Healing Our Relationships: From Codependency to Authenticity

Join author, spiritual coach, Insight Timer meditation teacher, and host of the  Healing Our Relationships  podcast, Marisa La Fata, for an evening of teaching, reflection, conversation, and celebration as she shares the release of her new workbook,  Healing Our Relationships: From Codependency to Authenticity . A student of the Toltec Path and a woman in recovery since 2008, Marisa is devoted to...

In this episode, I explore the voices of self-hatred as a symptom of codependency. Drawing from the wisdom of The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz, I talk about how these cruel inner voices are often learned and invite you to have the courage to question them and consider that they are not the truth of who you are. They may have originated in someone else's words, in the way we were treated, in...

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: Retu...

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...

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 epis...

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...

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...

In lesson seven you'll move beyond theory and into direct experience. You'll be guided through a deep inner journey designed to attune your body, heart, and energy field to receiving authentic guidance from within. After the journey, you'll be given space for integration through journaling or creative expression. This lesson is a ceremonial doorway — a chance to experience your inner guidance dire...

In lesson Six you'll learn how to receive inner guidance in the way it was always meant to be received — through the body, not the mind. You'll explore how visioning invites you to enter a state of somatic receptivity — a shift in your nervous system that opens the door to your inner world. From this place, guidance doesn't need to be forced or figured out. It rises on its own. Visioning works bec...

In lesson five you'll learn how to strengthen self-trust by following the first images, sensations, and impressions that arise in your heart center. Instead of analyzing or searching for meaning, you'll explore how intuitive truth reveals itself through feeling, symbolism, and subtle inner knowing. You'll learn why the first impression is often the clearest, how to stay with what appears instead o...

In lesson four you'll learn how to discern between the voice of the ego and the voice of the soul by working inside your heart center. Rather than thinking your way into clarity, you'll discover how your inner landscape reveals the energetic difference between fear and truth. You'll explore the qualities of ego and soul as archetypal forces within you, learn how they feel inside your inner realm,...

In lesson three you're guided fully into your inner realm — the living landscape within your heart center. You'll prepare your body by lying close to the earth, grounding into your breath, and softening into receptivity. Through breath, visualization, and the spiral of light in your heart, you'll cross the veil into your landscape, explore its elements, and meet a helping spirit animal or guide. T...

In lesson two you'll learn how your inner world communicates through symbolic imagery, sensation, energy, and intuitive knowing. We explore elemental landscapes, colors, emotions, animals, guides, and the ways your heart will speak to you. You'll discover how visioning works, why nothing you see is "made up," and how to trust whatever arises — whether vivid, subtle, somatic, or symbolic. This less...

In the first lesson you'll learn how the heart center serves as the gateway to your inner world — the place where intuition, clarity, and your soul's voice become accessible. We explore why the mind alone can't reveal deeper truth, how the heart communicates through visioning and sensation, and why this inner realm becomes the foundation for healing, self-trust, and spiritual connection throughout...

Codependency is often the habit of leaving yourself to stay connected to someone else. It can look like over-functioning, people-pleasing, hypervigilance, controlling, fixing, rescuing—anything to create safety through the external world. But healing codependency isn't just changing behavior. It's rebuilding the inner relationship that was interrupted: self-trust, nervous system safety, and the ab...

Our final episode of Season One is inspired by Lily Allen 's West End Girl . This is not a pop-psych analysis or an attempt to interpret the artist's life or relationship. I'm bringing this album into our space as a mirror for the work we have been doing here. As I listened to West End Girl , I noticed how much it stirred in my own healing work. The linear and direct way she shares her experience...

Today I have someone incredibly special with me. Not just a renowned Toltec Master of Transformation, not just a teacher or an author, but a dear friend to me and to everyone he meets. don José Ruiz is a Toltec Master, a storyteller, the author of The Fifth Agreement , Ripples of Wisdom , and My Good Friend the Rattlesnake . He's a speaker, a devoted vegan, a coffee lover, and someone who has dedi...

Yes — there are many people in this world you could be in a relationship with. There is no shortage of potential partners. But when you are struggling inside your relationship, when there is fear, insecurity, reactivity, shutting down, chasing, or any kind of trauma response, the idea that there's "someone better out there" doesn't empower you. It actually pulls you further away from yourself. It...

Release resentment in this transformative 5-minute spiritual based practice. Let go of giving someone or something your energy and power. Through a powerful practice of cord cutting, sever the ties that bind you to the other.  Step away from the ego's grip on resentment and step into the energy of your soul. Step into your courage and let go of giving someone or something yoru energy, your power a...

Welcome back to Healing Our Relationships. This episode dives into the space between who you have been and who you are becoming. The bridge is the place where awareness meets embodiment, where intent becomes practice and where the real transformation happens.  On one side of that bridge is the familiar self, the one who moves from the patterns of codependency that keep them "safe" to avoid pain, t...

This week on the Healing Our Relationships Podcast I have a very special guest. She is the author of 13 books, the Founder of Venus Rising Association for Transformation and creator of Shamanic Breathwork. She has been a shamanic visionary teacher and guide to thousands of people over the last four decades, dedicating her life to assisting soul seekers to transform and embrace their lives. Star Wo...

In order to be authentic we have to have the courage to be seen, judged and misunderstood. So much of our fear of authenticity comes from making assumptions and projection — seeing others not as they are, but through the lens of our own unhealed stories. Whether we are the projectors or being projected upon, in this episode of  Healing Our Relationships,  we explore how projections keep us afraid...

This month I am on an ancestral pilgrimage to Italy with my father so I am getting creative to bring you something every week. A couple weeks ago my offering for you was a free 7 Day Morning Practice at your own pace video course, last week I offered you a prayer for moments of relationship fear, obsession or disastermind. This week I offer you a guided meditation. In this meditation you will emba...

This month I am on an ancestral pilgrimage to Italy with my father so I am getting creative in order to bring you something every week. Last week my offering for you was a free 7 Day Morning Practice at your own pace video course. Give it a listen for the free promo code.  This week I am offering you a prayer for moments when you are experiencing obsession and fear inside of your relationships. Wh...

This week I have something special for you.  We can only go so long on our healing journeys with concepts and conversation. We need rhythm. We need practice. We need to move from head to heart to truly begin to embody the work we are doing. We need tools that helps us feel connected to ourselves in a real and powerful ways.  In this bonus episode, I'm offering you just that. A way to root deeper i...