Why Your Chronic Symptoms Lead Back to Stored Trauma ft. Britt Piper | Heal Thy Self w/ Dr. G #392

Heal Thy Self with Dr. G

Heal Thy Self

Health & Fitness, Alternative Health

5 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS Visit jaspr.co/drg and use code DRG for $300 off for a limited time. Visit calroy.com/drg and save over $50 and get a free canister of 2-in-1 Nitric Oxide Test Strips with a 3-Pack Bundle Purchase. Sign up for our newsletter! https://drchristiangonzalez.com/newsletter/ What if your chronic fatigue, autoimmune symptoms, and people-pleasing patterns aren't random? What if they're your body remembering something your mind forgot? In this groundbreaking episode, I sit down with Brittany Piper, a somatic experiencing practitioner and trauma educator for the Department of Justice and U.S. military. We explore how trauma lives in the nervous system, why traditional talk therapy often falls short, and how somatic work can rewire your body's stress responses. Brittany shares her personal journey of healing from complex trauma and reveals why most people pleasers are secretly angry, how childhood experiences shape our adult relationships, and practical tools to reconnect with your body's wisdom. If you've ever felt stuck in therapy or trapped in survival mode, this episode offers a revolutionary approach to healing through nervous system regulation and somatic awareness. Be sure to like and subscribe to #HealThySelf Hosted by Doctor Christian Gonzalez N.D. Follow Doctor G on Instagram @doctor.gonzalez https://www.instagram.com/doctor.gonzalez/ Timestamps: 00:00 - Opening: Can Chronic Illness Be Rooted in Repressed Emotions? 06:00 - Rapid Fire Questions: People Pleasers, Men's Disconnection & Childhood Expression 11:39 - The Dance Floor Moment: How a 5-Year-Old Loses Wholeness and Authentic Expression 21:36 - Brittany's Trauma Story: Birth, Foster Care, and the Body's Memory of Not Belonging 26:01 - From Sexual Assault to Purpose: Turning Pain into Prevention Education Work 30:20 - Body Patterns and Procedural Memory: How to Start Recognizing Trauma in Your Body 35:17 - Building Body Awareness: From Head-Up Living to Somatic Intelligence 38:46 - Raising Emotionally Healthy Boys: Validating Emotions Without Fixing Them 47:12 - People Pleasers Are Silently Angry: The Fight-Flight-Shutdown Response Explained 51:17 - The Connection Between Emotional Suppression and Autoimmune Disease in Women 56:21 - Success Story: From Bedridden with Lyme/Mold to Recovery Through Nervous System Work 1:01:03 - How Trauma Lives in the Body: Physical Pain vs. Emotional Numbness as Warning Signs 1:07:47 - "Body First Healing" Book: A Somatic Roadmap for Healing Trauma and Nervous System Recovery

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0:00.0	You know, I think there's a reason why women are more likely to suffer from autoimmune disease.
0:05.7	There's been a lot of studies that have come out about silent suffering that women do as a way to appease, to...
0:13.0	Be a good mom.
0:14.0	Yeah.
0:15.0	To make themselves small.
0:16.0	And I think that that is physically, mentally, emotionally affecting women.
0:20.0	What if your chronic fatigue, your autoimmune symptoms, even your people pleasing,
0:25.2	they weren't just random, right?
0:27.0	What if they were your body remembering something that your mind forgot?
0:30.4	Well, in today's episode, I sit down with Brittany Piper.
0:33.0	She's a somatic experiencing practitioner, trauma educator for the Department of Justice in U.S. military,
0:39.0	and a survivor of complex trauma who turned her pain into purpose.
0:43.4	She helped thousands uncover the real root of chronic symptoms, not with another pill,
0:48.2	but with healing the nervous system itself.
0:50.2	This conversation is really going to blow your mind because it's going to change the way
0:52.7	that you look at illness, trauma, and healing.
0:55.4	Why chronic illness like fibromyalgia, autoimmune disease, and even cancer may be tied to repressed emotions,
1:02.3	why most people pleasers are just silently angry and how that blocks your life force.
1:07.7	And why traditional talk therapy might not be enough and how somatic work
1:11.2	actually rewires the nervous system. And we also learn how Brittany healed from addiction,
1:15.6	disconnection, and even sexual assault through nervous system repair. And she tells us about this
1:20.1	incredible moment where her five-year-old son shuts down on the dance floor and what it reveals
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