Dr Sarah Jane on Trauma and Trusting the Body

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This week I am joined by Dr Sarah Jane, the holistic chiropractor and counsellor behind Spinal Energetics, and one of the most fascinating voices I have encountered at the intersection of science, somatics and the unseen.

What struck me most about Sarah is not just the work she does. It is the life she has lived to arrive there.

The life that led her here

From a traumatic car accident and chronic pain, to an abusive relationship that left her body holding what her mind could not process, to years of fibromyalgia, miscarriages and navigating her mother's sudden brain injury, her story is layered, complex and deeply human.

It is this lived experience that led her to a radical realisation. Healing is not just cognitive. It is physical, emotional and deeply embodied.

When the body keeps score

In this conversation we explore what happens when the body keeps score, why talk therapy alone is not always enough, and how creating safety in the nervous system can begin to shift even the deepest patterns.

Sarah opens up about the concept of bracing, the unconscious tension so many of us carry, and why the goal is not to eliminate it, but to retrain it. As she beautifully explains, healing is not about never feeling pain again. It is about changing your relationship to it.

Healing is not about never feeling pain again. It is about changing your relationship to it.

Grief with no clear ending

We also talk about grief that has no clear ending, miscarriages, identity loss and what she calls ambiguous grief, and why our culture still struggles to hold space for it.

Her book Your Spine Holds the Answer launches in July, a guide to holistic healing, the emotional roots of pain, and Spinal Energetics.

In this episode you will learn

• Why your body can hold onto trauma long after your mind has processed it.
• The difference between understanding healing and actually embodying it.
• How bracing shows up in everyday life, and how to soften it.
• Why emotional pain often lingers longer than physical pain.
• The rituals and practices that helped Sarah rebuild herself, piece by piece.

This is a conversation about resilience, but not the glossy kind. The real kind. The quiet kind. The kind that asks you to sit with yourself and, slowly and gently, come home.

For more podcast chats like this, see Pip Edwards and Mukti Organics founder, Mukti.

Find Sarah's Sacred Six below

• William Whitecloud's Secrets of Natural Success: Five Steps to Unlocking Your Genius
• Funday's Sour Lollies
• Natural Hand Sanitiser
• LMNT Electrolytes
• Metagenics Parex
• Her laptop

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