Marine Sélénée

09/01/2026

The only consistency in life is change. We know this. We also know that we're scared of change, even though every day is a new one, we're never going to live the same day twice. And yet, when we're facing a change that requires our own impulse, our own command, we most often freeze. We get paralyzed. We distract ourselves, hoping that maybe someone else will do it for us, maybe God, or the universe, or that it will just happen on its own. For some very, very lucky people, maybe it does. But honestly, I think we are always in charge of our own change.

That said, I think there's sometimes a change you cannot avoid, one that's meant to keep you walking toward your own destiny. That change will keep circling back, saying hello again, until you finally say hi back and commit to it. The same goes for healing. Sometimes we think we're ready, and then it's a year later before we actually commit. Was that a waste of time? Not at all. I think there's always a way around, and what truly belongs to us cannot miss us, even if it happens on a different timeline, in a different way.

I've been working on a new project of mine, and it took me some time to structure and polish it. Then I felt the desire to have a business partner, because on my own I wasn't going to go as far as I wanted. And as it happens, I found her very naturally, very organically, and I feel stronger and more empowered with her by my side. I believe we always need to surround ourselves with people smarter than us, that's how we keep growing and expanding.

But back to change, in therapy, in a healing journey, I think your therapist, or whoever you're working with, needs to challenge you. They need to recognize when you're ready for the next step. I know that's just a point of view, and it might not be for everyone, but a few days ago I heard a podcast where the host said that doing therapy your entire life wasn't a big deal, and I couldn't agree with that. In that therapy bubble, there's a real comfort in being fully seen and heard (normally!). But I think you need to embrace your life and put into practice everything you've been learning. I'm all for follow-ups, maintenance, check-ins, that's true. But I'm not for fifteen years, twice a month, listening to the same patient go over the same things again and again, because at that point I don't think it's therapeutic anymore, it's just comfortable, swimming around in your own world. And there's no better way to know if you're healed than by stepping into another world.

That's the beauty of friendships, of being in a relationship, of having children (if that's what you want), or simply discovering the world by embracing other worlds, because change doesn't happen when it's perfect, when it's polished, when it "should." It happens in the discomfort, the unease, in the person who is the opposite of you. It happens through growth, and growth needs friction, and a lot of love. So whenever your life feels like a Jumanji party, you can be sure you're right in the middle of change. And I can tell you, it's the most exciting part of your life, because it means a new chapter is opening. I wish you to embrace it fully.

08/31/2026

The flow of life. Let it go. Surrender. But when you have a tendency to be a control freak, those insights can feel completely foreign — and even create more frustration.

This morning, on the boat to St. Raphael, my body following the movement of the waves, it hit me: it’s not about letting go, it’s about adaptation. Just following the rhythm of life, like a wave — sometimes up, sometimes down. But the foundation, that’s the boat. And you ARE that boat. You are your own foundation. Once you simply adapt to the flow of life, it will never shake your foundation — you’ll always be okay, just by adapting. Up, down, neutral — like your nervous system, parasympathetic or sympathetic.

The flow is in the adaptation. It’s about your adaptability to life itself, without letting it define you. It’s just information — and you have the right to absorb it or not.

It’s like the duck: the water doesn’t pe*****te its feathers, it just flows off. You can be a duck too. The water carries it, but doesn’t condition or influence it.

08/27/2026

Apologizing for having a woman's body

A few days ago I was in St. Tropez, catching up with a friend I hadn't seen in a while. She had a baby boy last year, he just turned one. And one of the first things she said to me while we were planning our day was:
"I still haven't lost the 15 pounds from my pregnancy, so I'm not looking good."
And I stopped her right there.
Size 2, size 6, size 10, who gives a damn. You just grew a human being inside your body. You are gorgeous. Full stop.
Would a man ever say to his friend: "Hey man, I've gained some weight, I'm not looking good"? Not a chance. Not even close.
But we, women, have been so thoroughly conditioned to believe that cellulite is shameful. That anything above a size 2 is a problem. That aging past 30 is a tragedy. That complaining is weakness. That post-pregnancy weight that doesn't disappear in two months is a personal failure. That wanting a s*x life after 30 is somehow embarrassing.
And meanwhile, men age. Their beer bellies grow. Their hairlines recede. Their energy shifts. And women? We don't obsess over it. Because guess what, we were also conditioned to believe we should be grateful to have a man at all. Don't be too picky. Don't wait too long. So of course we're not measuring his waistline. We were too busy measuring our own.
Your body is going to change. It has always been changing. It will shrink and expand and shift and surprise you, for the rest of your life. And it will still be beautiful. Every version of it.
You are beautiful. As long as you feel at home in your own skin, truly at home, that is everything. That is more than enough.
So please. Stop being so brutal with yourself. I know how hard that is. I'm still working on it too. Some days are easier than others. But today I'm telling you directly:
You are gorgeous. 🤍

08/26/2026

Your Own Wisdom

How many times have you forced yourself to do something you didn’t actually want? To prove something? To keep learning, again and again? To study more and more because you felt you had to fix yourself? The same goes for healing. How many healings, cleanses, retreats have you done? And in the end, do you feel better? Do you love yourself more? Because you fasted and walked for a week? Because you crawled through mud and purged your entire gut because the plant was supposed to reveal something to you? How many books have you read to find that missing piece? Aren’t you tired? Of being overstimulated? Oversupplemented? Overachieving? In pursuit of what? Believing your life will finally be better?

But what if we just stopped forcing ourselves, and calmly accepted reality? Why not follow our own wisdom? Trust our own intuition? Let go of theories, scholars, and spiritual masters. Listen to our body, our inner voice, our own wisdom. Because as long as we keep trying to meet others’ expectations, keep contorting ourselves to be loved, we can’t fully arrive. When we stop wanting to please at all costs, when we surrender to that feeling of trust, when we choose our own path, our desires may just come true.

08/10/2026

This content is educational and drawn from herbalist community Q&A — it isn't a substitute for individualized care from a doctor, endocrinologist, or clinical herbalist, particularly for diagnoses like PCOS, endometriosis, fibroids, or thyroid conditions.

08/07/2026

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/entre-nous/id1742696092?i=1000780326176

Ça s'auto-sabote ici aussi ?!
Dans ce nouvel épisode, Marine parle de cette particularité si humaine qu'est l'auto-sabotage : quand tout va bien, au lieu de continuer dans ce bonheur, on redescend, comme si on avait touché notre plafond de verre. Pourquoi faisons-nous ça ? Et vous, c'est quoi votre auto-sabotage ?
Il est aussi question de ce fameux portail du 8/8 qui arrive, et qui, pour Marine, a été un véritable accélérateur pour changer de peau, littéralement et métaphoriquement. Et vous, vous en êtes où ?
Un épisode bonne humeur qui ramène un peu d'humour dans un quotidien parfois pesant.

08/06/2026

I’m 14 in that picture. For the past year my life has drastically changed, but I am still in a blackout — still pretending that everything is okay. And yet, it is not.

But my teenage self didn’t know any better. Little did she know she was going to study communication, then psychology, then move to the States, then go back to school to study transgenerational therapy, publish a book with Hay House, and run her own private practice for twelve years through thick and thin — still committing to consistency, still becoming the therapist she wished she’d had by her side.

That young teenager is a Generator 3/5 — learning through difficult experiences and turning them into her strength. Of course I would have wished her an easier adolescence, but she is not a victim, because I am here today, embracing a new chapter in my career and, hopefully, in my personal life too. And it’s thanks to her.

So, ma Minette — thank you for your strength, for never giving up. Now lean on me, rest on me. I’ve got you.

And you — what would you like to tell her/him?

08/04/2026

08/02/2026

Why your period might be talking to you.
Heavy periods. Periods that show up early. A cycle that feels louder than it used to.
We tend to treat these as isolated problems — something to manage, medicate, or ignore. But in the body, nothing happens in isolation.
Your period is made of blood. And blood, in the language of Traditional Chinese Medicine, is Yin — the substance that nourishes, cools, moistens, and restores you. It’s also the receptive, feminine part of you. The part that receives rest. Receives care. Receives warmth.
Here’s the thing: Yin isn’t unlimited. It’s built slowly, through rest, warmth, nourishment, and slowing down. And it’s drained quickly — by overwork, by chronic stress, by not sleeping enough, by staying cold, by pushing through exhaustion because that’s what we’ve been taught to do.
When Yin runs low, the body doesn’t stay quiet about it. Periods can come early. They can come heavy. Because there isn’t enough Yin left to hold and regulate the blood the way it’s meant to.
And underneath the physical, something else happens too. When we are depleted, stressed, under-rested — the receptive part of us closes. We stop letting ourselves be nourished, held, taken care of. We keep giving because that feels safer than receiving. And the body keeps score.
This isn’t about eating more “cooling” foods and calling it done. It’s about actually slowing down enough for your body to rebuild what it has spent. Warmth over cold. Rest over pushing. Receiving over always doing.
Your cycle is one of the most honest messengers you have. When it changes, it’s worth listening — not just treating the bleeding, but asking what your Yin, your blood, your receptive self actually needs right now.
A soft place to land starts with letting yourself receive one.

08/01/2026

"We’re not attracted to what we want. We’re attracted to what we know."
Marine Selenee

We run away from what we want, hoping that what we know will eventually become what we want.

Such is the complexity of being human.

What is the Know? Our family, our heritage, our first identity. Our coping mechanisms, the way our nervous system learned to keep us safe, everything we understood in order to be loved, seen, and heard. The Know is our heritage, our past, our childhood, the first container, the first system we ever belonged to.

Adolescence is the passage between Know and Want. It goes best when our parents can hold the walls steady while we move through it, and that takes real strength on their part.

When that happens, the Want phase comes more easily. When it doesn't, you're left tossed between Know and Want, and that tension follows you into adulthood.

The Want is you. Your identity, your own definition of life, love, health, wealth. It's your essence, your alignment, the understanding that your Want might unsettle your family, might even estrange you from it, but that this may be the only real path to growing up. It means accepting that you are not here to please your parents, that you owe them nothing, that you can hold your limitations as a son or daughter and still keep reaching for what you want.

The Know is familiar, even when it's hell. We know how to survive it, there's no surprise left in it. The Want is different. We don't know how to hold it, because it's new: falling for someone outside your family's environment, religion, or culture; choosing a man who isn't violent like your father, but safe; choosing a country your homeland once went to war with; choosing peace in your relationship when your family's history has only ever known the war of the roses.

The list goes on. And often, you don't need to break the whole pattern, you just need to make it yours. That's the moment you know you're finally living your own life, and no one else's.

So maybe what you want is hiding inside that discomfort. It's unfamiliar, it doesn't look like what you imagined marrying, loving, building a life with, but maybe it's better than the familiar ever was.

So why not try it this summer.