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
40 episodes
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...
Why Intimacy Can Feel So Hard: Healing Attachment Wounds & Relationship Patterns
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 u...
Somatic Healing Isn’t a Trend: Why It’s Growing & How to Practice It Safely
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 un...
Q&A: Intrusive Thoughts, Expanding Capacity & Learning to Receive Support
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 w...
Somatic Practice for Empowerment: Embracing Healthy Aggression & Life Force
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 a...
What a Solo Trip Gave Me & How to Return to Yourself
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 ner...
Elizabeth Orrigo on Healing Chronic Pain, Avoiding Toxic Wellness Traps & Working with Your Body
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 ...
Healing Self-Abandonment in Relationships & Learning to Trust Yourself Again
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-aban...
Q&A: Nervous System Safety In Birth, Helping Kids Regulate, Co-Sleeping & Pregnancy Sensitivity
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 ...
Why You Feel Stuck & How to Break Nervous System Patterns
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 ne...
Somatic Practice for Safety: Neuroception, Resourcing & Noticing Glimmers
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 detec...
Can You Heal Trauma You Don’t Remember?
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 ...
Q&A: Somatic Support for Depression, Nighttime Anxiety, Urgency & Parenting Triggers
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...
Somatic Manifesting in 2026: Why You Can’t Build a Dream from Survival Mode
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 sho...
A Year of Moving in Flow: What 2025 Taught Me About Capacity & Growth
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 s...
Arriving Into Presence: Guided Somatic Practice for Nervous System Regulation
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 ...
Why You Resist Rest & How to Slow Down Your Nervous System
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,...
Q&A: Healing Shame, Managing Food Noise, & What to Know Before Psychedelic Therapy
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 ...
Why You Feel Triggered During the Holidays & How to Support Yourself Through Somatic Parts Work
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...