About... Somatic Therapy for High Achievers (with Dr. Danielle Griffin)
Tell Me More with Nicole Walters
Dear Media
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
If your nervous system has not seen peace since 2019, this one is for you!
Dr. Danielle Griffin is here to talk about what it really means to carry stress in your body and why so many of us have been living in survival mode for years.
As a thought leader in Somatic Exercise Therapy and a TEDx speaker dedicated to the science of the mind-body connection, Dr. Griffin helps high performers understand how chronic stress, pressure, and responsibility don’t just live in the mind… they show up physically as tension, burnout, insomnia, and even chronic illness.
We chat through the difference between somatic therapy and traditional talk therapy, why so many people struggle to even identify what they’re feeling, and how simple practices like breathwork, movement, and awareness can begin to release what your body has been holding onto.
This conversation explores what it looks like to slow down, tune in, and create space for healing… without losing your edge, ambition, or drive.
We’re chatting about:
- The difference between somatic therapy and talk therapy
- How stress and trauma get stored in the body
- Why high achievers often live in chronic tension and burnout
- The connection between physical symptoms and emotional overwhelm
- How breathwork, movement, and meditation help regulate the nervous system
- Simple ways to start releasing stress in your body today
If you constantly feel on edge, stuck in survival mode, or like your body can't relax… this chat will help you understand why and show you what to do next.
Connect with Dr. Danielle:
- Watch her TedX talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjDFL49minQ
- Visit her Website: https://drdaniellegriff.com/
- Connect on IG: https://www.instagram.com/drdaniellegriff
Connect with Nicole:
- Chat with Nicole over on Threads: https://threads.net/nicolewalters
- Watch Tell Me More on YT: http://nicolewalters.com/youtube
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a Dear Media production. |
| 0:06.6 | Welcome to the Tell Me More podcast with Nicole Walters, the only podcast where I'm not seeking to make you think more like me, but to help you keep thinking for yourself. |
| 0:28.7 | Okay, y'all, before I even start this chat, I need to be honest. |
| 0:34.3 | Today's guest, I am not interviewing her from a place of, I've mastered this. |
| 0:35.6 | It's really not that. |
| 0:39.7 | I'm interviewing her as someone who very, very much needs this. Because if you're a high achiever, if you are the strong one, if you are the breadwinner, |
| 0:46.8 | if you are the one everyone calls when something falls apart, or if you, like me, pride yourself |
| 0:52.6 | on being able to just handle it right but you notice that your |
| 0:56.5 | shoulders live somewhere near your ears if you notice that your jaw is permanently tight if you're |
| 1:01.5 | the person that when those ads come on tv or on youtube and they're just like take three seconds |
| 1:06.8 | to breathe while there's rainfall in the background and you're like, I needed this. Not y'all needed the |
| 1:11.6 | commercial, right? That means your nervous system has not seen peace since 2019. Welcome to the club. |
| 1:17.7 | This one is for you. And by you, I mean us. I am people. Dr. Daniel Griffin is a thought leader |
| 1:24.0 | in somatic exercise therapy and a TEDx speaker dedicated to the science of mind, |
| 1:31.3 | body connection. So she's blending a doctorates in organizational leadership with certifications |
| 1:36.7 | in hypnotherapy and yoga, which means she understands ambition, pressure, leadership, and what it does to your body. She helps people |
| 1:48.4 | like us, right, high performers, high achievers, do it allers, identify where stress lives physically |
| 1:54.9 | and teaches us how to release it before it starts showing up as burnout or brain fog or insomnia or snapping |
| 2:04.0 | at people you love or crying over an email that wasn't even that serious. She's the author of |
| 2:09.8 | somatic exercise made simple and her mission is to equip high performers with the somatic tools |
| 2:14.8 | they need to heal deeply, transform their limiting beliefs, and actually optimize their well-being from the inside out. Thank you so much, Dr. Griffin, for being here today. Thanks for having me. I appreciate it. Oh, my goodness. I'm so happy to be here. It's going to be good. It's going to be really good. I have to tell you on the way in as I was, you know, drive it. It's a beautiful day in L.A. today. And as I was driving over the hills, |
| 2:37.5 | all I could think was, should I have worn different mascara? Am I going to cry? Like, am I going to cry? And then I was thinking about how you're so big on like, look, everything's a release, you know? So, that's not something to be afraid of if indeed I'm I'm triggered. So can you talk me through a little |
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