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| Life Update: Divorce, Co-Parenting & Letting Go of Montana | 07 oct. 2026 | 00:35:53 | |
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 being capable of something and having the capacity for it right now. She also shares the friendships that have made this season less lonely, why she's returning to Mendocino, and what she's making room for next. If you're in a season of change, this one is an invitation to stop waiting until everything is figured out before you let yourself live it. Read along on Britt's Substack: Aligned + Alive Related episode: Somatic Practice for Seasons of Transition: Finding Choice When Certainty Isn't Available
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| Q&A: How to Navigate a Relationship Ending, Functional Freeze & Nervous System Work for Beginners | 30 sept. 2026 | 00:38:21 | |
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 to begin if nervous system work is brand new, how to support yourself as an anxious passenger, what actually helps with functional freeze, whether the Body-First Healing Program fits alongside SE training, why a right decision can still leave you depleted, and how to navigate the attachment pain of going no contact. Britt closes with a personal update on why the past few months have been the hardest of her life, and where she's writing through it now: her new Substack, Aligned + Alive. Read Aligned + Alive: brittpiper.substack.com Connect with Britt
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| You Know Better. So Why Does Your Body Still React? | 23 sept. 2026 | 00:41:35 | |
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 understanding a pattern doesn't always change it. She introduces procedural memory, the body's "memory of how," and explains why the nervous system keeps running old predictions long after the mind has moved on. You'll be guided through a short orienting practice. Then Britt draws the line between a somatic moment and real capacity, why "slower is faster," and what six months inside the Body-First Healing Program actually looks like, including stories from two program graduates. The body isn't failing to listen to you. It learned through a language other than words. Related episode: Why You Feel Stuck & How to Break Nervous System Patterns Join the Program: bodyfirsthealing.com/program This month only, receive $500 off the Body-First Healing Program. Email info@bodyfirsthealing.com for the promo code or DM @healwithbritt!
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| Cortisol Isn't the Enemy: Why the Goal Is Recovery, Not Less Stress | 16 sept. 2026 | 00:34:26 | |
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 designed for a relationship with it. In this episode, Britt Piper, Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner, helps you tell the difference between the stress that's depleting you and the stress that's developing you, so you can feel a little less afraid of the natural activation that comes with being fully alive. She explains what cortisol does, why regulation is a capacity and not a feeling, and where nervous system culture has started to overcorrect. You'll be guided through a short somatic pause. Then Britt shares three tools: building capacity instead of tolerance, noticing when a demand has ended, and paying attention to dosage so rest doesn't only arrive after collapse. The goal isn't to become unstressed. It's to become recoverable. Connect with Britt
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| Somatic Practice for Seasons of Transition: Finding Choice When Certainty Isn't Available | 09 sept. 2026 | 00:37:25 | |
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. In this short somatic practice episode, Britt Piper, Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner, explains what your nervous system is actually doing when you feel suspended between chapters, and why that feeling makes sense. Then she guides you through a practice you can do sitting right where you are. The point isn't to figure out your future. It's to give your body a direct experience of something it can actually use right now: that you can move, you can stop, and you can change direction. Come back to this one on the days you feel caught in between. You don't need the whole map to take the next step. Connect with Britt:
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| What Burnout Is Actually Telling You: Protection, Resistance & Finding Safety in the Body | 02 sept. 2026 | 00:40:01 | |
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 restless, why your body seems to give out only when you have run out of other options, or why insight alone has not been enough to change the pattern, this conversation offers context instead of blame. It closes with a full guided somatic practice you can return to any time. Remember, your symptoms are communication, not failure. Connect with Britt:
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| Why the Most Self-Aware People Still Feel Stuck | 26 août 2026 | 00:28:18 | |
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 through vigilance and self-monitoring can find healing work strangely seductive, how the old question of "is everyone okay with me" quietly becomes "am I regulated enough," and why safety was always meant to be the foundation rather than the destination. This is not a case against healing work, it is an invitation to notice whether you have been preparing to live instead of living, and to consider that the disorientation you have been calling stuck may actually be evidence the work is working. Remember this: the opposite of survival isn't calm, it's aliveness. Related episode: You're Not Lost, You're Changing Connect with Britt:
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| Q&A: How to Complete an Emotion, Read a Real Relational Signal & Rest When You're Running on Empty | 19 août 2026 | 00:30:14 | |
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 getting touched, and what protest behavior in a relationship is really asking for. What your nervous system needs when you are sick or running on empty, and why eight hours of sleep can still leave you depleted. Why symptoms can get louder partway through this work, and why growing capacity sometimes feels like getting worse. The grief of loving someone who is headed somewhere you cannot follow. And what happens when your life has changed but your alarm system has not gotten the memo yet. Tune in for six honest answers, a few reframes you can use this week, and the reminder underneath all of them: you are not broken. Your body has been protecting you this whole time. Related episodes:
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| Somatic Practice for Sleep: Why Your Body Won't Let You Rest | 12 août 2026 | 00:18:12 | |
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 room, and a gentle micro-pendulation between activation and support, followed by five simple ways to help your body downshift every night. Remember that your body was never trying to keep you awake. It was trying to keep you safe. Connect with Britt:
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| Why You Feel Better After Talking to AI (And What It Still Can't Give You) | 05 août 2026 | 00:23:30 | |
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 overwhelm, which AI can genuinely help with, and co-regulation, which happens between two living nervous systems and is something technology cannot recreate. This is not a conversation about whether AI is good or bad. It is an invitation to understand the difference, so you can use these tools wisely without asking them to do something they were never built to do. Connect with Britt:
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| Peter Crone on Finding Freedom, Forgiveness, & Who You Truly Are | 29 juil. 2026 | 00:48:37 | |
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, and how one insight after a painful breakup showed him that so much of what we call our personality is actually protection. Together they explore why survival strategies like over-accommodating and staying small once made sense, how self-compassion is the first real step out of them, and why forgiveness is less about pardoning someone else and more about coming into profound acceptance. This one is for anyone who has done the healing work, read the books, tried the protocols, and still feels like they are quietly at war with themselves. You are not broken. You are protected. And the version of you underneath the story is still there, waiting to be remembered.
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| The Cost of Being the Strong One: How Hyper-Independence Keeps You Depleted | 22 juil. 2026 | 00:47:19 | |
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 will learn why endurance without recovery breaks the system down, why recovery is relational rather than something you do alone, and how to begin communicating a need before your body reaches collapse. Britt also shares insight from her own life that you may recognize in your own. Being needed is not the same thing as being known. You are allowed to be held without first earning it. Connect with Britt:
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| Somatic Practice: Connect with Your Intuition | 15 juil. 2026 | 00:26:41 | |
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 to notice the quieter signals underneath. Rather than chasing answers, this practice helps you create the conditions where clarity can arrive on its own. You will settle your body, set down the questions you have been carrying, and gently practice becoming available to your own wisdom without forcing it. Related episode: Somatic Practice for Overthinking, Rumination, & Mental Loops Connect with Britt:
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| Q&A: How to Talk About Your Trauma Without Over-Explaining, Quiet a Racing Mind at Night & Heal Without Reliving the Past | 08 juil. 2026 | 00:30:26 | |
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 can heal trauma with somatic experiencing without revisiting specific memories, and how to help a highly logical partner understand your healing journey. If you have ever felt like your reactions do not make sense, this episode is a steady reminder that they do, and that healing can happen through the body in the present moment rather than by reliving the past. Related episode: Somatic Practice for Overthinking, Rumination, & Mental Loops
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| You're Not Lost, You're Changing: The Nervous System Reason Change Feels So Hard | 01 juil. 2026 | 00:31:22 | |
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 growth as danger, why becoming someone new almost always includes grief, and how small moments of stability can keep your body open to what is emerging instead of retreating to what is familiar. If you are standing in the tender space between who you have been and who you are becoming, this one will help you feel less alone in it.
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| How to Break a Nervous System Pattern Somatic Practice | 24 juin 2026 | 00:15:26 | |
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:
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| 6 Somatic Healing Misconceptions & Where to Begin | 17 juin 2026 | 00:35:40 | |
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 misconceptions, including what this work is and is not, why healing does not always feel good, and how to begin reconnecting with your body in a way that feels grounded, safe, and sustainable. If you’re new to somatic healing or have felt confused by your healing process, this is a powerful place to start. Connect with Britt:
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| Mona Sharma on Healing Burnout, The Root of Wellness & Coming Home to Your Body | 10 juin 2026 | 00:55:39 | |
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 for the next fix. Together, they talk about Mona’s path from anxiety and heart palpitations to a more embodied way of living, and how practices rooted in rest, digestion, community, and nervous system safety can help the body come back online. They also explore what it means to build your own “ashram” in everyday life and why healing often begins by remembering the version of you that existed before survival became your norm. Tune in to better understand how real wellness can become less about fixing yourself and more about coming home to your body. Connect with Mona:
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| Somatic Practice for Fatigue & Burnout Recovery | 03 juin 2026 | 00:19:05 | |
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, and slowly move between discomfort and support to build more capacity, regulation, and flexibility. If you feel tired but cannot truly rest, overwhelmed, numb, or disconnected, this episode offers a grounded place to begin. Connect with Britt:
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| How to Feel a Feeling: The 5 Steps of SIBAM for Nervous System Regulation | 27 mai 2026 | 00:14:59 | |
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 keep the nervous system stuck in a stress response cycle, why feelings are not the same as emotions, and how the body already knows how to process what the mind often interrupts. Britt walks through the five channels of SIBAM — sensation, image, behavior, affect, and meaning — and shares how each one can help you move through feelings in a gentler, more tolerable way. If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed by emotion, disconnected from your body, or unsure how to actually process what you feel, this episode offers a practical body-first framework to begin. Connect with Britt:
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| How to Manifest Through Embodiment & Release Limiting Beliefs with Matt Cooke | 20 mai 2026 | 00:52:46 | |
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 biggest misconceptions around manifestation, the role of the subconscious mind, why trauma and limiting beliefs can block what we desire, and how slowing down, feeling safe in the body, and taking smaller, more regulated steps can create real change. This conversation is for anyone who feels stuck between where they are and where they want to be, and wants a more grounded, body-aware way to move forward. Resources:
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| The Myth of Nervous System Optimization: Why You Can’t Hack Healing | 13 mai 2026 | 00:30:28 | |
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 built through consistency, relationship, and everyday moments rather than endless tools. If you are interested in somatic healing, nervous system regulation, and a more honest approach to personal growth, this conversation will help you rethink what healing actually asks of you. Tune in to learn how to move out of performance and back into a more sustainable relationship with your body. Connect with Britt:
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| Q&A: Building a Healing Business, Somatic Work vs Therapy & Avoiding Burnout | 06 mai 2026 | 00:32:29 | |
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 nutrition practices that support her nervous system day to day. She talks about how this work helps you navigate life’s ups and downs with more flexibility, move through emotions instead of getting stuck in them, and stay more connected to yourself through the uncertainty. Tune in to chat with Britt and get a more personal look at the path, practices, and perspective that shape both her life and her work. Related episodes:
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| Somatic Practice for Overthinking, Rumination, & Mental Loops | 29 avr. 2026 | 00:25:19 | |
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 work with the physiological process underneath the mental loops, so you can feel more grounded, supported, and less caught in the spiral. Take 20 minutes of your day to get out of your head and into your body. Save this episode and come back to it when you need it. This episode offers a preview of the Body-First Healing Program. Inside the program, we gather every Monday for a Nervous System Gym call to practice regulation in real time. Learn more and apply at bodyfirsthealing.com/program. Connect with Britt:
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| Sami Clarke On Building Self Trust & Finding Alignment through Somatic Healing | 22 avr. 2026 | 00:57:09 | |
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 sense when viewed through the lens of the nervous system as protection rather than something to fix. Sami shares how learning to slow down, stay with discomfort, and not rush clarity created space for deeper self-trust, stepping into her power, reconnecting to her intuition, and holding more compassion for her younger self. She also opens up about the daily nervous system practices that support her, offering a grounded look at what it means to live your healing rather than just understand it. Tune in to better understand how somatic work can support you in building trust within yourself and your path. Connect with Sami:
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| My Nervous System Health Toolkit: Daily Practices for Regulation | 15 avr. 2026 | 00:36:56 | |
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 protected space. This conversation is both practical and personal, and it cuts through the aesthetic version of self-care to focus on what truly helps the body hold more. Resources mentioned:
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| Food Therapy: How Nutrition Impacts Anxiety, Stress & the Nervous System with Luis Mojica | 08 avr. 2026 | 00:47:09 | |
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. Together they unpack how our eating patterns can unintentionally keep the body cycling through stress responses, why healing our relationship with food goes far beyond diets or protocols, and how survival patterns, shame, and nervous system states shape the way we approach nourishment. Luis also shares his personal journey into this work after navigating chronic illness as a child, offering a compassionate, body-centered framework for understanding food through the lens of regulation, curiosity, and nervous system support. If you have ever felt confused about what your body actually needs or noticed how food impacts your mood, energy, and stress levels, you’re going to love this episode! And make sure to pre-order Food Therapy, out on April 28th! Connect with Luis:
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| Why Intimacy Can Feel So Hard: Healing Attachment Wounds & Relationship Patterns | 01 avr. 2026 | 00:29:52 | |
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. Tune in for a grounded, compassionate conversation that will help you better understand your patterns and begin building safer, more honest connections. Related Resource:
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| Somatic Healing Isn’t a Trend: Why It’s Growing & How to Practice It Safely | 25 mars 2026 | 00:39:11 | |
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 helps the nervous system experience safety in the present. Britt also shares guidance for those exploring somatic healing for their own lives or considering a professional path in this field, along with what to look for in a practitioner or training. Tune in to cut through the noise around somatic healing and better understand why and how this work has changed so many lives. Enrollment for the next round of the Somatic Practitioner Training at the Body First Healing Institute begins in July 2026, with enrollment open March 23 through April 1. Spots are intentionally limited to support depth and supervision within the cohort. Explore the program and apply at bodyfirsthealing.com/somatic-certificate. Resources mentioned:
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| Q&A: Intrusive Thoughts, Expanding Capacity & Learning to Receive Support | 18 mars 2026 | 00:29:36 | |
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 breaks down how trauma lives in the body, why activation isn’t the problem, and how titration, co-regulation, and reducing background stress gently increase resilience over time. Plus, learn red and green flags you can look for if you’re interested in working with a somatic practitioner! This episode offers practical education, emotional reassurance, and grounded tools to help you feel less alone in your patterns and more empowered in your healing. Enrollment for the Somatic Practitioner training at the Body-First Healing Institute opens Monday, March 23rd. Learn more here: bodyfirsthealing.com/somatic-certificate Related episodes:
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| Somatic Practice for Empowerment: Embracing Healthy Aggression & Life Force | 11 mars 2026 | 00:30:00 | |
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 connection, and how that outward energy often turns inward as anxiety or self-monitoring. Instead of performing power, this episode invites you to feel it through subtle shifts in posture, breath, and presence, so you can access your no, hold your ground, and stay connected to yourself. Your life force is not dangerous; it is protective, wise, and worthy of being reclaimed. Connect with Britt:
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| What a Solo Trip Gave Me & How to Return to Yourself | 04 mars 2026 | 00:28:45 | |
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 feel uncomfortable before it feels safe, how uncompleted stress cycles live in the body, and how simple rituals like intentional solitude, self witnessing, and small acts of devotion can rebuild internal safety and clarity. This conversation is a gentle reminder that returning to yourself does not require escape or extravagance, only willingness. You are allowed to take up space in your own life, and you are more capable of coming home to yourself than you think. Resources:
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| Elizabeth Orrigo on Healing Chronic Pain, Avoiding Toxic Wellness Traps & Working with Your Body | 25 févr. 2026 | 00:45:31 | |
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 system and emotional tools that helped her shift out of survival. Britt and Elizabeth explore how healing your relationship with yourself reshapes your relationships with others, the subtle traps in modern wellness that keep us striving, and the hard-earned lessons from seasons when your body feels like the enemy. If you are exhausted from trying harder and still feeling stuck, tune in for a grounded conversation that will help you approach healing in a way that creates real, lasting change. Connect with Elizabeth:
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| Healing Self-Abandonment in Relationships & Learning to Trust Yourself Again | 18 févr. 2026 | 00:36:06 | |
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 responses once served as protection, why awareness alone doesn’t change them, and how healing begins by learning to stay with yourself in moments of discomfort rather than overriding your truth. This conversation is a gentle reminder that your patterns make sense, your body is wise, and with patience and support, it is possible to build relationships that don’t require you to leave yourself behind. Connect with Britt:
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| Q&A: Nervous System Safety In Birth, Helping Kids Regulate, Co-Sleeping & Pregnancy Sensitivity | 11 févr. 2026 | 00:31:33 | |
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 protective filters that once kept certain patterns quiet, without meaning you’re regressing or doing healing wrong. She shares her personal unmedicated birth experiences, reflecting on how safety, fear, dissociation, and nervous system support shaped two very different labors, and why physiological birth is deeply relational rather than mechanical. Britt also explores co-regulation, co-sleeping, and parenting while working with your own triggers, reminding us that children don’t need perfect regulation, they need presence and repair. If you’re pregnant, parenting, or healing alongside either, this conversation offers steady reassurance that your body is wise, your responses make sense, and you are capable of meeting this season with softness, trust, and care. Resources: Pain Free Birth Course: painfreebirth.com Connect with Britt:
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| Why You Feel Stuck & How to Break Nervous System Patterns | 04 févr. 2026 | 00:40:57 | |
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 patterns we repeat, why the nervous system prioritizes predictability over possibility, and how insight alone rarely creates lasting change. Britt also explores how the body learns through experience, what it actually takes to update old survival responses, and why compassion and safety are essential for real healing. The episode closes with a guided somatic practice designed to help you gently interrupt these loops, build tolerance for discomfort, and create small moments of safety where new choices can emerge. This is an invitation to move at the pace of your body, trust what has been protecting you, and remember that change is possible when your nervous system feels supported. Related episode: Can You Heal Trauma You Don’t Remember? Connect with Britt:
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| Somatic Practice for Safety: Neuroception, Resourcing & Noticing Glimmers | 28 janv. 2026 | 00:26:22 | |
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 somatic practice, Britt explores the three different types of resourcing and supports you in identifying which ones feel safest and most accessible for your nervous system right now. This somatic practice episode is meant to be experienced slowly, helping you build trust with your body and reinforcing that your capacity for healing grows through small, supportive moments of safety. Connect with Britt:
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| Can You Heal Trauma You Don’t Remember? | 21 janv. 2026 | 00:25:51 | |
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 function under threat, why memory and language can go offline, and how symptoms like anxiety without a clear cause, shutdown in conflict, chronic urgency, or feeling “too sensitive” are often signs of survival, not exaggeration. Britt speaks directly to the common inner questions of “Did I experience trauma?” and “Can I heal something I can’t explain?” offering clarity, education, and reassurance. This conversation reframes doubt as a nervous system response, not a personal failure, and reminds listeners that healing does not require a perfect story, only a willingness to work with what the body is already communicating. Connect with Britt:
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| Q&A: Somatic Support for Depression, Nighttime Anxiety, Urgency & Parenting Triggers | 14 janv. 2026 | 00:31:23 | |
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 at night, and how to heal a chronic sense of urgency that robs your peace and presence. This conversation offers reassurance, practical somatic tools, and a reminder that regulation is not about doing more, but about creating enough safety for your system to settle. No matter where you’re starting from, your body is capable of change, and small, compassionate steps truly do add up to meaningful healing. Make sure to follow Britt on Instagram @healwithbritt to submit questions for the next Q&A episode! Connect with Britt:
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| Somatic Manifesting in 2026: Why You Can’t Build a Dream from Survival Mode | 07 janv. 2026 | 00:33:34 | |
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. She shares seven practical somatic tools designed to expand nervous system capacity, deepen self-connection, reconnect you to genuine desire, and soften the grip of fear-based striving. Rather than focusing on visualization or control, this conversation centers on learning how to settle the body, track what feels supportive, and create from a place of internal steadiness. Tune in for somatic insight on how to really create what you want in 2026! Related Episodes: Arriving Into Presence: Guided Somatic Practice for Nervous System Regulation Why You Resist Rest & How to Slow Down Your Nervous System Connect with Britt:
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| A Year of Moving in Flow: What 2025 Taught Me About Capacity & Growth | 31 déc. 2025 | 00:39:09 | |
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 down created more space for what truly mattered. This conversation isn’t about achievements or checking boxes. It’s about integration. About metabolizing a year that reshaped her pace, priorities, and relationship to herself. It’s an invitation to reflect on your own year and consider how staying connected to your body, rather than pushing past it, can support healing and growth that lasts. If you’re craving a more sustainable, embodied way forward, this episode offers a steadier place to begin. Connect with Britt:
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| Arriving Into Presence: Guided Somatic Practice for Nervous System Regulation | 17 déc. 2025 | 00:24:34 | |
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. This is an experiential episode designed to help you feel more regulated, grounded, and spacious—not by forcing presence, but by inviting your physiology into it. Take your time, follow at your own pace, and trust that with each small micro-moment of connection, your capacity to stay present grows. Related Episode: Why You Resist Rest & How to Slow Down Your Nervous System Connect with Britt:
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| Why You Resist Rest & How to Slow Down Your Nervous System | 10 déc. 2025 | 00:39:21 | |
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 survival mode. You’ll learn specific somatic tools to shift your internal rhythm, practical ways to work with your resistance, and how to create moments of regulation inside the life you already have. At its core, this episode reframes slowing down as something far more supportive than “doing less.” It’s about learning to move at the rhythm your body was designed for, and trusting that settling your pace is not only possible, but deeply healing. Related episode: Burnout Isn’t Failure: Boundaries, Nervous System Care & Cycle-Synced Healing Connect with Britt:
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| Q&A: Healing Shame, Managing Food Noise, & What to Know Before Psychedelic Therapy | 03 déc. 2025 | 00:35:54 | |
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 we approach sensation in tiny, supportive steps. Britt also shares guidance around choosing somatic-based bodywork for back pain and offers thoughtful, grounded insight on how to prepare your system for psychedelic assisted therapy so that the experience feels held rather than overwhelming. This episode is a reminder that your patterns make sense, your body is not the enemy, and you have the capacity to move toward deeper safety and self-trust one small step at a time. Resources: Connect with Britt:
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| Why You Feel Triggered During the Holidays & How to Support Yourself Through Somatic Parts Work | 26 nov. 2025 | 00:23:47 | |
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 body-based ways to reconnect with yourself when old survival patterns surface. You’ll learn how to tend to your inner child with compassion, ground in choice, and gently reparent the parts of you that still ache for safety. This conversation is a reminder that healing isn’t about staying calm—it’s about staying connected, especially to the parts that once had to disconnect to survive. Connect with Britt:
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| Lindsey Simcik on Finding Your Rhythm in Motherhood, Navigating Change & Trusting Your Timing | 19 nov. 2025 | 00:44:31 | |
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 who we thought we were and invite us into deeper alignment with who we’re becoming. Lindsey shares how she’s learned to release control, redefine success, and honor her body’s pace, while Britt opens up about slowing down, re-evaluating values, and embracing the unknown. This episode is a gentle reminder that transformation isn’t about losing yourself, but about meeting each new season with compassion, curiosity, and faith in your own timing. Resources:
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| Where Trauma Lives in the Body & Somatic Practices to Rebuild Safety | 12 nov. 2025 | 00:30:48 | |
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 instinct; to the diaphragm and chest that guard our emotions; to the shoulders, neck, and jaw that brace to keep us safe — Britt helps you understand how these patterns are not failures, but intelligent adaptations. She then guides you through a gentle body-mapping and somatic touch practice to help the body thaw, reawaken, and return to safety at its own pace. Save this episode and come back to it whenever you need to offer yourself some gentle support. Connect with Britt:
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| Q&A: Healing Chronic Pain, Emotional Regulation, Empowered Birth & Starting a Somatic Healing Career | 05 nov. 2025 | 00:34:41 | |
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 her own pregnancy journey, sharing what she’s learned about how to have an empowered birth by regulating through fear, surrendering to the process, and allowing the body to lead. Finally, she offers guidance for those curious about starting a career in somatic healing, introducing the upcoming Body-First Healing Somatic Practitioner Certificate, a five-month immersive training designed to help others bring this work into their communities. This conversation is a gentle reminder that healing and empowerment both begin by coming home to your body. Resources:
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| Why You Can’t Think Your Way Out of Trauma: Embracing The Body’s Role in Healing | 29 oct. 2025 | 00:38:52 | |
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 engaging the body’s innate wisdom. You’ll learn how trauma is stored in the nervous system, what happens in the brain when you’re triggered, and why regulation begins with safety, not strategy. Through Britt’s grounded guidance, this conversation offers a compassionate reminder that you don’t need to know more to heal—you need to feel safe enough to feel. Connect with Britt:
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| Sah D’Simone on Living from a Full-Body Yes, Grief as a Teacher & Serving with the Season | 22 oct. 2025 | 00:48:33 | |
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—and how somatic practice teaches us to move with emotion rather than away from it. Together, they unpack restorative justice and what repair truly requires: nuance, compassion, and nervous system capacity. They talk about how righteous anger can pave the way for our greatest purpose, how to support others in grief through presence instead of platitudes, and why post-traumatic growth isn’t about bypassing suffering but integrating it. This conversation is a grounded invitation to slow down, listen inward, and let the body guide you toward truth, repair, and connection. Connect with Sah:
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