Physical healing first

Brittany Piper

Whether you're suffering from anxiety, depression, burnout, or the effects of trauma, this groundbreaking book will guide you on how to become your own best therapist.

Brittany spent most of her life sitting in front of therapists, recounting the painful stories of her trauma. But bringing up each event—being placed in foster care as a child, losing her brother in a car accident, being brutally raped and publicly judged, and more—made her more attached. At a crossroads, Brittany took on the task of her own healing. On this journey, she discovered a science that explains how and why trauma lives in our bodies, not in the story of what happened to us. Trauma overwhelms our nervous system, which operates through feelings, sensations, and emotions, not words and thoughts. Now, as a somatic practitioner, in her book, Body-First Healing, Brittany offers a roadmap for recovery, resilience, and nervous system regulation. With Brittany, you'll learn how to:
Identify your underlying wounds, your trauma responses, and your state of shutdown.
Creating feelings of safety and organization using supportive resources such as exploratory guidance, movement, self-communication, etc.
Experiencing a completely uncomfortable feeling through the framework of sensation, image, behavior, emotion, and meaning
Using physical tools, such as yelling in the air to express anger or shaking limbs to express anxiety, which help express uncomfortable feelings