Linda Villines

Learn to know, love, and heal your authentic self—mind, body, and soul—with joy and ease.

Linda Villines is an author, healing teacher, trauma-informed certified holistic health and wellness coach, and certified Ayurveda counselor. She has over 10 years of personal and professional holistic self-healing experience and over 10 years of teaching experience. Specializing in the mind-body-soul connection, self-love, mindset, self-healing, and intuitive healing, Linda’s work bridges ancient and modern healthcare practices, psychology, spirituality, and science to make accessible a working and sustainable holistic model for lifelong health and happiness.

08/27/2025

Every emotion that arises is valid—because it comes up for a reason. There are no accidental emotions, and none are bad or wrong. When you reject your emotions, you reject yourself, which leads directly to shame, anxiety, and depression.

Most of us were raised by emotionally immature or unavailable parents and caregivers, who projected their own inability to handle emotions onto us. But as adults, it becomes our responsibility to heal that conditioning and build a healthier relationship with our emotions. And doing so is the same as developing a healthier, more authentic relationship with ourselves.

Emotional health is at the core of all healing.
Emotions are the body’s loudest signals of safety or danger.
Whether you feel safe or unsafe determines whether your body heals—or doesn’t.
Healing really is that simple.
Unresolved emotions that aren’t processed or released also rewire your brain, keeping you stuck in old patterns of survival and trauma.

Trust yourself to feel.
Trust your body to feel.
Emotions can move through you healthfully and efficiently once you stop judging them, identifying with them, or shaming yourself for having them.

Your emotions are part of you and your life experience.
They don’t define you.
They carry important information expressed through your body and senses.
When you embrace them, you gain knowledge and wisdom about yourself.
Acknowledging, accepting, and allowing yourself to feel every emotion is healthy.
Suppressing emotions out of judgment, embarrassment, or fear is not.

When you stop resisting your emotions and begin to honor them—while creating safety within yourself to fully feel them—you also stop resisting and start honoring your healing.
All true, lasting healing begins with emotional healing.

Emotional health is crucial for healing.
That's why I created an entire workshop about it in my Source Membership program, the only comprehensive step-by-step holistic self-healing program that is proven to work.
Visit lindavillines.com/selfhealersource/membership/ to learn how you can transform your emotional and overall health in The Source Membership.

08/25/2025

Healing doesn't require you to remember every detail of your past.
Many people believe they cannot heal until they recall every painful memory.
They believe the missing pieces are the missing key.
They believe if they could just remember everything, they would finally be free.

But the truth is, healing does not demand perfect recall.
Your nervous system doesn't operate like a courtroom, requiring evidence and justice for every wound.
It was designed to protect you.
And during trauma, it chose survival over storytelling.

That's why trauma is rarely remembered as a clear, linear narrative.
It is stored in fragments—flashes of sensation, emotional charges, and reflexive responses.
That's why trauma lives in the body more than in the mind.
That's the wisdom of your body.
It is your system keeping you alive until safety returns.

You do not need to relive the past to release it.
Healing happens when your body learns safety in the present moment.
Through relaxed breathing, through somatic practices, through conscious presence, you can teach your nervous system a new pattern of safety.
You show it that the danger is over.
You show it that you are safe now.
And when your body feels safe, the imprints of trauma can dissolve without the need for every memory to surface.

Healing is not about digging through your past to piece together a perfect story.
Healing is about updating your system with a new story of safety, coherence, and peace.

When you let go of the myth that perfect memory recall is required, you stop chasing the past and start reclaiming the present.
You begin to trust the brilliance of your body’s design.
You realize your healing is not waiting on forgotten details.
It is waiting on you to breathe, to ground, to choose safety now.

Your healing is not in the past.
Your healing is happening here.
Your healing is happening now.

Learn how to heal trauma without perfect recall of your past and without retraumatizing yourself in the latest episode of my podcast, The Simple Source. Available on all podcast platforms.

08/22/2025

We’ve all been conditioned to believe that healing means we have to remember every painful detail of our past and every traumatic event. But the truth is, healing doesn’t require you to remember and relive everything. In fact, forcing yourself to recall every detail can actually retraumatize you, not heal you.

Your nervous system doesn’t store trauma like an organized folder that contains files of everything that happened.
It holds it in fragments like sensory impressions, emotional charges, and reflexive responses.
So, you don't have all the details because your brain wasn't trying to remember a perfect story when you were traumatized.
It was prioritizing survival.
That means trauma isn’t stored as a clear mental narrative.
It’s primarily stored in your body, in physical responses and emotional patterns.

Healing doesn't require you to relive your past to rewrite it.
It requires you to create safety in the present so your body learns the trauma is over, and then it will release those nervous system trauma imprints.
When you cultivate safety and coherence in the present through somatic practices, emotional release and regulation, and deep presence, you can release old trauma patterns without needing to recall the entire story.

Your body doesn’t need the full narrative to heal.
It simply needs a healing narrative and new, safe patterns.
When you focus on creating coherence and safety in the present, you naturally free yourself from past trauma.

Instead of forcing yourself to remember every detail of your painful past, learn to trust your body and your nervous system.
Trust that you can heal without needing to recall everything.
Healing is not about remembering and reliving everything.
Healing is about presence, safety, and trust in your body’s innate wisdom and your natural self-healing capabilities.

Learn how to heal trauma without perfect recall of your past and without retraumatizing yourself in the latest episode of my podcast, The Simple Source. Available on all podcast platforms.

08/20/2025

When you rush to share your healing before it’s fully integrated, you fragment your healing.
You tell your subconscious that being seen is more important than being safe.
You confuse performance with coherence, and you end up narrating your healing for an audience rather than embodying it.
That constant exposure keeps you in a cycle of seeking validation instead of living your transformation.

We’ve been conditioned to believe that if no one sees our healing, it isn’t real.
If we don’t share our breakthroughs, they don’t matter.
If we don't post every change, it never happened.
But that belief is rooted in a culture obsessed with visibility and external validation, not the true nature of healing.

When you share too soon, you risk turning your inner process into half-lived truths that were broadcast before your body even rooted them.
That behavior (and often a trauma response) doesn’t heal or liberate you.
It keeps you in the self-objectification trap where you curate a version of yourself for public consumption instead of simply being your whole, authentic self first.

Healing is not for show. It is for you.
When you honor that, you reclaim your energy, highest timeline, and your highest truth.

Learn the difference between oversharing and healthy witnessing in the latest episode of my podcast, The Simple Source. Available on all major podcast platforms.

08/18/2025

Not every evolution is meant to be witnessed. Some of the most profound transformations happen in the quiet, off the grid, off-book, and beyond the algorithm.

You don’t need applause to make your progress real.
You don’t need to explain yourself to prove that you’ve changed.
The most sacred healing occurs when no one is looking, the moments when you stop performing healing and simply live it for yourself.

We were taught that transparency equals authenticity.
That posting your wounds is proof of healing.
That vulnerability on display is the same as integration.
But not all sharing is healing.
Much of what passes for “vulnerability” today is actually a trauma response.
Authenticity has been replaced by oversharing.
You don't need to explain your healing in order for your healing to be validated.
You get to make your healing yours without anyone else's approval.

Learn how to validate your own healing in the latest episode of my podcast, The Simple Source. Available on all major podcast platforms.

08/11/2025

Radical self-acceptance is the foundation of genuine and lasting healing. Without it, you cannot love yourself radically / unconditionally. Your self-love remains conditional, dependent on external validation, meeting expectations, or achieving timelines. But healing isn't about meeting some standard—it’s about reclaiming the wholeness, freedom, and well-being that has always been your birthright.

Society often teaches us that healing is about fixing what’s “broken.”
But that’s a false limiting belief we all need to challenge.
Having mental, emotional, or physical issues doesn't mean you're broken.
It means you are human and living the lessons your soul intended for you to learn in this life.
Healing isn’t about becoming whole; it’s about remembering that you already are.

When you radically accept yourself—your wounds, your fears, your imperfections—you stop rejecting the parts of you that need love and healing the most.
You stop searching for that wholeness outside of yourself and begin to embody it from within.
Only then can you love yourself fully and unconditionally.
And that's when your healing journey changes, when your entire life changes.

This is your invitation to embrace all parts of yourself.
So you can love all parts of yourself.
So you can love all parts of your healing journey.

08/08/2025

Regardless of whether we were victims of abuse, trauma, or tragedy, our healing is our responsibility. We cannot continue to identify as the victim, which, by definition, means being powerless, and also heal ourselves.

Healing is an act of self-empowerment, so you can't defend a victim consciousness (defending your powerlessness) and also heal productively.
Being a victim of a past trauma, abuse, or tragedy doesn't mean that you are currently a victim in your present life.
I was a victim of many acts of various types of trauma and abuse (physical, emotional, mental, and sexual) throughout my childhood because I was helpless as a child.
But I am no longer a victim because I am now an adult.
I am no longer helpless because I can heal those traumas.
As an adult, I am in full command of the well-being of my mind, body, and soul.
As an adult, no one else is responsible for my freedom, holistic health, and happiness but me.

We can only heal when we are in our power, presence, and truth.
Assumed powerlessness is not only a disconnection from your power but from presence because it means a past, wounded identity is masquerading as the current truth.
You become free of your past when you liberate yourself from past identities.

08/06/2025

Sometimes healing comes in forms you don't expect.

In the past month, I’ve been in a profound recalibration.
Unexpected events have created a deep healing opportunity that I'm still metabolizing and integrating.
Some experiences are so novel, unpredictable, and extraordinary (in the truest meaning of the word) that you don't have the language to express what's going on while it's happening.
That's what I've been living.
The unusual and unprecedented—the sacred.
And it was all-consuming.
So I've been quiet here in the past month.
And I'm now slowly and carefully emerging.
Because who I am now is not who I was before.
So, how I will show up now will be different.
More alive, distilled, and in greater alignment and clarity with how I've evolved in recent seasons.

Healing doesn't always arrive in the ways we expect, even after a decade-plus of being on a healing journey.
But what I am still certain of is that you don't always need to explain your healing or justify it.
You need only to stretch into what your highest self presents as invitations to grow, no matter the form.
Sometimes healing opportunities show up when you least expect them.
Sometimes there is perfect sense in chaos.
I hope you say yes to what feels right, even when it’s odd and unfamiliar.

08/05/2025

Do your relationship problems feel like a broken record?

Many people stuck in unhealthy relationships or relationship patterns believe the issue lies with the other person.
The thinking is that if the other person would only do this, not do that, change that, be different, etc., then the relationship would be better.
This holds true for all types of relationships, including platonic and professional ones.

The truth is, when we find ourselves in the same undesirable relationship dynamics and patterns, it's not about the other person.
It's about us—our unhealed wounds and fears, unresolved traumas, and the unmet needs of our past.

The problems you experience repeatedly stem from something in your past that has not been resolved, and thus continues to loop as part of your subconscious programming, and that's why it's still a part of your present reality.
Understanding that your past repeats itself until it's healed and resolved isn’t about blaming yourself, because there is no one to blame.
It's about embracing the fact that your life's patterns are not externally driven but internally rooted.
That's when you become empowered to change your life, transform self-diminishing patterns, and ultimately create healthier, more fulfilling relationships.

When you invest in becoming curious about what within you needs attention, love, and healing, and then commit to healing those parts of yourself, only then will those patterns change because you will have authentically and foundationally healed yourself on a core level.

That's when you step into a new way of loving and being loved.
Because what we don’t resolve, we repeat.
But what we do resolve, we transcend.

07/01/2025

Growing up without learning how to identify, express, and process emotions in a healthy, empowered, and authentic way is common. Many of us were raised by parents or caregivers who lacked emotional health (emotional intelligence, maturity, and regulation), which was traumatic and led to unhealthy emotional habits and beliefs as adults.

When we were prohibited from fully expressing our emotions as children or when our emotions were not validated and respected, it was deeply traumatic because it's extremely stressful and painful not to be able to exist as our whole, authentic selves.

As children, being shamed for our emotions—like crying or being angry—is also traumatic. A child doesn't have the mental capacity to understand why their parent is projecting their emotional immaturity and traumas onto them. The child then internalizes that shaming, criticism, or punishment, and then believes they are bad or that something is wrong with them because of their emotions.

Many people also grow up without emotional boundaries, and children are made to believe they are responsible for their parents' or caretakers' emotions. To believe you're the cause of your parents' stress, pain, or suffering is also traumatic. Without clear emotional boundaries, we take on others' emotions, reinforcing codependency and causing emotional confusion, overwhelm, and exhaustion.

Emotional trauma is unfortunately common and results in not only an unhealthy relationship with your emotions but also with yourself.

06/27/2025

The state of the world is consistently devastating, activating, and exhausting. For people who feel deeply, empathize, and want to be a part of collective healing, staying informed without emotional burnout and laboring requires intentional boundaries and presence.

You cannot monitor every crisis, speak to every issue, or hold every injustice in your emotional body.
That’s not consciousness. That’s trauma reenactment.
There is a difference between being informed and being consumed.
Between empathy and enmeshment.
Between activism and performance.
Compassion doesn't need to come at the cost of your nervous system, your joy, or your peace.

You are not abandoning the world by choosing regulation over reactivity.
You are not less informed because you chose to pause and not post.
You are being discerning. You are behaving with coherence.
And regulation is its own form of resistance in a dysregulated world.

You don’t need to sacrifice your well-being to prove your care.
You don’t need to exhaust yourself to matter.
You don’t need to abandon your center to be part of the collective.
Impact made from depletion and self-abandonment is not healing.
It's more of the normalized codependency that disempowers people from knowing how to love with boundaries and clarity.

The world doesn’t need more panic.
It needs people who are clear, coherent, and liberated in themselves.
People who choose presence over performance, embodiment over urgency, and truth over noise.

Staying informed is not the same as being perpetually distressed.
Reacting isn’t the same as responding.
Caring deeply is not the same as being consumed.
You don’t serve the world by becoming enmeshed with its wounds.
You serve by anchoring into your own healing and liberation first.

Learn how to protect your peace in an exhausting world in the latest episode of my podcast, The Simple Source, available on all major podcast platforms.

06/25/2025

When you relate to yourself through self-shaming, criticism, or control, even in the name of growth, your nervous system doesn't expand. It shrinks, because it interprets it all as a threat.
Self-criticism isn’t self-accountability.
It’s a survival strategy your system learned in childhood, when love was conditional, attunement was inconsistent, and safety required becoming someone other than yourself.

Most people were conditioned to associate love with performance—to believe it had to be earned, that it disappeared when you were messy, scared, overwhelmed, or behind.
That conditioning is not the truth.
It came from caregivers who didn’t know how to love themselves and was reinforced by a culture that glorifies hustle.
That conditioning became the blueprint for how you feel about, relate to, and perceive love.
So when you feel anxious about slowing down, ashamed for needing rest, or worthless without progress, you’re not failing.
You’re repeating a familiar pattern—fear-based self-abandonment disguised as discipline.

When loving yourself feels like a struggle, it’s not because you’re doing it wrong.
It’s because you’re trying to use fear to heal fear.
You're trying to regulate through shame while withholding love from yourself.
But your nervous system doesn’t respond to pressure or judgment.
It responds to felt safety.
It responds to love.

When love becomes your baseline—not your reward—healing becomes natural.
And simple. And joyful.
Not because pain disappears, but because you stop using pain to heal pain.
When you make love your nervous system’s new normal—when you learn to give yourself love through the pain, not despite it—your nervous system starts to regulate because it finally feels safe.

Loving yourself unconditionally isn’t about loving yourself perfectly.
It’s about loving yourself even when you don’t feel perfect.

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In my early 30’s I experienced a rapid descent of health, all starting with my gut. I took to the internet and researched my laundry list of symptoms until my eyes hurt, reading forums, threads, and medical papers. I became grain-free, sugar-free, started exercising 6 days a week. I did the FODMAP diet. The Paleo diet. The Whole30. The GAPS diet. You name it. I tried it. Then, in the summer of 2014, a couple of months after my husband Matt and I married, he was diagnosed with stage 4 kidney cancer at the age of 37. Knees failed. Worlds crumbled. After Matt’s diagnosis, new symptoms started spiraling out of control. I unwillingly gained 30 pounds in three months, developed carpal tunnel, and brain fog. My digestive issues worsened. My energy level was non-existent. There was no relief from being unwell. After Matt’s nephrectomy, juicing, sprouting, raw veganism, and hours upon hours of research, we felt we had a soft handle on cancer (despite my carousel of dis-ease). Then in September, I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism. It took a year of thyroid medication before I started to feel remotely close to normal. Meanwhile, my husband’s cancer was spreading despite rigorous adherence to his treatment protocol from both his western and holistic team of doctors. Amidst all of that, I was diagnosed with SIBO (small intestinal bacterial overgrowth), developed de quervain’s tenosynovitis, and fibromyalgia. After trying all the fixes – antibiotics, tenosynovitis surgery, steroids, acupuncture, physical therapy, detoxing, textbook adherence to the GAPS diet – all of it – I finally felt better, but not great. Why not great? I was doing everything right. In fact, I had been doing everything right from the beginning. I made great strides in ridding our home of toxins, regular detoxing, maintaining the cleanest of diets, and exercising daily… but i wasn’t 100%. Slowly but surely a subconscious inner awareness became lucid to me, the factors in my life I always struggled with – my long-standing relationship with stress, detachment from my true self, and attachment to negativity. I spent decades in a miserable emotional and psychological state. I was always a worrier, always an overachiever, always feeling alienated from my peers. My entire existence had in fact been filled with stress, avoidance, and illusion. Therapy and exercise helped, but what if it wasn’t enough? What if the reason i wasn’t getting completely better AND the reason I was unwell in the first place was all of this self-inflicted, unrelenting stress, illusion, and detachment from my true self? All in a rush of clarity, I decided to let it – EVERYTHING – go, rediscover myself, and balance all that was off-kilter. Matt passed two, arduous years after his diagnosis. We fought our sicknesses and despite his death, we both won. We lived and loved more deeply than either of us could have imagined. We were driven by hope and determination that life is a blessing, that our spirits are invincible, and love truly does conquer all. Today, I have never felt healthier and more at peace. I have lived through relentless sicknesses, trauma, death, and now grief. The gift of it is all is having irrefutable knowledge that even in the darkest of times – love, light, and hope will always give life.