Three Percent What Your Body’s Trying to Tell You with Lexy Florentina
Oct 20, 2025
In this conversation, Lexy Florentina, a somatic experiencing practitioner, offers transformative insights on healing trauma through body awareness. She emphasizes that the body is an ally, not an enemy, highlighting how its reactions are adaptive survival strategies. Lexy discusses the cultural conditioning that disconnects men from their emotions, advocating for curiosity over control to foster healing. The episode includes a guided somatic exercise, encouraging listeners to notice and honor their bodily sensations, ultimately reconnecting with their innate agency.
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Body As Primary Lens
- Somatic work uses the body as a primary lens to understand experience rather than only the mind.
- Somatic Experiencing is a clinical trauma-resolution training focusing on the nervous system and building a relationship with the body.
How Somatics Changed Lexy’s Life
- Lexy described her own history of complex trauma, chronic illness, and feeling at war with her body despite many therapies.
- Learning somatic work changed her view: her body was fighting for her, not against her, and that reframing became central to her work.
Curiosity Trumps Immediate Meaning
- Men often learn to disconnect or override bodily signals due to cultural conditioning toward control or shame.
- Curiosity about sensations, not immediate meaning-making, is the key practice to reconnect with the body.
