The Nourished Woman with Keri Marino
A space for women on a growth and healing journey — who want to live. joyfully and feel at home in within themselves body, mind and spirit.
Hosted by Keri Marino, somatic yoga therapist, mentor, and mama, this podcast features soulful stories, embodied wisdom, and truth bombs that land soft but go deep.
Each week, you’ll find short, heartfelt episodes designed for listening on the go — from somatic healing and inner work, to nervous system guidance and the real-life ways yoga philosophy can transform your days. On occassion, Keri welcomes guests who share transformative insights on everything from gut health to psychology.
Whether you’re driving to work, washing the dishes, or taking a quiet walk, these conversations will nourish your mind, body, and spirit — and remind you that your life is a love story you get to live every day.
If you like what you're hearing here, learn more about ways Keri can support you at: www.KeriMarino.com on at instagram @the_nourished_woman
The Nourished Woman with Keri Marino
How This Work Can Change the World
Have you ever considered that what you're doing on your yoga mat and to heal the tender parts of yourself (the inner/shadow work) has ripple effects far beyond what you could ever imagine?
In this episode, Keri shares a vision and soft truth of the real legacy of the work you're doing and it's capacity to not only improve your life (that's major) but also your ancestral line, your kids and real talk - the world at large.
Keri opens up about her own experience navigating overthinking, healing trauma, tending to a nervous system that was always "bracing for impact." She's honest that the real results here - isn't endless calm or perfection - it's owning your full sacred range and feeling sturdy inside.
We dig into the tangible ripple effects of somatic yoga therapy: resilience under stress, the ability to stay present instead of spiraling, and the slow unwinding of tension in familiar hotspots—the jaw, throat, shoulders, heart, hips, and pelvis.
She'll share stories from her clients wins: calmer reactions, steadier parenting, kinder self-talk, and creativity that springs back online when the system feels safe. We'll dig into the impacts on others—how our energy and regulation influence partners, children, coworkers, and even strangers within arm’s reach. The work you're doing is leadership everyone can feel.
Zooming out, many of us were raised by women doing their best with limited resources. By tending to our bodies, inner child, and nervous systems, we not only change our future but offer repair to our line and a new template to our kids.
If this resonated, let's connect on Instagram @the_nourished_woman and if you're curious about deeper personal support check out her Self-Rooted Woman Mentoring. This 1:1 program is for women who have already done therapy, are tired of overthinking and ready to feel lighter, freer and more at home in your body and Self.
Welcome to the Nourished Woman Podcast, a space for women on a growth and healing journey who want to experience more joy, play, and pleasure while feeling deeply rooted within themselves, body, mind, and spirit. I'm your host, Carrie Marino, somatic yoga therapist, mentor, and mama of three. Let's dive in, love. Before I recorded this episode for you today, I lit a candle that one of my dear clients gave to me. Thank you, Becky. I cracked open my green kitty cat journal that my daughter picked out for me. And I wrote, and I wrote about all the things that I want for you as one of my women that are in my world, and all the things that I want for my work in terms of what I'm here to channel and what I want for myself and my family. And what emerged there was nothing new, but it always feels good for me to anchor back into those deep, deep, heartfelt desires. And so I really want to speak to you about one piece of that because I feel like any woman on a growth and healing journey needs to really be exposed to these kinds of conversations because it benefits you on so many different levels and it carries you through those moments when it feels like you're going through the gritty work of healing something. And part of that vision is this reality that I want you to heal and me to heal so that there is this ripple effect into our lives and our world. Because the healing work that you do and the somatic yoga practice that you do, they're all very personal to you, right? Like this is your journey and you're going through it and you're doing the work. But the actual reality of that is that you are healing intergenerational trauma and that you are rippling out that work into anyone who crosses your path. They're benefiting from that, and especially those people that are closest to you. And if you've known me for a while and you may not, like you might be just brand new to my world, then those people that do know me know that I have been on a yoga and a growth and healing journey for over two decades at this point. And it didn't start out in a therapy room. It actually started out in a Barnes and Noble of all places, which, if you don't know what that is, that is a bookstore here in the United States. And it started with me looking for answers. I was seeking. I wanted, I was in the self-help section on a regular basis, buying things like The Art of Happiness by the Dalai Lama, and buying yoga CDs for emotional freedom and chanting. And really, that is where my healing journey began was in exposing myself to master's words and yoga teachers' practices. And it really grew from there. Like, okay, I'm, you know, the words of the Dalai Lama are feeling like they're opening something inside of me. And this yogic chanting, oh my gosh, I feel so calm and I feel so interconnected with my highest self when I do that, and meditation for emotional freedom. Holy shit, that exists in the world. Okay, let's go. They led me to start opening myself up more. And, you know, as healing journeys do, you start somewhere and then it kind of leads you somewhere else. And your intuition is leading you here and exploring there. And also the people on the path that are holding you up and holding that space for you are like shining lights on different possibilities. And so that led me to a physical yoga practice, right? And so that physical yoga practice, I didn't know it at the time, but it was really rewiring my nervous system on a fundamental level. I remember that I had a lot of jerky movements in my body, like I had like a strong startle reflex or my neck would like jerk around all the time. And my very first yoga teacher, who I actually apprenticed with for a couple of years, he would very gently remind me just to soften in the moments of those reflexes. So the yoga practice was rewiring my nervous system. And it was also helping me feel powerful in my own body. Because after you've experienced the kind of childhood trauma that I've experienced and the different things, you know, not just in childhood, but in relationships, like sexual partnerships as a teenager, there is no sense that your body is a safe place for you to a certain degree. Like it feels safe enough that you live in it, right? Like I still loved my body, but I didn't feel in love and at home in my body. I felt very grateful for my body, but also very disconnected from my body. And so yoga put me in the seat of power and agency in my own relationship to my body. And I share some of those pieces of my story so that you can see yourself in your own story and look at it and perhaps form more language around it and more understanding of like what is this healing journey actually doing for me? And then how is my yoga practice actually impacting me? And then what is the ripple effect of that in my life? Because I can tell you that frankly, I'm here for that legacy work. Like, that is part of my deepest desires and vision is that women heal so that they show up differently as mothers for their children. And so that you heal so that you can actually be the version of you that you know in your heart you want to be, and not just operate from past programming or nervous system patterning or limitation or lack. Like I believe with every cell in my body that if you can unbind from that and that if you can feel whole inside, that that has a powerful ripple effect out in every single part of your life. And somatic yoga therapy is definitely an important piece of the medicine of what I offer inside of the nourished woman. But I think that so many of you have already felt in your body, whether you've practiced somatic yoga or just some form of yoga in general, you've felt the shift in your own body. There's almost like a joke. I taught studio classes for the vast majority of my career. And in addition to my private practice and all of my clinical work. And like so many people would just leave their yoga mat at the studio or even like forget their shoes and walk out to the car or leave a book or a journal. And it like the lost and found section of every local yoga studio is big because you enter into a place ideally at the end of a yoga practice, especially if it's one that's got enough rest and relaxation and breath work and meditation, where your nervous system is just different. And then you can feel that ripple effect for a certain amount of time after the class. But I want to highlight for you that that ripple effect is actually so much bigger than you. It's so much more than just you responding differently to stress. It's you actually being a different person as you walk through the world. It is you existing in more of your most whole and nourished and grounded and resourced self. And people can feel that. I was listening to somebody else's podcast the other day, and it was talking about how we actually have science proving that all of us have an energy field that exists five feet around us. And so that cashier at Trader Joe's, or your partner when they come home from work, or your kid when you're reading them a bedtime story at the end of the day and you're tired, they're feeling your energy field. And this work that you're doing, the personal growth and healing and the somatic yoga therapy, it is fundamentally rewiring who you get to be in those moments. And this is so powerful. And I hear it time and time again from my clients. Some of the biggest and most common things that I hear over and over again from my mentorship clients are things like I'm not getting as stressed as I used to. Like life is still lifing, but I don't feel as strong of a response emotionally or in my body to different stressors. So there's this resiliency factor. I can navigate these situations with more grace and ease. Another big one that I hear is I can stay more connected to myself. So I think every one of us, if you're listening to this, you're not the average woman who just wants to drown all your emotions in a bottle of wine or ignore your inner world. Like you know the validity and the value of doing this work and tending to yourself and showing up to do the fucking work, right? Like you know, many of you know that it's like I will suffer greatly or I will do the work. Let's be real, right? And if you're listening to this, like you're not here for the suffering greatly version of your life. You're here to do the work because you know that liberation is an inside job and that you hold the power, babe. Like you truly, truly hold the keys to the car. You are the driver of the car. So women will tell me, like, when the stress happens, I stay in myself, right? I don't just spiral emotionally and leave my body or disassociate and shut down. Like I'm able to stay more fully in myself. Another big one that I hear is the physical tension leaving your bodies. So our bodies speak to us, right? And they'll speak in a whisper and they'll speak in a yell, and then they'll speak in like very, very traumatic ways if we're not honoring and taking care of them. And so I see women over and over again being a better tender of their body, like they're more in tune with their body, they're listening to their body, and their body, your body, starts to feel safer and more at ease. And then what you're holding in it starts to unwind. And this is part of what when I was sharing about my early days of yoga practice and that sort of hypervigilance that my nervous system had and like the jerky neck movements. This was part of what I saw in myself was this tension pattern unwinding in your body. And you can also feel it in those places where your emotions tend to go. So for some of the women in my practice, they feel a lot of emotional tension in their throat or jaw or neck and shoulders or heart center or pelvic area or hips. Like these are some of the hot spots that women will really feel it in very commonly. And so you'll feel those parts of you shift and open. Another big one that I hear, and this is the last one I'll talk about, because let's be honest, I could just go in all day about all the great shifts that I see in my clients, is creativity coming online. So when limited self or wounded healing self is running the show, there's less access to outside-the-box thinking or even intuitive resourcing inside of yourself. And so as you do this work of growth and healing, you open up the space inside for your answers to come from deep within your intuition and you don't need to look outside of you as much. And creative, intuitive hits will come through. You'll get these downloads, you'll get this creative inspiration, you'll stop doing everything the same way that you've always done it, and you'll see that you can do it differently. You'll get these sort of like light bulb moments that ripple out. And so, all of this growth and healing work, all of this embody work, all of the yoga practice, all of the emotional work, all of the inner work, all of the inner child tending, I want you to know deep in your bones that you are a part of a legacy, a movement, a community of women that are holding that with you, that are here to do that work with you. And so many of us, me, you, we didn't necessarily have that example in our lives or our family. We didn't have the nourished woman mothering us, right? We had a woman who was surviving, who was doing the best she could with the skills and resources and support and the knowledge that she had. And that created patterns within us that you're spending your time healing and loving on. And the beauty of you doing that is that this ancestral healing, this generational healing that you are saying yes to is not just impacting you, but it's impacting the women who came before you, right? Like you are bending time and going back in and loving on things that just got carried down the line, and you're saying, you know what, it stops with me. And then also you're passing that on because your children literally like you'll see their behavior change when you embody this nourished woman, whole self you, that your yoga and your growth and healing are opening up inside of you. You'll literally see your children respond differently to you and how you talk to them and what possibilities you can come up with in those tricky experiences of motherhood. You'll see it in your partnerships and relationships, you'll see it in your work. Like this ripple effect, if I'm being really, really honest with you, is healing the world because we live in a world where there's a ton of polar polarization and there's a ton of contrast and oppression and there's violence and there's shame binding people, holding people down, and there's addiction and there's deep poverty and extreme hoarding levels of wealth. Like there's we live in this world that has all of this. And so for me, as a woman who holds this space for other women's growth and healing, this is in the seed of my heart, is that we are healing not just ourselves, but we're healing the people who came before us. And yes, I feel emotional about this because it feels so deeply powerful and personal. And I'm so fucking excited about it, frankly. We are healing the world, ladies. We are rippling it out because you are so much more powerful than you know. And as we heal and as we unroot trauma from our lives and our bodies, and as we show up differently in our relationships and how we mother and how we talk to that cashier at Trader Joe's, and how we look at the hardships and situations that are going on in our world, then that raises the vibration for everybody. And the ripple effect of that is so much bigger and so much more beautiful and so much divinely ordained. Like God is here in your healing, and it is such good work, my love. And it is rippling out in so many different ways. So on that day that you are in the grid of your growth and healing journey, I want you to remember this. And I also want you to ask yourself what your deepest heartfelt desires are because it's it matters so much, right? Like one of mine for us is this healing that ripples out and creates a change in our world for the better. What's yours? What's your deepest desire? How do you want your healing, your yoga, your growth, your inner child work, your nervous system tending? How do you want it to ripple out? What is the vision that you hold deep inside that's not rooted in lack or limitation or fear? It's like just like, oh, like this is coming up through you. It is coming out, it is inside of you, and it no one can touch it or tell you that it's not worthy or good. Like it is so you in your core essence. I'd love to know what that is for you because it's part of what I'm a generator, right? Like I love to hear your stories, I love to interact with you. So if you've got a vision for your growth and healing and your yoga practice and you want to share it with me, reach out to me on Instagram and let me know at the nourished woman. And then I wanted to let you know that I am currently opening up some spots for my six-month self-rooted woman mentoring program. This is not for the woman who is brand new to growth and healing work or yoga. This is for a woman who has already done therapy and inner work and has already done some yoga, and you're feeling this powerful readiness inside to embody the next level and to expand yourself and to grow and heal in the specific areas that are going to be the most powerful and liberating for you. And I'm happy to talk to you about that if you want to reach out and send me a message or check it out on my website. It's been so good to connect with you today, love, and I'll talk with you soon. If this podcast episode resonated with you, I'd love to hear about it. Send me a message on Instagram at the Nourished Woman or through my website, carry marino.com. And if you're looking for a space for deeper support, mentorship, or simply a space to feel helped, I'd love to have you join us inside the Nourished Woman Sanctuary. The beautiful music you're hearing is from Sean Johnson and the Wild Lotus Band, and you can find them on all streaming platforms.