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
47 episodes
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...
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 ...