In this episode, I sit down with somatic experiencing® practitioner Britt Piper to explore how trauma lives in the body (not just the mind), why traditional “talk only” therapy often leaves us stuck, and how somatic healing can help us actually move through, release, and rebuild. We dive into nervous-system regulation, body-based tools, and how you can recover from trauma—and create a new baseline of safety, presence, and purpose.

🔍 In This Episode You’ll Learn

• What somatic healing actually is (and why the body holds what the mind can’t access).
• Why you might still feel stuck, even after years of therapy or spiritual work.
• The difference between survival mode (fight/flight/freeze/fawn) and living from a regulated nervous system.
• Practical tools and practices you can try now: movement, shaking, orienting, self-contact.
• How to identify your trauma response pattern and begin responding instead of reacting.
• How to integrate somatic practices into your life so you stop “doing healing” and start being healed.
• Britt’s story and how she turned her trauma into a body-first methodology—and how you can too. 
• My trauma healing story and how I am still navigating it and trying to uncover unprocessed, repressed memories 

🎧 Guest Bio

Britt Piper is a trauma survivor turned international speaker and Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner, author of Body‑First Healing: Get Unstuck and Recover from Trauma with Somatic Healing. Her work spans nervous-system regulation, attachment theory, and internal family systems. After decades of doing therapy and still feeling stuck, she discovered the body-based route to healing and now teaches others to reclaim their life through somatic tools. 

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🧭 Connect with Britt Piper

• Website: bodyfirsthealing.com 
• Instagram: @healwithbritt 
• YouTube: @HealwithBritt 

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