#451: The Body Knows: Reclaiming Health Through Natural Living with Samphire Hayes

The Mark Groves Podcast

Mark Groves

Education, Relationships, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 5 May 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Once bedbound with chronic pain and told she'd be disabled for life, Samphire Hayes transformed her health not through surgery, but by embracing natural, ancestral practices—like ground sitting, mindfulness, and movement. In this powerful conversation with Mark Groves, she shares how reconnecting with her body and nature helped her go from mobility aids to walking marathons. Now a psychotherapist and natural lifestyle coach, Samphire helps others break free from chronic pain by tuning into the body’s wisdom and healing from the inside out. Her story is a moving reminder that we’re not broken—we just need to listen.

Samphire Hayes is a psychotherapist and natural lifestyle coach who overcame over a decade of chronic pain and limited mobility—at times requiring a mobility scooter—to now go on to complete marathons and live an active, vibrant life. Her personal healing journey sparked a deep commitment to holistic health, emphasizing the importance of addressing root causes rather than symptoms, and recognizing the body as an interconnected system. Through practices such as natural movement, ground sitting, mindfulness, nature immersion, and whole-food nutrition, Sam reconnected with the wisdom of human biology and the healing power of nature. Today, she leads The Holistic Pain Clinic, where she supports clients with chronic pain using integrative, nature-based strategies that empower physical, mental, and emotional recovery, with a mission to inspire resilience, hope, and lasting well-being.

Website: www.theholisticpainclinic.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wildsamfire/ and https://www.instagram.com/theholisticpainclinic/

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Mark Groves podcast.
0:03.9	You know, what's often not spoken about is this correlation of the mind to the body,
0:09.3	the psychosomatic, right?
0:11.4	And there is the study of things like psycho-neuroimmunology,
0:14.6	so this connection between the brain and our psychology and our immune response and our endocrine system and all these
0:26.5	different things that we know they're all connected but in a way disciplines have separated them
0:31.7	and so we often all seek some form of mastery in one specific thing like like a specialization in medicine, for example.
0:39.3	Of course, there's value to these things. But it seems kind of strange that it is more of a
0:45.7	modern thought, that the thoughts you have, the feelings you're experiencing in your body,
0:51.5	the traumas you've been through, would shape actually your body's
0:54.8	response to life, right? And so when we have things like chronic pain or we have things like
1:02.1	fibromyalgia or autoimmune experiences, that often, not always true, but often when we
1:09.2	turn towards things like traditional medicine, there's no answers.
1:14.7	And there can feel like there's a very large amount of frustration with ourselves if we're going through those experiences.
1:21.8	And frustrations with the systems, because the systems, it's in a way we feel like they don't understand what's really going on within us, right?
1:30.8	Which isn't a problem with us.
1:33.2	It's a problem with that the systems just don't have that lens.
1:36.0	And there's a lot to, of course, unpack in what shaped traditional medicine, etc.
1:41.9	And that's not why I'm here today for this conversation. I wanted to talk to
1:47.1	someone who is a psychotherapist, also a natural lifestyle coach, and has really looked at all these
1:57.3	layers of how the body works and the systems in order to heal herself.
2:02.6	As you know, I'm very fascinated with relationships, of course, to people,
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