Return To Your Soul: Reclaiming Your Energy, Self-Trust & Inner Peace with Mary Armendarez

What happens when you stop living in survival mode and begin listening to the deeper wisdom within you?

In this episode of the Wise Divine Women Podcast, Dana Irvine welcomes Mary Armendarez, author of Return to Your Soul, for a heartfelt conversation about soul-searching, self-love, energy, healing, and learning to trust yourself again.

Mary shares her personal journey from years of people-pleasing, trauma, anxiety, and giving her power away to discovering practices that helped her reconnect with herself. She describes reaching a point where she realized she had spent much of her life surviving rather than asking two simple but powerful questions:

What am I feeling? What do I need?

Mary and Dana explore the mind-body-spirit connection and the importance of paying attention to the signals our bodies give us. Mary encourages women to become curious about physical and emotional patterns rather than continually disconnecting from themselves.

The conversation shifts to practical spiritual tools Mary uses in her own life and teaches others, including breathwork, visualization, intention, grounding, energetic boundaries, and working with color. She shares her practice of visualizing violet energy as a symbol of transformation and protection, along with simple rituals you can incorporate into everyday moments—from showering and washing your hands to walking through a doorway.

Mary also discusses reconnecting with Mother Earth, balancing what she describes as divine feminine and masculine energies, learning to receive instead of constantly giving, and creating stronger energetic boundaries.

Her message throughout the conversation is simple: you have permission to come home to yourself.

After years of difficult experiences, Mary describes reaching a place where she can finally say she feels peace and calm. Those experiences eventually inspired her to write Return to Your Soul, which includes guided practices and meditations designed to help readers explore their own healing journey.

A Simple Practice to Try

Before reaching for your phone tomorrow morning, stop.

Take a breath and ask:

What am I feeling?
What do I need?
What is my next step?

You don’t need to solve your entire life in one morning. Sometimes transformation begins by becoming present enough to hear yourself again.

Connect with Mary

Look for Mary Armendarez and her book Return to Your Soul. Mary also offers courses, guided practices, personalized meditations, and tools focused on energetic alignment and self-connection.

Connect with Dana

Continue your journey with Dana Irvine, FDNP, host of the Wise Divine Women Podcast, Breast Health Educator, and Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner.

Explore functional wellness, hormone and breast health education, root-cause testing, and the Wise Divine Women community at DanaIrvine.com.

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