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. Expect unfiltered solo episodes, vulnerable shares, and powerful conversations with experts and everyday people alike.
Whether you’re deep in trauma work or just beginning to listen to your body’s wisdom: this space is for you. Tune in every Wednesday for a healing journey that meets you right where you are.
Episodes
58 episodes
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 ...
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 co...
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 wa...
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, a...
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® Prac...
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.<...
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 t...
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 yo...
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...
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-independ...
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 t...
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 bod...
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...
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....
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 poi...
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...
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 stre...
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....
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 cour...
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 f...
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 alon...
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 ov...
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 yourse...
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 ...
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 Nut...
