Reconnecting with Your Body's Wisdom: Healing Trauma with Robyn Harris

Reconnecting with Your Body's Wisdom: Trauma, Safety & Radical Self-Care with Robyn Harris

This week on Thursday Tea with Sami, I'm joined by Robyn Harris, founder of W·I·L·D® Wellbeing and author of Take a Walk on the Wild Side. Robyn shares her own journey from feeling stuck in survival mode to helping others reconnect with the wisdom of their bodies.

We dig into what psychological safety actually means, how trauma — big or small — gets stored in the body long after the danger has passed, and why physical symptoms like migraines, eczema, or IBS can sometimes be the body's way of releasing what it's been holding onto. Robyn introduces her W.I.L.D. framework (Wonder, Intuition, Loving ourselves, Dance) and offers simple, practical tools for building a "body vocabulary," practicing radical self-care, and finding safety in stillness — even when meditation or breathwork hasn't felt safe before.

Whether you're navigating chronic stress, feeling disconnected from your body, or just curious about the mind-body connection, this conversation offers grounded, compassionate tools you can start using today.

In this episode:

• Why trauma isn't just "big T" events — it's often cumulative
• How the body stores stress and signals through symptoms
• The W.I.L.D. framework: Wonder, Intuition, Loving ourselves, Dance
• Simple grounding and vagus nerve exercises to try right now
• What "radical self-care" really means (and how it differs from a bubble bath)
• How self-compassion helps us work with our inner critic

Connect with Robyn Harris:
🌐 w-i-l-d.uk
📖 Take a Walk on the Wild Side
📱 Find her on Facebook, LinkedIn, Substack, and YouTube