Out of Your Head, Into Your Healing: 5 Somatic Shifts to Stop Overthinking & Finally Feel Safe in Your Body

Are you tired of spiralling thoughts, burnout cycles, and surface-level fixes that never truly stick? If you're constantly “in your head” and nothing you try seems to help—this episode is the interruption your nervous system has been begging for.

In today’s powerful, no-fluff conversation, I walk you through 5 transformative somatic tools designed to help you get out of your mind and back into your body—where true, lasting healing begins. Whether you're highly visual, emotional, touch-driven, or movement-based, you’ll discover which nervous system rituals actually work for your unique wiring (not someone else's highlight reel).

We’ll unpack:

• Why your body isn’t responding to mindset work anymore (and what to do instead)

• How different learning styles affect healing—and how to match the right method to your nervous system

• The real science behind journaling, rocking, tapping, and movement-based release

• What trauma really does to your body (and why massage, stroking, and squeezing are more powerful than you think)

• The truth about rewiring your patterns, even if you’ve “tried everything” before

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Episode Transcript

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If you are new here, welcome to your somatic life, love, leadership, and legacy.
I'm Sam Rix and I help high achieving women like you.
Break free from self-sabotage by bridging the self-healing mindset and business success because your mind and body are your strategy.

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Let's get into it. 5 00:00:32,885.918367347 --> 00:00:38,465.918367347 This one is how to get out of your head and into your body. 6 00:00:39,105.918367347 --> 00:00:46,185.918367347 If you feel like you are always spiraling thoughts in your mind all the time, this really gonna help you. 7 00:00:46,185.918367347 --> 00:00:50,865.918367347 I've got three amazing ways that I'm gonna be sharing with you today to help you with this. 8 00:00:51,905.918367347 --> 00:01:06,275.918367347 So first of all, it's really important to know what type of person we're, what kind of learner are we? How we learn is how our body loves to respond. 9 00:01:07,270.918367347 --> 00:01:16,600.918367347 For example, you've probably all heard of the three famous ones I talked about a lot, visual, audio, and kinesthetic, but there are two others. 10 00:01:16,840.918367347 --> 00:01:21,450.918367347 if you are a very visual learner, journaling could be really good for you. 11 00:01:22,20.918367347 --> 00:01:32,70.918367347 The science behind journaling is it helps reinforce the message to your brain through sites. 12 00:01:32,850.918367347 --> 00:01:34,380.918367347 Sight is very powerful. 13 00:01:34,380.918367347 --> 00:01:40,290.91836735 You can think the positive feelings and emotions, behaviors and actions that you want. 14 00:01:41,490.91836735 --> 00:01:49,500.91836735 You can then write those down and you can reinforce that through sight, which helps it manifest into your mind. 15 00:01:49,500.91836735 --> 00:01:52,140.91836735 It helps it get into your subconscious. 16 00:01:53,190.91836735 --> 00:01:57,930.91836735 So when we hear about people manifesting, this is exactly what that is. 17 00:01:57,930.91836735 --> 00:02:01,230.91836735 It's planting the seed in your mind. 18 00:02:03,60.91836735 --> 00:02:03,900.91836735 So journaling. 19 00:02:03,900.91836735 --> 00:02:04,350.91836735 Very good. 20 00:02:04,350.91836735 --> 00:02:12,30.91836735 If you're very visual, you are going to love guided meditations, guided visualizations, listening to podcasts, music. 21 00:02:12,60.91836735 --> 00:02:21,925.91836735 If music is what helps you connect with your deeper inner self and emotions, then that's going to be a really good way to help your body release. 22 00:02:22,710.91836735 --> 00:02:24,900.91836735 Connect, become aware. 23 00:02:24,900.91836735 --> 00:02:26,940.91836735 Acknowledge those feelings as well. 24 00:02:26,970.91836735 --> 00:02:31,275.91836735 If you are a very kinesthetic person, you are going to love the movement. 25 00:02:31,785.91836735 --> 00:02:34,935.91836735 You're going to love the stretches. 26 00:02:35,295.91836735 --> 00:02:37,395.91836735 You're going to love muscle memory. 27 00:02:37,750.91836735 --> 00:02:55,635.91836735 That's why in somatic healing, physical movements and actions and pauses like poses, So your body are gonna be really beneficial for helping move the emotion away from that area and just release it from your body. 28 00:02:56,825.91836735 --> 00:02:58,290.91836735 And then there are two others. 29 00:02:58,320.91836735 --> 00:02:58,830.91836735 Okay. 30 00:02:58,830.91836735 --> 00:03:02,550.91836735 So the other one that we have is oral. 31 00:03:03,110.91836735 --> 00:03:03,350.91836735 Okay. 32 00:03:03,350.91836735 --> 00:03:07,370.91836735 Now, if it's oral, perhaps talking therapy is really good. 33 00:03:08,330.91836735 --> 00:03:10,250.91836735 Counseling, psychotherapy. 34 00:03:10,250.91836735 --> 00:03:27,460.91836735 Going back there, hearing yourself talk out your thoughts so that you can have that person there to help you mirror and guide you to see what it is that you are feeling, experiencing, or believing about yourself to help you get there. 35 00:03:27,700.91836735 --> 00:03:28,660.91836735 Oral could be good for you. 36 00:03:30,445.91836735 --> 00:03:31,675.91836735 And then there's taste. 37 00:03:31,675.91836735 --> 00:03:35,275.91836735 Nutritional advice is gonna be really good for your body. 38 00:03:35,765.91836735 --> 00:03:48,665.91836735 Nutritional advice generally is good for everyone, but if you emotionally respond with taste, then getting a nutritional therapist on board to really help you is important. 39 00:03:48,665.91836735 --> 00:03:55,145.91836735 Now we often believe that we should just do one or the other, or We just go to this person for that therapy. 40 00:03:56,75.91836735 --> 00:04:02,15.91836735 There is not any one therapy that is successful that will definitely work for you. 41 00:04:02,15.91836735 --> 00:04:03,35.91836735 We just don't know. 42 00:04:03,545.91836735 --> 00:04:06,455.91836735 You are going to see the therapy space change. 43 00:04:06,585.91836735 --> 00:04:13,65.91836735 Neuroscience, we have learn so much more about the mind and body connection. 44 00:04:13,65.91836735 --> 00:04:14,385.91836735 You are gonna see counselors. 45 00:04:15,275.91836735 --> 00:04:20,495.91836735 And traditional just talking only therapies, taking on more physical somatic body work. 46 00:04:20,495.91836735 --> 00:04:29,375.91836735 You are gonna see the body workers taking on a more talkative approach as well, so that there is balance so that we are able to offer you. 47 00:04:30,615.91836735 --> 00:04:40,285.91836735 Round about a variety of modalities and tools to support you because we know that we are all different in how we respond. 48 00:04:41,185.91836735 --> 00:04:48,715.91836735 So let's get into some other examples that will really help you get out of your mind and into your body. 49 00:04:49,135.91836735 --> 00:04:50,245.91836735 We spoke about journaling. 50 00:04:50,295.91836735 --> 00:04:51,405.91836735 So that's one. 51 00:04:52,125.91836735 --> 00:05:03,285.91836735 Then we have a somatic experiencing where we can use movement to help move the stored tension and trauma and energy from our body. 52 00:05:04,395.91836735 --> 00:05:09,15.91836735 Now, there are specific movements that we can do to help us do this. 53 00:05:09,15.91836735 --> 00:05:12,105.91836735 If you go to my website and download my free somatic toolkit. 54 00:05:13,245.91836735 --> 00:05:17,895.91836735 I actually give examples completely for free on how you can do this for your body. 55 00:05:18,615.91836735 --> 00:05:20,955.91836735 Okay? All of these tools are within us. 56 00:05:20,955.91836735 --> 00:05:24,165.91836735 We are more than capable, and you will realize they're actually very easy. 57 00:05:25,845.91836735 --> 00:05:29,565.91836735 It's not the ease of the exercise. 58 00:05:30,135.91836735 --> 00:05:43,795.91836735 It's being able to habitualize, embed and repeat consistently those exercises to help us release any stored tension, any stored feelings of anxiety, stress, or trauma that we might be holding onto. 59 00:05:43,875.91836735 --> 00:05:48,765.91836735 Then we have emotional freedom techniques, which I personally absolutely love. 60 00:05:48,765.91836735 --> 00:05:50,295.91836735 That works well for me and my body. 61 00:05:51,330.91836735 --> 00:06:01,890.91836735 That is your tapping that you might know it as Tapping is an excellent way to help reaffirm and embed those positive affirmations that you are writing for yourself. 62 00:06:01,890.91836735 --> 00:06:28,460.91836735 Those personalized, authentic affirmations that we've talked about before in the past about the importance of making sure that you are not just reading a sentence that you've found somewhere on the internet that you think might help you feel better, You've asked yourself, how are you feeling? What do you need? Where do you want to go with this? What do you want for yourself? And you construct a sentence. 63 00:06:29,210.91836735 --> 00:06:35,170.91836735 Okay? And in our membership, We go over this as to how to write our own authentic affirmations. 64 00:06:35,220.91836735 --> 00:06:40,380.91836735 You may be thinking, oh, this is all well and good, but I've tried this stuff before and it's just not working. 65 00:06:42,450.91836735 --> 00:06:44,250.91836735 I've been there, we've all been there. 66 00:06:44,970.91836735 --> 00:06:46,890.91836735 You've gotta be honest with yourself. 67 00:06:46,920.91836735 --> 00:07:02,355.91836735 How have you implemented this into your daily routine? Have you tried it a couple of times and then given up? We need to ensure that we select the right exercises and tools for ourselves. 68 00:07:02,355.91836735 --> 00:07:04,185.91836735 And this is where I think a lot of us go wrong. 69 00:07:05,265.91836735 --> 00:07:08,805.91836735 We think, oh, this person on this video has told me that I should do this thing, so I'll go do that thing. 70 00:07:08,805.91836735 --> 00:07:14,415.91836735 And it doesn't work for us because perhaps it was the wrong V va, COG. 71 00:07:14,475.91836735 --> 00:07:23,535.91836735 Was it visual audio, the right back at the beginning of this video? Was it the right exercise for you? And then it is incredibly difficult. 72 00:07:24,300.91836735 --> 00:07:28,920.91836735 To stop doing something that you've been doing for years on repeat scientifically. 73 00:07:28,920.91836735 --> 00:07:34,480.91836735 The reason why is because our cells memorize, they mirror and memorize each other. 74 00:07:35,410.91836735 --> 00:07:48,910.91836735 If you have learned through learned experience that behaving and reacting a certain way saved you from a situation or your, you, your brain and your body believed it did. 75 00:07:50,95.91836735 --> 00:07:56,585.91836735 Then it's going to react that same way now again and again and again until we rewire that message. 76 00:07:57,635.91836735 --> 00:08:03,545.91836735 So you can imagine it to be like walking across a field from one gate to another. 77 00:08:04,325.91836735 --> 00:08:16,565.91836735 Every single day you wake up and you have to cross this field to get to where you need to go to, and you walk along the same path every single day, backwards and forwards. 78 00:08:16,565.91836735 --> 00:08:18,95.91836735 And that path is getting deeper. 79 00:08:19,595.91836735 --> 00:08:31,235.91836735 Deeper and it's worn away to this lovely, muddy path that makes it much easier to cross this field easier, faster, quicker, predictable, safe. 80 00:08:33,275.91836735 --> 00:08:42,765.91836735 Not much is gonna happen along that path until you decide that path really is not working for you anymore. 81 00:08:42,770.91836735 --> 00:08:45,285.91836735 It's a, it's repetitive, it's boring. 82 00:08:46,485.91836735 --> 00:08:48,225.91836735 You don't feel happy. 83 00:08:48,525.91836735 --> 00:08:53,415.91836735 You are repeating behavior that is causing you additional stress and anxiety that you don't want. 84 00:08:54,285.91836735 --> 00:09:01,335.91836735 So you decide one day you're going to create another path in this field to make it a little more interesting and exciting. 85 00:09:03,255.91836735 --> 00:09:06,165.91836735 That is how we rewire our messages. 86 00:09:07,5.91836735 --> 00:09:15,165.91836735 Okay? Now the work that I do is a wide range of modalities that can support you. 87 00:09:16,695.91836735 --> 00:09:17,725.91836735 That Healing. 88 00:09:17,750.91836735 --> 00:09:27,50.91836735 But for this video today, to help you get out of your mind and your body, remember those different ways that I've already explained, and then I'm just gonna give you a little bonus right now. 89 00:09:28,445.91836735 --> 00:09:35,765.91836735 I'm just gonna explain why our body holds onto this tension and trauma and how you can really easily release it. 90 00:09:36,665.91836735 --> 00:09:48,35.91836735 Trauma is stored memorized, and our hands act like the conductor of that lightning strike. 91 00:09:48,545.91836735 --> 00:09:52,325.91836735 So you can imagine trauma, an event, any stress. 92 00:09:53,585.91836735 --> 00:09:58,565.91836735 Unknown to you has hit you like a thunderbolt of lightning. 93 00:09:59,555.91836735 --> 00:10:11,220.91836735 Our hands work as a conductor to help release that energy, okay? Which is why physical therapies should be a huge part of your self-care. 94 00:10:12,380.91836735 --> 00:10:19,580.91836735 Wherever you are in the world, get yourself an amazing massage therapist on board to help literally rub it out of you. 95 00:10:21,80.91836735 --> 00:10:26,400.91836735 Now you can do this through yourself, through three very simple techniques. 96 00:10:26,520.91836735 --> 00:10:32,970.91836735 And for this, you want to pretend well think about being a baby. 97 00:10:33,810.91836735 --> 00:10:36,450.91836735 What do babies love? Babies love to be rocked. 98 00:10:38,250.91836735 --> 00:10:38,580.91836735 Okay. 99 00:10:39,345.91836735 --> 00:10:42,35.91836735 So we can rock ourselves by standing. 100 00:10:42,575.91836735 --> 00:10:45,65.91836735 We can rock ourselves by sitting. 101 00:10:45,515.91836735 --> 00:10:57,965.91836735 You can rock yourself in a rocking chair, but the motion, the calming relaxation of rocking can help unlock that trauma. 102 00:10:58,985.91836735 --> 00:11:01,805.91836735 Okay, then there is stroking. 103 00:11:02,495.91836735 --> 00:11:05,405.91836735 Okay? Calm strokes. 104 00:11:05,405.91836735 --> 00:11:15,245.91836735 Who doesn't love to be stroked? All over your body, everywhere. 105 00:11:15,515.91836735 --> 00:11:24,805.91836735 Just stroking your head in the shower when you have a shower in the morning, and just really taking care of your body. 106 00:11:25,870.91836735 --> 00:11:27,130.91836735 Taking care of you. 107 00:11:28,270.91836735 --> 00:11:30,760.91836735 And then there is squeezing compression. 108 00:11:30,810.91836735 --> 00:11:36,820.91836735 And this is when we slowly squeeze our muscles. 109 00:11:38,440.91836735 --> 00:11:45,580.91836735 Lifting and squeezing nice and slowly across all of our main muscle groups, which again, we can do for ourselves. 110 00:11:45,580.91836735 --> 00:11:52,330.91836735 Now, if you are watching this thinking, oh, that doesn't feel any good, and it's much better to go and get a massage, do it for you or a partner if you have one. 111 00:11:52,380.91836735 --> 00:11:56,850.91836735 Just change your story and belief around the fact that you feel like it doesn't feel as good. 112 00:11:58,140.91836735 --> 00:12:08,730.91836735 It's still helping ground your body and your energy, and it really does help you get out of and into yourself. 113 00:12:09,510.91836735 --> 00:12:11,920.91836735 Okay, I hope that's helpful. 114 00:12:11,920.91836735 --> 00:12:13,960.91836735 Thank you so much, give us a little subscribe. 115 00:12:13,960.91836735 --> 00:12:16,360.91836735 I've got loads of great videos coming out to you. 116 00:12:16,410.91836735 --> 00:12:19,350.91836735 I can't wait to share them with you and speak soon. 117 00:12:19,350.91836735 --> 00:12:20,70.91836735 Have a good day. 118 00:12:21,993.91836735 --> 00:12:27,213.91836735 If today's episode resonated with you, don't let that insight stop here. 119 00:12:27,573.91836735 --> 00:12:31,863.91836735 Transformation happens when we take action. 120 00:12:32,403.91836735 --> 00:12:40,83.91836735 I've put together some of my best tools and resources to help you break free from self sabotage and step into aligned success. 121 00:12:40,563.91836735 --> 00:12:46,243.91836735 You can get instant access just by subscribing @samanthajrix.com 122 00:12:46,313.91836735 --> 00:12:52,493.91836735 and if you love this episode, make sure to hit follow so you don't miss what's coming next, and I'll see you soon. 123 00:12:52,493.91836735 --> 00:12:53,118.91836735 Take care.