451. Body First Healing with Britt Piper: How to Get Unstuck & Recover from Trauma with Somatic Healing

The Balanced Blonde // Soul On Fire

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Health & Fitness, Balancedblondespiritualitywellness

4.6 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I sit down with somatic experiencing® practitioner Britt Piper to explore how trauma lives in the body (not just the mind), why traditional “talk only” therapy often leaves us stuck, and how somatic healing can help us actually move through, release, and rebuild. We dive into nervous-system regulation, body-based tools, and how you can recover from trauma—and create a new baseline of safety, presence, and purpose.

🔍 In This Episode You’ll Learn

What somatic healing actually is (and why the body holds what the mind can’t access).
Why you might still feel stuck, even after years of therapy or spiritual work.
The difference between survival mode (fight/flight/freeze/fawn) and living from a regulated nervous system.
Practical tools and practices you can try now: movement, shaking, orienting, self-contact.
How to identify your trauma response pattern and begin responding instead of reacting.
How to integrate somatic practices into your life so you stop “doing healing” and start being healed.
Britt’s story and how she turned her trauma into a body-first methodology—and how you can too.
My trauma healing story and how I am still navigating it and trying to uncover unprocessed, repressed memories

🎧 Guest Bio

Britt Piper is a trauma survivor turned international speaker and Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner, author of Body‑First Healing: Get Unstuck and Recover from Trauma with Somatic Healing. Her work spans nervous-system regulation, attachment theory, and internal family systems. After decades of doing therapy and still feeling stuck, she discovered the body-based route to healing and now teaches others to reclaim their life through somatic tools.

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a Dear Media production.
0:09.1	Hey guys, it's Jordan Younger, your host of the Balance Blonde Soul on Fire podcast.
0:14.3	Here we go deep on all things, astrology, awakening, wellness, motherhood, channeling, aliens, and so much more. We have deep conversations.
0:23.9	We go to other realms. It's a lot of fun. So stick around. Let's dive on in. I cannot wait to connect.
0:34.4	Hello, my favorite people. Welcome back to the show. I'm so happy that you're here.
0:40.0	Today's conversation is very vulnerable and very juicy. And I've been dying to have someone on
0:49.3	the podcast to go deep on this topic for a long time, which is nervous system healing, somatic work, and
0:57.6	overcoming trauma. So who better to have on than Britt Piper, the author of Body First Healing,
1:05.4	which is a book that I devoured in one sitting, which you'll hear about in this conversation,
1:12.8	and someone who I have followed for a very, very long time and been connected with on social media for years.
1:18.3	She is Heal with Britt on Instagram, and she is a world leading expert in trauma healing,
1:25.6	nervous system regulation, and somatic healing. She is a survivor turned trauma-trained
1:32.9	somatic experiencing practitioner. She is a speaker, and she works with so many amazing groups
1:41.6	of people. She works with the military. She works with trauma survivors. She's so
1:48.0	compassionate. She's so easy to talk to. And I knew I was going to love our conversation. Like I was
1:55.8	looking forward to it for months. But I didn't know. I was going to enjoy it as deeply as I did. And I'm always
2:03.9	blown away by these guests who come on and I'm so picky with my guests. You guys know this.
2:10.3	And it's not just that I'm impressed by them when they show up. Like I am blown away by the guests of this show. And Brit is no
2:20.3	exception. She's one of those people who blew me away. And I had no plan in my mind to talk about
2:28.9	my own trauma story in this episode, the sexual trauma that I experienced as a child that came to me on
2:36.8	Academy and Journey two years ago that has been a confusing source of information for me yet also
2:44.8	explains so much. And we talk about it in this episode. I just felt safe to go there with her. And it was so much a
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