, and step off the roller coaster of stress and overwhelm? You’re invited to join me in Somatic Healing Hub [https://helloinnerlight.com/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! [https://helloinnerlight.com/somatic-healing-hub] ---------------------------------------- 🐠 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 [http://www.helloinnerlight.com/retreats] __ Connect with Karena: * @helloinnerlight on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/helloinnerlight/], and YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/helloinnerlight] * Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here [https://helloinnerlight.com/podcast] * 1:1 Somatic Healing Sessions with Karena [https://helloinnerlight.com/hack-your-subconscious] * Somatic Self-Love Retreat in Costa Rica [https://helloinnerlight.com/retreats] * Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course [https://helloinnerlight.com/mini-course] * Join me in Somatic Healing Hub! [https://helloinnerlight.com/somatic-healing-hub]

Ever find yourself spiraling into panic, shutting down in a conversation, or overreacting in a way that just doesn’t feel like you? You’re not alone - and you’re not broken. You may be experiencing something called an amygdala hijack. In this episode, we’re diving into what amygdala hijack really is - why it happens, how it feels in the body, and what’s going on in the brain when your amygdala takes over. Understanding this can be a game-changer for anyone who’s ever struggled with reactivity, shame after conflict, or feeling out of control in moments of stress. We’ll also talk about why you can’t think your way out of an amygdala hijack - and why somatic tools like Havening Techniques® are so effective at calming the emotional brain and bringing the thinking mind back online. You’ll then be guided through a gentle, body-based practice to calm your amygdala and return to a felt sense of safety. If you’ve ever wished you could stop the spiral in real time, this episode is for you. ---------------------------------------- In this episode: * What is Amygdala Hijack? * How to Calm Amygdala Hijack * Somatic Practice to Calm Your Amygdala using Havening Related: Try more nervous system healing meditations here! [https://helloinnerlight.com/somatic-healing-meditations?category=regulation%20exercise] Learn more about Havening Techniques and the science behind them [https://helloinnerlight.com/havening-techniques-what-it-is-and-how-it-works] Havening Techniques® is a registered trademark of Ronald Ruden, 15 East 91st Street, New York. www.havening.org [https://havening.org/] ---------------------------------------- 🌟 If you want to learn even more about how to regulate your nervous system and connect with your body and emotions in a deep and supportive way, enroll now in The Feel It To Heal It Mini-Course! In 5 powerful mini-lessons, it will help you drop in, deepen your compassionate self-understanding, and find more clarity and healing on your journey. Enroll for free now! [https://helloinnerlight.com/mini-course] ---------------------------------------- 🐠 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 [http://www.helloinnerlight.com/retreats] __ Connect with Karena: * @helloinnerlight on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/helloinnerlight/], and YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/helloinnerlight] * helloinnerlight.com [https://helloinnerlight.com/] * Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here [https://helloinnerlight.com/podcast] * Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course [https://helloinnerlight.com/mini-course] * Join The Co-Regulation Community: https://helloinnerlight.com/the-coregulation-community [https://helloinnerlight.com/the-coregulation-community] * 1:1 Somatic Healing Sessions with Karena [https://helloinnerlight.com/hack-your-subconscious] * Somatic Self-Love Retreat in Costa Rica [https://helloinnerlight.com/retreats]