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.
Latest episodes
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You Know Better. So Why Does Your Body Still React?
You know exactly why you react the way you do. You've done the therapy, read the books, and can explain your triggers with real precision. And your body still reacts
Sep 23 41 min
Cortisol Isn't the Enemy: Why the Goal Is Recovery, Not Less Stress
Cortisol has become the latest casualty of our obsession with making biology binary. Good hormone versus bad hormone. Regulated, dysregulated. Safe, unsafe. And somewhere
Sep 16 34 min
Somatic Practice for Seasons of Transition: Finding Choice When Certainty Isn't Available
If you are in a season where the old version of your life has already ended and the new one hasn't become familiar yet, this episode is for you. Maybe you got the th
Sep 9 37 min
What Burnout Is Actually Telling You: Protection, Resistance & Finding Safety in the Body
Hot take: burnout is not a productivity problem but as a nervous system doing exactly what it learned to do. In this episode combining three of our most popular episodes,
Sep 2 40 min
Why the Most Self-Aware People Still Feel Stuck
If you have done years of healing work and you still feel stuck, maybe the question isn't, what haven't I healed yet? Maybe the question is, what am I ready to
Aug 26 28 min
Q&A: How to Complete an Emotion, Read a Real Relational Signal & Rest When You're Running on Empty
Every question that came in this month was a version of the same one: what is wrong with me?
Six listeners wrote in, and Britt Piper, Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner,
Aug 19 30 min
Somatic Practice for Sleep: Why Your Body Won't Let You Rest
Having trouble sleeping at night or getting into rest mode? This somatic practice episode is for you! First, Britt walks you through why difficulty resting is rarely abou
Aug 12 18 min
Why You Feel Better After Talking to AI (And What It Still Can't Give You)
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 epi
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 episo
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
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 di
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 e
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 offer
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 prot
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 shar
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
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
Jun 3 19 min
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 w
May 27 14 min
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. Mat
May 20 52 min
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 constantl
May 13 30 min
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I've been listening to every episode throughout my training, and honestly? I cannot get enough. What sets this podcast apart is the way Britt doesn't just talk about somatic work, she helps you actually feel it. Her ability to present this material in a way that lands in the body, not just the mind, is rare and genuinely powerful.
As a slow flow yoga teacher and embodiment guide, I know how hard it is to translate this kind of deep, nuanced work into something accessible without watering it down. Britt does it beautifully. Episode after episode, I find myself integrating what she shares into my everyday life. Not just my practice, but the way I move through the world.
If you're on a healing journey, curious about somatics, or a practitioner wanting to go deeper in your own embodiment, this podcast is for you. Britt is so authentic and this work will change you.
marybethlarue · Mar 2026
This is my first time reviewing a podcast, even though I’m an avid listener. Britt Piper has a way of clearly and lovingly, exposing the truth of what I’ve been feeling for my 30 years on this planet. Her voice, her wisdom, and her softness create a pathway of love and healing.
fortheloveofpodcasting · Feb 2026
I truly love all the content Britt creates, and am so grateful for it. I’ve been a part of her Body First Healing program over the past few months and it’s been life changing. So I’m so glad to have a continued touch point into this work every week through this podcast.
hideelou · Dec 2025
I’ve been following Britt on social media since starting starting cognitive behavioral therapy therapy in 2022. My plethora of physical symptoms and physical pain turned out to be psychosomatic. Along with 18 months of weekly and sometimes twice weekly one-on-one sessions with my incredible PLC, learning from Britt about my nervous system helped me to put into perspective some of the WHY my body was reacting the way it was to old traumas/CPTSD. Britt’s work and the gentleness that she brings into her delivery is like a bit of salve on ripped open wounds. Now, this podcast just helps bring me further into my healing journey. It has reminded me of tools I learned in therapy and forgotten to put into practice. Thank you for what you do, Britt. You ARE making a difference in this world! God bless you for your bravery and in your continued journey through healing in this life.
SharonR1973 · Sep 2025
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