Deep Within with Marina Triner, The Compassionate Somatic Coach

If you've ever wondered whether spirituality and the body can work together in healing, this conversation is for you. I sat down with Mendy Klein, a certified life coach, somatic practitioner, and breathwork facilitator who focuses on anxiety, trauma, and helping people move forward without judgment, and who hosts the podcast Coaching with Mendy. Mendy and I have exchanged coaching sessions and I've been a guest on his show, so this one felt like a conversation between friends. He shares how his path began, volunteering with teens at risk and discovering that being met without judgment is where trust starts, and how years of training in somatic work, breathwork, and coaching, alongside his Jewish faith and Kabbalistic studies, shaped the work he does today.We talk about how Mendy works with his own anxiety through prayer, meditation, somatic sessions, and honest vulnerability, why anger deserves a place in inner work and how to give it space before reacting, what his daily prayer practice looks like, and where Kabbalah and somatic work meet. Mendy also reflects on his inner child, why he encourages people to start the work before everything falls apart, and why healing, like building strength at the gym, takes time. Mendy speaks from his own Jewish faith, and whether or not that's your path, I think you'll find a lot of warmth and permission in this one.Connect with Mendy:https://www.instagram.com/coachingwithMendyhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/coachingwithmendyhttps://youtube.com/@coachingwithmendy?si=NOFk3N8jE4evYDuEWORK WITH ME 1:1:❥Softening into self- 3 month 1:1 with Whats App Support: https://marina-yt.mykajabi.com/offers/PAWQhZHu❥❥1:1 Coaching with me: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfWcZM5s9c2OjOLwoGMI5jE6rh_JAzjN2d_vCtuVe7e3pVGxw/viewformDOWNLOAD FOR FREE:Stay or Go: 5 Clarity Questions to Reconnect with Your Inner Knowing: https://marinatriner.com/stay-or-go-guideAttatchment Practice: Discover the actual blocks beneath the surface so you can actually have the deep intimacy you crave: https://marinatriner.com/attachment-practice Connect & Ground: 10 Incredible Somatic Practices for Nervous System Regulation: https://marinatriner.com/connect-and-groundAlive & Aligned: 7 Embodiment Practices For Self Connection: https://marinatriner.com/alive-and-alignedTrigger to Rooted: A step by step process of working with your triggers: https://marinatriner.com/trigger-2-rooted VIEW MY COURSES & RESOURCES:https://marinatriner.com/resources CONNECT WITH  ME:Follow me on Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/marinatriner/ Subscribe to YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/@marinatriner Top Episode Quotes:"There's no judgment, because when you have trauma, you don't know what to do. You just want to numb the pain, because you cannot be with the pain." - Mendy Klein"First, notice you're angry. Let's feel it. Move it through your body. Give yourself time. You need an hour or 24 hours, whatever you need." - Mendy Klein"Guilt doesn't help you either. Noticing, okay, I will correct it." - Mendy Klein"Don't wait till the last minute, when all four tires are flat. Start repairing your car." - Mendy Klein"When the heart is open, the person gets it, because they know that I get them." - Mendy Kleinsomatic healing and spirituality, anxiety relief, nervous system regulation, breathwork, trauma healing, inner child healing, working with anger, emotional regulation, faith and healing, Kabbalah, prayer and meditation, healing without judgment, coaching, somatic practitioner, deep within podcast, Mendy Klein 

If you've been living with chronic pain or complex illness, gone from specialist to specialist, and quietly concluded that something must be wrong with you, this conversation is for you. I sat down with Karyn Shanks, MD, a physician, author, and teacher who has spent decades helping people recover their lives from chronic complex illness, a path she has walked herself, to talk about why so many of us were taught to see ourselves as a collection of broken parts instead of one intelligent, whole organism. Karyn brings together epigenetics, neuroplasticity, functional medicine, and transformational psychology with a simple belief: that safety, compassion, and story are the foundations of healing.We talk about what it's like to slip through the cracks of a system built for emergencies, why a symptom can be read as intelligence instead of failure, and how chronic unmet needs, the quiet kind of trauma, can live on in the body for years. Karyn shares her own practice for when pain sends her nervous system into alarm, we explore why simply being listened to is already a form of attunement, and she leaves us with a message for anyone who feels overwhelmed and exhausted right now: everything going on with you makes sense. This one is warm, grounding, and full of permission to stop treating your body like the problem.Karyn’s Book: https://www.karynshanksmd.com/books/Connect with Karyn:Website: https://www.karynshanksmd.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KarynShanksMD/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/karynshanksmd/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karyn-shanks-md-9ba2a520/WORK WITH ME 1:1:❥Softening into self- 3 month 1:1 with Whats App Support: https://marina-yt.mykajabi.com/offers/PAWQhZHu❥❥1:1 Coaching with me: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfWcZM5s9c2OjOLwoGMI5jE6rh_JAzjN2d_vCtuVe7e3pVGxw/viewformDOWNLOAD FOR FREE:Stay or Go: 5 Clarity Questions to Reconnect with Your Inner Knowing: https://marinatriner.com/stay-or-go-guideAttatchment Practice: Discover the actual blocks beneath the surface so you can actually have the deep intimacy you crave: https://marinatriner.com/attachment-practice Connect & Ground: 10 Incredible Somatic Practices for Nervous System Regulation: https://marinatriner.com/connect-and-groundAlive & Aligned: 7 Embodiment Practices For Self Connection: https://marinatriner.com/alive-and-alignedTrigger to Rooted: A step by step process of working with your triggers: https://marinatriner.com/trigger-2-rooted VIEW MY COURSES & RESOURCES:https://marinatriner.com/resources CONNECT WITH  ME:Follow me on Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/marinatriner/ Subscribe to YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/@marinatriner Top Episode Quotes:"Everything going on with you makes sense. It may not make sense to you right now, as you're struggling, as you're overwhelmed, as you're exhausted. But it does make sense." - Karyn Shanks"A lot of people feel really broken when they're stressed all the time, scared, anxious, vigilant. But it's a protective state, and we need to honor it." - Karyn Shanks"We sure do learn a lot about ourselves by what isn't said, or by what's withheld." - Karyn Shanks"Pain is intelligent about the body, but that doesn't mean we need to tolerate it. You deserve to be comfortable." - Karyn Shanks"You already are this whole, intelligent organism, and that organism really knows how to survive." - Karyn Shankschronic illness and trauma, chronic pain, complex illness, nervous system regulation, functional medicine, mind body healing, trauma and the body, unmet needs, childhood emotional neglect, attunement, medical gaslighting, wholeness, self worth, burnout, overgiving, somatic healing, trauma healing, deep within podcast, Karyn Shanks 

If you've ever caught yourself silencing your needs in a relationship because somewhere along the way you learned that you were "too much," this conversation is for you. I sat down with Mia Amini, a certified trauma-informed psychotherapist and NARM Practitioner based in Denmark who works online with clients around the world, to talk about how growing up with emotionally immature parents shapes the way we date, love, and handle rejection as adults. Mia shares the example of a sensitive child who learns to bottle everything up, and how that same strategy quietly follows her into adult relationships, as avoidance, anxious over-explaining, or simply enduring in silence.We talk about what healing actually looks like (spoiler: it's more like going to the gym than flipping a switch), how to meet yourself when someone rejects you, and the continuum of emotional immaturity, from the openly toxic to the well-meaning parent who simply couldn't see their child. Mia also opens up about her own story of becoming the performer who never asked for help, why she believes estrangement doesn't always have to be the final chapter, and what she'd say to parents whose adult children have stepped away. I love how honest and gentle this one is.Connect with Mia:https://www.aminiterapi.dk/https://www.instagram.com/mia.aminitherapy/https://www.youtube.com/@MiaAminiWORK WITH ME 1:1:❥Softening into self- 3 month 1:1 with Whats App Support: https://marina-yt.mykajabi.com/offers/PAWQhZHu❥❥1:1 Coaching with me: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfWcZM5s9c2OjOLwoGMI5jE6rh_JAzjN2d_vCtuVe7e3pVGxw/viewformDOWNLOAD FOR FREE:Stay or Go: 5 Clarity Questions to Reconnect with Your Inner Knowing: https://marinatriner.com/stay-or-go-guideAttatchment Practice: Discover the actual blocks beneath the surface so you can actually have the deep intimacy you crave: https://marinatriner.com/attachment-practice Connect & Ground: 10 Incredible Somatic Practices for Nervous System Regulation: https://marinatriner.com/connect-and-groundAlive & Aligned: 7 Embodiment Practices For Self Connection: https://marinatriner.com/alive-and-alignedTrigger to Rooted: A step by step process of working with your triggers: https://marinatriner.com/trigger-2-rooted VIEW MY COURSES & RESOURCES:https://marinatriner.com/resources CONNECT WITH  ME:Follow me on Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/marinatriner/ Subscribe to YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/@marinatriner Top Episode Quotes:"When we are in a relationship, we should be able to express our needs. That's why we go into a relationship with another human being." - Mia Amini"It's a journey. When we go to the gym, we don't become fully muscular the first time we visit." - Mia Amini"Can it be true that I can love myself even when I'm rejected, even when I'm not wanted by the person I really want?" - Mia Amini"They are the same people. Nothing has changed within them. But I have worked through these emotions." - Mia Amini"If your adult child is putting in the effort and the money, it's a sign that they want you in their life. The least you can do is show up." - Mia Aminiemotionally immature parents, childhood emotional neglect, relational trauma, attachment healing, anxious attachment, avoidant attachment, fear of rejection, people pleasing, self worth, estrangement from parents, adult children of emotionally immature parents, boundaries, inner child healing, nervous system regulation, trauma healing, self trust, deep within podcast, Mia Amini 

If you didn't have a safe, present caregiver you could go to and simply be witnessed by, and your life carries a deep sense of void and loneliness, this episode is for you. I sat down with Dr. Maria-Elena Lukeides, a clinical psychologist and meditation teacher based in Sydney with nearly three decades of experience, to talk about how we can build that attunement now, as adults, and what it means to become a compassionate observer of our own distress.We explore why anxiety, overachieving, shutdown, and depression are often not separate problems but different faces of the same unattuned wound, why many of our parents couldn't attune to us even when they loved us, and why the goal isn't to get rid of how we feel but to grow our capacity to hold ourselves while we feel it. Dr. Maria-Elena also guides a short practice in the middle of our conversation that I found so deeply relaxing I almost fell asleep on my own podcast. Please don't do the practice while driving or doing anything that needs your full attention. Find somewhere safe to soften, and let it find you.💌Your free practice: https://www.drmariaelenalukeides.com.au/your-special-giftConnect with Dr. Maria-Elena:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maria-elena-lukeides-270379a5/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thewellnessfountain/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thewellnessfountain/Website: https://www.drmariaelenalukeides.com.au/Book: https://link.amazon/B08ubURbLWORK WITH ME 1:1:❥Softening into self- 3 month 1:1 with Whats App Support: https://marina-yt.mykajabi.com/offers/PAWQhZHu❥❥1:1 Coaching with me: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfWcZM5s9c2OjOLwoGMI5jE6rh_JAzjN2d_vCtuVe7e3pVGxw/viewformDOWNLOAD FOR FREE:Stay or Go: 5 Clarity Questions to Reconnect with Your Inner Knowing: https://marinatriner.com/stay-or-go-guideAttatchment Practice: Discover the actual blocks beneath the surface so you can actually have the deep intimacy you crave: https://marinatriner.com/attachment-practice Connect & Ground: 10 Incredible Somatic Practices for Nervous System Regulation: https://marinatriner.com/connect-and-groundAlive & Aligned: 7 Embodiment Practices For Self Connection: https://marinatriner.com/alive-and-alignedTrigger to Rooted: A step by step process of working with your triggers: https://marinatriner.com/trigger-2-rooted VIEW MY COURSES & RESOURCES:https://marinatriner.com/resources CONNECT WITH  ME:Follow me on Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/marinatriner/ Subscribe to YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/@marinatriner Top Episode Quotes:"The point isn't to get rid of how I feel. It's to increase our capacity to hold space for ourselves when we're that anxious." - Dr. Maria-Elena Lukeides"It wasn't a superpower. It was a super anxiety power, because I was never able to switch off and feel safe." - Dr. Maria-Elena Lukeides"How do we soundproof it even more so we don't hear that baby crying? Most of our self-help is about that." - Dr. Maria-Elena Lukeides"When we brace against that, it is a rejection of that part of us. It's closing the door on the child." - Dr. Maria-Elena Lukeides"Let's just stop fighting ourselves and start bringing all the parts of ourselves into our internal field of love and attunement." - Dr. Maria-Elena Lukeidesattunement, emotional neglect, childhood emotional neglect, hypervigilance, parts work, compassionate self, nervous system regulation, anxiety and depression, hyper independence, overachieving, burnout, mindfulness, guided meditation, inner child healing, self compassion, deep within podcast, Dr Maria-Elena Lukeides

If you're stuck in the question of whether to stay or go, anxious, exhausted, and wondering why your partner isn't doing the work, this conversation is for you. I sat down with Becky Aste, trauma-informed marriage coach, somatic practitioner, CEO of I Do Breakthrough, and host of the Your Breakthrough Blueprint Podcast, who took her own marriage from the brink of divorce to thriving after a decade of trying every mainstream modality.Becky shares the story of the "chase and run" dance she and her husband were locked in, why ten years of talk therapy, books, and couples counseling gave her a lot of language but very little change, and what finally shifted when she started working from the body up. We talk about how to tell the difference between replay and reality when you're triggered, why you can change a relational dynamic even when your partner isn't on board, how to work with resentment, and why codependency may have an expiration date as an identity. Becky also walks through simple, practical tools you can use on your own, in your own room, starting today. You don't have to figure out the answer from your head. Your body knows more than you've been allowed to trust.Connect with Becky:https://www.idobreakthrough.comhttps://www.instagram.com/becky_asteWORK WITH ME 1:1:❥Softening into self- 3 month 1:1 with Whats App Support: https://marina-yt.mykajabi.com/offers/PAWQhZHu❥❥1:1 Coaching with me: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfWcZM5s9c2OjOLwoGMI5jE6rh_JAzjN2d_vCtuVe7e3pVGxw/viewformDOWNLOAD FOR FREE:Stay or Go: 5 Clarity Questions to Reconnect with Your Inner Knowing: https://marinatriner.com/stay-or-go-guideAttatchment Practice: Discover the actual blocks beneath the surface so you can actually have the deep intimacy you crave: https://marinatriner.com/attachment-practice Connect & Ground: 10 Incredible Somatic Practices for Nervous System Regulation: https://marinatriner.com/connect-and-groundAlive & Aligned: 7 Embodiment Practices For Self Connection: https://marinatriner.com/alive-and-alignedTrigger to Rooted: A step by step process of working with your triggers: https://marinatriner.com/trigger-2-rooted VIEW MY COURSES & RESOURCES:https://marinatriner.com/resources CONNECT WITH  ME:Follow me on Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/marinatriner/ Subscribe to YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/@marinatriner Top Episode Quotes:"A lot of language, not a lot of change." - Becky Aste"Is there an actual bear in the room, or does this just remind me of that feeling I had in my body back when there actually was a bear in the room?" - Becky Aste"Resentment always points to an area of your life where you have an unspoken boundary." - Becky Aste"Intuition is settled. It's not shouting. It's not loud. It's this deep, deep knowing." - Becky Aste"You are not codependent. You are not anxiously attached. You're so much more than that." - Becky Asteshould I stay or go, saving a marriage, somatic healing, nervous system regulation, anxious attachment, codependency, relational patterns, triggers, replay or reality, self trust, boundaries, resentment, self abandonment, deep within podcast, Becky Aste 

If you were the one in your family who saw the dysfunction clearly, named it, and then somehow ended up carrying all the shame for it, this episode is for you. I sat down with Dr. Deniz Ahmadinia, licensed clinical psychologist and trauma survivor, to talk about the scapegoat role: what it costs the person who sees clearly, and what it actually takes to take your power back.We get into how systems, whether a family, a workplace, a religion, or a government, use the same tactics to maintain control: gaslighting, invalidation, silencing, blame-shifting. Dr. Deniz walks through why it can take years, or a big life event like a divorce, before someone has enough safety to actually see their own family's dysfunction, and how chronic invalidation disconnects us from our own bodies and inner knowing. We also talk about the difference between a past wound and a present harm, why self-regulation alone isn't enough if you're regulating your way through ongoing mistreatment, and what it means to finally come home to yourself. This conversation is honest, tender, and genuinely reparative.Connect with Dr. Deniz:https://www.drdeniz.com/https://www.instagram.com/drdenizpsyd/WORK WITH ME 1:1:❥Softening into self- 3 month 1:1 with Whats App Support: https://marina-yt.mykajabi.com/offers/PAWQhZHu❥❥1:1 Coaching with me: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfWcZM5s9c2OjOLwoGMI5jE6rh_JAzjN2d_vCtuVe7e3pVGxw/viewformDOWNLOAD FOR FREE:Stay or Go: 5 Clarity Questions to Reconnect with Your Inner Knowing: https://marinatriner.com/stay-or-go-guideAttatchment Practice: Discover the actual blocks beneath the surface so you can actually have the deep intimacy you crave: https://marinatriner.com/attachment-practice Connect & Ground: 10 Incredible Somatic Practices for Nervous System Regulation: https://marinatriner.com/connect-and-groundAlive & Aligned: 7 Embodiment Practices For Self Connection: https://marinatriner.com/alive-and-alignedTrigger to Rooted: A step by step process of working with your triggers: https://marinatriner.com/trigger-2-rooted VIEW MY COURSES & RESOURCES:https://marinatriner.com/resources CONNECT WITH  ME:Follow me on Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/marinatriner/ Subscribe to YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/@marinatriner Top Episode Quotes:"The person or people who are in that role as a scapegoat have an up close and personal experience with the dysfunction in a way that is less veiled than the other members of the family." - Dr. Deniz Ahmadinia"It's never gone though. It's just waiting till it's safe enough to return to it." - Dr. Deniz Ahmadinia"Am I just self-regulating and trying to find safety so I can keep tolerating the same condition?" - Dr. Deniz Ahmadinia"We need more truth tellers. We need more truth speakers. And that is both the burden and the gift of being a scapegoat." - Dr. Deniz Ahmadinia"Taking our power back for me comes through the body. This is where our knowing, our truth, our wisdom, our intelligence lives." - Dr. Deniz Ahmadiniascapegoat role, dysfunctional family systems, systems of power, gaslighting, invalidation, inner child healing, parts work, trauma healing, self abandonment, nervous system regulation, taking your power back, narcissistic family, deep within podcast, Dr Deniz Ahmadinia 

Why do we keep ending up with people who hurt us, even when we swear it won't happen again? I sat down with Dr. Galit Atlas, renowned psychoanalyst, faculty member at NYU's Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and at Columbia University, and author of the international bestseller Emotional Inheritance, to talk about exactly that. Her new book, Come Closer: Childhood Wounds, Adult Love and the Secrets of Emotional Intimacy, releases the same day this episode airs.We get into Freud's concept of repetition compulsion, why the familiar so often gets mistaken for safety, and why changing a pattern can feel like losing your own identity. Dr. Atlas introduces the different "children" that live inside all of us (the frightened child, the guilty child, the invisible child, and more) and how giving each of them a seat at the table is the real path to change. We also talk about self-abandonment, what it actually means to hold two people in mind during conflict, and why over-functioning is so often a defense against vulnerability. This conversation is rich, honest, and full of the kind of insight that makes you see your own patterns differently.Connect with Dr. Galit Atlas:https://www.galitatlas.com/https://www.instagram.com/galit_atlashttps://wildanalysiswithgalitatlas.substack.com/Come Closer Book: https://www.galitatlas.com/home-1-1 WORK WITH ME 1:1:❥Softening into self- 3 month 1:1 with Whats App Support: https://marina-yt.mykajabi.com/offers/PAWQhZHu❥❥1:1 Coaching with me: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfWcZM5s9c2OjOLwoGMI5jE6rh_JAzjN2d_vCtuVe7e3pVGxw/viewformDOWNLOAD FOR FREE:Stay or Go: 5 Clarity Questions to Reconnect with Your Inner Knowing: https://marinatriner.com/stay-or-go-guideAttatchment Practice: Discover the actual blocks beneath the surface so you can actually have the deep intimacy you crave: https://marinatriner.com/attachment-practice Connect & Ground: 10 Incredible Somatic Practices for Nervous System Regulation: https://marinatriner.com/connect-and-groundAlive & Aligned: 7 Embodiment Practices For Self Connection: https://marinatriner.com/alive-and-alignedTrigger to Rooted: A step by step process of working with your triggers: https://marinatriner.com/trigger-2-rooted VIEW MY COURSES & RESOURCES:https://marinatriner.com/resources CONNECT WITH  ME:Follow me on Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/marinatriner/ Subscribe to YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/@marinatriner Top Episode Quotes:"We go to the same place with the fantasy that not only is this time going to be different, this is going to repair everything that ever happened to us." - Dr. Galit Atlas"The familiar is not more safe than the stranger. It's more threatening, but it's not more dangerous." - Dr. Galit Atlas"When I change a pattern, I am not the same person. And what am I going to do without me?" - Dr. Galit Atlas"Why do you need permission to leave a place that is hurtful?" - Dr. Galit Atlas"Rigidity is what makes us fragile." - Dr. Galit Atlasrepetition compulsion, relational patterns, why we choose the same partners, childhood trauma, self abandonment, inner child work, emotional inheritance, come closer book, psychoanalysis, attachment healing, vulnerability, self worth, deep within podcast, Dr Galit Atlas 

If you've ever felt completely stuck in a decision, ruminating on it for weeks or months, heartbroken and looping and exhausted, this episode is for you. I'm sharing something that has changed my life more than almost anything else I teach: the realization that when we feel that intensely stuck, it's rarely about the thing in front of us. It's about something much older.I tell the story of the night I finally knew my marriage was over, sick with Covid, completely undefended, and how a simple parts work practice cracked open a truth I hadn't let myself see: my stuckness wasn't about my marriage at all. It was a much older fear, one that started long before I ever met my husband. I walk you through the concept, the process, and why understanding this can bring you so much relief the next time you feel trapped in your own mind. You are not broken for feeling this stuck. There is a reason, and it is findable.Join Safe to Connect: https://marinatriner.com/safe-to-connectWORK WITH ME 1:1:❥Softening into self- 3 month 1:1 with Whats App Support: https://marina-yt.mykajabi.com/offers/PAWQhZHu❥❥1:1 Coaching with me: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfWcZM5s9c2OjOLwoGMI5jE6rh_JAzjN2d_vCtuVe7e3pVGxw/viewformDOWNLOAD FOR FREE:Stay or Go: 5 Clarity Questions to Reconnect with Your Inner Knowing: https://marinatriner.com/stay-or-go-guideAttatchment Practice: Discover the actual blocks beneath the surface so you can actually have the deep intimacy you crave: https://marinatriner.com/attachment-practice Connect & Ground: 10 Incredible Somatic Practices for Nervous System Regulation: https://marinatriner.com/connect-and-groundAlive & Aligned: 7 Embodiment Practices For Self Connection: https://marinatriner.com/alive-and-alignedTrigger to Rooted: A step by step process of working with your triggers: https://marinatriner.com/trigger-2-rooted VIEW MY COURSES & RESOURCES:https://marinatriner.com/resources CONNECT WITH  ME:Follow me on Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/marinatriner/ Subscribe to YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/@marinatriner Top Episode Quotes:"My stuckness wasn't actually about this relationship. It was a very deep fear." - Marina"When we don't feel safe, we don't go into the body, because that's where all the intense emotion is." - Marina"You're feeling like there's a tiger in the room and the tiger is chasing you, and you've got to make a decision right away." - Marina"This intense emotion is not actually about the present moment. It's actually about the past." - Marina"Once you get to see it and you start to process the grief of it, your body starts to have completely different energy, and you no longer accept that treatment anymore." - Marinadecision paralysis, childhood trauma healing, nervous system regulation, parts work, somatic healing, rumination, emotional healing, inner child healing, trauma and relationships, self trust, deep within podcast, Marina Triner 

Some of the deepest wounds are the ones you can't quite point to. Not a big, dramatic event, just an absence, an emptiness, a loneliness that never fully goes away. I sat down with Morgan Pommells, who specializes in helping adult children of emotionally immature parents, to finally put language to something so many of us have felt but couldn't name.We get into what emotional immaturity actually is (and why it's not the same as narcissism), why this kind of wounding is so easy to dismiss as "not that bad," and how it shows up decades later as a false, performative self, chronic overfunctioning, and a deep fear of asking for support. Morgan also walks through how this pattern replays in romantic relationships, what enmeshment versus true differentiation looks like, and what it actually takes to start seeing yourself through your own eyes instead of your parents'. If you've ever felt like you had "a good enough childhood" but something still feels off, this conversation is going to land.Connect with Morgan:https://www.morganpommells.com/https://www.instagram.com/morganpommells/?hl=enNervous system program opening in the fall: https://artisanal-painter-4513.kit.com/1d0ecb021cWORK WITH ME 1:1:❥Softening into self- 3 month 1:1 with Whats App Support: https://marina-yt.mykajabi.com/offers/PAWQhZHu❥❥1:1 Coaching with me: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfWcZM5s9c2OjOLwoGMI5jE6rh_JAzjN2d_vCtuVe7e3pVGxw/viewformDOWNLOAD FOR FREE:Stay or Go: 5 Clarity Questions to Reconnect with Your Inner Knowing: https://marinatriner.com/stay-or-go-guideAttatchment Practice: Discover the actual blocks beneath the surface so you can actually have the deep intimacy you crave: https://marinatriner.com/attachment-practice Connect & Ground: 10 Incredible Somatic Practices for Nervous System Regulation: https://marinatriner.com/connect-and-groundAlive & Aligned: 7 Embodiment Practices For Self Connection: https://marinatriner.com/alive-and-alignedTrigger to Rooted: A step by step process of working with your triggers: https://marinatriner.com/trigger-2-rooted VIEW MY COURSES & RESOURCES:https://marinatriner.com/resources CONNECT WITH  ME:Follow me on Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/marinatriner/ Subscribe to YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/@marinatriner Top Episode Quotes:"It's not just the big things you can easily identify as happening. A lot of this wounding is sneaky, insidious, and it is about what didn't happen." - Morgan Pommells"If my god-like parent cannot survive me feeling, then I can't survive this feeling." - Morgan Pommells"You have to be able to give yourself permission to get it wrong, while staying with yourself." - Morgan Pommells"I am not unworthy of love. Nobody's going to love me are two completely different wounds. One is about who you are, the other is about how the world is going to experience you." - Morgan Pommells"Who I am at my core is good. It's no longer that there's something fundamentally wrong with me." - Morgan Pommellsemotionally immature parents, childhood emotional neglect, relational trauma, inner child healing, self worth, adult children of emotionally immature parents, enmeshment vs differentiation, attunement and mirroring, self trust, codependency, people pleasing, nervous system regulation, trauma healing, deep within podcast, Morgan Pommells

What if the food you ate today already decided how much conflict you can handle? I sat down with Luis Mojica, Somatic Educator, Certified Holistic Nutritionist, and author of Food Therapy, to talk about something most of us have never connected: the direct link between what we eat and how safe or threatened our nervous system feels. We get into his framework of food as stimulant, depressant, or balancer, and how understanding that shift can change your relationship to stress entirely.From there, the conversation opens into something even bigger: conflict. Luis shares his own story of growing up in an intersex body and facing years of bullying and harassment, and how that experience shaped his life's work in helping people move through disagreement and division without shutting down or attacking. We talk about "over couplings," the difference between being triggered and actually being unsafe, and practical tools for staying present in conflict, whether it's with a partner, a family member, or someone on the opposite side of a political divide. This is a rich, generous conversation, and one I think a lot of us need right now.Connect with Luis:https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/the-bookhttps://www.instagram.com/holistic.life.navigation/?hl=enPodcast: www.holisticlifenavigation.com/podcastYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@holisticlifenavigationWORK WITH ME 1:1:❥Softening into self- 3 month 1:1 with Whats App Support: https://marina-yt.mykajabi.com/offers/PAWQhZHu❥❥1:1 Coaching with me: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfWcZM5s9c2OjOLwoGMI5jE6rh_JAzjN2d_vCtuVe7e3pVGxw/viewformDOWNLOAD FOR FREE:Stay or Go: 5 Clarity Questions to Reconnect with Your Inner Knowing: https://marinatriner.com/stay-or-go-guideAttatchment Practice: Discover the actual blocks beneath the surface so you can actually have the deep intimacy you crave: https://marinatriner.com/attachment-practice Connect & Ground: 10 Incredible Somatic Practices for Nervous System Regulation: https://marinatriner.com/connect-and-groundAlive & Aligned: 7 Embodiment Practices For Self Connection: https://marinatriner.com/alive-and-alignedTrigger to Rooted: A step by step process of working with your triggers: https://marinatriner.com/trigger-2-rooted VIEW MY COURSES & RESOURCES:https://marinatriner.com/resources CONNECT WITH  ME:Follow me on Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/marinatriner/ Subscribe to YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/@marinatriner Top Episode Quotes:"Your food, literally every few hours, gives your body the ability to handle things that normally would overwhelm you, or it will create more overwhelm in your body." - Luis Mojica"You're not responsible for what gets triggered in me. You're responsible for your words. But what gets triggered in my body is mine to tend to." - Luis Mojica"The more capacity you have, the less you'll get triggered. You'll disagree, and you'll have preferences, and you'll be like, I don't like that, but you won't get triggered." - Luis Mojica"It's literally discerning the difference between discomfort and threat." - Luis Mojica"When you get really comfortable with conflict and you have more capacity for it, you're not triggered. You end up doing more." - Luis Mojicafood and nervous system, somatic nutrition, food therapy, conflict transformation, nervous system regulation, trauma and conflict, over couplings, trauma healing, polarization, political conflict, holistic nutrition, somatic healing, trigger vs threat, deep within podcast, Luis Mojica