The Body Knows - Somatics & Embodiment

You've optimized the morning routine. You've color-coded the calendar. You've calculated how to squeeze every drop of productivity out of every hour… but now the problem is finding the energy to actually do all the shit you’ve listed. This is because time management treats you like a machine, something that can produce on demand. But you're not a machine. You're a creature. An apple tree doesn't n...

You’re spiraling about a man… again. You know you have anxious attachment, you’ve tried putting your phone on airplane mode, or sending screenshots to your friends to see what they think. But you’re done with this pattern, but can’t seem to get out of it.  Here's why nothing has stuck: you've been handed top-down tools for a bottom-up problem. You can't behavior-modify your way out of a nervous sy...

You know how to use I-statements. You've maybe learned nonviolent communication. But sometimes you want to just be able to RAGE (aka communicate how you feel in all its raw and emotional glory). But you’re absolutely certain that bringing that version of your emotions to your partner or friend is just too much.  In this episode, Leona shares a framework borrowed from an unexpected place — kink sce...

Oscillating between over-reacting and self-abandoning? Setting boundaries and shutting down? Feeling confident and free, and then like a total poser? Yes, you’re kind of a mess. But everyone is, when they're in Stage 2. In this episode of The Body Knows, we break down the three stages of reclaiming any exiled part of yourself — dormant, developing/distorted, and divine — and explain what each one...

The world is a lot right now. It has been for a while. And whatever your relationship to the news cycle, most of us are walking around carrying more than we know what to do with… Which is exactly the problem. We don’t know what to do with it. We’ve been handed a lot of tools for understanding our emotions: therapy, journaling, self-help books with provocative titles. And those things have their pl...

Women are starving for a way to reclaim power without becoming hardened. There’s a particular kind of tension many women live with. We’re taught to be kind, accommodating, and agreeable if we want to belong. Which, in a nutshell, is a chronic state of self abandonment — outsourcing our sense of worth to the approval of others (*ahem* aka the male gaze). But when we try to reclaim our power, the on...

After a 10-day meditation retreat, Ana's chronic pain disappeared. It took her the next five years of studying somatics, nervous system regulation, and integrative health to figure out why. In this episode of The Body Knows, we dive into a true story of healing chronic illness (Lyme disease) when conventional medicine only promised that symptoms would get worse. We also explore how self-criticism,...

Your stress management strategies probably aren’t working because you're missing a piece. Most advice for coping with stress focuses on two places: your mind and your emotions. Reframe your situation. Let go of what you can’t control. Feel your feelings. Be gentle with yourself. But there's a third place, a very very important third piece: your nervous system, your body. You know, the place your s...

We can’t think your way out of fight or flight. You’re in go-go-go mode, convinced if you just somehow rush through everything, nothing can touch you. Or you’re ranting at someone in your head, or pissed off and snapping, or gritting your teeth and working til the wee hours of the morning. These are all telltale signs that your nervous system is activated, and that energy needs somewhere to go. It...

You notice your thoughts are starting to spin. Your breath is shallow and you don’t what to sit still. You think you can maybe outrun this feeling if you are productive enough… but the truth is, you’ll only find relief when you slow down, not speed up. This episode is a guided somatic breathing meditation to help you come back to your body and present moment so you can remember that you’re okay. 🎙...

We've been taught that love is synonymous with kindness. That evolution means transcending anger, grief, and rage into high-vibe serenity. But what if that's incomplete? What if the parts of ourselves we've been taught to fear — our wildness, our power, our sexuality, our rage — are not only sacred but EXACTLY what the world needs right now. In this episode, we're throwing a grenade into the spiri...

We're overstimulated, dissociated, and searching for peace in all the wrong places. The answer isn't rising higher, it's rooting deeper. In this episode of The Body Knows, we explore why grounding into your pelvis might be the most important somatic practice and spiritual practice you've never heard of. We unpack how spiritual bypass, cultural conditioning, and our addiction to intensity have disc...

Somatic therapy is often called pseudoscience. Deniers question the validity of nervous system regulation, healing trauma stored in the body, emotional release, and the mind-body connection. Good thing there's an easy way to test if somatics works: by believing your own LIVED EXPERIENCE. 🎙 In this episode, we talk about:  – How we ended up with science being as dogmatic as religion (aka The Church...

Medicine isn't just pills. It's anything that brings you back to wholeness. In this episode of The Body Knows, we explore what actually counts as holistic health and why we've been taught to overlook the most accessible and reliable wellness tools we have. 🎙️ We talk about: – Why the question "what medicine do I need?" can be so much more powerful than "how do I fix myself?" – How treating certain...

When you're triggered and spiraling, deep breathing often doesn’t cut it. Your nervous system needs to expel the energy trapped in it, not just try to bypass it. In this episode of The Body Knows, we break down exactly what to do when you're triggered. We cover somatic practices and grounding techniques you can use right now to work WITH your stress response instead of fighting it. 🎙 We talk about...

Avoiding a friend's text for three days because you're afraid of disappointing them? That's actually a nervous system stress response: flight. Walking into conversations ready to fight over nothing? That's fight. Smiling through discomfort until your jaw aches? That's fawn. Can't string a sentence together or feel anything at all? That's freeze. In this episode of The Body Knows, we break down the...

Being highly sensitive or an empath isn't a weakness, it's the foundation of healing, intimacy, and living authentically. But somewhere along the way, we learned to repress or try to “fix” our feelings instead of working with their wisdom. In this episode of The Body Knows, we explore how somatic sensitivity, emotional awareness, and interpersonal attunement can transform your relationships and wh...

What if the longing you've been trying to satisfy is actually your doorway to more fullness? In this solo episode, Ana shares her transformational two-month experiment: no dating, no flirting, no crushes, not even fantasy. What started as "the no man diet" became a journey into the deepest parts of herself, and changed everything about how she relates to desire, validation, and her own sovereignty...

You know that version of yourself that shows up when you feel both safe and confident? The one who speaks their truth, expresses their desires, and moves through the world with clear boundaries and an open heart? Most of us only catch glimpses of her. She appears for a moment — maybe at a dinner party with close friends, or during that conversation where you felt truly seen — and then disappears t...

You’ve done the mindset work. You’ve journaled about your blocks. You've talked through your trauma. And still… something hasn’t shifted. This is when somatics enters the chat. In this episode of The Body Knows, we explore how to know when you need somatics, who it’s for (and who it’s not), and why mental processing just won't cut it. 🎙️ We talk about: – How to know if you’re ready for somatics –...

Transform conflict into a moment of deepening connection, intimacy, and trust with this phrase: “When this happens, I feel this.” It really is that simple. But somehow, we’re terrible at it. In this episode of The Body Knows , we explore how felt-sense awareness — a core somatic practice — can shift the way we show up for conflict and conflict resolution. We talk about why most of us default to bl...

Being alive can feel like magic. But first, you have to come back to your body. In this episode of The Body Knows , we finally explain what somatics and embodiment actually mean , and how doing this work helped us move through anxiety, chronic health struggles, emotional chaos, and into a way of living that feels downright mystical at times. 🎙️ We talk about: – The difference between somatics and...

You're not dysregulated. You're just feeling something. Somewhere along the way, we started confusing emotional expression with nervous system failure, and that’s a problem. In this episode of The Body Knows, we dive into one of the most misunderstood concepts in somatics: dysregulation. We unpack what true dysregulation actually is, why feeling big emotions doesn’t mean you’re broken, and how ove...

You've done the therapy. You understand your attachment style, your childhood wounds, your patterns. You could probably explain your trauma to a stranger at a party. And yet... you're still stuck. In this episode of The Body Knows, we return to one of the most essential (and most misunderstood) aspects of somatics: what does it actually mean to feel your feelings? Spoiler: it's not the same as und...