Body-First Healing Podcast
Body-First Healing Podcast
Britt Piper
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.
Can AI Regulate Your Nervous System?
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 you turn to a chatbot, and why that answer says something profound about how healing works. She walks through the difference between reducing cognitive overwhelm, which AI can genuinely help with, and co-regulation, which happens between two living nervou...
Aug 5
23 min
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 a slow and human conversation about fear and where it really comes from. Peter shares how losing both of his parents young shaped a lifetime of survival, and how one insight after a painful breakup showed him that so much of what we call our personalit...
Jul 29
48 min
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-independence is usually an attachment strategy rather than a personality trait, and how you can be highly functional and deeply dysregulated at the same time. You will learn why endurance without recovery breaks the system down, why recovery is relational rathe...
Jul 22
47 min
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 things. When your nervous system is busy scanning for danger, managing everyone else's emotions, or proving your worth, there is not much attention left to notice the quieter signals underneath. Rather than chasing answers, this practice helps you create...
Jul 15
26 min
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 body-first lens: when and how to tell a partner you have CPTSD, what is really happening in your nervous system when you are tired but wired at night, whether you can heal trauma with somatic experiencing without revisiting specific memories, and how to he...
Jul 8
30 min
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 growth feels like. She explores why change feels so disorienting in the body, why your nervous system can read even aligned, beautiful growth as danger, why becoming someone new almost always includes grief, and how small moments of stability can keep ...
Jul 1
31 min
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. She also guides you through a 15-minute somatic practice to help you begin breaking a stuck pattern in real time. Connect with Britt: Instagram: @healwithbrittTikTok: @healwithbrittYouTube: Brittany Piper Body-First Healing Resources: Join the Progr...
Jun 24
15 min
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 point that changed the course of her healing and helped her understand the nervous system in a completely new way. Britt also unpacks 6 common somatic healing misconceptions, including what this work is and is not, why healing does not always feel good, an...
Jun 17
35 min
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 in Wellness podcast, to explore how stress, burnout, inflammation, and disconnection are often compounded when we keep looking outside ourselves for the next fix. Together, they talk about Mona’s path from anxiety and heart palpitations to a more embod...
Jun 10
55 min
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 stress for too long and has shifted into shutdown. Through a gentle guided practice, she helps you orient to the present, notice where fatigue lives in the body, and slowly move between discomfort and support to build more capacity, regulation, and flexibil...
Jun 3
19 min
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