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Body-First Healing Podcast
Britt Piper
13 episodes
6 days ago
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 re...
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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 re...
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Mental Health
Education,
Self-Improvement,
Health & Fitness,
Alternative Health
Episodes (13/13)
Body-First Healing Podcast
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 her own pregnancy journey, sharing what she’s learned about how to have an empowered birth by re...
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1 week ago
34 minutes

Body-First Healing Podcast
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 engaging the body’s innate wisdom. You’ll learn how trauma is stored in the nervous system, what ha...
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2 weeks ago
38 minutes

Body-First Healing Podcast
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—and how somatic practice teaches us to move with emotion rather than away from it. Together, they u...
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3 weeks ago
48 minutes

Body-First Healing Podcast
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 what it means when nervous system practices stir more anxiety before calm. With her signature blend...
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1 month ago
47 minutes

Body-First Healing Podcast
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 walks us through her rock bottom experiences, from a jail cell to waking up ashamed after her wedd...
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1 month ago
47 minutes

Body-First Healing Podcast
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 wall. You’ll walk away with somatic tools for listening to your body, permission to slow down with...
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1 month ago
51 minutes

Body-First Healing Podcast
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 relationship journey—from meeting while Britt was still in the thick of trauma recovery, to navigating cod...
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1 month ago
52 minutes

Body-First Healing Podcast
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 on what’s most important when stepping into this role and the four foundational practices she bel...
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2 months ago
42 minutes

Body-First Healing Podcast
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 dysregulation, and what it really means to grow your emotional capacity. Britt also shares nervous sys...
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2 months ago
49 minutes

Body-First Healing Podcast
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 first book, Body-First Healing. This episode is an invitation to walk alongside Britt in the real, ...
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2 months ago
43 minutes

Body-First Healing Podcast
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, Britt shows how real healing is less about fixing yourself and more about expanding your capaci...
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2 months ago
39 minutes

Body-First Healing Podcast
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 takes to build self-trust and healthier bonds through nervous system regulation. Together, they shar...
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2 months ago
50 minutes

Body-First Healing Podcast
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 expert insights to help you move beyond survival mode, deepen your capacity, and reconnect with you...
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2 months ago
1 minute

Body-First Healing Podcast
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 re...