Somatic Self Healers is a podcast for people who are tired of living in survival mode and ready to feel safe in their bodies again.
Through nervous system education, somatic practices, and integrative energetic healing, these episodes support you in returning to yourself—so you can experience greater presence, connection, and aliveness in your everyday life.
Alongside teaching, many episodes feature guided healing experiences that use breathwork, somatic awareness, and energetic practices such as tuning forks and shamanic journeys.
This isn’t just something you listen to… it’s something you experience.
If you’ve been doing the work but still don’t quite feel like yourself, you’re in the right place.
You’re not here to fix yourself. You’re here to come home to your body.
How Sickness Triggers Survival Mode + Immunity Boost
In this episode, I explain how being sick can kick the nervous system into survival mode and lower your capacity even when you’ve done a lot of healing work. I give you permission to rest without the shame spiral and guide you through immune-balancing and immune-boosting sound tuning to help you soften and receive support. Plus, I cover: • illness and inflammation as a natural survival response • symptoms registering as threat in the nervous system • reduced capacity as norm...
7 Oct 2026
What If Busyness Is A Freeze Response In Disguise
You can be highly capable and still be stuck in survival mode. If your life looks “fine” on paper but you feel numb, flat, or quietly hopeless underneath, this conversation is for you. We’re talking about functional freeze, the nervous system state where you keep doing all the things while your life force stays withdrawn and your real wants get harder to hear. We walk through the most common signs: the mask of “I’m fine,” low-level disappointment, repeating the same stories, and that strange...
Freeze can look like “nothing is wrong” from the outside while you feel foggy, numb, and far away on the inside. We walk through the dorsal vagal state through a polyvagal lens, naming it for what it is: a protective shutdown response that often arrives after fight or flight has been running too long. If you’ve been going through the motions, dealing with gut issues, or wondering why motivation and joy feel muted, this conversation gives you a clear map without shame. We connect the va...
9 Sept 2026
Sympathetic Vagus Nerve Reset Part 2
Today, Leah guides you through the sympathetic side of vagus nerve activation and how it can keep you locked in survival mode even when danger is only perceived. This is part 2 of our 3-part series on the Vagus nerve. We use movement, rhythmic diaphragmatic breathing, and a solar plexus tuning-fork healing to help your body receive a steadier message of “I’m okay” again. • sympathetic activation as a normal survival response that becomes unhelpful when chronic • signs of being st...
26 Aug 2026
Ventral Vagus Nerve Practices + Energetic Tuning For Feeling Safe
Today we slow way down and get practical with one of the most talked-about pathways in somatic healing: the vagus nerve. We start with clear, grounded “brain candy” so your mind can relax into the work, then we shift into guided regulation you can do on your couch, on the floor, or even parked in the car for a few minutes. We walk through what the vagus nerve is, why it is known as the wandering nerve, and how it carries parasympathetic signals tied to rest, digestion, connection, and a sens...
12 Aug 2026
Your Liver Might Be Driving Your Reactivity
Today I’m bringing you to the right side of the solar plexus to explore liver health as a missing link in nervous system regulation, stress resilience, and emotional reactivity. When the liver struggles to filter efficiently and metabolize stress hormones like cortisol and adrenaline, it can feel like your system is stuck on high alert, with irritation, overwhelm, and anger close to the surface. I start with simple, clear physiology and connect it to lived experience: energy, blood filtratio...
29 Jul 2026
Clearing Ego Personas With Somatics and Sound
In this episode, I guide a grounding somatic and sound session to help you shift out of survival mode or "ego personas" and back into the loving presence within. We clear common ego personas like confusion, overthinking, perfectionism, and scarcity so you can feel safer in your body and hear your next step with more clarity. What we cover in this episode: • loving presence within as a practical inner resource for embodiment • ego personas as stress patterns that block self e...
15 Jul 2026
Stop Letting Old Stories Run You. Reorienting to the Loving Presence Within
Your mind can tell a convincing story in seconds, and your body will live it like it’s true. When that story is “I’m not enough,” “I’m doing it wrong,” or “something is wrong with me,” the nervous system often drops into survival mode, even when nothing is happening on the outside. We slow this down together and look at meaning-making not as a flaw, but as a protective strategy. Leah guides a grounded somatic healing practice to bring a single negative belief into awareness and then ge...
1 Jul 2026
Energetic Decluttering With A 174 Hz Tuning Fork
If you feel scattered, pulled in multiple directions, or like you’re carrying emotions that aren’t yours, this guided Somatic Self-Healers practice is a reset you can come back to again and again. I start with simple somatic practices to discharge surface stress (yes, even a few heel drops can help), then shift into breathwork for nervous system down-regulation. From there, I work with the energetic field around the body using a 174 Hz tuning fork to support coherence and clarity, especially...
16 Jun 2026
From Scanning For Danger To Feeling Safe
Your mind can feel like it’s doing too much because your nervous system is trying to keep you alive. When hypervigilance kicks in, the body stays “loaded” with stress, scanning for danger, bracing for the next shoe to drop, and turning everyday moments into threat predictions. We talk about why this isn’t a personality problem to fix but a state your system organizes around and how naming the state changes what’s possible. We unpack common hypervigilance patterns like overthinking, ove...
3 Jun 2026
From Freeze To Flow
Feeling stuck doesn’t always look like shutting down. Sometimes it looks like getting everything done while feeling numb, unmotivated, and disconnected from your own life force. We talk about the freeze response and functional freeze as a protective nervous system strategy, including the classic signs like heaviness and brain fog, plus the sneakier pattern of being “fine” on the outside while your inner world feels flat. We unpack why freeze often carries locked-in fight or flight energy, cr...
20 May 2026
Quick Coherence Breathwork + Biofield Tuning For Nervous System Relief
We explore heart coherence as a real, measurable shift in the nervous system and a lived experience of coming home to the body. We guide a quick HeartMath-style coherence practice, then move into a tuning fork heart-space session to support release, integration, and more life force. • defining coherence as harmonious connection in the body • linking stress and joy states to heart rhythm and heart rate variability • reframing incoherence as a trainable state rather than a per...
6 May 2026
What If Rest Starts With Your Brain Waves
If your mind is always “on,” your body might not be feeling at rest; it might be stuck in a brainwave state built for survival. We walk through the brain waves that shape your day-to-day experience, from high beta urgency and anxiety to the calmer, more spacious states of alpha and theta, where real restoration can finally happen. Along the way, we connect brain waves to nervous system regulation, somatic healing, and embodiment so you can stop guessing and start working with your biology. W...
22 Apr 2026
Your Body Can Feel Safe Again When You Learn To Notice Bracing
Your jaw clenches, your shoulders climb, your belly stays tight, and even on a “good day,” you can’t fully relax. That isn’t a weakness. It’s bracing, and it’s often your nervous system trying to protect you long after the original stress has passed. In this episode, we start by breaking down what bracing is in somatic terms and why it shows up beyond the classic fight-or-flight response. We talk about the freeze response as trapped survival energy, why settling can sometimes bring a r...
19 Apr 2026
Nervous System Practices + a Grounded Healing Session
If you're feeling dysregulated and off, this episode will help you understand what's happening in the nervous system and set the foundation for nervous system healing. In this episode, I talk about how we practice is how we live and discuss the importance of practice in nurturing and supporting our nervous systems. We end with a guided somatic practice and a healing session using tuning forks in the energetic field to help you feel more grounded and centered. Sign up for my free course...
19 Apr 2026
Feeling Stuck in Survival Mode? What's Actually Happening in Your Body
If you’ve been feeling stuck in survival mode, it doesn’t mean something is wrong with you. Your body may still be holding onto stress responses that never had the chance to complete—showing up as bracing, tension, or always feeling “on.” These aren’t signs that you’re broken… they’re signals from a body that’s been working to protect you. In this episode, we explore what’s actually happening in your nervous system and why these patterns can feel so persistent. You’ll also be guided through a...
19 Apr 2026
You Don't Have to Try Harder: Opening to Receiving
If you've been feeling stuck in survival mode, constantly bracing, pushing, or trying to "fix" yourself, this conversation offers a different perspective. What if nothing is wrong with you? In this episode, we explore what's actually happening in your nervous system when you feel dysregulated and unable to relax fully. These patterns aren't failures—they're intelligent responses your body learned over time. I'll discuss how to receive your own medicine so the practices and healing work you're...
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