Embodied Self-Trust: Meditatie & Explore Your Great Within | Lesson Seven

Why We Leave Our Bodies: Moving from Burnout, Overwhelm & Fear Toward Safety & Presence With Laura Wolf

Today on the podcast, I'm joined by Laura Wolf, a feminine embodiment teacher, retreat leader, and founder of The WildWoman Experience. For more than 20 years, Laura has guided women in reconnecting with their bodies, nervous systems, and authentic selves through embodiment practices, breathwork, nervous system support, and sacred feminine spirituality. She is also the creator of Sacred Body: Return to Self, a nine-month journey designed to help women move from stress, over-functioning, and self-abandonment into deeper self-trust, aliveness, pleasure, and connection. I'm excited to have her here today to explore what it truly means to come home to ourselves. Together, we explore why relationship conflict can trigger such intense fear, how our nervous systems are wired to interpret disconnection as a threat to survival, and the many ways we try to avoid feeling fear, grief, vulnerability, and uncertainty. Laura shares why healing isn't simply a mindset shift, and why the nervous system often requires physiological tools—not just positive thinking—to experience true safety and regulation. We also discuss what it really means to be embodied, how reconnecting with the body opens the door to intuition, wisdom, and authentic self-expression and why so many women have learned to suppress their power, gifts, and aliveness. Our conversation expands into the transformative power of women's circles, the importance of community in healing, and why isolation often keeps us stuck in shame, believing we are broken, failing, or alone in our struggles. Laura shares her perspective on creating energetic containers rooted in unconditional love, where women can feel safe enough to soften, be vulnerable, and reconnect with themselves. In this episode, we explore: • Why relationship distress can feel like a survival threat • The connection between fear, attachment, and the nervous system • Practical ways to stay present with uncomfortable emotions • Why women often heal more deeply in community • The role of energetic containers in creating safety and transformation • Reclaiming aliveness, authenticity, and self-trust Whether you're navigating relationship challenges, struggling with anxiety or loneliness, or longing to feel more connected to yourself, this conversation offers both insight and hope for the journey home. Learn More about Laura Here: https://laurawolf.com/ [https://laurawolf.com/] Learn More about Wild Woman Retreat (SEPTEMBER 2026) Here: https://wildwomanexperience.com/ [https://wildwomanexperience.com/] Book a 1:1 With Laura here: https://laurawolf.com/private-mentorship [https://laurawolf.com/private-mentorship] Want to Dive Deeper? Get The Workbook! PRESALE IS OPEN! USE THE PROMO CODE: PODCAST Read the Back Cover A Compassionate Guide To Understanding The Patterns That Once Protected You Whether you know the C-word, "Codependency,"and feel ready for this book, or the word itself makes you recoil from it like a hot flame, I promise this journey will surprise you, and hopefully inspire you to pass it on to a friend. Codependency is often misunderstood. It is not just people-pleasing or insecurity, it lives on a spectrum that almost everyone dances on. It shows up in the one who over-gives and the one who withdraws, in the perfectionist, the caretaker, the person who stays guarded, and the one who has spent years abandoning themselves to keep the peace. If you have ever related to others from a place of fear rather than authenticity, this book was written for you. Inspired by the author's beloved Healing Our Relationships podcast, this workbook draws from eighteen years of lived spiritual exploration. The workbook does not ask you to see yourself as broken, or to become someone better, but simply to remember and return to the authentic truth of who you already are. Through a lens of compassionate curiosity you will explore five core areas of codependent patterns, patterns many of us adapted to survive when our needs, feelings, and truth felt unsafe to express. Each area is explored through a five-step inquiry process that reveals the pattern, honors its origin, acknowledges the cost, and re-orients you towards new possibilities. Then, it brings it all into the practice of daily life. This is where the mind stops running old patterns on autopilot, the nervous system begins to heal, and you reclaim the power of choice. You are not here to judge yourself or label yourself as being codependent. You are here to honor what once protected you and to reclaim the parts of yourself that got lost along the way. If you have spent years abandoning yourself, shape-shifting for others, staying walled off or emotionally unavailable, or repeating painful relationship patterns, this is your invitation back to the most important relationship of all- the one you have with yourself. Head to https://www.healwithalchemy.com/presale [https://www.healwithalchemy.com/presale] use the Promo Code: PODCAST to pre-order the book at a special discount. Follow our NEW instagram page @soulalchemyhealing Our new website will be live in June @ www.healingourrelationships.com Work with me 1:1 or set up a free connection call @ https://www.healwithalchemy.com/coaching [https://www.healwithalchemy.com/coaching]

Codependency In The Family: Overcoming The Fear of Hurting The People We Love

This week I am talking about the messy and complicated journey of healing codependency inside of our immediate family relationships. Especially our parents! Decades of patterns, trauma, and life experience mold the way we relate to our parents and our familial relationships. Trying to set new boundaries or step into the authenticity of who you are with people who have known you and related to you in a certain way your entire life can be the most confusing, challenging, and fearful changes to make. If you are trying to figure out how to feel safe being yourself, say no after 30 years of saying yes, create more space between yourself and those you love, or learn how to hold who you truly are within the expectations of others, let this episode inspire you to release guilt, shame, and emotional responsibility. I hope it will inspire you and give you the courage to allow others to hold their own reactions, disappointments, and pain — while learning to hold yourself with love. Receive some tools, inspiration and hear a little of my own story of growing up in an Italian, Catholic, emotionally intense and boundaryless environment and how I found the courage to set boundaries and change family dynamics that had gone on for decades. Want to Dive Deeper? Get The Workbook! PRESALE IS OPEN! USE THE PROMO CODE: PODCAST Read the Back Cover A Compassionate Guide To Understanding The Patterns That Once Protected You Whether you know the C-word, "Codependency,"and feel ready for this book, or the word itself makes you recoil from it like a hot flame, I promise this journey will surprise you, and hopefully inspire you to pass it on to a friend. Codependency is often misunderstood. It is not just people-pleasing or insecurity, it lives on a spectrum that almost everyone dances on. It shows up in the one who over-gives and the one who withdraws, in the perfectionist, the caretaker, the person who stays guarded, and the one who has spent years abandoning themselves to keep the peace. If you have ever related to others from a place of fear rather than authenticity, this book was written for you. Inspired by the author's beloved Healing Our Relationships podcast, this workbook draws from eighteen years of lived spiritual exploration. The workbook does not ask you to see yourself as broken, or to become someone better, but simply to remember and return to the authentic truth of who you already are. Through a lens of compassionate curiosity you will explore five core areas of codependent patterns, patterns many of us adapted to survive when our needs, feelings, and truth felt unsafe to express. Each area is explored through a five-step inquiry process that reveals the pattern, honors its origin, acknowledges the cost, and re-orients you towards new possibilities. Then, it brings it all into the practice of daily life. This is where the mind stops running old patterns on autopilot, the nervous system begins to heal, and you reclaim the power of choice. You are not here to judge yourself or label yourself as being codependent. You are here to honor what once protected you and to reclaim the parts of yourself that got lost along the way. If you have spent years abandoning yourself, shape-shifting for others, staying walled off or emotionally unavailable, or repeating painful relationship patterns, this is your invitation back to the most important relationship of all- the one you have with yourself. Head to https://www.healwithalchemy.com/presale use the Promo Code: PODCAST to pre-order the book at a special discount. Follow our NEW instagram page @soulalchemyhealing The book and our new website will be live June First @ www.healingourrelationships.com Work with me 1:1 or set up a free connection call @ https://www.healwithalchemy.com/coaching

Your New Companion: The Healing Our Relationships Workbook

Season 2 is here! And I am bringing something tangible with it! 📖 Hello Journeyers! I am so excited to open this season with a companion to your journey. Inspired by all of your emails asking for the tools to really transform painful relationship patterns, I have spent the last seven months devoted to creating the Healing Our Relationships From Codependency to Authenticity Workbook. In this episode, I share the story behind its creation and the recovery and devotion that went into it. This isn't your average workbook. It's a journey of deep and powerful transformation inspired by 18 years of soul recovery, that offers mind, body, and spirit teachings and tools to support you in healing painful relationship patterns, while simultaneously offering you a powerful way to nurture and grow a deep and loving relationship with yourself. PRESALE IS OPEN! USE THE PROMO CODE: PODCAST Read the Back Cover👇 A Compassionate Guide To Understanding The Patterns That Once Protected You Whether you know the C-word, "Codependency,"and feel ready for this book, or the word itself makes you recoil from it like a hot flame, I promise this journey will surprise you, and hopefully inspire you to pass it on to a friend. Codependency is often misunderstood. It is not just people-pleasing or insecurity, it lives on a spectrum that almost everyone dances on. It shows up in the one who over-gives and the one who withdraws, in the perfectionist, the caretaker, the person who stays guarded, and the one who has spent years abandoning themselves to keep the peace. If you have ever related to others from a place of fear rather than authenticity, this book was written for you. Inspired by the author's beloved Healing Our Relationships podcast, this workbook draws from eighteen years of lived spiritual exploration. The workbook does not ask you to see yourself as broken, or to become someone better, but simply to remember and return to the authentic truth of who you already are. Through a lens of compassionate curiosity you will explore five core areas of codependent patterns, patterns many of us adapted to survive when our needs, feelings, and truth felt unsafe to express. Each area is explored through a five-step inquiry process that reveals the pattern, honors its origin, acknowledges the cost, and re-orients you towards new possibilities. Then, it brings it all into the practice of daily life. This is where the mind stops running old patterns on autopilot, the nervous system begins to heal, and you reclaim the power of choice. You are not here to judge yourself or label yourself as being codependent. You are here to honor what once protected you and to reclaim the parts of yourself that got lost along the way. If you have spent years abandoning yourself, shape-shifting for others, staying walled off or emotionally unavailable, or repeating painful relationship patterns, this is your invitation back to the most important relationship of all- the one you have with yourself. Head to https://www.healwithalchemy.com/presale [https://www.healwithalchemy.com/presale] use the Promo Code: PODCAST to pre-order the book at a special discount. Follow our NEW instagram page @soulalchemyhealing The book and our new website will be live June First @ www.healingourrelationships.com [https://www.healingourrelationships.com] Work with me 1:1 or set up a free connection call @ https://www.healwithalchemy.com/coaching [https://www.healwithalchemy.com/coaching] See you next week!

Season Two Is Back! Teaser Trailer!

Welcome Back! I'm Marisa, Transformation Guide, Insight Timer Meditation, and a woman who has spent over 18 years walking her own road through addiction, codependency, and soul recovery. This is Season 2 of The Healing Our Relationships: From Codependency to Authenticity. Last season was an invitation to step into compassionate awareness. To ask yourself where codependent patterns show up in your relationship to yourself and others. This season, we heal it at a deeper level. In the mind, body and spirit. I am going to have incredible guests for you AND the Healing Our Relationships Workbook will be available for purchase in a few weeks! I spent the last six months devoted to creating a journey of healing and transformation that you can tangibly follow and hold. I gave it ALL of me and believe I have created something special and powerful for lasting change. 📖 Want to Dive Deeper? Get The Workbook! PRESALE IS OPEN! USE THE PROMO CODE: PODCAST Read the Back Cover👇 A Compassionate Guide To Understanding The Patterns That Once Protected You Whether you know the C-word, "Codependency,"and feel ready for this book, or the word itself makes you recoil from it like a hot flame, I promise this journey will surprise you, and hopefully inspire you to pass it on to a friend. Codependency is often misunderstood. It is not just people-pleasing or insecurity, it lives on a spectrum that almost everyone dances on. It shows up in the one who over-gives and the one who withdraws, in the perfectionist, the caretaker, the person who stays guarded, and the one who has spent years abandoning themselves to keep the peace. If you have ever related to others from a place of fear rather than authenticity, this book was written for you. Inspired by the author's beloved Healing Our Relationships podcast, this workbook draws from eighteen years of lived spiritual exploration. The workbook does not ask you to see yourself as broken, or to become someone better, but simply to remember and return to the authentic truth of who you already are. Through a lens of compassionate curiosity you will explore five core areas of codependent patterns, patterns many of us adapted to survive when our needs, feelings, and truth felt unsafe to express. Each area is explored through a five-step inquiry process that reveals the pattern, honors its origin, acknowledges the cost, and re-orients you towards new possibilities. Then, it brings it all into the practice of daily life. This is where the mind stops running old patterns on autopilot, the nervous system begins to heal, and you reclaim the power of choice. You are not here to judge yourself or label yourself as being codependent. You are here to honor what once protected you and to reclaim the parts of yourself that got lost along the way. If you have spent years abandoning yourself, shape-shifting for others, staying walled off or emotionally unavailable, or repeating painful relationship patterns, this is your invitation back to the most important relationship of all- the one you have with yourself. Head to https://www.healwithalchemy.com/presale [https://www.healwithalchemy.com/presale] use the Promo Code: PODCAST to pre-order the book at a special discount. Follow our NEW instagram page @soulalchemyhealing The book and our new website will be live June First @ www.healingourrelationships.com [https://www.healingourrelationships.com] Work with me 1:1 or set up a free connection call @ https://www.healwithalchemy.com/coaching [https://www.healwithalchemy.com/coaching]

Embodied Self-Trust: Living From Your Heart Center | Lesson 8

This final lesson is an invitation to continue walking between your inner and outer worlds. Everything you've experienced in this course — your landscape, your guides, the symbols, the sensations, the clarity that rises from within — becomes truly transformative when you nourish it and bring it into your daily life. Integration is not an ending. It is the beginning of living from your heart center — using your body as your compass, your intuition as your guide, and your inner world as a place you can return to again and again. This lesson is a reminder that the doorway is always open, and you now have everything you need to continue the journey within. Please download my free mediation app HealSpace https://healspaceapp.com [https://healspaceapp.com] You will hear me refrence mediation journeys and they can all be found here. I'm Marisa, Insight Timer Meditation Teacher and Transformation Guide and I am bringing this Insight Timer Course to you here on the Healing Our Relationships Podcast. This course is a bridge into embodied transformation: To become deeply connected to yourself and your inner world where your intuition, boundaries, and truth actually live. Through heart-centered visioning practices, guided inner exploration, and embodied teachings, you will learn how to: * Enter your heart center with intention and clarity * Navigate the inner landscapes that arise through visioning * Understand the symbols, sensations, and imagery that come forward * Connect with your intuition, inner guidance, and helping energies * Strengthen self-trust and emotional regulation * Shift out of mind-made stories and into truth * Build new neural pathways that support healing and transformation * Develop a deeper, more grounded relationship with yourself * Access the unseen wisdom and spiritual connection already within you If you are ready to stop circling the same patterns and start living differently book a Free Connection Call with me to see how a 12-week guided 1:1 journey can help you rebuild trust with yourself and step into the life of radial self-acceptance and embodied love. Book your connection call here [https://cal.com/soulalchemyhealingcalendar] 📖 Want to Dive Deeper? Get The Workbook! PRESALE IS OPEN! USE THE PROMO CODE: PODCAST Read the Back Cover👇 A Compassionate Guide To Understanding The Patterns That Once Protected You Whether you know the C-word, "Codependency,"and feel ready for this book, or the word itself makes you recoil from it like a hot flame, I promise this journey will surprise you, and hopefully inspire you to pass it on to a friend. Codependency is often misunderstood. It is not just people-pleasing or insecurity, it lives on a spectrum that almost everyone dances on. It shows up in the one who over-gives and the one who withdraws, in the perfectionist, the caretaker, the person who stays guarded, and the one who has spent years abandoning themselves to keep the peace. If you have ever related to others from a place of fear rather than authenticity, this book was written for you. Inspired by the author's beloved Healing Our Relationships podcast, this workbook draws from eighteen years of lived spiritual exploration. The workbook does not ask you to see yourself as broken, or to become someone better, but simply to remember and return to the authentic truth of who you already are. Through a lens of compassionate curiosity you will explore five core areas of codependent patterns, patterns many of us adapted to survive when our needs, feelings, and truth felt unsafe to express. Each area is explored through a five-step inquiry process that reveals the pattern, honors its origin, acknowledges the cost, and re-orients you towards new possibilities. Then, it brings it all into the practice of daily life. This is where the mind stops running old patterns on autopilot, the nervous system begins to heal, and you reclaim the power of choice. You are not here to judge yourself or label yourself as being codependent. You are here to honor what once protected you and to reclaim the parts of yourself that got lost along the way. If you have spent years abandoning yourself, shape-shifting for others, staying walled off or emotionally unavailable, or repeating painful relationship patterns, this is your invitation back to the most important relationship of all- the one you have with yourself. Head to https://www.healwithalchemy.com/presale [https://www.healwithalchemy.com/presale] use the Promo Code: PODCAST to pre-order the book at a special discount. Follow our NEW instagram page @healingourrelationships The book and our new website will be live June First @ www.healingourrelationships.com [https://www.healingourrelationships.com] Work with me 1:1 or set up a free connection call @ https://www.healwithalchemy.com/coaching [https://www.healwithalchemy.com/coaching]