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A Mother's Journey to Holistic Health & Healing

Marissa Prieto, Holistic Registered Dietitian & Well-Being Coach

45 episodes

1 week ago

Please share your thoughts about how you felt about the episode and/or podcast! In this deeply moving and honest conversation, Ashley — a mom of two, esthetician, and entrepreneur — opens up about the darkest chapter of her motherhood journey. After getting pregnant at a young age and becoming pregnant while on birth control with her second child, she found herself spiraling into deep depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation. Ashley vulnerably shares what it was like to feel disconnected fr...

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Please share your thoughts about how you felt about the episode and/or podcast! In this deeply moving and honest conversation, Ashley — a mom of two, esthetician, and entrepreneur — opens up about the darkest chapter of her motherhood journey. After getting pregnant at a young age and becoming pregnant while on birth control with her second child, she found herself spiraling into deep depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation. Ashley vulnerably shares what it was like to feel disconnected fr...

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Episodes (20/45)

A Mother's Journey to Holistic Health & Healing

The Dualities of Motherhood: Ashley’s Story of Survival and Healing

Please share your thoughts about how you felt about the episode and/or podcast! In this deeply moving and honest conversation, Ashley — a mom of two, esthetician, and entrepreneur — opens up about the darkest chapter of her motherhood journey. After getting pregnant at a young age and becoming pregnant while on birth control with her second child, she found herself spiraling into deep depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation. Ashley vulnerably shares what it was like to feel disconnected fr...

1 week ago

1 hour 16 minutes

A Mother's Journey to Holistic Health & Healing

43. Fall Into Self-Care: Gentle Ways to Nourish Yourself

Please share your thoughts about how you felt about the episode and/or podcast! In this short and cozy episode, I’m sharing a little life update—including our family’s upcoming road trip—and reflecting on the shifts that come with the fall season. As the days grow cooler, our bodies, minds, and spirits naturally crave different rhythms. I’ll talk about how we can align with the energy of fall—letting go, slowing down, and nourishing ourselves in new ways. From warming foods and gentle movemen...

3 weeks ago

26 minutes

A Mother's Journey to Holistic Health & Healing

42. From Hairstylist to Herbalist: Gaby's Journey of Healing

Please share your thoughts about how you felt about the episode and/or podcast! In this episode of A Mother’s Journey to Holistic Health and Healing, I sit down with Gaby Sanchez, herbalist, mother, entrepreneur, and founder of Raiz Botanicals. Gaby shares her inspiring story of living with chronic pain and depression, struggling with prescription medications that didn’t bring relief, and how she found hope and healing through herbal medicine. Her journey led her to create her own teas, oils,...

1 month ago

1 hour 15 minutes

A Mother's Journey to Holistic Health & Healing

41. Meet Your Higher Self Meditation

Please share your thoughts about how you felt about the episode and/or podcast! For this podcast episode, I wanted to share the recent guided meditation I created to Connect with your Higher Self.. This journey will take you through deep relaxation, a vivid visualization, and a sacred meeting with your Higher Self—the most wise and loving version of you. Through gentle breath, imagery, and inner guidance, you’ll create a safe space where you can: Meet and connect with your Higher SelfReceive...

1 month ago

34 minutes

A Mother's Journey to Holistic Health & Healing

40. Reconnecting with Healing, Plants, & Creativity

Please share your thoughts about how you felt about the episode and/or podcast! In this episode of A Mother’s Journey to Holistic Health and Healing, I share my return to energy healing, soul work, and creative practices that reconnect me to plants, herbs, and the elements. I talk about the powerful energy healing I’ve been receiving from curanderas in my community, as well as online healers, and how these experiences are helping me remember and reclaim parts of myself that have been do...

2 months ago

27 minutes

A Mother's Journey to Holistic Health & Healing

39. A Multidimensional Healer Shares Her Path to Healing and Soul Purpose

Please share your thoughts about how you felt about the episode and/or podcast! In this powerful conversation, my guest — a multidimensional healer takes us on her sacred path of healing, from navigating trauma in her early life to answering the call to plant medicine and stepping into her soul’s purpose. She opens up about the pain and challenges she carried growing up, and the pivotal moments that sparked her first steps toward healing. These steps became the doorway to deeper curiosity whi...

2 months ago

1 hour 22 minutes

A Mother's Journey to Holistic Health & Healing

38. A Mom and Entrepreneur’s Story of Mental Health, Healing, and Growth

Please share your thoughts about how you felt about the episode and/or podcast! In this heartfelt and honest episode, I sit down with a courageous mother, wife, podcast host, and entrepreneur who opens up about her ongoing journey with chronic anxiety, depression, and deep emotional healing. Through her inner work, therapy, and self-discovery, she’s uncovered powerful connections between her childhood trauma and present-day triggers — and is learning to meet herself with compassion, awareness...

3 months ago

1 hour 25 minutes

A Mother's Journey to Holistic Health & Healing

37. The Hardest Decision of My Life: From Guilt and Shame to Self-Forgiveness and Self-Love

Please share your thoughts about how you felt about the episode and/or podcast! In this deeply personal and vulnerable episode, I’m opening up about a decision that forever changed my life — one that brought waves of guilt, shame, and deep grief, and yet, over time, became the catalyst for my greatest healing. I’ll share how I moved through the weight of self-judgment, found my way back to self-forgiveness, and opened my heart to new life and blessings I once felt unworthy to receive. If you’...

3 months ago

42 minutes

A Mother's Journey to Holistic Health & Healing

36. Send and Receive Love Healing Meditation

Please share your thoughts about how you felt about the episode and/or podcast! For this episode I'm sharing a recent healing meditation to send and receive love. In this guided meditation, you are invited to release the chaos, fear, heaviness, grief, or worries weighing on your heart and mind — from global conflicts, injustice, or daily life stressors. In this sacred space, you’ll be guided to: Ground yourself deeply and let go of what no longer serves youReceive divine unconditional l...

4 months ago

21 minutes

A Mother's Journey to Holistic Health & Healing

35. This Is What I Do When It All Feels Too Much

Please share your thoughts about how you felt about the episode and/or podcast! In this personal episode, I open up about navigating the emotional weight of today’s global and political chaos. From the fears returning under the Trump administration, to the heartbreaking war and genocide in Gaza, rising costs of living, and the trauma of immigrant deportations—I share what’s been heavy on my heart and how I’m finding ways to ground, cope, and care for myself through it all. If you’ve been feel...

4 months ago

25 minutes

A Mother's Journey to Holistic Health & Healing

34. From Grief to Connection: My Furbaby's Passing & A Guided Meditation to Visit Your Pet in Spirit

Please share your thoughts about how you felt about the episode and/or podcast! In this deeply personal and healing episode, I share the passing of our sweet furbaby, Buddy — how he transitioned, what he meant to me and our family, and how I’ve been grieving and gently walking through the waves of loss In this episode: I share the story of my dog Buddy’s passing and how I’m honoring my griefWhy losing a pet can be so deeply painful and spiritualTools for healing and moving through pet loss wi...

5 months ago

33 minutes

A Mother's Journey to Holistic Health & Healing

33. Healing Trauma Stored in the Body: A Somatic Therapist’s Personal Healing Story

Please share your thoughts about how you felt about the episode and/or podcast! In this deeply powerful episode of A Mother’s Journey to Holistic Health and Healing, I’m joined by psychotherapist and somatic healer Sonia Fregoso, who shares her courageous and transformative journey of healing from trauma, painful menstrual cycles, and infertility. After struggling to conceive for five years, a series of psychedelic-assisted therapy sessions unearthed repressed memories—marking the beginning o...

5 months ago

1 hour 21 minutes

A Mother's Journey to Holistic Health & Healing

32. Your Story is Medicine: Why Sharing Your Healing Journey Matters

Please share your thoughts about how you felt about the episode and/or podcast! In this episode, I’m opening up about something deeply powerful—the transformation that happens when we share our healing stories. Whether you’re working through anxiety, burnout, trauma, chronic stress, body image struggles, breaking generational cycles, or simply lost yourself in motherhood… your story matters. And sharing it can be a powerful part of your own healing. I talk about: Why speaking your truth is he...

6 months ago

30 minutes

A Mother's Journey to Holistic Health & Healing

31. Healing Perfectionism: Letting Go of the Pressure to Be Everything

Please share your thoughts about how you felt about the episode and/or podcast! In this episode of A Mother’s Journey to Holistic Health and Healing, Marissa explores the deep roots of perfectionism and how it shows up in motherhood, health, and daily life. She shares how perfectionism often shows up as anxiety, all-or-nothing thinking, burnout, people-pleasing, and self-judgment—and how those patterns disconnect us from joy, rest, and authenticity. You’ll learn why perfectionism ...

6 months ago

32 minutes

A Mother's Journey to Holistic Health & Healing

30. Guided Meditation to Reclaim Your Inner Power, Strength, and Confidence

Please share your thoughts about how you felt about the episode and/or podcast! This is a powerful 10-minute meditation designed to help you reconnect with your inner strength, confidence, and light. Through gentle body awareness, breathwork, and a guided visualization, we’ll release doubt, fear, and any energy that no longer serves you. You’ll reclaim your inner power, grounding yourself in strength, peace, and clarity. This meditation is designed to help you: Release doubt, fear, and over...

6 months ago

17 minutes

A Mother's Journey to Holistic Health & Healing

29. Why Listening to Your Body Could Save Your Life: A Mother's Powerful Breast Cancer Story

Please share your thoughts about how you felt about the episode and/or podcast! As moms, we get so caught up in taking care of everyone else that we often push aside our own needs —including our health. But what if listening to your body could truly save your life? In this powerful episode of A Mother’s Journey to Holistic Health and Healing, I sit down with my dear friend Maria, who bravely faced Ductal Carcinoma In Situ (DCIS)—an early-stage breast cancer diagnosis. She shares her jou...

7 months ago

1 hour 9 minutes

A Mother's Journey to Holistic Health & Healing

28. Celebrating a Year of Podcasting: Breaking Through Limiting Beliefs and How You Can Too

Please share your thoughts about how you felt about the episode and/or podcast! In this special one-year anniversary episode of A Mother’s Journey to Holistic Health and Healing, Marissa celebrates the milestone of not missing a single show and shares the lessons learned over the past year. Join her as she reflects on the power of consistency, overcoming self-doubt, and pushing through fears of judgment. Whether you're considering starting a podcast, YouTube channel, or business, this e...

7 months ago

29 minutes

A Mother's Journey to Holistic Health & Healing

27. Heal Anxiety Naturally With These 10 Holistic Strategies

Please share your thoughts about how you felt about the episode and/or podcast! Anxiety doesn’t have to run your life. In this episode, I’ll guide you through 10 holistic healing practices that address anxiety from the inside and out. These aren’t quick fixes—they’re tools designed to support your mind, body, emotions, and spirit. We’ll dive into proven strategies like breathwork, mindfulness, nervous system regulation, energy healing, and more. Whether you’re a busy mom feeling stretch...

8 months ago

34 minutes

A Mother's Journey to Holistic Health & Healing

26. Self-Love Meditation

Please share your thoughts about how you felt about the episode and/or podcast! Moms, it’s time to pause and give yourself the love you truly deserve. In today’s episode, we’re diving into a heart-opening self-love and self-acceptance meditation designed especially for you—the mom who gives so much but often forgets to nurture herself. If you’ve been carrying guilt, perfectionism, or self-doubt, this meditation will guide you to release those heavy emotions and embrace your beauti...

8 months ago

17 minutes

A Mother's Journey to Holistic Health & Healing

25. Breaking Free: Overcoming Domestic Violence & Binge Eating

Please share your thoughts about how you felt about the episode and/or podcast! In this episode, Marissa welcomes her first guest, Karen, who shares her inspiring journey of healing and resilience after experiencing domestic violence. The conversation delves into the challenges of motherhood, the impact of food as a coping mechanism, and the importance of seeking professional support. Karen discusses her turning points, the significance of building a support system, and the non-linear path of...

9 months ago

59 minutes