Body-First Healing Podcast
Join Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner, author, and survivor Britt Piper as she guides you through what it truly means to heal through the body. Known as @healwithbritt across social media, Britt’s mission is to help you come home to yourself using nervous system science, somatic tools, and lived experience. After losing her brother in high school and surviving an assault in her early twenties, Britt spent years searching for answers. What finally brought her lasting healing was reconnecting with her body, and now she’s here to walk alongside you on your journey. The Body-First Healing Podcast is an honest, grounded space to explore somatic healing, trauma recovery, and nervous system regulation.
Episodes
Somatic Practice: Holding Grief & Joy at the Same Time
Sometimes the moment you start to enjoy yourself is the moment you remember what hurts. In this guided somatic practice, Britt Piper, Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner, gently explores what it's like to let a small, good moment in while grief is still present. You won't be asked to revisit painful memories, produce gratitude, or feel anything in particular. Instead, you'll orient t
Life Update: Divorce, Co-Parenting & Letting Go of Montana
Your grief doesn't have to end before your life can open up. In this personal episode, Britt Piper, Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner, lets you into the ordinary days underneath a really big announcement. Britt shares how she and her co-parent are choosing to remain a family even as their marriage changes. She talks through the decision to sell the Montana land, and the difference between be
Q&A: How to Navigate a Relationship Ending, Functional Freeze & Nervous System Work for Beginners
Missing someone doesn't automatically mean you belong with them. Anxiety doesn't always mean danger. And exhaustion doesn't always mean you made the wrong choice.In this Q&A episode, Britt Piper, Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner, helps you build a little more space between what your body is feeling and the story your mind tells you it means. She answers your questions on where
You Know Better. So Why Does Your Body Still React?
You know exactly why you react the way you do. You've done the therapy, read the books, and can explain your triggers with real precision. And your body still reacts before any of that knowledge gets a chance to step in. If you've ever said "I know better" and felt your chest tighten anyway, this episode is for you.Britt Piper, Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner, unpacks why un
Cortisol Isn't the Enemy: Why the Goal Is Recovery, Not Less Stress
Cortisol has become the latest casualty of our obsession with making biology binary. Good hormone versus bad hormone. Regulated, dysregulated. Safe, unsafe. And somewhere inside this endless conversation about lowering cortisol, balancing cortisol, or avoiding a spike, we've forgotten something fundamental about being alive: your body was not designed for the absence of stress. It was designe
Somatic Practice for Seasons of Transition: Finding Choice When Certainty Isn't Available
If you are in a season where the old version of your life has already ended and the new one hasn't become familiar yet, this episode is for you. Maybe you got the thing you wanted and still feel unsettled inside it. Maybe you know the ending was right and you still miss what you left. Maybe you have been calling it stuckness and wondering what's wrong with you.Nothing is wrong with you.
What Burnout Is Actually Telling You: Protection, Resistance & Finding Safety in the Body
Hot take: burnout is not a productivity problem but as a nervous system doing exactly what it learned to do. In this episode combining three of our most popular episodes, we look at why slowing down can feel like a threat instead of a relief, and finally at how the body actually receives safety through neuroception, glimmers, and resourcing. If you have ever wondered why stillness makes you restle
Why the Most Self-Aware People Still Feel Stuck
If you have done years of healing work and you still feel stuck, maybe the question isn't, what haven't I healed yet? Maybe the question is, what am I ready to live now? In this episode, Britt Piper, Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner, explores what happens when healing stops being a season and starts being a permanent way of life. She walks through why a nervous system that survived thr
Q&A: How to Complete an Emotion, Read a Real Relational Signal & Rest When You're Running on Empty
Every question that came in this month was a version of the same one: what is wrong with me?Six listeners wrote in, and Britt Piper, Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner, answers each one from the body instead of the surface fix.What it actually means to complete an emotion, and why crying often becomes possible only when someone is holding you. How to tell a real relational signal from an old wound
Somatic Practice for Sleep: Why Your Body Won't Let You Rest
Having trouble sleeping at night or getting into rest mode? This somatic practice episode is for you! First, Britt walks you through why difficulty resting is rarely about a busy mind and almost always about nervous system safety. Rather than trying to force sleep, this somatic practice helps your body learn that it can set the day down. You will be guided through a brain hold, orienting to your r
Why You Feel Better After Talking to AI (And What It Still Can't Give You)
AI has suddenly become part of many people's emotional lives, and a lot of us have noticed something surprising: we feel better after talking to it. In this solo episode, Britt explores what your nervous system is actually responding to when you turn to a chatbot, and why that answer says something profound about how healing works. She walks through the difference between reducing cognitive o
Peter Crone on Finding Freedom, Forgiveness, & Who You Truly Are
What if the anxiety, the people-pleasing, the constant sense that you are not enough were never flaws in you, but stories you learned in order to stay safe? In this episode, Britt sits down with Peter Crone, known as the Freedom Specialist, for a slow and human conversation about fear and where it really comes from. Peter shares how losing both of his parents young shaped a lifetime of survival, a
The Cost of Being the Strong One: How Hyper-Independence Keeps You Depleted
If you are the person everyone calls when something falls apart, this episode will help you understand why it is so hard to let anyone help you, and what that is costing your body. Britt explores how the strong one gets made, why hyper-independence is usually an attachment strategy rather than a personality trait, and how you can be highly functional and deeply dysregulated at the same time. You w
Somatic Practice: Connect with Your Intuition
If your intuition feels unreachable, this practice is for you. In this guided somatic episode, Britt offers a different way to understand intuition: your inner knowing did not disappear, your access to it did, and those are two very different things. When your nervous system is busy scanning for danger, managing everyone else's emotions, or proving your worth, there is not much attention left
Q&A: How to Talk About Your Trauma Without Over-Explaining, Quiet a Racing Mind at Night & Heal Without Reliving the Past
You finally crawl into bed exhausted, and that is the exact moment your mind decides to replay every conversation and solve every problem you have ever had. In this Q&A episode, Britt answers four thoughtful listener questions through a body-first lens: when and how to tell a partner you have CPTSD, what is really happening in your nervous system when you are tired but wired at night, whether
You're Not Lost, You're Changing: The Nervous System Reason Change Feels So Hard
Lately you might catch yourself thinking, "I don't feel like myself anymore," and wondering what is wrong with you. In this deeply personal solo episode, Britt offers a different possibility: that not feeling like yourself is often exactly what growth feels like. She explores why change feels so disorienting in the body, why your nervous system can read even aligned, beautiful growt
How to Break a Nervous System Pattern Somatic Practice
If you keep ending up in the same pattern, it does not mean you are failing. In this episode, Britt explores why nervous system patterns repeat, what they are really protecting, and how to start interrupting them with more awareness and safety. She also guides you through a 15-minute somatic practice to help you begin breaking a stuck pattern in real time.Connect with Britt:Instagram: @healwithbri
6 Somatic Healing Misconceptions & Where to Begin
This week, we’re bringing back a listener favorite replay that offers a deeper look into the personal journey that led Britt to somatic healing. In this episode, she shares more of her story, from the trauma she lived through to the turning point that changed the course of her healing and helped her understand the nervous system in a completely new way. Britt also unpacks 6 common somatic healing
Mona Sharma on Healing Burnout, The Root of Wellness & Coming Home to Your Body
Modern wellness tells us to do more, buy more and invest more into "healing," but what really moves the needle is much simpler. In this episode, Britt sits down with Mona Sharma, celebrity nutritionist, wellness educator, and host of the Rooted in Wellness podcast, to explore how stress, burnout, inflammation, and disconnection are often compounded when we keep looking outside ourselves
Somatic Practice for Fatigue & Burnout Recovery
In this somatic practice episode, Britt explores what fatigue and burnout can look like through a nervous system lens. She explains why exhaustion is often not just about doing too much, but about a system that has been carrying unresolved stress for too long and has shifted into shutdown. Through a gentle guided practice, she helps you orient to the present, notice where fatigue lives in the body
How to Feel a Feeling: The 5 Steps of SIBAM for Nervous System Regulation
Most of us were never actually taught how to feel a feeling. We were taught how to override it, rationalize it, minimize it, or move past it as quickly as possible. But what we suppress, the body will later express. What we resist will persist. In this episode, Britt breaks down one of the most foundational somatic tools for emotional processing: SIBAM. She explains why suppressing emotions can ke
How to Manifest Through Embodiment & Release Limiting Beliefs with Matt Cooke
Britt sits down with manifestation coach and author of Beyond Wanting, Matt Cooke, for a conversation that bridges manifestation, embodiment, and nervous system work. Matt shares the unexpected spiritual awakening that changed the course of his life, how it led him out of the corporate world, and why real manifestation is about much more than positive thinking. Together, Britt and Matt explore the
The Myth of Nervous System Optimization: Why You Can’t Hack Healing
Healing has increasingly been framed as something to optimize, perfect, or hack. In this episode, Britt explores the growing pressure within wellness culture to constantly upgrade your nervous system and why that mindset can actually move you further away from regulation. She breaks down common healing myths, why overcomplicating your practices can keep you stuck, and how nervous system safety is
Q&A: Building a Healing Business, Somatic Work vs Therapy & Avoiding Burnout
Building a healing business, choosing the somatic path, and learning how to actually support your nervous system in daily life are all deeply connected. In this Q&A episode, Britt shares how she built her business, what she has learned along the way, why she chose somatic work instead of becoming a therapist, and how to grow a business on social media. She also shares the movement and nutritio
Somatic Practice for Overthinking, Rumination, & Mental Loops
When your mind will not stop looping, replaying, or trying to figure something out, it can feel almost impossible to step out of the cycle. In this episode, Britt shares why this happens through the lens of the nervous system, explaining how overthinking can become a survival response when the body is activated and searching for safety or control. She then offers a somatic practice to help you wor
Sami Clarke On Building Self Trust & Finding Alignment through Somatic Healing
After a year of working together, Britt sits down with Sami Clarke, wellness entrepreneur and founder of FORM, to explore what it actually looks like to move from overthinking and shutdown into a more embodied, trusting relationship with yourself. Together, they reflect on what changes in your life when you start to build self-trust and how patterns that once felt overwhelming begin to make more s
My Nervous System Health Toolkit: Daily Practices for Regulation
Curious about what nervous system support looks like in daily life? In this episode, Britt shares the daily nervous system routine that helps her stay grounded, present, and supported She explains why mental health has to be approached through the body, not just the mind, and offers a deeper perspective on regulation through the lens of devotion, recovery, rhythm, nourishment, movement, and protec
Food Therapy: How Nutrition Impacts Anxiety, Stress & the Nervous System with Luis Mojica
Most people don't know that every few hours they're actually inducing a fight or flight response due to what they're eating. In this episode, Britt sits down with Luis Mojica, a trained Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, Herbalist, Holistic Nutritional Counselor, Life Coach, and author of Food Therapy, to explore the powerful connection between nourishment and the nervous system. To
Why Intimacy Can Feel So Hard: Healing Attachment Wounds & Relationship Patterns
In honor of Sexual Assault Awareness Month beginning April 1, Britt Piper explores a challenge many trauma survivors face: how trauma and survival mode can shape the way we experience intimacy, attachment, and connection in relationships. She unpacks why intensity can be mistaken for intimacy, how self-abandonment develops, and what it can mean when your relationships start changing as you heal. T
Somatic Healing Isn’t a Trend: Why It’s Growing & How to Practice It Safely
If it feels like everyone is talking about somatic healing and nervous system regulation right now, you are not wrong. In this episode, Britt explores why this work is expanding so rapidly and what it actually means beyond the buzzwords. She unpacks the science of how trauma and chronic stress live in the body, why insight alone often is not enough to create lasting change, and how somatic work he
Q&A: Intrusive Thoughts, Expanding Capacity & Learning to Receive Support
Why do intrusive thoughts feel so terrifying? How do you actually build capacity instead of just trying to stay calm? In this month’s Q&A, Britt answers your most honest questions—about expanding nervous system capacity, receiving support without shame, understanding intrusive thoughts through a somatic lens, navigating abandonment wounds, and what support through grief really looks like. She
Somatic Practice for Empowerment: Embracing Healthy Aggression & Life Force
Empowerment isn’t about becoming louder or more confident, it's about helping your nervous system feel safe enough to take up space. In honor of Women’s Empowerment Month, Britt guides you through a gentle somatic practice centered on healthy aggression, the fight response in its most organized, life-giving form. She explores how many women were taught that directness or anger would cost them
What a Solo Trip Gave Me & How to Return to Yourself
When was the last time you made space to really hear yourself? In this episode, Britt shares why she chose to take a five day solo trip to Mendocino after recognizing how far she felt from her internal home, and what solitude revealed about nervous system regulation, chronic outward focus, and the subtle ways we abandon ourselves in responsibility and caregiving. She explores why stillness can fee
Elizabeth Orrigo on Healing Chronic Pain, Avoiding Toxic Wellness Traps & Working with Your Body
What if the real breakthrough in your healing is not another protocol, but changing the way you relate to your own body? Elizabeth Endres Orrigo, host of The Wellness Process Podcast, is here to talk about what it truly looks like to move from fighting your body to working with it. She shares her experience navigating chronic pain, high achievement, and wellness culture, along with the nervous sys
Healing Self-Abandonment in Relationships & Learning to Trust Yourself Again
Have you ever found yourself shrinking, overgiving, or saying yes when every part of you wanted to say no, then wondering why you feel disconnected or resentful in your relationships? In this episode, Britt Piper explores the roots of self-abandonment through a nervous system and attachment lens, offering a compassionate reframe for patterns that are often met with shame. She unpacks how these res
Q&A: Nervous System Safety In Birth, Helping Kids Regulate, Co-Sleeping & Pregnancy Sensitivity
This one’s all about pregnancy, birth, and parenting through a nervous system lens, especially if you’ve noticed old symptoms resurfacing or wondered why this season feels more activating than expected. In this episode, Britt Piper answers listener questions with honesty and reassurance, explaining how pregnancy heightens interoception, brings early attachment layers online, and reduces the protec
Why You Feel Stuck & How to Break Nervous System Patterns
Feeling stuck can quietly convince you that something is wrong with you, especially when you’ve done the work, gained the insight, and still find yourself looping in the same patterns. In this episode, Britt Piper reframes “being stuck” as a nervous system state rooted in protection rather than a lack of effort or clarity. She unpacks how early attachment and survival adaptations shape the pattern
Somatic Practice for Safety: Neuroception, Resourcing & Noticing Glimmers
In this episode, Britt offers a grounded and experiential guide to somatic resourcing and how the nervous system learns to recognize safety again through lived, felt experience. She breaks down neuroception, the body’s subconscious way of detecting safety and threat, and introduces glimmers as subtle moments that signal connection, regulation, and relief. Through gentle explanation and a guided so
Can You Heal Trauma You Don’t Remember?
Many people believe that if they can’t clearly explain what happened to them, then maybe it wasn’t really trauma, or maybe they’re just being dramatic. In this episode, Britt Piper breaks down why that belief is a misconception, and how trauma is often stored in the body as a physiological response rather than a coherent memory. She explains the science behind how the brain and nervous system func
Q&A: Somatic Support for Depression, Nighttime Anxiety, Urgency & Parenting Triggers
In this listener Q&A episode, Britt gently explores how somatic work can support depression, perimenopausal shifts, nighttime anxiety, the constant sense of urgency that so many people live with, and parents navigating daily triggers. Britt speaks to what depression really is from a nervous system perspective and how to meet ourselves with compassion, what to do if you find anxiety creeping up
Somatic Manifesting in 2026: Why You Can’t Build a Dream from Survival Mode
Manifestation isn’t just about mindset, visualization, or wanting something badly enough. It’s about whether your nervous system feels safe enough to receive what you’re asking for.In this episode, Britt breaks down how dysregulation shows up as urgency, people-pleasing, or chasing outcomes that are not actually aligned, and why no amount of mindset work can override a body that does not feel safe
A Year of Moving in Flow: What 2025 Taught Me About Capacity & Growth
Ever wonder what it would feel like to accomplish your goals without forcing or burning out? In this episode, Britt shares a grounded, honest reflection on what it was like to move through a year of significant expansion at a pace her nervous system could actually sustain. She speaks to the grief that can accompany growth, the identities that loosen as we expand, and the surprising way slowing dow
Arriving Into Presence: Guided Somatic Practice for Nervous System Regulation
If you’ve been craving a moment to actually arrive in your body rather than just think about being present, this episode offers a guided somatic practice to help you do exactly that. Britt gently walks you through slowing the system, orienting to safety, and meeting your internal experience with curiosity, pausing throughout to weave in the nervous system science that makes these shifts possible.
Why You Resist Rest & How to Slow Down Your Nervous System
If you’ve ever tried to slow down but felt your whole system tense, speed up, or push back, this episode will help you understand exactly why that happens and what to do next. Britt breaks down the science of pace through a nervous system lens, explaining how urgency becomes encoded in our physiology, how the vagal brake works, and why rest can feel unsafe when your body has spent years in surviva
Q&A: Healing Shame, Managing Food Noise, & What to Know Before Psychedelic Therapy
In this somatic healing Q&A, Britt begins by naming a feeling so many of us carry quietly: the fear of being fully seen and the way shame can shape our posture, our breath, and the space we allow ourselves to take up. She explores how loud food thoughts often come from a nervous system that learned to manage overwhelm through control, and how listening to the body becomes possible again when w
Why You Feel Triggered During the Holidays & How to Support Yourself Through Somatic Parts Work
If the holidays tend to bring up more tension than joy, this episode is for you. Britt explores why familiar smells, voices, or family dynamics can awaken younger parts of us—the ones that learned to protect, please, or perform in order to feel safe. Through the lens of somatic experiencing and parts work, she helps you understand how these reactions aren’t regression, but remembrance, and offers
Lindsey Simcik on Finding Your Rhythm in Motherhood, Navigating Change & Trusting Your Timing
If you’ve ever felt the pressure of motherhood or the pain of losing a friend, this conversation will remind you that you’re not alone. Britt sits down with Lindsey Simcik, creator, writer, and co-founder of Almost 30, for an honest exploration of identity, evolution, and self-trust through life’s biggest transitions. Together they reflect on how friendship, career, and motherhood can challenge wh
Where Trauma Lives in the Body & Somatic Practices to Rebuild Safety
Did you know the bracing in your jaw, the stiffness in your neck, or even the heaviness in your hips could be from unprocessed trauma? In this episode, Britt explains the science and history of somatic psychology, how the body holds the story of what the mind can’t always name, and explores how each area of the body tells its own story. From the hips, legs, and joints that carry unfinished instinc
Q&A: Healing Chronic Pain, Emotional Regulation, Empowered Birth & Starting a Somatic Healing Career
Britt is answering listener questions on all things somatic healing—from working through fear of chronic pain to learning how to tap into your emotions when you’ve spent years feeling disconnected. She offers grounded tools for building safety in the body, regulating through stress, and understanding why healing isn’t about control but about learning to trust your body’s cues. Britt also speaks to
Why You Can’t Think Your Way Out of Trauma: Embracing The Body’s Role in Healing
Have you ever wondered why you can understand your trauma inside and out yet still feel stuck? In this episode, Britt explores one of the biggest misconceptions in the healing world: that talking about or even understanding trauma alone leads to recovery. Drawing from both science and lived experience, she breaks down why traditional talk therapy often falls short, and how true healing requires en
Sah D’Simone on Living from a Full-Body Yes, Grief as a Teacher & Serving with the Season
What does it mean to live from a full-body “yes”? In this heartfelt and illuminating conversation, Britt and spiritual leader and global humanitarian Sah D’Simone explore what it looks like to lead life, relationships, and purpose through the felt wisdom of the body. Sah opens up about his evolving relationship with grief and pain, describing how embracing both has become central to his healing—an
Q&A: Healing Without Memories, Functional Freeze in Relationships, Rebuilding Safe Intimacy & New Parent Support
Britt is offering grounded, compassionate guidance for those navigating some of the most tender parts of trauma recovery—when healing feels stuck, anniversaries bring up old pain, or safety in relationships and intimacy feels out of reach. She explains why remembering isn’t required for healing, how somatic work supports survivors of domestic violence and parents facing postnatal depletion, and wh
It Was Never About the Alcohol: Healing the Pain Beneath Addiction
In this episode, Britt opens her heart and shares her journey with alcohol, grief, and trauma, not as a story of failure but as a window into how early nervous system imprints shape the ways we self-soothe. She reflects on the moments that drove her to drink—childhood disconnection, the loss of her brother, the assault and its aftermath—and how alcohol became a way to mask unbearable pain. Britt w
Burnout Isn’t Failure: Boundaries, Nervous System Care & Cycle-Synced Healing
Feeling drained, disconnected, or like no amount of rest ever feels enough? In this episode, Britt reframes burnout as more than exhaustion, it’s the body’s way of protecting us and signaling when we’ve pushed past our limits. She explores why women are especially vulnerable, how cultural expectations feed depletion, and the nervous system science behind what’s really happening when you hit that w
The Hardest Parts of Parenthood & Partnership No One Talks About (& How We’re Working Through Them)
One of the biggest catalysts for growth and change happens when you become parents, but there’s so much that isn’t talked about in this transition. In this deeply personal episode, Britt is joined by her husband David for an honest look at how parenthood can stir up old wounds, activate your nervous system, and bring your attachment history to the surface. Together, they reflect on their relations
So You Want to Be a Somatic Practitioner? Training, Tips & Truths You Need to Know
What does it take to become a somatic practitioner? In this solo episode, Britt shares her personal path to this work, and the many avenues for becoming a trauma-informed coach. She dives deep into what led her to become certified in Somatic Experiencing®, how that credential differs from other trauma-informed training and what SEP training actually looks like. Britt offers her honest reflections
Q&A: Daily Nervous System Support, Expanding Capacity, Healing Relationship Patterns & Managing PMS
Britt is here to answer all of your nervous system and somatic healing related questions to help you move the needle in your healing journey! With grounded guidance from her personal and professional experience, she compassionately speaks to the moments we feel stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure where to begin. You’ll hear her advice on where to start after trauma, how to navigate hormone-related dysre
Somatic Healing Misconceptions, Tips to Get Started & Signs You’re Healing
What is somatic healing, really? In this episode, Britt cuts through the noise to bring clarity on what this work is and what it isn’t. From the misconception that somatic healing is about “feeling good” to the myth that discomfort means you’re doing it wrong, she breaks down the truths that often get lost in the mainstream. Through honest stories from her own journey and practical starting points
Stop Confusing Chaos for Love: Nervous System Healing in Relationships with Sabrina Zohar
So often we confuse chaos for chemistry because your nervous system plays a huge role in who you’re drawn to and how you show up in love. In this first guest episode, Britt sits down with Sabrina Zohar, entrepreneur, dating coach, and host of The Sabrina Zohar Show, to explore why anxious attachment can make chaos feel like home, how childhood patterns resurface in conflict, and what it really tak
What Healing Really Looks Like: Navigating Burnout, Motherhood & Coming Home to Myself
In this tender and honest first episode, Britt Piper shares what inspired her to create the Body-First Healing Podcast, and why she’s choosing to live life more slowly and intentionally these days. She opens up about what it looked like to chase success at the expense of her body, how burnout became a turning point, and the unexpected grief and growth that came with motherhood and releasing her fi
Welcome to the Body-First Healing Podcast (Trailer)
This is a space for real, compassionate conversations about nervous system regulation, somatic healing, and the sometimes messy reality of seeking a more authentic path.Hosted by Britt Piper—survivor, Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner, and author of Body-First Healing—this show explores what it means to truly heal through the body. Each week, you’ll hear practical tools, personal stories, and exp
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