For most of my life I've felt at odds with my body, wanting to escape it while also craving deeper embodiment.
Somatic therapy taught me to relate to my emotional body in a healthy way, but it was my weight loss journey that helped me to establish a healier relationship to my physical body. About 1.5 years ago I lost 30 lbs. This process was gritty and hard. It asked me to show up day after day, and face so many pain points that I'd been ignoring. Ultimately it served as one of my most profound lessons in devotion, self-trust, and self-love.
This episode is a vulnerable share about how religious and societal programming formed early distortions around how I perceive myself through my body, and how I've begun to heal those wounds.
Trigger Warning: Please be aware that I discuss weight loss, dieting, and body dysmorphia throughout this episode.
Expand
I am now accepting applications for my 1:1 offer, Expand. This three month container is designed with depth and precision for the person who is ready to claim their dreams and desires, bringing them to life. We will laser focus on supporting you to expand in whatever area of life you're stepping into (relationship, career, health/fitness, sexuality, financial, etc.) through weekly somatic therapy sessions and voicenote/texting throughout the week.
Expand your edges. Step into your power. Bring your desires to life.
What is The Marie Embodied Podcast?
The Marie Embodied Podcast is a space to slow down, listen inward, and reconnect with the wisdom of the body. Hosted by, somatic therapist and clinical herbalist, Marie Zak, this show explores embodiment through somatic practices, herbal medicine, nervous system awareness, and other healing modalities that support coming home to yourself.
Marie explores embodiment not as a concept, but as a lived experience. Through conversations, teachings, and practical insights, you will learn how to listen to your body, build capacity, and cultivate presence, resilience, and aliveness.
This podcast is for those who want to feel more grounded, resourced, and at home in themselves, and for anyone curious about somatic work, herbalism, animism, and the many modalities that support embodied healing.