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/coachingwithMendy
https://www.linkedin.com/in/coachingwithmendy
https://youtube.com/@coachingwithmendy?si=NOFk3N8jE4evYDuE

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Attatchment 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-ground

Alive & Aligned: 7 Embodiment Practices For Self Connection: https://marinatriner.com/alive-and-aligned

Trigger to Rooted: A step by step process of working with your triggers: https://marinatriner.com/trigger-2-rooted 

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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 Klein

somatic 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/

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Attatchment 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-ground

Alive & Aligned: 7 Embodiment Practices For Self Connection: https://marinatriner.com/alive-and-aligned

Trigger to Rooted: A step by step process of working with your triggers: https://marinatriner.com/trigger-2-rooted 

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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 Shanks

chronic 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/@MiaAmini

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Attatchment 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-ground

Alive & Aligned: 7 Embodiment Practices For Self Connection: https://marinatriner.com/alive-and-aligned

Trigger to Rooted: A step by step process of working with your triggers: https://marinatriner.com/trigger-2-rooted 

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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 Amini

emotionally 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-gift
Connect 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/B08ubURbL

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Stay or Go: 5 Clarity Questions to Reconnect with Your Inner Knowing: https://marinatriner.com/stay-or-go-guide

Attatchment 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-ground

Alive & Aligned: 7 Embodiment Practices For Self Connection: https://marinatriner.com/alive-and-aligned

Trigger to Rooted: A step by step process of working with your triggers: https://marinatriner.com/trigger-2-rooted 

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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 Lukeides

attunement, 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.com
https://www.instagram.com/becky_aste

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Stay or Go: 5 Clarity Questions to Reconnect with Your Inner Knowing: https://marinatriner.com/stay-or-go-guide

Attatchment 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-ground

Alive & Aligned: 7 Embodiment Practices For Self Connection: https://marinatriner.com/alive-and-aligned

Trigger 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 

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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 Aste

should 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