We were lucky to catch up with Keren Marmer recently and have shared our conversation below.

Keren, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today Was there a moment in your career that meaningfully altered your trajectory? If so, we’d love to hear the backstory.

I had always felt that I need to work with women. This image of women sitting in circle would not leave my mind. This calling started manifesting first in the field of motherhood. Me, being a new mom to a 2 year old girl, Reef, I have started posting some tips and insights I had back at the time about her behavior, the connection we have and practical tools of coping, but mainly – listening to our intuition.
Followed by lectures I provided, both in person and online and one on one coaching sessions, something didn’t feel right. I knew I was really good at what I’m doing, my Social Media followers grew bigger, I created content daily, and my lectures and practice were full. But something was missing.
Next, I partnered up with a friend, who is a business coach, and together we created a community of mompreneuers in LA called It Takes a Village.
We hosted networking and fun events to bring women together and help grow each others’ businesses. This group currently has more than 300 local women. We also had a podcast at some point, and things looked like they are really going to a great direction.
But something didn’t feel complete. Something was still missing.

Being pregnant with my second daughter, Aria, was the turning point of the next chapter of my life. Half of the pregnancy I was ignoring it, kept working hard and pushing my business and our community forward, becoming a nonprofit organization with huge dreams of having a house for the community sometime in the future.
Then, at 5 months of pregnancy, I met a friend who just finished a doula training, and wanted to practice.
This doula opened up my eyes to the disempowerment happening to women who come to give birth in hospitals, and being guided by male doctors.
I had learned so much about my rights as a woman, about my power of giving birth anyway I want (and not the way the doctor wants). I learned that this is MY birth and I get to choose how I want it to be.
Then, at 37 weeks of pregnancy I have decided to switch providers and give birth naturally with a midwife.
By doing so, and of course the birth itself, I proved to myself that I am strong beyond imagination. Not only me. All of us, women, have this power and strength inside us. There is nothing we cannot do.

Fast forward to 8 moths later, I had my first grand spiritual awakening happening in a spiritual sacred plant medicine ceremony. My intention was to see what is the missing part in my business. What is my true purpose?

And then it came – I was introduced to the wisdom of the womb. I was shown a portal opening up in my womb space, which I did not understand at the time. I was shown the connection between my womb and my voice. And how speaking up my voice, setting my boundaries and feeling whole, truly connects me to the center of my power and my intuition – in the womb.

This experience was so eye opening. I was in awe and finally understood my true purpose – to help women heal trauma and abuse that is stored in the womb. To help them express themselves fully and authentically. This led me to finding a training in energetic womb healing, and at the same time I kept guiding a local women’s circle, that from week to week, the more I got connected to my power and magic, became more and more healing, empowering and magical.

Now I am offering one on one sessions of womb clearing & activation, which is an energetic form of healing that is helping women to connect to their womb on a soul level. This was the missing part – going from working mainly with the mind, into working with spirit, connecting to higher frequencies, and helping women to heal on a deeper level.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

My name is Keren Marmer, and ever since I remember myself, I had a strong calling to help people heal. I knew since I was 7 years old that I am going to become a therapist. Starting this path around the time I went to army in Israel, I was a casualties officer in the Israeli Navy – working with families who lost their beloved at a very young age, holding space for them to tell their stories, cry, release and feel loved and cared for.

Right after I finished my service, I went to the university to study Psychology. I knew I am going to do my absolute best to excel so that I could be easily accepted to Master’s and even more than that. This field is very competitive and it is not easy to be accepted. I finished my BA with excellent grades and a record of working in a mental health facility as a counselor, as well as volunteering with children in foster care. And then I have decided to take a break for one year before I start my Masters degree and got accepted as a flight attendant in ELAL.

Stepping out of this matrix helped me see things in a different perspective. I got married, got pregnant with my first daughter, Reef, and we relocated to the US, and while I started working in my husband’s business, I felt called to sign up to a coaching class.

One thing led to another, and I felt like this journey of becoming a therapist is no longer relevant for me. I started giving lectures about authentic motherhood – being led by your intuition, and started seeing clients in my private coaching practice for women. I understood that my purpose is working with women, and there are many ways to do so.

In my practice I have been helping women reconnect to their intuition, to their authentic selves, and by doing so – to live a present life. With their children, partner, friends and everyone around. Living a life full of choice and consciousness. Taking responsibility and learning from the lessons life is providing us with. One of my gifts is to be able to read what underlying your words and emotions. To see the bigger picture and to guide you into seeing your shadows. Facing them and letting them go. Leaving you feel empowered, loved, held, taken care of and with practical everyday life tools to take home and improve your life.

I have been doing that for a few years now, and recently I have discovered another great gift that I have – the ability to channel light and heal through my hands, offering energetic womb healing sessions.
Our womb is the source of our power. Our womb is creating life, ideas, art, actions, flow. But sometimes, as it is a container – she holds on to energy that doesn’t serve us: our past sexual partners, trauma, generational wounds, or any wound that is related to not speaking up our voice or setting our boundaries. Womb healing sessions help to release this stagnant energy and activate new codes, depending on your intention and what your are wanting to manifest in your life.

Women who have been receiving this healing from me reported feeling so much lighter after the session, some reported less pain and cramps during their menstruation, some had more clarity and flow in their lives, connected with their guidance and intuition, some activated their womb after being stagnant for years while they are trying to conceive, and some reported less pain in their body.
This healing modality combines shamanic tools, connection to the elements, chanting and toning, bodywork and energy work altogether. I am aiming to be a clear channel to source wisdom and any messages my client needs to receive for the purpose of her soul’s growth and evolution.
This, combined with the coaching I am offering, helps to get a 360 degree perspective on all aspects of your life: physical, mental, emotional and spiritual.

I also offer womb wisdom ceremonies, sacred women’s circles and teaching circles about generational trauma and connection to one’s intuition.

Each modality or tool that I am using is meant to bring you to the same place – a place of full trust in yourself, and a deep understanding of your divine feminine power. Understanding the power of being present and owning the gift you are to the world. Start shining at your brightest so you can start sharing with others some of the wisdom you have inside of you.

Other than training/knowledge, what do you think is most helpful for succeeding in your field?

At first when I started my business I had mostly relied on my knowledge and mind. Everything in my lectures was backed up in research, books and references. The more I walk this path of discovering my inner power and shining it on others, I learn to trust more and more in my intuition. Today I can safely say that I am mostly being guided by my intuition. In fact, the energy womb healing work is 100% intuitive. I let my hands lead me wherever my client needs healing, and so far – it had always been on point.

Trusting your intuition is actually believing that there is a greater power that is moving you. Trusting in this power made my life so much easier, because I know that no matter where I go or what lesson or challenge I encounter, it is always in my best favor, All of this is being played out the way it is, so I can learn the lessons that my soul came here to learn, for my own growth and evolution. And this is being co-created with the guiding of our intuition.

What’s a lesson you had to unlearn and what’s the backstory?

Growing up, I had always been an achiever. I had the best grades, I was always the first in class, at school, in my army service, at work. Always the most complimented person. Hard worker. Sometime in my childhood I have learned that my way of getting attention and love is to be a good girl. Not to interrupt anyone.
My parents got divorced when I was 3 years old, and my mother had to work hard to financially sustain us. At some point I had a deep understanding that my parents have enough trouble without me adding on top of it. So I have learned to numb my emotions. There was no one I could trust to hold space for me when I was sad or mad. I only had myself.

So to deal with this loneliness, I became an achiever (and a people’s pleaser, but that’s a whole different story). Receiving the love and affection I needed, from the praises I got when I succeeded. But at some point just succeeding wasn’t enough. I needed to be the best of the best in order to feel a sense of worthiness.

Not so long ago, a few years back, I had to unlearn this lesson. Stepping out of the predestined plan I had for myself (getting accepted to a Master’s in Psychology in Israel wasn’t enough. I wanted a direct path to being a DR in an Ivy league university in the US), slowly but surely I released these huge expectations from myself and started learning my worth in a different way.
The biggest achievement in unlearning this lesson was to start feeling my worthiness as a mother and a wife. In the everyday regular house chores. Feeling how my love pours in the meals I cook and nourish my kids. Admiring the beauty of the flowers that grow on a tree in my backyard. Allowing myself as much time as I need to rest, not run and achieve for a change. Just be. And this new lesson that I am now learning is so liberating. I feel my power in every step that I take during the day: driving my daughter to school, drinking my morning mushroom coffee, washing the dishes. I am worthy for just being who I am.

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