Holy Muck is a place to let your hair down.To get your hands dirty.To say yes, and move through the muck.Even when it’s hard, or messy, or dark. This isn’t self-help.It’s soul reckoning. Expect sobbing, swearing, laughter, and truth.We talk healing, embodiment, sobriety, creativity, trauma, and transformation —with zero fluff and full permission. You won’t find a guru here.Just sacred chaos, wild remembering,and the raw beauty of getting real —one messy, magical conversation at a time.

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If you’re feeling overwhelmed, anxious, exhausted, or disconnected from yourself, this episode is an invitation to pause.In this episode of Holy Muck, somatic coach and Trauma Touch Therapist, Carol Holguin, guides you through a gentle arrival practice designed to help regulate the nervous system and restore a sense of safety in the body. Rather than offering tools to fix or push through discomfort, this episode centers presence, permission, and grounding as the foundation for healing.This episode is especially supportive if you: • Feel stuck in survival mode • Struggle with anxiety or emotional overload • Feel behind, lost, or unsure what comes next • Are tired of trying to “do healing right”Through simple sensory awareness and compassionate reflection, you’ll be invited to arrive in your body exactly as you are—without pressure, timelines, or expectations.Arrival isn’t something you do. It’s something you allow.This episode is a place to land when everything feels like too much.If you&#39;re looking for a soft landing that helps you each month to return to your own presence, please visit <a href="http://www.bodytosoulcoach.com/the-return-membership" rel="nofollow">The Return</a>.Please like, review, and share this episode with anyone you think will benefit.

Arrival — A Nervous System Reset for Overwhelm and Anxiety

If you’re feeling overwhelmed, anxious, exhausted, or disconnected from yourself, this episode is an invitation to pause.

In this episode of Holy Muck, somatic coach and Trauma Touch Therapist, Carol Holguin, guides you through a gentle arrival practice designed to help regulate the nervous system and restore a sense of safety in the body. Rather than offering tools to fix or push through discomfort, this episode centers presence, permission, and grounding as the foundation for healing.

This episode is especially supportive if you:

 • Feel stuck in survival mode

 • Struggle with anxiety or emotional overload

 • Feel behind, lost, or unsure what comes next

 • Are tired of trying to “do healing right”

Through simple sensory awareness and compassionate reflection, you’ll be invited to arrive in your body exactly as you are—without pressure, timelines, or expectations.

Arrival isn’t something you do.

 It’s something you allow.

This episode is a place to land when everything feels like too much.

If you&#39;re looking for a soft landing that helps you each month to return to your own presence, please visit The Return.

Please like, review, and share this episode with anyone you think will benefit.

Episode 7: Arrival — A Nervous System Reset for Overwhelm and Anxiety

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The holidays can bring quiet, aching grief: lost loves, unmet expectations, and the heaviness of what’s missing.In this episode, I offer a gentle space to feel what’s real. No fixing, no pretending. Just presence, compassion, and the courage to name what hurts.If your heart exhaled hearing this, I invite you to continue the journey inside The Return — a yearlong sanctuary for soul-led living.Learn more at <a href="http://www.bodytosoulcoach.com/the-return" rel="nofollow">www.bodytosoulcoach.com</a>.And please like, follow, and share with those who you think might enjoy this podcast.

Honoring What Hurts

The holidays can bring quiet, aching grief — lost loves, unmet expectations, and the heaviness of what’s missing.

In this episode, I offer a gentle space to feel what’s real. No fixing, no pretending. Just presence, compassion, and the courage to name what hurts.

If your heart exhaled hearing this, I invite you to continue the journey inside The Return — a yearlong sanctuary for soul-led living.

Learn more at www.bodytosoulcoach.com/the-return.

Episode 6: Grief, Tenderness, and the Hidden Weight of the Holidays

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In this powerful episode, Carol is joined by her client, Kathleen, who shares her deeply personal experience with Trauma Touch Therapy and Body to Soul Coaching. With honesty, courage, and humor, Kathleen reflects on what this work feels like, how it has helped her open to new creativity and safety in her body, and why the journey is absolutely worth it. She reminds us, &#34; Don&#39;t be afraid...because what&#39;s on that other side of what you don&#39;t know, is so much more amazing than you have any idea of!&#34; We talk about: <ul><li>What somatic trauma healing really looks and feels like</li><li>Learning to feel safe without forcing it</li><li>Coaching as a path to reclaim your passion and creative energy</li><li>Encouragement for anyone afraid to begin. </li></ul> <a href="https://www.bodytosoulcoach.com/work-with-me" rel="nofollow">Book a free Resonance Call with Carol</a>Want to share your story on Holy Muck?Contact Carol at carol@bodytosoulcoach.com

Episode 5 On the Other Side

In this powerful episode, Carol is joined by her client, Kathleen, who shares her deeply personal experience with Trauma Touch Therapy and Body to Soul Coaching. With honesty, courage, and humor, Kathleen reflects on what this work feels like, how it has helped her open to new creativity and safety in her body, and why the journey is absolutely worth it.

She reminds us, &#34; Don&#39;t be afraid...because what&#39;s on that other side of what you don&#39;t know, is so much more amazing than you have any idea of!&#34;

Episode 5 On the Other Side: A Client's Journey Through Trauma Touch Therapy and Somatic Coaching

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In this episode, we dive deep into the sacred, uncomfortable, and profoundly healing terrain of the body. I&#39;m joined by Nancy Yerger, a brilliant somatic therapist who offers powerful insight into what it really means to begin again - to meet ourselves in the muck, to feel what&#39;s been long buried, and to trust the wisdom stored in our nervous system.This is a must-listen for anyone feeling numb, overwhelmed,&#34; frustrated with still having something left after lots of healing work&#34;, or just off, and longing for a deeper way back home.Connect through Instagram <a href="https://instagram.com/Holymuckpodcast" rel="nofollow">@holymuckpodcast</a>Check Out <a href="http://www.bodytosoulcoach.com/ritual-box" rel="nofollow">The Ritual Box</a>, use the Discount code BF-RITUALBOX for $44 off the regular price through 12/5/25.About Nancy Yerger, LMT, TTTNancy Yerger is a somatic therapist and Trauma Touch Therapist based in Colorado Springs. After a midlife divorce, she started over, moving across the country in her 50s to study massage therapy in the high desert of New Mexico. Ten years later, she went deeper, training in Trauma Touch Therapy and now teaching Level 2 at the Colorado School of Healing Arts. Her work is rooted in embodied healing, and guiding women gently back to themselves...one breath, one layer, one truth at a time.<a href="http://nlyerger@gmail.com" rel="nofollow">Nancy&#39;s email</a>

Starting in the Muck: Embodiment, Truth & the Nervous System

In this episode, we dive deep into the sacred, uncomfortable, and profoundly healing terrain of the body. I&#39;m joined by Nancy Yerger, a brilliant somatic therapist who offers powerful insight into what it really means to begin again - to meet ourselves in the muck, to feel what&#39;s been long buried, and to trust the wisdom stored in our nervous system.

This is a must-listen for anyone feeling numb, overwhelmed,&#34; frustrated with still having something left after lots of healing work&#34;, or just off, and longing for a deeper way back home.


Episode 4: Starting in the Muck: Embodiment, Truth & the Nervous System

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Judgment shuts us down. Curiosity cracks us open.In this honest and expansive episode, Carol explores how judgment—especially after trauma or chronic stress—hijacks presence and fuels disconnection. Through personal storytelling, somatic awareness, and sacred disruption, she invites you into the revolutionary act of curiosity.You’ll hear about a murder trial, a marriage argument, and the moment wild wonder softened the walls that judgment built. With guided practices and powerful reflection prompts, this is a sacred space to shift from “What’s wrong with me?” to “What else might be true?”Because you’re not a problem to fix.You’re a mystery to meet. Feeling called to share your story? Drop me an email.Looking for a place to start? Get your FREE download of the <a href="https://www.bodytosoulcoach.com/body-to-soul-starter-kit" rel="nofollow">Body to Soul Starter Kit</a>.Want to stay in the loop? Subscribe to the <a href="https://www.bodytosoulcoach.com/" rel="nofollow">Body to Soul Coach email list</a>, where you&#39;ll receive updates on new offerings, retail, retreats, and more.

Judgment shuts us down. Curiosity sets us free. In this episode, Carol unpacks how judgment shows up in trauma and daily life — and how to create sacred space for curiosity instead. Through storytelling and a grounding somatic practice, you’ll trade shame for wild wonder and reclaim your breath.

Episode 3 Creating Space for Curiosity - Replacing judgment with Wild Wonder

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The most haunting story I’ve ever witnessed in women? “I’m not enough.”This episode cracks open the origin of that story — where it lives in our bodies, how it shapes our choices, and how to finally come home to the truth: You always were.I share a personal story of rejection that left me gutted, and the somatic awakening that followed. You’ll be guided through a gentle, embodied practice to meet the inner critic with breath and truth and disrupt the lie at its root.Because your worth isn’t something you earn. It’s something you remember.And your body knows the way back.Have a story you want to share? Reach out at <a href="mailto:carol@bodytosoulcoach.com" rel="nofollow">carol@bodytosoulcoach.com</a>Follow me on <a href="https://instagram.com/holymuckpodcast" rel="nofollow">Instagram</a>

The “not enough” story lives in so many of us, shaping our choices and silencing our truth. In this raw, tender episode, Carol shares a pivotal moment of rejection and guides you into a somatic practice to meet the inner critic and remember your worth. You were always enough. Now let your body believe it.

Episode 2: I Am Enough — Burning the Lie That Says You Aren’t

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What if readiness is just another delay tactic dressed up as self-development? In this sacred, solo opener to Holy Muck, we burn down the myth that you need to be “ready” before you begin healing, shifting, reclaiming, or showing up.This episode is a gentle, truth-filled permission slip to begin right where you are: in the grief, the glory, the awkward in-between. Carol shares her own story of starting from the wreckage - not from clarity -and guides you through a grounding breath ritual and somatic inquiry to help you move from perfection to devotion.Because this isn’t about waiting until you feel brave.It’s about trusting the whisper that says: this is not where your story ends.Want to share your story? Reach out to <a href="mailto:carol@bodytosoulcoach.com" rel="nofollow">carol@bodytosoulcoach.com</a>Follow me on <a href="https://instagram.com/holymuckpodcast" rel="nofollow">Instagram</a>

The Myth of Readiness & Reclaiming Your Now

What if you stopped waiting to be “ready”? 
This episode is your permission slip to begin exactly where you are. Carol shares her own messy middle and guides you through a grounding ritual to move from perfection to devotion, and reclaim your now. No plan needed. Just willingness.

Episode 1: Start Where You Are — The Myth of Readiness & Reclaiming Your Now

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Welcome to Holy Muck. the new podcast and soul-anchored audio space where real healing gets to be wild, raw, poetic, and actually yours.Host, Carol Holguin, somatic coach, trauma whisperer, longtime recovery rebel, and creative midwife to women blooming in the muck, shares part of her Holy Muck Story and shares why she created this space.

This isn't self-help. It's Soul Reckoning.

Welcome to Holy Muck. the new podcast and soul-anchored audio space where real healing gets to be wild, raw, poetic, and actually yours.

Host, Carol Holguin, somatic coach, trauma whisperer, longtime recovery rebel, and creative midwife to women blooming in the muck, shares part of her Holy Muck Story and shares why she created this space.

Welcome to Holy Muck

Not your guru’s podcast. A Sacred Sh*tshow in every sense of the word.

Not your guru’s podcast. A sacred sh*tshow in every sense of the word.
Holy Muck is where healing gets real: sobbing, swearing, laughter & truth.
No fluff. No fixing. Just raw conversations on embodiment, sobriety, trauma & transformation — one messy, magical moment at a time.
