Episode 12: What Is Somatic Therapy? Why Your Nervous System Is Stuck in Survival (And How to Shift It)

Message me at [email protected] comes a point in healing where insight stops being enough.You understand your trauma.You know your patterns.But your body is still reacting - anxious, overwhelmed, shut down, or stuck in the same cycles.In this foundational episode of The Unfuckwithable Woman, Briony Montgomery breaks down what somatic therapy is and why it’s one of the most powerful approaches for trauma healing, nervous system regulation, and emotional resilience in today’s world.You’ll learn:– What the nervous system actually is (in simple, accessible language)– Why your body responds from past experiences, not just the present– The four core survival states: fight, flight, fawn, and freeze– How the fawn response keeps you overgiving, people-pleasing, and disconnected from yourself– Why talk therapy alone often isn’t enough– How somatic therapy works to create safety in the body– And how to begin shifting from survival into grounded, embodied flowThis episode explores how your body holds your lived experiences and how healing happens when you work with it, not against it.Because your body isn’t the problem.It’s the pathway.🔗 Explore somatic practices, The Daily Root, and work with Briony:www.thesomatherapycollective.comContinue the JourneyIf something in this episode landed in your body, sit with it. That's the work beginning.The Unfuckwithable Woman is a space for women who are done managing their pain and ready to feel their way back to themselves. Each conversation goes deep into somatic therapy, nervous system healing, matrilineal repair and the kind of embodied living that doesn't ask permission.Subscribe on YouTube so you never miss a conversation. Share this episode with the woman in your life who is ready to come home to herself. Leave a review to help this work find the people who need it most.Stay Connected to Your Body, Every DayGo Deeper with The Somatherapy CollectiveThis work doesn't end when the episode does. When you're ready for more, explore 1:1 Somatic Therapy Sessions, Clarity Sessions, Mother Wound and Matrilineal Healing and MotherWay.https://www.thesomatherapycollective.com/This is not about fixing yourself. It is about reclaiming your body, your voice, your lineage and your right to feel fully alive.Empowerment. Healing. Liberation. The revolution starts within.Music by Finn Holleman | Photography by bethcronin_stillpoetryConnect with Briony and The SomaTherapy Collective on ...