In today’s interview for Mystic Mag, Marina Triner shares how her personal journey with trauma and somatic healing has shaped her approach to coaching and business transformation. As a trauma-informed coach and co-founder of the So-maShare app, she helps individuals navigate triggers, regulate their nervous systems, and create thriving, purpose-driven businesses. Marina also discusses the importance of somatic practices, conflict resolution skills, and alignment in entrepreneurship, offering deep insights into healing and growth.
How did your personal journey with trauma and somatic healing shape your approach to coaching and business transformation?
I’ve learned in my journey that our trauma blueprint impacts the way we should up in our business big time! This means that we often enact survival patterns and trauma responses in our business, even if the events don’t really match the past. So for example – even if I’ve never been rejected by a client in my childhood, that present day rejection by a client can trigger the emotional neglect of my childhood, in which my caregivers didn’t make space for my emotions and this led me to feel rejected and abandoned.
My biggest skill as a business owner and my own coach in a sense is tending to these wounds from childhood whenever business triggers come up so that I can operate my business not from survival energy but from presence, regulation and aliveness! This makes business so much more fun and successful.
What role do triggers play in personal growth, and how do you help clients navigate them as pathways to healing?
When we say things like – your challenges are the greatest opportunities for your growth – what we actually mean is tending to our triggers. I define triggers as: “an external event that creates time travel in your body, bringing up intense emotions, sensations and reactivity, taking you out of the present and into the past. A powerful opportunity to heal.”
When we tend to these moments when past trauma is awakened, we are able to transform how our body experiences them, process the past trauma so that we actually know AND feel that it is over, and begin to act very differently in the same situations. I help clients do this by teaching them to go into their bodies safely, experience their emotions from the past in this safe setting, and then create a new behavioral blueprint out of this.
Can you share the inspiration behind co-founding the So-maShare app and how it’s making somatic practices more accessible?
I noticed that there weren’t any meditation apps that actually gave people tools to go into the body and transform their anxiety and shut down in the moment. We’ve collected practices from the most brilliant somatic practitioners so that people can transform their inner states in the moment and also gain awareness of their patterns on a very deep, body-based level.
With your experience in dialogue facilitation and conflict resolution, how do you integrate those skills into your coaching and community-building work?
When I was doing this work with Israelis and Palestinian teens, I was exposed to very deep and heavy trauma stories and emotions. I’ve learned the importance of story, and how much power our stories hold. When we feel powerless, we can lean into our past stories and turn them from pain and stuckness into wisdom and authority.
I also integrate noticing our body language and what it is saying about inner state (a huge skill from conflict resolution), as well as noticing how we relate to others – from a trauma lens or a human, regulated lens.
What advice do you have for entrepreneurs who feel stuck or disconnected from their purpose, based on your own business experiences?
Ask yourself first – am I in survival mode? Am I operating based on my survival patterns that I’ve learned in childhood, and what would happen if I shifted this? How would I see things differently, and how would the story in my head sound? The second thing is – check if you are in alignment. Are there any areas of your life that totally feel off or uninspiring.
This will leak into your energy in your business. Lastly, sit down and go through a mission, vision and values exercise. I teach this to all my clients and it gives them so much inspiration for creating an aligned business! It involves really understanding what your values are and how your business would spread and share them out into the world.
