Britt Piper, SEP

So much of what we call anxiety is actually a relational imprint. A physiological echo of the survival states we were born into. It’s not just inherited through story or DNA, but through tone, timing, and touch. When we talk about healing the nervous system, we’re not just talking about reducing symptoms—we’re talking about reclaiming the right to feel safe in our own bodies, even if that’s never been modeled before. That’s the revolutionary part: not just healing what happened to you, but what your body adapted to long before you had words. This work isn’t about blame. It’s about context. About understanding that your patterns make sense—not just psychologically, but biologically. And once your body knows that something else is possible, healing doesn’t require perfection. It requires presence. Repetition. Repair. If your body is still carrying what someone before you never got to release, the Body-First Healing Program was made for you. Inside, we blend Somatic Experiencing, somatic attachment therapy, Internal Family Systems, and Polyvagal Theory to help you complete inherited survival patterns and restore what disconnection once stole. 🔗 to get my free 2-day mini course and full details on the 6-month Body-First Healing Program—8 years running and hundreds supported on the journey to regulate, reconnect, and reclaim their lives—from the inside out. 🤎 #somatichealing #somatictherapy #anxietyrelief #booktokrecs #nervoussystemregulation

We don’t just think our way into survival mode, we shape into it. That forward head posture, the jaw always clenched, shoulders creeping up to your ears? These aren’t random habits. They’re procedural patterns, automatic motor responses wired into the nervous system long ago, often before we had language. The body learned, over time and through experience, that being alert, braced, or collapsed was safer than letting down its guard. This is called a defensive orienting posture, a subtle but constant readiness for threat. When trauma goes unresolved, the body doesn’t just store the memory of what happened. It becomes the memory. Muscles grip as if the danger never ended. Breath stays shallow as if it’s still not safe to fully exhale. And over time, these postures become identities: the overachiever, the hyper-independent one, the people-pleaser—roles born from bodily survival strategies. But the body isn’t broken. It’s intelligent. It’s doing exactly what it was wired to do: protect you. The good news is, it can learn something new. In the Body-First Healing Program, we work with somatic practices that go beneath the story—into the impulses, the bracing, the unfinished fight/flight/freeze responses that shaped how your body shows up in the world. *🔗 in bio to join the program, or grab my international book* #somatichealing #somatictherapy #anxietyrelief #booktokrecs #nervoussystemregulation