Somatic Therapy Podcasts
If you’re seeking mental health counselling in Bristol for anxiety, overwhelm, or emotional struggles, somatic therapy can offer a body-based path to healing. These podcast episodes explore how tuning into your body helps regulate emotions, calm anxiety, and process deeper experiences. With guided practices and compassionate insights from a Bristol-based psychotherapist, these resources support long-term emotional strength and nervous system balance.
“When we come home to the body, we find the safety and steadiness we’ve been seeking elsewhere.”
🎧 Featured Episodes
These podcasts explore how somatic therapy can support your nervous system, reduce emotional overwhelm, and help you reconnect with yourself from the inside out
What is Somatic Therapy? (with a Short Guided Practice)
In this short episode, you’ll learn what somatic therapy is, and be guided through a gentle practice so you can experience it for yourself.
Coping with Anxiety: 10 Somatic Ways to Calm Overthinking
Learn 10 practical ways to cope with anxiety and overthinking using your body (somatic therapy), breathwork, and self-compassion.
Somatic Therapy for Low Self-Worth
This episode explores self-worth through somatic therapy; why it feels so fragile, and how body-based practices can begin to shift old stories.
How Do I Stop Overthinking?
Discover how getting out of your head and into your body can quiet the mental noise and bring more calm.
Why Insight Isn’t Enough to Change
Reflections on anxiety, change, and the nervous system, grounded in somatic psychotherapy and real lived experience.
Embodiment: The Best Way to Handle Anxiety
Paying attention to your body can help stop feelings of fear and help you to feel safer.
8 Ways to Self‑Soothe
Learn simple, effective ways to calm your nervous system and care for yourself when emotions feel too much.
Grounding Practice
A gentle grounding exercise to calm your nervous system, release stress, and feel safer in your body. This somatic therapy practice includes breath, sound, and awareness to help you reconnect and reset.
Why Procrastination Isn’t About Willpower
Procrastination isn’t a lack of willpower.
It’s often a sign of overwhelm, shutdown, or a nervous system that’s already under strain.
Reset Your Autonomic Nervous System
Easy body-based exercises to support your nervous system and mental health.
What Feeling ‘Triggered’ Really Means
Explore how emotional triggers live in the body, and how somatic awareness helps you recognise, regulate, and heal old patterns with compassion.
Why You Keep Losing Yourself in Love
Learn why you lose yourself in love, and how to reconnect with your true self through awareness, compassion, and somatic understanding.
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