Episode 13: The Mother Wound – The Mother Wound Explained: Why You Keep Repeating Relationship Patterns (And How to Break Them Through Somatic Healing)

Why do you keep repeating the same relationship patterns… even when you know better?

In this episode of The Unfuckwithable Woman, Briony Montgomery explores the deeper truth of the mother wound-not as a personal flaw, but as a relational and nervous system pattern inherited across generations. 

This episode unpacks:

• What the mother wound actually is (beyond your relationship with your mother)

• How patterns like people pleasing, hyper-independence, and over-functioning are formed

• Why these patterns live in the body, not just the mind

• The role of culture, lineage, and relational environments in shaping your nervous system

• How somatic therapy supports long-term, embodied healing

Briony shares clinical insight and lived experience to guide listeners into a deeper understanding of how the body holds relational patterns-and how those patterns can change.

This is not about fixing yourself.
This is about understanding your system and learning how to work with it.

If this episode resonates, explore somatic practices and work with Briony at www.thesomatherapycollective.com

Episode 12 - What is somatic therapy - and why does your body still feel anxious, overwhelmed, or stuck… even when you understand your trauma?

There comes a point in healing where insight stops being enough.

You know your patterns.
You know where they come from.
But your body is still reacting.

In this episode of The Unfuckwithable Woman, I break down somatic therapy in a way that’s grounded, clear, and deeply real — so you can understand what’s actually happening in your nervous system and why your healing hasn’t fully landed yet.

Inside this episode, we explore:

- What the nervous system actually is (in simple, human language)
- Why your body responds from past experiences, not just the present
- The four core survival states: fight, flight, fawn, and freeze
- How the fawn response leads to people-pleasing and self-abandonment
- Why you can “know better” but still feel stuck
- How somatic therapy works to create safety in the body
- And how to begin shifting from survival into grounded flow

We are living in a time where the nervous system is constantly activated - pressure, urgency, disconnection, overstimulation.

Your body isn’t failing.
It’s adapting.

And healing happens when you learn how to work with it.
Your body is not the problem. It’s the pathway.

Episode 11 - Integrated Practice: How to Live Your Healing Every Day

Healing isn’t a peak moment, it’s a practice. And most people are performing their healing, not living it.

In this potent episode of The Unfuckwithable Woman, Briony guides us into what integrated practice really means: how to take your trauma healing, nervous system repair, and somatic tools off the yoga mat and into the messy, beautiful reality of daily life.

Explore how inherited trauma, collapse archetypes, spiritual bypassing, and colonised healing culture create barriers to true transformation and how we reclaim power through presence.

Integration isn’t glamorous. It’s gritty.
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Episode 10: Listen to Your Body, See Your Future: Visioning Through Feeling"

What if your body already knows where you're going?

In Episode 10 of The Unfuckwithable Woman, Briony Montgomery guides you through the power of visioning - not through goals and hustle - but through the body.

This episode explores how to move from survival mode into connection, how trauma and the motherwound impact your ability to imagine the future, and how reclaiming nervous system safety unlocks a whole new way of living, leading, and loving.

Whether you're feeling lost, burnt out, or simply ready for more, this is your call to come home to your body's truth - and let your vision rise from there.

This is for the woman who is done with pushing, and ready to feel her way forward.

Tune in, subscribe and share with those you love.

Episode 9 - Embodied Grief: The Alchemy of Feeling
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Grief is not a mistake. It is not weakness. It is not a problem to fix.

In this powerful episode, Briony invites us into a deep, embodied exploration of grief as a sacred threshold: one that initiates, transforms, and reveals the truth of who we are. Drawing from personal experience, somatic therapy, and the collective grief woven through the motherline, she reminds us that grief held in the body is not dysfunction, it’s intelligence.

This is a space to honour your rage, tenderness, exhaustion, and ache.
A space to remember that feeling deeply is not something to survive, it’s something to alchemise.

If you are grieving - a person, an identity, a future that never came - this episode offers a grounded place to begin again, through the body.

Listen now and explore sessions, resources, and upcoming offerings below.

Listen to all episodes at www.thesomatherapycollective.com/podcast

Episode 8 - Tending to the Nervous System, Reclaiming Power

What if your tiredness wasn’t laziness, but a body in functional freeze?
What if your shutdown wasn’t failure, but a sacred signal?

In this deeply embodied episode, Briony Montgomery speaks to the unseen impacts of a dysregulated nervous system - especially for women shaped by trauma, the motherwound, and the archetypes of the martyr, the death mother, and the parentified child.

Drawing from the lived frameworks of The SomaTherapy Collective, she explores how:

• Cultural systems thrive on keeping women disconnected from their bodies

• Midlife and menopause are invitations to reclaim power, softness, and truth

• Chronic illness, exhaustion and autoimmune symptoms are often nervous system responses, not defects

• Grief and anger are vital catalysts in re-regulation and rising rooted

• True regulation is not calmness - but capacity

You’ll be guided to listen for the wisdom beneath your body’s symptoms, and begin tending to what your nervous system has carried for too long.

This is not just a healing episode. It’s a reclamation.
Listen to all episodes at www.thesomatherapycollective.com/podcast

Episode 7: What It Really Means to Be Unfuckwithable

In this potent episode, somatic therapist and founder of The SomaTherapy Collective, Briony Montgomery, unpacks the true meaning of becoming unfuckwithable. Rooted in somatic healing, nervous system regulation, and the reclamation of exiled self-parts, this episode is a powerful call back to embodied presence, rage alchemy, and feminine wholeness.

You’ll learn:
Why being unfuckwithable has nothing to do with perfection or force
How attachment wounds, death mother energy & trauma shape your nervous systemWhat it looks like to regulate without bypassing
How to reclaim the sacred rage, creativity, and power buried deep within
Real stories and practices from Briony’s own midlife journey & facilitation work
This is a must-listen for women healing the motherwound, reclaiming authenticity, and walking the embodied path home to themselves.

Listen to all episodes at www.thesomatherapycollective.com/podcast

Episode 6: The Nervous System Revolution: Reclaiming Safety in a World on Fire

When everything feels on fire, your body can still be your anchor. In this episode, Briony Montgomery offers a grounded map of the nervous system - fight/flight/freeze/fawn - and why regulation is not compliance but power. Learn somatic cues to return to presence, meet your emotions without collapse, and harness sacred rage as a boundary-building force.

→ Next step: Join the 21-Day Nervous System Reset (starts 1 Nov).

Episode 5: Love Uncaged: Intimacy Beyond Binaries

This raw, stream-of-consciousness episode (recorded on iPhone voice memos) explores love and intimacy as living currents-not a performance, not a binary, not a script. Briony invites you to uncage love from cultural norms, reclaim intimacy through body, community, and belonging, and remember the primordial source within. If you’ve felt unseen, unworthy, or exhausted by relationships, this is your balm and wake-up. Listen, breathe, and become unfuckwithable in love.

Listen now to The Unfuckwithable Woman Podcast, Episode 5.

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Episode 4: The Ancestral Mother Wound

“The pain you carry may not be yours alone.”

This episode explores the Ancestral Mother Wound - the grief, silence, rage, and trauma that ripple through our maternal lines, shaping how we love, parent, and belong.

It’s the inheritance of patriarchy, colonisation, and death mother culture.
It’s why so many women feel unseen, exhausted, and disconnected from community and the earth.
It’s the rupture that lives in our bodies, nervous systems, and DNA.

And yet it is also the key to our healing.
When we tend to this wound, we don’t just free ourselves. We shift what we pass down. We reclaim belonging, repair attachment, and metabolise grief and rage into vitality.

In this episode, Briony shares her story and the somatic, ancestral, and nervous system practices that help us remember the primordial mother within- the one who fiercely protects life, welcomes all of our emotions, and roots us back into community and love.

Listen to Episode 4 now, and discover how to turn inherited pain into living medicine.
Ready to go deeper? Join me inside The MotherWay

Episode 3: From Loss to Liberation – My Story & the Birth of The MotherWay

What happens when the mother is gone?

In this special episode, I share the most personal story of my life - the death of my mother, the grief that nearly swallowed me, and the burnout, depression, and disconnection that followed.

For many of us, this ache is all too familiar:
Feeling unseen and unsupported in grief.
Silencing yourself to belong.
Carrying shame for being “too much” or “not enough.”
Burning out from giving until there’s nothing left.

When no system, no family, and no elder could guide me, I began piecing together my own map - a way to tend to grief, rage, and trauma, to regulate my nervous system, and to reconnect with community and belonging.

That map became The MotherWay - a 16-week somatic, decolonised journey back to self, body, and the primordial mother within.

This episode is a raw telling of how The MotherWay was born, and why it is the balm for the pain so many of us carry.

Listen now to The Unfuckwithable Woman Podcast, Episode 3.
Ready to go deeper? Join me inside The MotherWay

Episode 2: Yearning for the Mother

Do you feel the ache for something you can’t quite name?
A longing for safety, love, and belonging that was never fully met?

This is the yearning for the mother - not just for our personal mothers, and not for the idealised, patriarchal version of “the good mother” who sacrifices herself to exhaustion. What we are truly yearning for is the Primordial Mother: fierce, discerning, boundaried, and deeply loving. She welcomes grief, rage, chaos, joy, and tenderness as sacred parts of life.

In this episode, I share my own story of loss and rupture, and explore:
The idealised patriarchal mother - self-erasing, controlled, and mirrored in the collapse of our world.
The archetypal mother - more embodied, but still colonised and bound by perfection.
The primordial mother - the one our bones ache for. Fierce and stable, she restores us to wholeness and belonging.

If you’ve carried trauma, grief, or shame for being “too much” or “not enough,” this episode will guide you back to the mother within.

Listen now to Episode 2 of The Unfuckwithable Woman Podcast.
Ready to go deeper? Join me inside The MotherWay - a 16-week somatic, decolonised journey into motherwound healing, nervous system repair, and primordial belonging.

Welcome to the very first episode of The Unfuckwithable Woman, a podcast that’s all about radical healing, empowerment, and the reclamation of the feminine. In this introductory episode, we dive deep into the essence of the show: exploring the transformative journey of healing the motherwound, reclaiming your authentic power, and breaking free from the chains of trauma, oppression, and colonialism.

We’ll introduce you to the powerful somatic practices and decolonisation work that will guide you on your path to unshakable power and liberation. Whether you're here to heal, reclaim, or reawaken, this podcast is for anyone ready to reconnect with their true self and embrace the unfuckwithable force within.

Join us as we set the stage for an ongoing journey of healing, transformation, and deep connection to the feminine, all from an intersectional feminist perspective.