Heal Your Trauma, Anxiety, and Stress Through Your Body with Somatic Practitioner Brittany Piper

Girls Gotta Eat

Ashley Hesseltine

Relationships, Society & Culture, Dating, Comedy, Sex, 977170

4.6 • 29.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2025

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

We are so glad to welcome back Brittany Piper – speaker, author, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, and educator in sexual violence prevention and trauma recovery. In this episode, she is sharing her expertise of somatic healing, which starts with the body and can be life-changing for anyone with trauma, anxiety, and/or chronic stress, especially if traditional talk therapy isn’t working. We discuss the science of the nervous system, learning the language of your body and how to regulate your stress responses, how to de-escalate your anxiety, and what a “trigger” actually is. We also discuss trauma and anxiety in relationships – talking to your partner about your needs, how you can be a helpful partner to someone who is struggling, co-regulating, and using a tool called “parts work” in a conflict. Before Brittany joins us, we’re discussing wild AI text summaries, and unpacking a listener dilemma about a situationship with a colleague. Hope you enjoy!

Follow Brittany on Instagram @healwithbritt and get her book Body First Healing.

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0:00.0	How does your body tell you a yes? How does your body tell you a no? And for a lot of us after trauma,
0:05.3	that's kind of the first step is regaining that agency. This podcast is a dear media production.
0:25.9	Hi guys.
0:26.8	Hi guys.
0:27.4	Welcome back to another episode of Girls Gotta Eat.
0:29.4	Welcome back.
0:30.7	I just feel like I had a real like parenting moment with me.
0:34.5	With my, with my fiance, with you, Tess isess our daughter where he had to like go pick up
0:39.7	a zool at the groomer today like we had to organize like a pickup today that's what parents have to do
0:44.1	all the time with their kids oh yeah dog moms just like parents right now don't put words my mouth
0:49.1	people get so triggered about that stuff no but like i was like i'm going to be recording when a zool's
0:54.0	ready for
0:54.4	pick up at the groomer. So we had to like leave work and go get his soul. And then I had to be like,
0:59.2	did you get the shampoo? They always forget to give you back. I bring special shampoo.
1:02.2	You got to tell men how to handle your children. But he didn't get the shampoo, but I didn't
1:05.2	remind him. And they forget the groomer to always give me back my shampoo. I give them special shampoo for his little sensitive skin. So it's just such a thing that parents have to deal with every day that,
1:13.7	you know, it's like, babe, can you go pick up the, go pick up the kid and then don't forget
1:17.8	the thing. Like, don't forget the stuff. Yes. You know what it's like to be a parent.
1:23.4	I am inching closer to getting a dog every single day. I can't stop thinking about it.
1:27.9	Like, I want this.
1:29.2	Every day I think about it.
1:30.6	And I just, really, I'm edging towards it so much.
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