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Body-First Healing Podcast

Body-First Healing Podcast

Britt Piper 41 episodes Nov 11, 2026

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

How to Become a Somatic Practitioner: What Actually Matters
How to Become a Somatic Practitioner: What Actually Matters Nov 11, 2026 40:22 How do you actually become a somatic practitioner? It's the question Britt gets most in her DMs, so we're bringing back one of our most-requested conversations. Britt shares how she found her way into this work, through advocacy, her own healing and a lot of curiosity, and why she chose Somatic Experiencing®. She explains the difference between trauma-informed and trauma-trained care, an
Why the Next Generation of Healers Will Be the Feelers
Why the Next Generation of Healers Will Be the Feelers Nov 4, 2026 56:14 Maybe you've always been the one who hears the hesitation under "I'm fine." The one who's still holding a conversation long after everyone else has moved on. If that depth has been called "too much," this episode is for you. Britt explores what she calls biological resonance: the way our bodies respond to one another through voice, timing, presence, and touch. Sh
What Viral Nervous System Content Gets Wrong About Healing
What Viral Nervous System Content Gets Wrong About Healing Oct 28, 2026 37:50 Has regulating your nervous system started to feel like another full-time job? In this solo episode, Britt Piper, Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner, unpacks the viral nervous system advice she refuses to teach and what gets lost when regulation is simplified into rules. She explains why calm isn't proof of healing, the difference between noticing your body and putting it under constant surve
Q&A: How to Heal Trauma You Don't Remember, Grow Your Emotional Capacity & Open Up in Relationships
Q&A: How to Heal Trauma You Don't Remember, Grow Your Emotional Capacity & Open Up in Relationships Oct 21, 2026 25:18 What if you can't remember your trauma clearly, but your body still reacts like it's happening? In this Q&A, Britt Piper, Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner, explains why remembering isn't the same as recovering, how to care for yourself when painful anniversaries come around, and a simple practice for growing your emotional container. Then she turns to relationships: what'
Somatic Practice: Holding Grief & Joy at the Same Time
Somatic Practice: Holding Grief & Joy at the Same Time Oct 14, 2026 25:04 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
Life Update: Divorce, Co-Parenting & Letting Go of Montana Oct 7, 2026 35:53 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
Q&A: How to Navigate a Relationship Ending, Functional Freeze & Nervous System Work for Beginners Sep 30, 2026 38:21 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 Better. So Why Does Your Body Still React? Sep 23, 2026 41:35 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 Isn't the Enemy: Why the Goal Is Recovery, Not Less Stress Sep 16, 2026 34:26 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
Somatic Practice for Seasons of Transition: Finding Choice When Certainty Isn't Available Sep 9, 2026 37:25 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
What Burnout Is Actually Telling You: Protection, Resistance & Finding Safety in the Body Sep 2, 2026 40:01 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
Why the Most Self-Aware People Still Feel Stuck Aug 26, 2026 28:18 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

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