Supporting Yourself Through Strong Emotions (A Somatic Meditation For When You’re Freaking Out)

It's time to move from managing stress to truly releasing it with this gentle and effective somatic practice. Stress isn't merely an emotional or mental state; it's a physical reality that permeates our entire being. In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, you'll discover a transformative, body-first approach to releasing stress from your nervous system and body. This Somatic Practice for Stress Release uses Self-Havening to support your nervous system, followed by Regenerating Images in Memory® to help you listen to your body, understand your stressors on a deeper level, and release stress at its source. You'll leave this somatic practice feeling more grounded, centered, and equipped with powerful tools to navigate stress with greater ease and resilience. This body-first approach also fosters a compassionate relationship with yourself, inviting you to listen, understand, and respond to your body's needs. __ In this episode: The Importance of A Somatic Approach To Stress Relief Somatic Practice For Stress Release: Self-Havening for nervous system support Regenerating Images in Memory for deeper understanding and relief Learn more about Havening Techniques and the science behind them Learn all about Iffirmations here 🌟 If you want to learn even more about how to regulate your nervous system and connect with your body and emotions in a deep and supportive way, enroll now in The Feel It To Heal It Mini-Course! In 5 powerful mini-lessons, it will help you drop in, deepen your compassionate self-understanding, and find more clarity and healing on your journey. Enroll for free now! Connect with Karena: @helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube helloinnerlight.com Somatic Healing Meditations homepage Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course Join The Co-Regulation Community: https://helloinnerlight.com/the-coregulation-community

Gratitude, when felt deep in our bones, has the power to transform our internal landscape. ✨ In this soothing and regulating mind-body meditation, we’re going beyond surface-level gratitude. We'll explore authentic gratitude that connects you to the depths of your inner world. This practice isn't about forcing positivity or slapping a smile over your struggles. It's about genuinely cultivating gratitude as a healing resource, and nurturing feelings of safety, stability, and connection within ourselves. This meditation can help you become more present, more in tune with the richness of your life, and better equipped to handle life's challenges with a grounded sense of gratitude. Let's embark on this journey together and discover the true power of authentic gratitude. 🌸💖 In this episode: Authentic gratitude as a healing resource Leaving toxic positivity behind Mind-Body Meditation to Cultivate Authentic Gratitude Somatic Resources for support when you’re not feeling grateful: EPS 018: Havening For When You're Feeling Off EPS 049: Supporting Yourself Through Strong Emotions (A Somatic Meditation For When You’re Freaking Out) EPS 036: Meditation For When You Need A Good Cry EPS 038: 15-Minute Meditation to Effectively Reduce Anxiety And Stress (Using Havening Techniques) 🌟 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! Connect with Karena: @helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube helloinnerlight.com Somatic Healing Meditations homepage Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course Join The Co-Regulation Community: https://helloinnerlight.com/the-coregulation-community

Are you feeling emotionally exhausted right now? You’re not alone. 🩷 So many of us are dealing with a huge accumulation of stress (both emotional and otherwise)! To heal emotional exhaustion, it’s important to realize that being emotionally exhausted usually means that our nervous system is dysregulated. To truly replenish and restore our energy, we need a somatic approach that gently and effectively supports our nervous system. This deeply soothing somatic meditation is designed to regulate your nervous system and tone your vagus nerve, helping you step out of the relentless cycle of stress and into a space of rest and renewal. (Plus, it feels amazing!) Give it a try now and let me know how it goes. In this episode: Understanding Emotional Exhaustion And Nervous System Regulation Somatic Meditation For Deep Rest And Regulation: Soothing + Regulating Breathing Body Scan For Deep Rest Take it a step further (somatic meditations to help you safely process your emotions): EPS 016: Somatic Meditation For Emotional Release EPS 027: Effective Emotional Self-Care: A Body-Centered Parts Work Process EPS 018: Havening For When You're Feeling Off 🌟 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! Connect with Karena: @helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube helloinnerlight.com Somatic Healing Meditations homepage Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course Join The Co-Regulation Community: https://helloinnerlight.com/the-coregulation-community

I think the world needs those of us strong enough to act from compassion and authenticity now more than ever. That’s why I’ve created a somatic meditation for inner strength, designed to help you connect with the depth and breadth of the true strength you carry within. This somatic meditation is a soothing journey inward that will guide you to uncover the beauty and brilliance of your authentic self and help you contact the truest essence of you that can guide you through the ebbs and flows of life. No matter how much or how little you already feel aware of your inner strength, this somatic meditation can help you understand it more deeply and embody it more fully. Iffirmations for Inner Strength: What if I have more strength, courage, and fortitude within me than I realize? What if I’m more than just my fears and anxieties? What if within me I have what it takes to face my challenges? What would it be like to stand strong in my own energy? What if I’m enough exactly as I am? What would it be like to consistently make choices that align with my deepest values, desires, and authenticity? What if my true inner strength is rooted in my authenticity and compassion? What if my true inner strength doesn’t have to look like anyone else’s? What if I can let go of the perceptions and habits that disempower me? What would it be like to embrace my bravest self? What would it be like to reclaim my power and strength from anywhere I left it in the past? What if it’s safe for me to embody my full strength now even if I had to stay small in the past? What if it’s safe for me to take up space and share my voice with the world? Who could I become if I allowed my inner strength to flow through me and fill me? In this episode The true essence of inner strength is compassion 3 part Somatic Meditation for Inner Strength: Self-Havening Iffirmations for Inner Strength Embodying Your Inner Strength with Regenerating Images in Memory Learn more about Havening Techniques and the science behind them Learn all about Iffirmations here 🌟 If you want to learn even more about how to regulate your nervous system and connect with your body and emotions in a deep and supportive way, enroll now in The Feel It To Heal It Mini-Course! In 5 powerful mini-lessons, it will help you drop in, deepen your compassionate self-understanding, and find more clarity and healing on your journey. Enroll for free now! Connect with Karena: @helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube helloinnerlight.com Somatic Healing Meditations homepage Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course Join The Co-Regulation Community: https://helloinnerlight.com/the-coregulation-community

First of all, if you’re freaking out right now, I want to extend my heartfelt compassion to you. Life can be incredibly challenging, and it's okay to feel harrowed or anxious. (In fact, it’s okay to feel ANYTHING that you may be feeling right now.) Unfortunately, when life gets this overwhelming, we often spiral in a vicious cycle of dysregulation, stress, and catastrophic thoughts. This Somatic Meditation For When You’re Freaking Out is all about supporting your nervous system to come out of its dysregulated state while also helping you break the cycle of your racing thoughts. Join me for this gentle and supportive somatic meditation. Let it guide you out of the spiral and help you get your feet beneath you again. In this episode: The vicious cycle of stress and dysregulation Somatic Meditation For When You’re Freaking Out - using Self-Havening and gentle breathing Learn more about Havening Techniques and the science behind them 🌟 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! Connect with Karena: @helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube helloinnerlight.com Somatic Healing Meditations homepage Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course Join The Co-Regulation Community: https://helloinnerlight.com/the-coregulation-community

When life is spinning and the world feels out of control, our bodies often sense it before our minds do. You might be carrying the weight of this chaos in the tension in your shoulders, the shallowness of your breath, the racing of your thoughts, and the stress living deep in your nervous system. This guided meditation to soothe your body and mind is a gentle and effective somatic practice that can help support your nervous system and guide you back to a regulated state where calm can authentically arise within you. By utilizing Havening Techniques® followed by a soothing breathwork practice, you’ll naturally cultivate more calm within. Plus, it feels absolutely amazing. Try this guided somatic meditation now and give yourself the gift of true relaxation as you deeply take care of your body and mind! In this episode: How to find calm in the chaos by soothing your body and nervous system Guided Meditation To Soothe Your Body + Mind: Self-Havening Exercise Guided Meditation To Soothe Your Body + Mind: Soothing Breathwork Practice Learn more about Havening Techniques and the science behind them Try a longer version of the soothing breathwork practice here! Other episodes mentioned: EPS 038 - 15-Minute Meditation to Effectively Reduce Anxiety And Stress EPS 016 - Somatic Meditation For Emotional Release 🌟 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! Connect with Karena: @helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube helloinnerlight.com Somatic Healing Meditations homepage Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course Join The Co-Regulation Community: https://helloinnerlight.com/the-coregulation-community

Self-love is a term often misunderstood and oversimplified. We know it’s an ideal we want to work toward, but most of the advice we hear about how to actually achieve it totally misses the mark. In this Somatic Self-Love Practice, you’ll explore how deep listening and inner attunement can help you cultivate a relationship with yourself where you create a deep sense of connection, acceptance, and support (the true foundations of self-love). You’ll be guided through a regulating and compassionate somatic meditation for self-love and support that will help you attune to your inner self more deeply and bring loving support to the parts of you that need it. This somatic self-love practice is truly a soothing and regulating revolution in self-love. 🩷 In this episode: The foundation of true self-love Somatic Meditation For Self-Love And Support Deep Listening To Your Inner Self Bringing Support To All Parts Of You (Body-Scan) 🌟 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! Connect with Karena: @helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube helloinnerlight.com Somatic Healing Meditations homepage Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course Join The Co-Regulation Community: https://helloinnerlight.com/the-coregulation-community

In today's digital age, social media has woven itself into the fabric of our daily lives, offering both connection and distraction at our fingertips. And while social media has some beautiful and supportive aspects, the algorithms behind it are designed to be highly addictive and manipulative. We scroll, hoping to find something uplifting, educational, or distracting, but we soon find ourselves lost in the unfulfilling world of doomscrolling. The endless scroll for dopamine hits can lead to significant costs: nervous system dysregulation, emotional exhaustion, and a disrupted sense of self. In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, you’ll be guided to connect with your body in a way that gently regulates your nervous system. Then we’ll use a body-centered emotional processing technique (called Regenerating Images in Memory®) to examine and process the deeper feelings, needs and desires that are driving your doomscrolling in the first place. This meditation can be incredibly regulating and clarifying, empowering you to create a more mindful relationship with technology—one that supports your well-being rather than depleting it. In this episode: Understanding The Cycle of Doomscrolling How To Stop Doomscrolling Somatic Meditation To Break Your Social Media Addiction (using Regenerating Images in Memory) Other episode mentioned: EPS 011 - Quick Exercise To Relax Your Nervous System 🌟 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! Connect with Karena: @helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube helloinnerlight.com Somatic Healing Meditations homepage Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course Join The Co-Regulation Community: https://helloinnerlight.com/the-coregulation-community

This deeply soothing breathwork practice to regulate your nervous system is truly one of my favorite ways to decrease stress and anxiety and to create a state of peaceful relaxation in my body! It will help you regulate, drop in, and come home to yourself in a way that is so simple yet profoundly effective. Breathwork is one of the most powerful tools we have for nervous system regulation. By consciously working with our breath in certain ways, we can send a signal to our brain and body that we are safe. This simple message allows our nervous system to move out of its stressed or reactive state and back into a state of functional, flexible balance. In addition to working with the breath, this practice invites you to drop in and really feel your body. Bringing our awareness to the body in this way can quiet your mind and tone your vagus nerve, which is a key player in regulating the nervous system. Give it a try now! Episode topics: The power of breathwork to regulate your nervous system Soothing Breathwork Exercise to Regulate Your Nervous System   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! Connect with Karena: @helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube helloinnerlight.com Somatic Healing Meditations homepage Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course Join The Co-Regulation Community: https://helloinnerlight.com/the-coregulation-community

Welcome to this special episode of Somatic Healing Meditations. Today’s episode is all about How To Heal Your Anxious Thoughts (At The Roots) and is a recording of a live workshop that I recently taught. It also includes a Parts Work Meditation for Anxiety that will help you experience deep anxiety relief while growing in self-compassion and self-understanding. I truly hope that you enjoy this workshop! It’s a holistic and potent exploration of how to deepen your healing journey so that you can experience real change in your anxiety. Plus it introduces you to an incredibly effective paradigm of body-centered emotional healing to help you heal your core issues and make real change in your life. Episode timing: 00:00 - How To Heal Your Anxious Thoughts (At The Roots) 03:40 - Your thoughts are symptoms of something deeper 13:21 - The Hidden Roots of Anxiety 19:36 - How To Work With Our Anxious Parts 32:44 - Parts Work Meditation For Anxiety 1:00:00 - Question + Answers Other episodes mentioned: 038 - 15-Minute Meditation to Effectively Reduce Anxiety And Stress (Using Havening Techniques) Download the slides from the workshop For a short time only, enrollment is open for my group coaching program, Rooted + Resilient. When you're ready for deep transformation… What you really need is a practical approach to deep self-healing … An easy and non-threatening way to explore and transform the holistic ecosystem of your psyche. And that’s exactly what you get in Rooted + Resilient. In Rooted + Resilient you’ll learn a tested and true approach to inner work that will not only help you heal the wounds from your past, but will also give you the tools you need to face any future challenges from a compassionate and empowered place. Learn more here! Connect with Karena: @helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube helloinnerlight.com Somatic Healing Meditations homepage Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course Join The Co-Regulation Community: https://helloinnerlight.com/the-coregulation-community Enrolling now! Rooted + Resilient Group Program