Have you ever been in a relationship that didn’t look that bad on the outside — but felt exhausting, confusing, or heavy on the inside?

In this episode of Loving Your Life Again, Christina explores a gentler, more embodied question than “Is this relationship toxic?” or “Should I leave?”

Do I feel safe being myself here?

This conversation is for women who feel stuck in self-doubt, people-pleasing, or emotional exhaustion — especially those who learned to override their bodies to keep the peace.

Rather than jumping to labels or decisions, this episode invites you to slow down, listen to your body, and begin rebuilding self-trust through awareness and nervous system safety.

You’ll learn:

• Why many women don’t recognize unhealthy dynamics while they’re inside them
• How your nervous system prioritizes familiarity over wellbeing
• What “safety in the body” actually means (without forcing calm or bypassing emotions)
• Gentle reflection questions to help you notice patterns without pressure
• How awareness creates choice — and choice restores power

This episode also introduces the January theme inside the Breath of Renewal Circle: Safety First, where we explore healing through the body, mind, and spirit — slowly, safely, and together.

Key Topics Covered

• Emotional safety vs. logical justification in relationships
• People-pleasing, self-abandonment, and bracing
• Nervous system responses to chronic stress
• Why awareness comes before clarity
• How to begin listening to your body again

Resources & Support

Breath of Renewal Circle (Monthly Membership)
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Reflection Question

After spending time with someone important, ask yourself:

• Do I feel more expanded or contracted?
• Energized or depleted?
• Relieved or connected?

You’re not collecting evidence — you’re collecting information.

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There’s a lot of “new year, new you” messaging this time of year — and if that’s ever made you feel like you’re broken or behind, this episode is for you.

In today’s episode of Loving Your Life Again, we’re starting the year with one simple but powerful focus: safety first.

You don’t need to become someone new.
You didn’t fail at healing.
You adapted to what felt safest at the time.

Your nervous system’s job is to keep you safe — and it does that by sticking with what it already knows, even when those patterns no longer serve you.

In this episode, I explain (in very simple language):

• what “safety in the body” actually means
• why healing doesn’t start with mindset alone
• how survival patterns form — and how we gently come out of them
• why body, mind, and spirit all matter in healing
• what we’ll be exploring together this month inside the Breath of Renewal Circle

This is a grounding, gentle conversation for anyone who feels tired of surviving and ready to begin coming home to themselves — at a pace that actually feels safe.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode

• Why you don’t need a “new you” — just reconnection to who you already are
• How your nervous system decides what feels safe
• Why familiar patterns can feel safer than healthy ones
• What “finding safety in your body” really means
• How healing involves body, mind, and spirit (not just positive thinking)
• Why awareness + tools help you return to safety when life feels overwhelming

This Episode Is For You If…

• You feel stuck in survival mode
• You’ve done mindset work but still feel dysregulated
• You’re healing from toxic or emotionally abusive relationships
• You feel disconnected from your body or emotions
• You want healing explained in a simple, compassionate way

Starting the Year with Safety First

Inside the Breath of Renewal Circle, January’s theme is Finding Safety in the Body.

Together we’ll explore:

• what safety feels like physically
• how safety shows up emotionally
• how to feel grounded spiritually
• and how to return to safety when old patterns get activated

If this episode resonated, this is the work we’re doing together.

👉 Learn more about the Breath of Renewal Circle:
https://www.breathofrenewal.com/breathwork-circle

Support the show

If you’re craving deep nervous system healing, my breathwork sessions are designed to help you release stress, regulate your emotions, and find true inner peace.

You don’t have to navigate this journey alone—I’m here to support you. Check out the links in the show notes to learn more, book a session, or connect with me.

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Have you ever said yes to something that made sense logically — only to feel resentment, exhaustion, or frustration hit later?

In this episode, Christina explores the hidden cost of saying yes when your body is asking for no, and how learning to listen to your nervous system restores choice, self-trust, and personal power.

Through two real-life stories — one rooted in overgiving at work and another in staying present through emotional activation in relationship — Christina shares how awareness, breath, and embodiment create space for different choices, even when old patterns resurface.

This conversation is for the woman who:

• has done a lot of inner work but still overgives sometimes
• struggles to rest without guilt
• feels activated when trying to say no
• wants to trust her body instead of overriding it
• is healing people-pleasing and survival patterns

Rather than pushing for perfection, this episode offers a compassionate reminder:
healing doesn’t mean you never overgive again — it means you notice sooner.

In this episode, you’ll explore:

• why overgiving is often a nervous system response, not a mindset issue
• how self-trust is rebuilt through awareness and breath
• the difference between suppression and regulation
• why feelings aren’t the problem — avoiding them is
• how choice, voice, and embodiment restore safety
• what it looks like to stay present during emotional activation

🌿 About the Breath of Renewal Circle

This episode reflects the heart of the work Christina holds inside the Breath of Renewal Circle — a monthly breathwork and nervous-system-focused community designed to help women move out of survival mode and reconnect with their bodies, intuition, and inner safety.

Inside the Breath of Renewal Circle, you’ll experience:

• live, guided breathwork sessions
• nervous system regulation tools you can use in real life
• a grounded, compassionate space to release stored stress
• support in rebuilding self-trust and emotional safety
• monthly themes centered on embodiment, boundaries, and self-connection

This is not about forcing change or pushing through discomfort — it’s about creating safety first, so clarity, joy, and aligned action can follow.

Learn more and join the Breath of Renewal Circle here:
https://www.breathofrenewal.com/breathwork-circle

Support the show

If you’re craving deep nervous system healing, my breathwork sessions are designed to help you release stress, regulate your emotions, and find true inner peace.

You don’t have to navigate this journey alone—I’m here to support you. Check out the links in the show notes to learn more, book a session, or connect with me.

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As we close out the year, many of us feel the pull to push harder, do more, and prepare for what’s next. But what if the most powerful thing you could do right now… is pause?

In this episode of Loving Your Life Again, Christina shares an honest reflection on what happens when healing and personal growth become too serious — and how the body gently calls us back to joy.

Drawing from her own experience completing a major season of work, Christina explores how easy it is to slip into productivity mode and quietly abandon self-care without realizing it. Through breathwork and somatic awareness, she reconnects with the truth that release doesn’t require understanding — the body already knows how to let go.

This episode is especially timely as we move through the final New Moon of the year in Sagittarius, a moment that invites big-picture reflection, truth-telling, and intention setting for the year ahead. Energetically, we’re also closing a cycle of deep shedding and preparing to step into a season of forward momentum — making it essential to release what no longer belongs before moving ahead.

Rather than forcing clarity or breakthroughs, Christina reminds us that joy, safety, and presence are practices — not rewards we earn later.

If you’ve been feeling tired, serious, disconnected, or stuck in survival mode, this episode offers a gentle reframe and an embodied invitation to come back home to yourself.

In This Episode, You’ll Hear:

• Why we often lose joy while “doing the work”
• How productivity can quietly override self-care
• Why breathwork and somatic practices don’t require knowing what you’re releasing
• The power of letting go without forcing an outcome
• How joy and play help regulate the nervous system
• Why this New Moon is a potent time for release and intention
• How to prepare for momentum without burning out

Invitation

To honor this energetic threshold, Christina is holding a Release & Receive New Moon Breathwork Session on Friday, December 19 — a gentle, grounding space to let go, reconnect with your body, and set intentions for what’s next.

✨ This session stands fully on its own.
✨ If you choose to join the Breath of Renewal Circle by December 31, your first month is free.

Sign up today:

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Support the show

If you’re craving deep nervous system healing, my breathwork sessions are designed to help you release stress, regulate your emotions, and find true inner peace.

You don’t have to navigate this journey alone—I’m here to support you. Check out the links in the show notes to learn more, book a session, or connect with me.

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This episode is all about the Law of Opposites and how the universe uses contrast to help you choose your next level.

In this raw, honest, deeply human episode, Christina shares a real-time story about traveling that started out smooth, effortless, and magical… until the trip home. What unfolded became a powerful lesson in trust, nervous system regulation, and choosing alignment even when everything goes sideways.

Inside this episode, you’ll hear:

✨ What the Law of Opposites actually is
— and why it shows up every time you’re expanding, manifesting, or stepping into a new chapter.

✨ How the universe uses challenges to calibrate your next level
— not to punish you, but to help you consciously choose who you want to be.

✨ A real-life story of divine timing
— including a tight layover, a potential missed flight, and a “just-in-time” miracle that revealed exactly how supported you truly are.

✨ How old trauma patterns get activated in moments of stress
— and how to regulate your nervous system so you don’t collapse back into fear, panic, or overthinking.

✨ What it means to trust the unseen
— even when your mind wants to spiral or assume the worst.

✨ A gentle reminder:
Your reaction in the moment of contrast is your declaration to the universe about what you truly want.

This episode is for women healing from survival mode, recovering from toxic relationships, navigating emotional triggers, and learning how to trust themselves — and God — again.
You’ll walk away with a deeper understanding of how to stay grounded, centered, and connected to your highest self even when life throws you the exact opposite of what you asked for.

✨ Be Part of the 262 Women’s Book Launch!

I’m so honored to be one of the featured women in the 262 Book Launch, happening December 4, 2025.
This event is a celebration of women rising, reclaiming their stories, and choosing their next chapter.

🎟️ Save your spot here
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✨ If you loved this episode…

Please rate, review, or share it on Instagram and tag me @breath_of_renewal.
Your support helps this show reach more women who are ready to heal, rise, and love their life again.

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You don’t have to navigate this journey alone—I’m here to support you. Check out the links in the show notes to learn more, book a session, or connect with me.

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What if the version of you that’s been “playing it safe” was never hiding at all—she was simply protecting the parts of you that didn’t yet feel safe to be seen?

In this deeply personal solo episode, host Christina Sommers opens up about her recent realization that she’s been hiding in plain sight—softening her message, dimming her truth, and realizing that visibility without safety still isn’t freedom.

Christina shares the story of The Woman at the Top of the Stairs from her chapter in Ignite Your Courage, a moment that marked the beginning of her own rebirth from surviving to thriving. She reflects on what happens when we finally stop diluting who we are, remember the woman who chose courage, and allow our nervous systems to experience real safety in being seen.

✨ In this episode, you’ll hear:

• Why we dilute our truth after toxic or emotionally abusive relationships
• How nervous-system safety and visibility are connected
• The story behind The Woman at the Top of the Stairs and what she represents
• Practical ways to begin showing up as your full self—without abandoning your sense of safety
• What’s coming next in the Loving Your Life Again refresh

💗 Listen if you’re ready to:

• Reclaim your voice and authenticity
• Heal from the inside out through somatic and emotional awareness
• Remember the woman you’ve always been and finally let her be seen

If this episode resonates, share it on Instagram and tag @breath_of_renewal with one word that describes where you are on your journey—surviving, healing, or thriving.

“Hiding in plain sight is still hiding—it’s your nervous system’s quiet way of saying, ‘I want to be seen, but I don’t yet feel safe being seen.’”

“The Woman at the Top of the Stairs never left—she just waited for me to remember.”

Support the show

If you’re craving deep nervous system healing, my breathwork sessions are designed to help you release stress, regulate your emotions, and find true inner peace.

You don’t have to navigate this journey alone—I’m here to support you. Check out the links in the show notes to learn more, book a session, or connect with me.

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What happens when seventy women say yes to their own expansion? In this special roundtable conversation hosted by Christine Marcario, Christina Sommers joins Casey Taton, Shabana Knight, and Teri Manley to reflect on their time at Cathy Heller’s Infinite Yes Retreat in Boca Raton, Florida. Together they share the moments that cracked them open, the tears, the laughter, and the lasting ripple effects of stepping into community healing.

If you’re a woman healing from a toxic or emotionally draining past and longing for belonging, this episode reminds you: your next yes could change everything. 🌿

Key Topics

• What inspired each woman to attend The Infinite Yes Retreat
• The healing power of group connection and sacred space
• Releasing old versions of self & embodying your 2.0 identity
• Courage, community, and saying no as a sacred act
• How retreat experiences deepen nervous-system safety

Quotes to Pull

Call to Action

If this episode stirs something in you, share your biggest takeaway with Christina on Instagram @breath_of_renewal
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And stay tuned for Christina’s next solo episode, “Hiding in Plain Sight,” where she opens up about reclaiming her full voice and the evolution of Loving Your Life Again.

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If you’re craving deep nervous system healing, my breathwork sessions are designed to help you release stress, regulate your emotions, and find true inner peace.

You don’t have to navigate this journey alone—I’m here to support you. Check out the links in the show notes to learn more, book a session, or connect with me.

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In this week’s group conversation, Christina and her guests explore what it truly means to fall into alignment — not as a destination of perfection, but as a deep remembering of who you are beneath the noise. As the seasons shift and the leaves begin to fall, we’re invited to shed what no longer serves and create space for renewal, clarity, and connection.

You’ll hear honest reflections on the messy middle — navigating change, releasing control, and learning to trust your own rhythm again. Whether you’re in a season of letting go or stepping into something new, this episode will help you ground back into your body and align with what’s true for you.

In this episode, we explore:

• 🍂 What alignment really means beyond surface-level spirituality
• 💫 The difference between forcing versus flowing
• 🧘‍♀️ Somatic tools to support release and realignment
• 🌬️ How breathwork helps regulate your nervous system through transition
• 🌙 The power of surrender and self-trust in new seasons

Listen if you’re ready to:

• Realign with your purpose and values
• Let go of old stories or patterns that feel heavy
• Feel grounded and supported as you enter a new chapter

🔗 Connect + Join the Journey

If this conversation speaks to you, join us for the Fall Into Alignment Workshop — a restorative, live experience blending breathwork, somatic wisdom, sound healing, and astrology.

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If you’re craving deep nervous system healing, my breathwork sessions are designed to help you release stress, regulate your emotions, and find true inner peace.

You don’t have to navigate this journey alone—I’m here to support you. Check out the links in the show notes to learn more, book a session, or connect with me.

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