Still Anxious After Years of Healing? Why Your Nervous System May Be Keeping You Stuck | Martha Wright
Release Date: 07/26/2026
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info_outlineWhat if healing your trauma isn't about thinking differently - but feeling differently?
In this episode of Awaken Your Authentic Self, host Jessica Rooks sits down with Shamanic Medicine Woman, Keening Grief Tender, Executive Coach, and Art Historian Martha Wright for a conversation about nervous system regulation, somatic healing, and why lasting trauma recovery begins in the body - not the mind.
Together, Jessica and Martha explore why so many people remain stuck in cycles of anxiety, burnout, and emotional overwhelm despite years of therapy, personal development, and spiritual practice. The answer, Martha explains, isn't found by thinking harder. It's found by learning to listen to the wisdom held within the body.
Drawing from Celtic wisdom traditions, somatic awareness, grief tending, and decades of guiding clients through profound transformation, Martha shares why real healing isn't about avoiding pain or chasing "love and light". It's about developing the courage to meet the parts of ourselves that have been waiting to be witnessed all along.
"Why is that fierce, bad-ass energy actually necessary for real trauma healing, and where do most people get stuck trying to be polite with their pain?" - Jessica Rooks
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In This Conversation, You'll Discover:
✨Why lasting trauma healing begins in the body - not the mind - and how somatic healing and nervous system regulation create lasting transformation
✨How spiritual bypass, unresolved grief, and old survival patterns can quietly keep you stuck despite years of therapy or personal growth
✨The difference between controlling your life and reclaiming true personal agency through embodied healing
✨How Celtic wisdom, grief tending, and shamanic healing support emotional resilience and authentic transformation
✨A simple two-minute somatic practice to calm anxiety, regulate your nervous system, and reconnect with grounded, sovereign presence
Who This Episode is For:
If you've done years of talk therapy, personal development, or spiritual practice - yet still find yourself hijacked by anxiety, emotional triggers, or familiar survival patterns - this conversation offers a compassionate framework.
Healing doesn't begin by becoming someone new. It begins by safely returning to the parts of yourself that never stopped waiting for you.
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