The Unfuckwithable Woman

Episode 8: Tending to the Nervous System, Reclaiming Power

Season 2 Episode 8

Use Left/Right to seek, Home/End to jump to start or end. Hold shift to jump forward or backward.

0:00 | 33:42

Message me at briony@thesomatherapycollective.com

In this soul-deep episode, Briony Montgomery invites you into the sacred terrain of your nervous system - where shutdown, freeze, rage, and grief live in the body - and where your power is quietly waiting to be reclaimed.

We unravel how dysregulation isn't just personal, but ancestral and cultural - shaped by trauma, colonisation, the mother wound, and archetypes like the Martyr, the Parentified Child, and the Death Mother. Together, we name how women in midlife often become hollowed out, dried up, tired of holding it all and how tending to your nervous system is the first act of revolt and return.

This episode explores:

  • What dysregulation really looks like (and how we get stuck in it)
  • How your nervous system was shaped by your lineage and environment
  • The functional freeze state (and why you can’t "just try harder")
  • Why grief and anger are vital, sacred, and necessary
  • Somatic pathways to move from collapse into connection, from exhaustion into reclamation

This isn’t about self-improvement. It’s about embodied sovereignty.

If you’re walking with big feelings, invisible trauma, or a yearning to come home to yourself - this episode is your medicine.

Subscribe, share, and join the movement of women reclaiming softness, power, and a nervous system that can hold it all.

Join The Unfuckwithable Community

If this episode resonated with you, don’t leave the conversation here.

Subscribe to The Unfuckwithable Woman on YouTube for grounded conversations on somatic therapy, nervous system healing, matrilineal repair, trauma healing and embodied living.

- Subscribe on YouTube
- Share this episode with someone who needs it
- Leave a review to help this work reach more people

For daily nervous system support, grounding reflections and small consistent practices that bring you back to your body, subscribe to The Daily Root 🌳🤎

Subscribe to The Daily Root

Explore deeper support through The SomaTherapy Collective

Offerings include:

• The Daily Root - daily nervous system support
• 1:1 Somatic Therapy Sessions
• Clarity Sessions
• Mother Wound & Matrilineal Healing
• The MotherWay

This work is about more than healing symptoms.
It is about reclaiming your body, your voice, your humanity and your connection to life itself.

Empowerment. Healing. Liberation.

The revolution starts within.

Music by Finn Holleman
Photography by bethcronin_stillpoetry

Connect with Briony and The SomaTherapy Collective across Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and YouTube.

📩 briony@thesomatherapycollective.com

#somatictherapy #moth...