The Letters To & From Women Podcast

The Letters To & From Women Podcast

Welcome to the Letters To & From Women Podcast – a safe haven for the sensitive women who are dreamers, deep feelers, hopeless romantics, and leaders at heart, but who long for a sense of direction, inspiration, and hard-hitting advice for healing every once in a while. If you’re looking for a place to get all your deepest questions about healing feminine shame, perfectionism, and complex trauma to create conscious love within your Self, relationships, life itself, your creativity, and your purpose, press play. You will likely get the love letter you didn’t know you needed to touch the corners of your soul that need light the most. This show is hosted by Mariana Jimenez, Founder of The Enlightened Woman, where her mission is to help women rediscover safety and self-agency after a lifetime of perfection-driven shame. She is a somatic coach, speaker, and writer who’s passionate about taking the “complex” out of trauma, spirituality, and conscious relationships, and Letters To & From Women is how she takes the advice out of her coaching sessions and into intimate conversations. Don’t forget to like the show, subscribe, share, and leave a review to support the movement! The intro music is sung, recorded and produced by Emerald Osagie. Cover art credits go to Mallory Lupick. To connect with Mariana and/or the podcast on social media, please visit the links below! Official Podcast Instagram: @LettersToandFromWomenPodcast Podcast YouTube Page (for video) Mariana’s Instagram: @ItsMarianaJimenez Mariana’s Website Send us a video of you singing along to our intro song to be entered to win a $100 Visa Gift Card! Join Mariana’s Sisterhood for Somatic Healing, Belong, here and get your first 30 days free!

Episodes

June 2, 2026 35 mins
Celebrate 26 with me ❤️ On friendships in your 20s, learning I have celiac, trusting your heart vs sacrificing your peace to self-comparison, and breaking fear-based limiting beliefs.

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Don’t forget to like the show, subscribe, share, and leave a review to support the movement!

The intro music is sung, recorded and produced by Emerald Osagie.

Cover art credits go to Mallory Lupick.

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If you’ve ever felt like you had to overgive, overthink, or carry the emotional weight of your relationships just to feel loved, this episode is for you.

In this episode, I'm breaking down the 5 traits of an emotionally safe man and how a healthy relationship should actually feel in your nervous...
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If you’re constantly trying to fix yourself, overanalyzing your emotions, struggling with anxiety, hypervigilance, people-pleasing, or feeling like you can never fully relax… this episode is for you.

In this episode of the Letters To and From Women Podcast, we're exploring the deeper nervous system and childhood trauma patterns behind perfectionism, self-improvement addiction, emotional hypervigilance, and the feeling that there is ...
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If you’ve ever felt like your anxiety has no off switch… like your mind is constantly scanning for danger, overthinking every interaction, and carrying everyone else’s emotional weight, this episode will help you understand why.

In this episode, I talk about the deeper roots of anxiety through the lens of people-pleasing and self-abandonment trauma. I share how growing up hypervigilant and emotionally over-responsible shaped my nerv...
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💔 Are you hurting from a broken heart or an abandonment wound that won't seem to heal, or keeps sabotaging your dating life? Apply for 1:1 somatic coaching with me, and receive a free session ✨: https://forms.gle/DcFAV9vqv7jGTeAv7

Letting go is sometimes less about missing them… and more about forgiving yourself?

In this episode, we're exploring a powerful reframe around heartbreak, toxic relationships, and why some breakups linger ...
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A soft, honest bedside chat on something most women with complex trauma quietly struggle with: the line between supporting yourself… and unknowingly punishing yourself.

In this episode, I’m unpacking how people-pleasing, dissociation, and survival-mode conditioning shape the way you move through your daily life—especially when it comes to structure, discipline, and routine.

If you’ve ever felt like your worth is tied to how “well” yo...
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Beautiful, if you’re constantly busy but feel disconnected, exhausted, and unsure of what you actually want—this episode is for you.

We explore how burnout, people-pleasing, and CPTSD patterns keep women stuck in cycles of overdoing and self-abandonment. You’ll learn how “experimental boredom” can reset your nervous system, reconnect you to your creativity, and help you build a life that actually feels like yours -- and why more dis...
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In this episode of the Letters To and From Women Podcast, I talk about how a 10-day silent Vipassana meditation retreat helped me deeply heal the root of my anxiety, burnout, and emotional overwhelm.

After stepping away from constant stimulation, productivity, and self-improvement, I uncovered three powerful truths:
  1. You’re not avoiding yourself—you’re avoiding the pressure of who you think you need to be
  2. The endless pursuit of sel...
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✨ JOIN "From Burnt Out to Alive: A 10-Day Do Less, Feel More Reset", starting April 15: belong-sisterhood.circle.so

If you’ve been waking up feeling exhausted, unmotivated, and disconnected from your life… even though you’re doing everything you’re supposed to do—this episode is for you.

In this episode, I’m sharing what my life looked like just a couple of months ago when I was deeply burnt out, overwhelmed, and stuck in a state of ...
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In this funny, chaotic, heartfelt conversation, I sit down with Emerald Osagie, the voice behind the podcast’s intro song, and she happens to be my BFF as well.

She’s a Toronto-born singer-songwriter known for her soulful voice and deeply emotional storytelling. She has released multiple singles, earned a Western Canadian Music Award nomination, and her debut album Life Don’t Love You, was released in March of 2025.
 
We explore Emera...
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This is for the woman quietly struggling to feel seen, but doesn't feel safe doing so.

For the one who really wants to connect and repair, but has to fight with her body to stay in relationship -- not shutting down or running away.

This episode will teach you why it's your identity that makes vulnerability feel so hard, and how identity impacts your nervous system to make you feel dysregulated, afraid, and avoidant in difficult conve...
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If you’ve ever felt the pressure to be perfect, pleasing, or constantly “good enough”… and somehow, it still doesn’t feel like enough — this is for you.

There’s a kind of exhaustion that comes from living in survival mode for too long.
The kind where you look like you have it together… but inside, you feel disconnected from yourself, your body, and what you actually want.

In this rebranding to the Letters To & From Women Podcast, ...
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In this solo episode, Mariana explores the themes of vulnerability, self-growth, and the power of transforming beliefs to create a more authentic self. Mariana emphasizes the importance of embracing discomfort as a part of the growth process and encourages listeners to reflect on their past experiences to empower their present selves. The discussion highlights the significance of self-reflection, authenticity, and claiming one's id...
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In this conversation, I’m talking to Fede Vargas, creator of "My Most Authentic Life," a podcast exploring big changes and unconventional paths, inspired by his own pivot from a successful media and entertainment career to purpose-driven content creation. Fede and I discuss our experiences as children of immigrants and our journey to finding our authentic voices. We explore themes of identity, belonging, navigating two cultures, th...
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June 4, 2024 38 mins
This week, I am interviewing the amazing Sheena Yap Chan. Sheena is The Wall Street Journal Bestselling author of the book The Tao of Self-Confidence. She is a keynote speaker, consultant and award-winning podcaster on leadership and self-confidence, amplifying the voices of underrepresented Asian women.

The conversation explores the topics of self-confidence, authenticity, and the challenges faced by women in entrepreneurship. Shee...
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Welcome to this month’s listener Q&A on how to allow more love into our lives! For this conversation, I brought in my dear friend, actor, producer, and lawyer, Braden Paes to help me in answering some of your biggest questions about love and relationships. 

We answer 5 of our listener submissions by discussing the importance of opening oneself up to love, with personal stories and insights on how to heal from heartbreak, believe...
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Welcome to our guest interview for May’s theme of “How to let more love into your life”! In this episode, I am interviewing Dr. Jonathan Marion, who believes that when we LIVE, CONNECT & COMMUNICATE authentically, we send out ripples…. which send out ripples… which make the world a more caring and connected place, one ripple at a time.
 
Having seen this dynamic over 20+ years as an award-winning cultural anthropology professor a...
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Welcome to the second official "It's Not That" episode of The Commitment to Growth Podcast! In this episode, your host, Mariana, takes you through a heartfelt, awe-evoking conversation about the barriers that we build against love. Through some vulnerable, never-before-shared stories about her family, she introduces us to the abundance that is available to all of us if we are willing to take the leap and loosen our expectations of ...
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Welcome to the 3rd listener monthly Q&A on The Commitment to Growth Podcast! In this insightful episode, we're sending off the "Healing the Inner People Pleaser" monthly theme by diving deep into the intricate world of people-pleasing through a curated Q&A session fueled by questions from our engaged listeners. We delve into the nuanced layers of this pervasive behaviour, providing practical insights, empathetic understandi...
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In this conversation, I sit down with Karenna Soto, a Burnout keynote Speaker and trauma-informed somatic practitioner. We explore the common fears of people-pleasers, such as not being liked, understood, losing people, and not belonging. We explore the concept of inner child healing and how it can help individuals connect with their authentic selves. Karenna emphasizes the significance of learning to give oneself what one needs an...
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