Deep Within with Marina Triner, The Compassionate Somatic Coach

I am opening this season of the podcast with a little tirade about the coaching/therapy industries (whom I love dearly!) We often tell you to do your inner work: but what inner work can you do when the other party isn't interested in joining and doing theirs? Seriously! When you feel like your needs are constantly minimized, it's time to consider leaving the relationship. In a healthy, loving rela...

In this episode, Effie and I talk about what post traumatic growth actually means: rather than surviving the trauma, how can we learn and grow from it? How can we expand through the trauma? And what role do emotions play in our healing and expansion? We address how we have personally learned to work with our sadness and anger, and rather than shutting down, process our emotions to heal and become...

Something we often speak about when it comes to the holidays is grief, and grief is such a common emotion that arises during this time. But something we don't address is terror and fear, and how anger can actually help us move through the blind spots and the numbness in our bodies to express ourselves more, and to even connect deeper to ourselves and our loved ones. This is what this insightful ep...

Feeling like you are too much and your needs are too much is derived from a childhood trauma where your emotional (or other needs) could not be met by your caregivers, therefore giving you this message that YOU are the problem, rather than they are simply incapable. We explore this theme this week and how it has helped me make the big life decision of leaving my marriage. I hope this helps you in...

Should I stay or should I go? This is our theme this month, and each week I will drop a short tidbit from my online course titled the same. Today, I am addressing the importance of connecting to both our experience as a spirit and as a human body when we are navigating the super challenging decision of leaving or staying: in a job, career, business, or relationship. We need to honor the spiritual...

In this episode, we dive deep into trauma recovery, healing, and empowerment with Lauren Morgan, Trauma Recovery & Business Coach, Energy Master, and founder of Wild Wisdom. Lauren shares her remarkable journey from battling childhood trauma and severe health challenges to becoming an embodied healer and coach. She opens up about how practices like Ayurveda, hypnosis, and shamanism reshaped he...

Unlike abuse, Childhood Emotional Neglect is about the absence of something. Many of us who experienced it have no concrete examples of it, so we feel a sense of emptiness without concrete events to point to! This can be so confusing. This seriously painful experience of your emotions being avoided, neglected and not having a supportive place to go to for emotional soothing manifests deeply in our...

In this episode, we dive into the complex world of nervous system regulation, exploring the common pitfalls people face in their attempts to finally achieve calm and stability in their lives. Join us as we uncover ineffective strategies that often lead to feelings of shame and frustration, as well as the sneaky beliefs that can sabotage our efforts to regulate our emotions. With practical insights...

Have you ever found yourself frozen in a moment, unable to decide what to do next, or even feeling completely numb to things you normally care about? Maybe you’ve felt weighted down, like your body is bracing for something you can’t quite pinpoint, or struggled to shake off that “foggy” feeling that keeps you from moving forward. These are just a few everyday signs of the freeze response—a natural...

In this episode, we explore the importance of recognizing when it's time to regulate your nervous system and how to do it effectively. We'll dive into practical, everyday regulation techniques, the journey of developing a balanced system, and the concept of capacity tracking. Plus, we’ll discuss when regulation alone is enough and when deeper healing work may be needed — and why understanding the...

I have been so stuck with this relationship trigger for probably a lifetime, not realizing that it's so true what I teach... when there is numbness and dissociation it's an invitation to make space and go deeper. So having been forced to make the space (living alone for months now, having loads of alone time), I was able to go deeper and uncover one of the deepest childhood traumas and patterns in...

In this episode, we dive into the transformative process of healing from childhood emotional neglect. We explore what it feels like to grow up disconnected from your emotions and how that experience can lead to fear and avoidance of feelings as an adult.  Self Compassion Workbook: https://www.guilford.com/books/The-Mindful-Self-Compassion-Workbook/Neff-Germer/9781462526789 Childhood Emotional Negl...

Join me and Cat, who has an incredible approach to healing and has so much wisdom to share on chronic illnesses and how she found her way through and the different stages of healing, including a super simple practice you can integrate into your day.  Dr. Cathleen King, DPT is a doctor of physical therapy who loves teaching neuroscience principles. She is an intuitive mind-body practitioner, mom, a...

In this episode, we dive into the effects of living in a constant state of fight-or-flight and how it impacts our digestion and overall well-being. I share my personal journey through burnout and how I learned to embrace a slower, more intentional lifestyle. We’ll explore why sympathetic activation often feels safe, and the steps I took to prioritize my health by setting up systems that support a...

This episode is basically about how we can choose and create healthy attachment and secure, healthy relationships, whether it’s friendships, partnerships, colleagues, or anything else! A few of the things I talk about: My personal examples of fawning/people pleasing towards healthier relationships What I still struggle with in relationships  What to do when someone disappoints you and does not mee...

Hannah Deindorfer, also known as "The Libido Fairy," shares how her personal journey with libido and sexuality led her to embrace and explore sexual health. Her evolution has been shaped by personal challenges, as well as her work in somatic therapy, trauma healing, and pleasure practices. Hannah Deindorfer uses somatic therapy, sexuality, pleasure, and sensuality as tools for creating d...

What is the relationship between fear of rejection, lacking boundaries, and overextending yourself, and how do we find our center again? This month’s theme for HeartSpace community is HONORING MY NEEDS. And I believe this is the central connection between these things. Because when we feel like our needs are too much and we are too much, we start to neglect our boundaries, we overgive and we shrin...

You might have heard this term or phrase - living consciously. What does it actually mean practically? How does this look like, especially in the relationships in which we are most challenged with our responses and reactions? This is what I dive into and clarify today. A huge part of my mission on this planet is to promote more consciousness. As someone who is the child of refugees, Holocaust surv...

This is a very special episode where I actually talk about coaching MY MOM! That's right! My mom felt really stuck because she wanted to work out and move her body, but just couldn't get herself to do it. In this episode, I describe the exact process we did to get her there. It's really beautiful, and literally the next day after the coaching session, she started working out! :) It&#39...

Do you feel like you are always doing 1 million things? Then this episode is for you! In this episode, I share with you my experience of never resting and constantly in a fight mode and overcoming the stuckness in sympathetic activation. I share many powerful resources here to support you in the process of healing and receiving all the support you need. Did you relate to this episode? Please reach...

This is the first time I am sharing something I have been going through for the last many months, and maybe even years. I hope that this episode will be supportive to those of you who are also going through heartache, heartbreak, and grief. I share many powerful resources here to support you in the process of healing and receiving all the support you need. Did you relate to this episode? Please re...

Join me and Kim Hermanson, Ph. D., faculty member at Pacifica Graduate Institute, as she shares her profound insights on creativity, metaphors, and healing in this enlightening podcast interview. Discover how metaphors can enhance our lives, widen trust, and deepen connections, especially in the context of trauma. Kim explores the intersection of metaphors, spirituality, and somatics, offering pra...

In this episode, we have a fascinating conversation with Nicole Lohse, diving deep into the world of somatics. Nicole shares how she got into somatics and defines what it means along with Feldenkrais. We discuss her current biggest triggers and reflect on her most enjoyable and joyful childhood memories. Nicole offers insights on how to integrate learning and awareness to actually embody changes i...

If you’re the kind of person who feels like you’re the only one in your relationship who is doing the work, and your partner is just not interested, this episode is for you! This has been a frustration for me for years, and I made a big mistake in it: NOT focusing on ME! What I desire, what I need, what my boundaries are. Instead, I was always focused on my partner and what he is doing. Here is wh...

I have recently found 3 incredible ways to make affirmations work by bringing my somatic experience into them, rather than only stating them from the mind. In this episode, I go over: Why affirmations didn’t work for me for a while, and why they do now The way to bring our transformational soul journey into affirmations 2 powerful ways to use affirmations somatically  This is the book I mentioned...