Meghan Makena

Meghan Makena Embodiment for Modern Women. Founder of the Amba Metbod. I help women break free from emotional eating by addressing root causes, without willpower or dieting.

Feel at home in your skin, flip your bio-intelligence back on, nourish from the inside-out. I'm a feminine embodiment facilitator, founder of the Amba Method, overeating expert, and creator of The Embodiment Solution--a proven 3-step path for women to overcome emotional eating and feel at home in their skin. These two ways I support women have emerged from my own healing crises. For over 20 years, I was stuck in emotional eating patterns. The physical weight I'd gained was nothing compared to the emotional burden I carried and the nonstop battle in my mind. I tried clean eating plans, cleanses, diets, pushed myself to exercise harder... but the pattern kept coming back...and getting worse every year. When I finally found my way to lasting peace with food, which started by getting my body out of protection mode, everything shifted for me. Not just with my eating, but with how I lived my life. From this, The Embodiment Solution was born. My journey wasn't only about food, though. I grew up in an environment that prized intellect, achievement and reason, and where all things feminine...creativity, feelings, intuition, and sensuality (if you know me now, you know that these are all the essence of my true nature)....were looked down upon, and even made fun of. In addition, the nurturing qualities of warmth, softness, and compassion were simply not present in my early life, so I went on a quest to uncover them within myself, one earth breath at a time. For years, I forced my way through each day: pushing, rushing, overriding my body's wisdom with excessive exercise, working 7 days a week, choosing to be in relationships where I was neglected, and sheer willpower. This led me to the edge of burnout before I found my way back to myself. This homecoming to my body and feminine nature became Amba, the method of embodiment that came out of my own need for a soft place to land, slow down, and feel truly nourished from within. When I started to teach embodiment in 2008, nobody had heard of that word. Now "embodiment coaches" are on every corner of the internet, slinging hip circles in sexy dresses on TikTok, I'm grateful to continue to offer a grounded, depth-focused embodiment practice space for women who are more seasoned meditators and yoginis. Today, I offer two pathways to work together:

1) The Embodiment Solution – For women ready to heal their relationship with food once and for all and break free from emotional eating. www.meghanmakena.com/register

2) The Amba Community (Embodied Babes) – We hold virtual gatherings and have an on-demand studio for women looking to go deeper into feminine embodiment, sensuality, and receptivity...honoring your body as the sacred vessel it truly is. www.ambamethod.com

11/03/2025

“I’ve come so far, I can’t even tell you. Last week was amazing. I stopped eating halfway through my meals because I was full, which has never happened before. I’ve maintained my weight for the first time ever. I usually fluctuate so much. And I feel better than I have in years. This program has truly changed how I relate to my body.” — my incredibly awesome client Rebecca 🩷

10/19/2025

Sure, quantum is cool. Just don’t forget to include your body 💛

10/18/2025

When your bio-intelligence is fully switched on, food becomes peaceful, chaotic cravings dissolve, and you stop fighting yourself.

10/18/2025

Every time you ignore
signals and outsource the living wisdom of your body
to “experts” who don’t know your body, your bio-intelligence dims a little more.

Embodiment is the true long lasting solution to emotional eating. Last night, in our client community circle, we talked ...
10/16/2025

Embodiment is the true long lasting solution to emotional eating.

Last night, in our client community circle, we talked about how when you’re fully dropped into you belly, fully inhabiting it, it’s impossible to eat if you’re not truly hungry.

No resisting cravings.
No pushing through.

It’s about getting so present in your body that it’s impossible to override its consent.  This is the power of embodiment, and the bio intelligence approach that I use with my clients. The internal war in the mind and in the body finally ends, and that that’s replaced with internal coherence, residence, and inner team play.

10/14/2025

Intimacy with a spouse is one of the most common places emotional eating takes its toll.

Many women quietly avoid touch or closeness — not because the love isn’t there, but because shame is.

When she’s tugging at clothes that don’t fit, or replaying what she ate that day, her body feels like the enemy instead of a place of pleasure and connection.

Tender moments turn into withdrawal, leaving both partners lonelier than they admit.

10/14/2025

Cravings aren’t our enemy. They’re our body’s attempt to shift our emotional or mental state.
This is why diets and willpower never last. They are addressing the surface level of the issues. Trimming the leaves, rather than digging for the root.

10/14/2025

Two new books coming out next week on emotional eating. If you’re on my email list I’ll be giving you a special deal for both 🙌🏽🌟

10/14/2025

everyone is looking
for the hack to healing
their relationship with food

but the hack makes it worse
the hack slows the healing

the only true hacks:
1) the right support
2) patience
3) courage to drop deeper into your body

10/13/2025

So many women on this journey of breaking free from overeating get caught in the lie that it’s about the food.

Or they obsess over weight loss, calories, carbs, macros… even trying weight loss medicine….believing if they could just get that part right, everything else would fall into place.

But here’s the truth: When we hyper-focus on food or weight loss, it doesn’t dissolve the pattern. It feeds it.

The obsession itself becomes another loop.

The women who experience the most lasting transformation inside my mentorship don’t make food or weight loss the center of their healing.

They focus on building a different foundation, one that rebuilds a trusting and intimate partnership with their body, becoming friends with it. Doing the honest work of true transformation by uncovering the somatic patterns and ways they are showing up in their life that are disconnecting them from their body….and finally stepping off the exhausting hamster wheel of lies that says it’s about something on the outside.

Here’s what they focus on:

1. Consistent rhythms.

Morning and evening rhythms that stay steady through life’s ups and downs—anchors that bring the nervous system into safety.

2. Digesting daily stress.

Simple, embodied practices and breaths that help process the day’s stress through the body, instead of letting it pile up. This is particularly helpful in the transition from the workday into the evening.

3. Metabolizing old emotions through the body.

Releasing what’s been stored in the tissues. This creates a natural lightness in body and spirit and less reaching for food to comfort the backlog of grief, frustration or anxiety that have been stored for years or even decades.

4. Becoming your own inner leader and inner nurture.

Cultivating a strong, steady relationship with the inner nurturer and inner leader voice. Learning to lead yourself deeply—not just in a moment here or there, but ongoing…as a way of life.

5. Honoring your body’s built-in rules.

This is how your bio-intelligence comes online. Consistent sleep. Sunlight. Real food (not clown food). Breathing smooth, steady, full breaths that support you and give you vital energy all day long.

When women stop believing the $90 billion lies of the diet industry, they stop outsourcing their power.

They step into something unshakable: a deeply intimate relationship with their body.

When you’re dropped into that kind of connection, no one can take it from you. It’s not a hamster wheel. Not a tug-of-war. Not a roller coaster. It’s solid and reliable.

The more deeply you live in your body, the more your cravings shift from chaotic and compulsive to true and trustworthy. This is where the patterns actually break and we no longer get tempted to try the next bandaid fix….because we have found the solution that actually works longterm: EMBODIMENT 🌟

10/13/2025

New class Sundays
8 am CT
LIVING WATERS: the physical receptive pathways to receive God’s love and comfort on a cellular level

10/12/2025

Emotional eating is not a food issue. It’s a how-you’re-living in your-body issue. That’s why embodiment is the solution.

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