By Rachel Hupp Cline | March 31, 2026

Welcome to Radiantly Rooted. I have a very special guest with me today, Dina Berrin.

Dina Berrin is a certified life coach, intuitive guide, and teacher dedicated to empowering women to reconnect with themselves and live more authentically. She’s the author of The Way Within: Igniting Your Intuition with Sacred Tools. She brings a wealth of experience using transformative tools like tarot, numerology, and charm casting to help people trust themselves and make confident, grounded choices in everyday life.

Mindfulness is at the core of Dina’s own journey. While yoga is an important personal practice, her passion lies in guiding women through coaching, teaching, and intuitive sessions. She’s widely recognized for making mindfulness and self-discovery genuinely accessible (transforming them from abstract concepts into practical, everyday tools).

Dina’s superpower is helping people understand exactly where they are (emotionally, energetically, and in the season of life they’re experiencing) so they can set healthy boundaries and move forward with clarity and self-trust. At the heart of her work is the creation of a safe, welcoming space where real transformation can unfold.

You can watch on YouTube, listen on Spotify, or keep reading below.

Listen on Spotify: Your Body Already Knows: Embodied Intuition with Dina Berrin

Editor’s note: This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Speaker names are color-coded for easy reading.

Ticking All the Right Boxes but Feeling Empty Inside

Rachel: I would love to hear a little bit about your background and what brought you into the place that you’re in now, this space.

Dina: My approach blends grounded coaching with practical intuition, and I really want to meet women where they are and help them learn to trust their inner voice and make choices that feel like home, not just what’s expected.

Dina: How I came to this work was I spent my fair share of time ticking all the right boxes. I feel like there’s always been this sense of emptiness when you do things out of obligation or out of people pleasing or for reasons that are not necessarily rooted in what’s important and aligned with who you are.

Dina: So what I learned was how to trust my intuition. I began to trust those small, steady cues in my body, and that really changed everything for me. Now I want to help women who are doing the same, to show them that intuition isn’t just something that’s mystical. It’s a daily practice that can really bring us back to ourselves.

Rachel: Yes. And your story sounds so similar to mine. I did the exact same thing, checked all the boxes, built this life that I thought I was supposed to build, and then wound up feeling empty inside of it. Like it’s this cage that I’ve built around myself so intentionally just by following the path that was laid out for me instead of the path that I lost touch with. I didn’t even know what I wanted.

Rachel: When you encounter women like that who’ve lost their voice, who’ve lost their path, how do you start to guide them back to that place of intuition where they can even hear it in the first place?

Dina: First of all, I just want to acknowledge that loss of touch within yourself. I feel like many women (moms, employees, caregivers to a parent or another family member) give ourselves away in so many different places in our lives and we lose track of what’s important to us. We are no longer at the top of our own list. I don’t even know sometimes if we are on our lists at all because we have so many other things and people that we’re taking care of.

Remembering What You Truly Want

Dina: How I bring them back is through this inner voice that we have inside of us. Sometimes with all of this giving it away, it gets quieter. We lose ourselves to the shoulds and to the responsibilities and to the comparison of what we are doing as opposed to what other people are doing.

Dina: I want women to not only know what’s expected of them (because I feel like we are all too aware of what’s expected of us), but I want women to remember what it is that they truly want. My work is in sharpening their self-trust, rediscovering their own guidance, and making choices that feel much truer and clearer to them.

Dina: And actually how I do that is through the use of a lot of the tools that I’ve built up over the years. I use astrology, numerology, tarot. We work with the chakras, we work with the breath, we work with turning inward. Sometimes people come for a tarot reading and they think that I’m going to be giving them all the answers, and they really hate it when I tell them that I can share what I see, but the true answers lie within them.

Intuition Is a Muscle

Rachel: I think that is so powerful that you can share what you see, but the true answers lie within them. I have to raise my hand here because I have been so guilty of this for so long: looking outside of myself not only for answers but for external validation that the answers that are starting to bubble up (these little intuitive nudges) are safe to trust.

Rachel: Is it okay to trust that? Or looking for someone else to guide me down my path instead of making the aligned choices myself?

Dina: It feels overwhelming sometimes to make these big decisions on your own. One of the things that I always say is intuition, like anything else, is like a muscle.

Dina: Just like going to the gym: if you go to the gym once and you lift weights, and if you’ve never lifted weights before, you’re probably going to be very sore the next day or two. And then you’re like, “Oh, I’m done with the gym. I’m strong enough.” Well no, how you get stronger is by returning to the gym and keep lifting the weights. Then soon your weights will be going up and you’ll be doing things that you never thought you could do before.

Dina: When people come to you and they want to know, “How do I trust this thing? How do I become better at it?” it’s the same way you become trusting of anything in your life, the same way that you’d become better at anything. How do you become a better writer? You write. How do you become a better cook? You cook. If you said to me, “I want to run the marathon,” well, what are you going to start doing right now? You’re going to start running because you have to start practicing.

Dina: When people are like, “Well, how do I trust it? How do I know?” Well, how you know is that you have to start trusting it. Maybe you don’t trust it for huge decisions in your life or really big moments, but maybe trust it when you go to the supermarket: which line instinctively feels like it will move quicker? Or just getting a feeling for what do you think is going to happen. What do you think intuitively is going to be the outcome of a meeting that you’re going to be engaging in?

Dina: And then suddenly you start feeling, “Well, what if intuitively I could maybe sway how this worked? What if my putting some sort of input in or showing up in a certain way could maybe help the situation, could support this action that I want to take?” So it comes back to you. Unfortunately, it all starts with you.

Allowing Yourself to Be a Beginner

Rachel: It does. It all starts with you. And one thing that I think you pointed out so beautifully is how we struggle to allow ourselves to have that beginner’s mindset. When we’re born you don’t come out just walking or running. You’ve got to learn to crawl first. We don’t have that same patience and understanding with ourselves. We want to go from the beginning to the end. We want to be the best at it, confident and comfortable.

Rachel: That confidence in being comfortable trusting comes from practice. It comes from allowing ourselves to go through falling down, being a beginner, starting from the beginning, starting somewhere, and then learning and growing as we evolve.

Dina: Right. And I feel like another thing is people are sometimes resistant to change. Some people are more resistant than others. Sometimes change is labeled as bad or “I don’t want” or it’s just too difficult or it feels uncomfortable.

Dina: That’s what I really hit on: you have to be willing to be uncomfortable if you want to lean into your intuition. If you want to do things that you haven’t been doing previous to this moment, you have to be able to be willing to invest the mindset that it’s possible that you can do this and that it’s all going to be okay.

Dina: I think that we feel like, “I’m so comfortable in what I’m doing that if I do it another way, it’s just not going to work the way I want it to.” But if you don’t do it another way, you’re always going to get what you’ve been getting. In order to have something you haven’t had before, you’re willing to do something that you haven’t done before. That’s the old adage that I like to fall back on.

Fear or Love: What Energy Are You Acting From?

Rachel: Change can be scary. We are, most of our life is on autopilot. I’ve been studying a little bit more about the Pareto Principle lately, the 80/20 rule. 80% of our life output or results (what we’re seeing in our day-to-day life) comes from 20% of our actions. But most of us spend most of our time in the 80% of the actions that don’t move the needle forward.

Rachel: So much of our life is spent in that autopilot where we’re not making the small changes. And the thing is, it doesn’t have to be a massive change in most circumstances. That small change, that little pebble, that little adjustment can have a ripple effect into your entire life. That 20%, that small little thing, can have the biggest impact. It doesn’t have to be scary.

Dina: I agree with everything you just said 1,000%. And at the same time, doing that 20%, doing that little thing, I feel like it’s sometimes hard to figure out what that little thing is. Or doing something that is unknown or not yet done before feels scary.

Dina: That brings me to this whole idea that I have: in life we either come from a place of fear or we come from a place of love. When we come from a place of fear, everything feels tense and like work. But when we come from a place of love, it just flows. So the question is: how can you get into the mindset that everything you’re doing, every action you’re taking, every movement and step and nudge that you take, how can you do that from a place of love?

Peeling Back the Layers to Find the Fear

Rachel: I think that is so powerful. It’s not black or white, is fear or love. What is the energy behind this action that I’m taking or not taking?

Dina: Exactly. A lot of times I will say to my clients (they don’t love when I put a thumbtack in them and put them on the wall): “What are you afraid of? What is the fear?” And they’re like, “Well, it’s not fear, it’s…” and they’ll name something else. I’m like, “Right, but what’s underneath that?”

Dina: I’m going to keep peeling back the layers until what is sitting at the very bottom of it is a fear. A lot of times it’s fear of the unknown, fear of failure, fear of belly flopping in front of the world in a very public way. I understand those are all real fears. But what if you didn’t try? What if Steve Jobs didn’t try? What if all these people that were phenomenal creators in the world didn’t try because they were afraid of the belly flop, and then we were all at a loss for that magical thing that they’ve done?

Rachel: That’s exactly it. We have no idea what the ripple effect of our own actions can be. I love the peeling back of the layers. That’s such a perfect visual for the work that we do because you can’t know what you don’t know. As you start to uncover, you realize it’s not usually the surface level issue. It’s something deeper than that. Then you go a little deeper and you realize, “Oh, there’s more to it than this.”

Dina: What is the smallest next step that I can take that honors how I feel? When I shrink things down to just the next smallest move (sometimes as simple as taking a breath or stepping outside), the overwhelm softens and now I can see or feel or intuit the next right thing. It’s very similar to breath work and yoga, just trusting that your body is just going to move into the next pose or take that breath.

Anxiety vs. Intuition: How to Tell the Difference

Rachel: Using breathwork to bring you home to yourself. I feel like a lot of the time when we are struggling, we’re stuck in the space between our neck and our head. We’re not aware that we’re in our physical body, in the room that we’re in, in the present moment. We’re either ruminating about the past or worrying about the future. Most of the worries that we have are never going to even come true, but we spend so much time and energy in fear that they will happen.

Rachel: Taking a long grounding breath, letting ourselves feel our feet and our body beneath us, letting ourselves feel the body move within us. And like to your point, just do the next smallest thing.

Dina: This is also the somatic piece of it: what does it feel like in my body? This is a simple invitation to step out of thinking (like you said, a lot happens between our head and our neck). Get out of the thinking and into the present.

Dina: I mean, I live in New York City and I see people walking around with their face in their phones. I’ve seen people fall off the curb. I’ve seen people do all kinds of ridiculous things because they’re so focused on what’s happening on the little screen in front of them, they’re not participating in the world. Intuition is living in the body. It’s not spinning in the mind.

Building the Awareness Muscle

Rachel: That takes practice and it takes allowing ourselves to be a beginner. And also I just want to point out that it’s that awareness first. Like you said, the muscle. We can build that awareness muscle so we start to catch ourselves when we’re drifting. “Oh, I’m off in la-la land again. I’m not even in my body right now.” Bring that awareness to bring us back again and again so that we can tap into our intuition, so we can live more of the moments in our life being fully present and grounded.

Dina: Yes. Self-trust can be a grounding tool because the deepest peace comes from inside of you, not from checking another box. Embodied intuition over endless thinking. When you listen to your body, your nervous system calms down, and that’s when clarity comes in.

Dina: Small next steps over perfection and hustle. That’s why it’s so easy to feel paralyzed. We’re always waiting to feel ready. I always answer a question with a question sometimes, but I feel like: what if you are already ready? What would your next action be then?

The Future Self Mindset

Rachel: That’s true. Stepping into the role of the person who is ready. What does that person look like? How do they act? What actions and energy do they embody? What pieces of that do you already have within you? What are you already embodying? And so then what is holding you back? Because pieces of you are already ready.

Dina: Exactly. And I also believe like there’s this concept in coaching called Future Self. Who am I in six months? Who am I a year from today? Because I’m a forever student and I’m always like a big sponge. I want to learn, I want to grow, I want to expand.

Dina: Future me is going to know more, is going to be more skilled, more experienced, more knowledgeable. So my question is: what is future me doing? What is future me’s mindset like? Once you come to that decision about all these things of what your future you is doing or saying or acting or whoever they are, how do you become future you? You just start talking like that person, walking like that person, acting like that person.

Dina: All you need to do is figure out what’s the next thing. If you’re not there yet, picture you. Will you be there in three months? Will you be there in six months? How long will it take for you to be there? What will it feel like? Embody that.

Visualizing the Gap Between Here and There

Rachel: I really love taking the time to feel into it. And I love how you pointed out we can visualize that gap: this is where we are now, this is where we are at some point off in the future. Most of the time we’re not going to jump straight from here to there. We’ve got to take the next step and then take the step after that, take the next step after that. We might take a step or two back here and there, and that’s okay. That’s part of the learning process. It helps us build those muscles back up so that we can go higher and further next time.

Slowing Down to Hear Yourself Again

Dina: Totally true. And you know what I really want? I want to help women slow down enough to hear themselves again, not by hustling or striving for insight but by getting curious. That word curious: huh, interesting, huh, curious. Gently notice your own experience. That’s how you begin to trust your own inner guidance, and decisions become less draining and more aligned with who you really are.

Dina: It’s all a practice of tuning into you, which feels like the answers are out there when all we really need is already within us.

Rachel: I feel like so many of us, to your point, we struggle to slow down. We wake up in the morning and we jump right into a to-do list that was overly ambitious to begin with. Like you said, oftentimes we’re not even on our to-do list, or if we are, we’re at the bottom, so we fall right off.

Rachel: We need to create that space somewhere within our day to check in with ourselves, to tune in with ourselves, and to be able to grow that intuitive muscle so that we can slowly and mindfully make those more aligned decisions step by step so that we’re not flowing through our lives on autopilot, so that we do create the space to slow down. And what I’ve found is that slowing down, it can feel counterintuitive, but it almost feels like it creates more space within your day instead of less.

Start with Two Minutes

Dina: Once you get there, it’s true. I think that the initial act of slowing down is very challenging when you’re used to moving at a certain pace.

Dina: What is a mindset shift? How do you shift your mindset? How would you recommend someone shift their mindset to a pace of slowing down? What are some prompts that people could use to do that?

Rachel: I find this a lot in my yoga classes because for Savasana, our corpse pose at the end of practice, that can be the most challenging pose for so many people because it’s uncomfortable for us to stop. It’s uncomfortable for us to be still and be in that space of being instead of doing.

Rachel: What I’ll tell people is: feel into the support beneath you, allow yourself to feel the breath move through your body, allow your mind to follow the pattern of your breath. So in daily life, if people are not comfortable slowing down, you don’t have to slow down for 20 minutes. Maybe you can take 30 seconds to connect with your breath. Maybe that 30 seconds builds up to a minute.

Rachel: When I first started meditating, I could not sit still to save my life. So I committed to sitting down for two minutes, two minutes a day. That was all I had to do. That built up over time to where now I can sustain a 20-minute practice. My mind still wanders. It always will. We’re human. But start with the smallest thing that feels like it’s just barely pushing you out of your comfort zone, and then once you build that muscle, move on from there.

Dina: I love that. Well, you know, I feel clarity isn’t something you find. It’s something that you create, and it grows as you listen to your body. You need to pay attention to your energy and approach yourself once again with that curiosity word.

Dina: But we are so inclined to judge ourselves. We’re always holding up a comparison to a colleague at work or a peer who looks as if they have it all (which is always usually a set of smoke and mirrors because nothing is ever what it seems). But you don’t have to wait for a lightning bolt to get clarity. It comes one gentle moment at a time.

Dina: But you do need to carve out time to do it. I started out doing, I would set my timer on my phone for one, two, and now I do like about a 10-minute meditation. But I do have a big monkey mind situation. I was in a yoga class and the teacher said to me, “When you meditate, just keep saying to yourself: just this, just this.” Just this meaning just your breath, just this moment right now. As you find your mind drifting, reminding yourself: just this, just come back to this right now. If you could find that moment, it’s so relaxing.

Dina: My question for myself would be: what if I could relax right then? What if I could surrender to that moment and not worry about what happens when it’s time to get up? Just be in that moment. Be present, be in the moment, and see what the moment calls for. You don’t always have to hit the ground running. You can take a breath and then decide what it is that you want to do.

Rachel: Yes, that’s exactly it. And I just want to point out to our listeners how you reframed that. You didn’t turn straight to self-judgment or beating yourself up. Like, “I can’t relax right now.” You acknowledged that you were having a hard time relaxing and you brought in that sense of curiosity and open-minded wonderment: what if I could?

Dina: It’s true. And I feel like it takes awareness once again to be there, which is why it’s great to hear it again and again. Another little tidbit that I picked up along the way is that a lot of people are not only afraid of belly flopping in front of the world, they’re afraid of failure in general.

Dina: So I’ve come up with a whole new philosophy of how to approach this: you never fail. You either win or you learn. If you did not get it right this time, you are learning how to be better the next time. So it’s not a failure. The only time you fail is if this is the end and the last time you’re doing this. But if you can keep going, then at some point you’re going to be like, “You know what? I am so much better.”

Dina’s Book: The Way Within

Rachel: Well, you wrote a book, The Way Within: Igniting Your Intuition with Sacred Tools. Do you want to tell our listeners a little bit about that and how they can get their hands on it if they want to?

Dina: The Way Within is a guide to reconnecting with your own inner wisdom, especially during times of change and uncertainty or when life is feeling out of sync. It shows readers how to use intuitive tools on a very beginner level. So if you do not have experience with tarot, numerology, or I created my own charm kit (charms are just like things you would have on a charm bracelet, little symbols that hold meaning for us).

Dina: They’re not there to predict the future, but they’re there to see what’s already inside of you with greater clarity and with confidence. This book is about moving from self-doubt and people pleasing into a grounded self-trust and way that you can align with your own inner truth. There’s a link to it on my website, which is my name, Dina Berrin, and it’s also on Amazon.

Rachel: Awesome. That sounds like such a powerful tool for beginners to have. I love how you don’t have to have any experience to get started on this journey, but it can be a powerful tool to take you deeper inwards so that you can leave behind some of those self-doubt tendencies and deepen that self-trust.

Dina: Yeah, I mean, I wrote it because I wish I had this earlier on my own journey. There were times in my life when I felt pulled in every direction and disconnected with my own sense of clarity. Over the years I realized that the answer wasn’t out there. Once again, it was in me. That’s what inspired the title of the book, The Way Within.

Rachel: I love that. It’s perfect. It reminds me again of the visual earlier of peeling back the layers. It’s guiding you step by step deeper inside of yourself. That sounds like a really powerful tool to have.

Dina: Yeah, and I think of these tools as mirrors. You use these tools in ways that work for you. Just like anything (somebody might use a calculator in one way that you’re like, “Oh, I don’t use it like that”), there’s a lot of different ways to use these tools. I want you to know that there is no wrong way to do it. That’s part of the message here. Whatever works for you, that works. You don’t have to explain why or defend yourself. There’s no judgment, there’s no comparison, there’s no perfectionism. It’s just you and the tools.

Anxiety vs. Intuition: The Key Distinction

Rachel: Yes, I love that. And it’s so easy for us to get stuck in that cycle of comparison, especially in the world today. There’s just so much input all the time. It’s very easy to get stuck in comparison.

Dina: It is. And one of the big takeaways from the book is learning how to distinguish between anxiety and intuition. Anxiety feels like noise. It’s urgent, it’s reactive, and it’s often repetitive. Intuition feels more steady and clear and really body-based.

Dina: I think it’s really important to know how to do these simple techniques that you can do while you’re waiting in line at Trader Joe’s or just sitting in your car at drop-off for your kids. There’s a lot of different places you can use this that you don’t even need to let anybody know that you’re doing it, but you’re taking care of you.

Self-Care Isn’t Selfish

Rachel: And that self-care is such a critical piece of our puzzle that often gets neglected.

Dina: It’s so true. And we need to carve it out. For example, if you had a dentist appointment or if you had another commitment, you would be there because, you know, and God forbid you not be there for an appointment that you were taking somebody else to.

Dina: But somehow we allow the commitments that we would like to make to ourselves to fall off of our calendar. So I want to invite your listeners to keep yourself in those spots. Find time to meditate, find time to move your body, find time to trust yourself and work on your intuition. See the benefits of it as you do it on an ongoing basis.

Your Inner Guidance Is Your Clearest Compass

Rachel: I love that. We have had such a wonderful conversation, Dina. I’ve had so much fun talking to you. We’ve talked about letting go, learning to trust, letting go of control, finding that sense of freedom in surrendering some of these judgments, mindset shifts. If you wanted to leave our listeners today with one final thought or something that’s on your heart, one final little nugget of wisdom…

Dina: My final nugget is: your inner guidance is your clearest compass. It doesn’t speak in pressure or perfection. It’s a quiet sense of resonance, a feeling that something is true for you. When you slow down enough to notice that, life feels like it’s moving with you, not against you.

Rachel: Thank you so much, Dina. That is powerful. I will share all of your links in the show notes. Dear listeners, I would love for you to check out Dina’s book, to connect with her on her website and on social media. And Dina, thank you just so much for being here today. This has been such a fun conversation and I know that our listeners are going to take a lot out of it.

Dina: Oh, I had such a great time. It was wonderful talking to you, Rachel. Thank you.

Connect with Dina Berrin

Dina’s intention is to support women in living with greater presence and purpose, using self-awareness both on and off the mat to cultivate resilience, confidence, and joy.

Book: The Way Within: Igniting Your Intuition with Sacred Tools

Work with Dina:

• The Alignment Experience (year-long program)
• One-on-One Tarot & Numerology Sessions
• Website: www.dinaberrin.com

Connect with Dina on Social:

• Instagram: @dinaberrin
• Facebook: Dina Berrin Tarot
• YouTube: @dinaberrin5975
• LinkedIn: Dina Berrin