How to Hold Space for Yourself | A Guided Meditation for Emotional Support

Most of us were never taught how to be with ourselves when things are hard. This gentle, heart-centered meditation guides you in how to hold space for yourself with compassion, emotional support, and care.

A Meditation for Inner Safety and Support (For When The World Feels Like Too Much)

When the world feels overwhelming, our nervous systems and bodies carry more than we often realize. This gentle, body-centered meditation offers a deeply supportive way to listen inward, create inner safety, and care for yourself from the inside out.

Befriending Your Inner Voice: A Somatic Meditation to Soften Your Inner Dialogue

In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, we explore why a harsh inner voice isn’t something to fight, but a sign that something inside needs care. Through a gentle somatic meditation, you’ll be guided to turn toward the feelings underneath your thoughts so your inner world can soften and your inner dialogue can begin to change.

You Make Sense | A Somatic Meditation to Understand & Release Old Patterns

It’s a really common (and often frustrating!) experience to feel stuck in the same old patterns even when you’re deeply aware of them. This somatic meditation helps you compassionately understand and release your old patterns at their roots.

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Meeting Holiday Triggers with Compassion (A Somatic Meditation for Relief and Healing)

If holiday stress and triggers are leaving you feeling tense, reactive, or emotionally worn down, this episode is here to support you. This somatic meditation for relief and healing when you’re triggered is an embodied invitation to meet yourself with compassion right where you are, offering insight, grounding, and a chance to heal instead of pushing through.

Soften Into Self-Love with this 3-Step Process for Self-Compassion (Guided Meditation)

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Daily Emotional Reset: Somatic Practice for Clarity and Compassion

This daily emotional reset is a soothing somatic practice to gently check in with yourself, shift your emotional state, and calm your nervous system. Think of it as daily tending: a compassionate reset that gives your emotions the care they’ve been asking for.

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Stop Resisting, Start Allowing: Allow Your Emotions to Calm Your Nervous System

Learn how to calm your nervous system by allowing your emotions, rather than resisting them. This episode guides you through a soothing Somatic Meditation to Allow Your Emotions to help you feel relief, clarity, and inner ease.

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Quick Self-Love Practice: How to Love Yourself Right Now

Learn how to love yourself in a way that’s real, embodied, and deeply supportive. This quick self-love practice will help you slow down, listen inwardly, and begin building the kind of inner relationship where love feels safe, grounded, and true.

Self-Love Body Scan Meditation

This gentle body scan meditation invites you to reconnect with your body and begin cultivating a felt sense of authentic self-love from within. Through breathwork, iffirmations, and a Yoga Nidra style body scan, you’ll explore what it means to meet yourself with compassion, presence, and care.

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Meditation for Secure Attachment with Yourself (Because Self-Love Isn’t a Feeling. It’s a Relationship)

What if self-love isn’t something you feel… but something you create? Join me to explore self-love through a lens of developmental psychology, somatic healing, and the attachment patterns that shape our inner world - plus a powerful meditation for secure attachment with yourself.

About That Feeling You’re Avoiding … A Gentle Meditation for Healing and Emotional Release

We all avoid our feelings sometimes — but even when we try to run from them, they continue to live within us, quietly shaping our experience from underneath the surface. This gentle meditation for healing and emotional release creates a compassionate space to turn toward what you’ve been carrying and lovingly begin to process it.

Somatic Self-Compassion Practice (For Days When You're Struggling)

When you're struggling, meeting yourself with compassion is one of the most healing things you can do. In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, I guide you through a soothing somatic self-compassion practice that uses Havening to calm your nervous system, ease emotional overwhelm, and bring compassionate support to the parts of you that are hurting.

The Truth Will Regulate You: A Somatic Meditation for Emotional Honesty

Being honest with ourselves about what we’re actually feeling is where authentic healing begins. In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, I guide you through a soothing somatic meditation using Regenerating Images in Memory®—a practice designed to help you reconnect with your emotions, uncover hidden needs, and bring loving attention to the parts of you that have been quietly waiting to be seen.

Compassionate Body Scan Meditation

In this episode, you’ll be guided through a Compassionate Body Scan Meditation that gently helps you embody compassion, soften inner tension, and reconnect with yourself on a deeper level. This soothing and regulating practice invites you to meet each part of your body with presence, care, and acceptance.

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What Do You Need To Feel Supported? (A Somatic Meditation For Deep Self-Care)

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Havening To Cultivate More Self-Compassion

Cultivating self-compassion isn’t just a feel-good practice; it’s an essential ingredient for genuine healing and transformation in our lives. In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, Karena guides you through a powerful Havening exercise designed to soothe your heart, mind, and body while boosting your self-compassion in real, tangible ways.

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Somatic Self-Love Practice (A Somatic Meditation For Self-Love And Support)

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).

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