Body-First Healing Podcast

Explore how your nervous system impacts manifestation more than just mindset or visualization. Discover the importance of regulation as a foundation for creating what you desire. Britt shares practical somatic tools to expand your nervous system capacity and reconnect with genuine desires. Learn to listen to your body’s signals and complete stuck survival cycles. Plus, the benefits of slowness and co-regulation for meaningful connection and expectation. Tune in for insights to manifest from a place of internal steadiness.

Discover how 2025 taught lessons in growth and integration. Britt shares how embracing a slower pace led to greater capacity and fulfilling experiences. Grief intertwines with achievements, revealing the complexity of personal evolution. Her journey through homeschooling highlights the value of presence over perfection. With insights on family dynamics and celebrating boldness in children, this conversation invites reflection on how staying connected to oneself fosters sustainable healing and growth.

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 to safety, and meeting your internal experience with curiosity, pausing throughout to weave in the nervous system science that makes these shifts possible. This is an experiential episode designed to help you feel more regulated, grounded, and spacious—not by forcing presence, but by inviting your physiology into it. Take your time, follow at your own pace, and trust that with each small micro-moment of connection, your capacity to stay present grows.Related Episode:Why You Resist Rest & How to Slow Down Your Nervous SystemConnect with Britt:Instagram: @healwithbrittTikTok: @healwithbrittYouTube: Brittany PiperBody-First Healing Resources:Join the Program: bodyfirsthealing.com/programRead the Book: bodyfirsthealing.com/the-bookTake the Free Mini Course: myhealinghub.com/minicourseoptinWebsite: bodyfirsthealing.com

Feeling the urge to speed up? Discover why your nervous system fights rest and how to recalibrate your internal rhythm. Britt dives into the science of pace, revealing how our biology shapes our need for urgency and makes slowing down feel unsafe. She also shares practical somatic tools to help alleviate resistance, linking personal identity to our hurried lifestyles. Explore the vagus nerve, its role in regulating stress, and learn that slowing down isn’t about doing less, but about engaging with life more fully.

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 food thoughts often come from a nervous system that learned to manage overwhelm through control, and how listening to the body becomes possible again when we approach sensation in tiny, supportive steps. Britt also shares guidance around choosing somatic-based bodywork for back pain and offers thoughtful, grounded insight on how to prepare your system for psychedelic assisted therapy so that the experience feels held rather than overwhelming. This episode is a reminder that your patterns make sense, your body is not the enemy, and you have the capacity to move toward deeper safety and self-trust one small step at a time.Resources:Soul on Fire Podcast: 451. Body First Healing with Britt Piper: How to Get Unstuck & Recover from Trauma with Somatic HealingConnect with Britt:Instagram: @healwithbrittTikTok: @healwithbrittYouTube: Brittany PiperBody-First Healing Resources:Join the Program: bodyfirsthealing.com/programRead the Book: bodyfirsthealing.com/the-bookTake the Free Mini Course: myhealinghub.com/minicourseoptinWebsite: bodyfirsthealing.com

Holidays can trigger old wounds, bringing up familiar smells and family dynamics that awaken younger parts of ourselves. Britt explores how implicit memories stored in our bodies react during these times. She discusses the roles of exiles and protectors in our psyche and emphasizes the importance of attuning to these parts with compassion. Practical somatic strategies like micro check-ins and real-time repair are provided to help us reconnect with ourselves. Healing is reframed as reparenting, focusing on connection rather than mere calm.

If you’ve ever felt the pressure of motherhood or the pain of losing a friend, this conversation will remind you that you’re not alone. Britt sits down with Lindsey Simcik, creator, writer, and co-founder of Almost 30, for an honest exploration of identity, evolution, and self-trust through life’s biggest transitions. Together they reflect on how friendship, career, and motherhood can challenge who we thought we were and invite us into deeper alignment with who we’re becoming. Lindsey shares how she’s learned to release control, redefine success, and honor her body’s pace, while Britt opens up about slowing down, re-evaluating values, and embracing the unknown. This episode is a gentle reminder that transformation isn’t about losing yourself, but about meeting each new season with compassion, curiosity, and faith in your own timing.Resources:Lindsey’s Instagram: @lindseysimcikSubstack: MomplexAlmost 30 Website: almost30podcast.com Listen to Britt’s recent episode on Almost 30: Is Trauma Still Wreaking Havoc in Your Life? This is How You Finally Heal ItConnect with Britt:Instagram: @healwithbrittTikTok: @healwithbrittYouTube: Brittany PiperBody-First Healing Resources:Become a Somatic Practitioner: bodyfirsthealing.com/somatic-certificateJoin the Program: bodyfirsthealing.com/programRead the Book: bodyfirsthealing.com/the-bookTake the Free Mini Course: myhealinghub.com/minicourseoptinWebsite: bodyfirsthealing.com

Did you know the bracing in your jaw, the stiffness in your neck, or even the heaviness in your hips could be from unprocessed trauma? In this episode, Britt explains the science and history of somatic psychology, how the body holds the story of what the mind can’t always name, and explores how each area of the body tells its own story. From the hips, legs, and joints that carry unfinished instinct; to the diaphragm and chest that guard our emotions; to the shoulders, neck, and jaw that brace to keep us safe — Britt helps you understand how these patterns are not failures, but intelligent adaptations. She then guides you through a gentle body-mapping and somatic touch practice to help the body thaw, reawaken, and return to safety at its own pace. Save this episode and come back to it whenever you need to offer yourself some gentle support.Connect with Britt:Instagram: @healwithbrittTikTok: @healwithbrittYouTube: Brittany PiperBody-First Healing Resources:Train with Britt to Become a Somatic Practitioner: bodyfirsthealing.com/somatic-certificateHeal from Trauma & Get Unstuck: bodyfirsthealing.com/programRead the Book: bodyfirsthealing.com/the-bookWebsite: bodyfirsthealing.com

Britt is answering listener questions on all things somatic healing—from working through fear of chronic pain to learning how to tap into your emotions when you’ve spent years feeling disconnected. She offers grounded tools for building safety in the body, regulating through stress, and understanding why healing isn’t about control but about learning to trust your body’s cues. Britt also speaks to her own pregnancy journey, sharing what she’s learned about how to have an empowered birth by regulating through fear, surrendering to the process, and allowing the body to lead. Finally, she offers guidance for those curious about starting a career in somatic healing, introducing the upcoming Body-First Healing Somatic Practitioner Certificate, a five-month immersive training designed to help others bring this work into their communities. This conversation is a gentle reminder that healing and empowerment both begin by coming home to your body.Resources:Learn more about the Body-First Healing Somatic Certificate: bodyfirsthealing.com/somatic-certificateJoin the info session Nov 10th: myhealinghub.com/Somatic-Certificate-Info-Session-nov25Related episode: So You Wanna Be a Somatic Practitioner? Pain-Free Birth: painfreebirth.comConnect with Britt:Instagram: @healwithbrittTikTok: @healwithbrittYouTube: Brittany PiperBody-First Healing Resources:Join the Program: bodyfirsthealing.com/programRead the Book: bodyfirsthealing.com/the-bookTake the Free Mini Course: myhealinghub.com/minicourseoptinWebsite: bodyfirsthealing.com

Have you ever wondered why you can understand your trauma inside and out yet still feel stuck? In this episode, Britt explores one of the biggest misconceptions in the healing world: that talking about or even understanding trauma alone leads to recovery. Drawing from both science and lived experience, she breaks down why traditional talk therapy often falls short, and how true healing requires engaging the body’s innate wisdom. You’ll learn how trauma is stored in the nervous system, what happens in the brain when you’re triggered, and why regulation begins with safety, not strategy. Through Britt’s grounded guidance, this conversation offers a compassionate reminder that you don’t need to know more to heal—you need to feel safe enough to feel.Connect with Britt:Instagram: @healwithbrittTikTok: @healwithbrittYouTube: Brittany PiperBody-First Healing Resources:Join the Program: bodyfirsthealing.com/programRead the Book: bodyfirsthealing.com/the-bookTake the Free Mini Course: myhealinghub.com/minicourseoptinWebsite: bodyfirsthealing.com