The Unfuckwithable Woman

Briony Montgomery

Welcome to The Unfuckwithable Woman - a podcast for the woman reclaiming her power at the root. This is not your average healing podcast. Here, we return to the wisdom of the body, unearth the truth beneath trauma, and rise from the deep compost of colonisation, patriarchy, perfectionism, and pain. Hosted by Briony Montgomery, somatic therapist, mother guide, and founder of The SomaTherapy Collective, this is where we explore healing not as performance, but as practice - a revolutionary return to yourself. Season One: The (re)Sourced WomanThis foundational season is for the woman who is tired of bypassing her body and ready to embody her roots. We explore nervous system repair, embodied grief, intergenerational healing, the myth of regulation, archetypes, somatic safety, the power of rhythm, and remembering your wholeness in a world that profits from your disconnection. Whether you’re a practitioner, a mother, or a woman navigating the messy, sacred terrain of becoming - you belong here. Subscribe now, share with your kin, and visit thesomatherapycollective.com/podcast to explore more, join The Daily Root email for daily nervous system support, or book a 1:1 session with Briony. You are not broken. You are being remembered.

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

    3D AGO

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

    Message me at briony@thesomatherapycollective.com 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 formedWhy these patterns live in the body, not just the mindThe role of culture, lineage, and relational environments in shaping your nervous systemHow somatic therapy supports long-term, embodied healingBriony 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 Join the Unfuckwithable Movement Stay connected and empowered with The Unfuckwithable Woman. Subscribe, share, and continue your healing journey with us. Stay Updated: Receive daily somatic support at The Daily Root 🌳🤎 Music by Finn Holleman  Photography by bethcronin_stillpoetry Listen to Season 1: The (re)Sourced Woman here  Connect: briony@thesomatherapycollective.com Let’s Connect: Follow us on Instagram, Facebook, Tik Tok and You-Tube to dive deeper into the conversation and stay inspired. Want More? Check out our resources: Free Guide: Is Your Body Holding Your Mother’s Pain?Somatic Healing SessionsThe MotherWay ProgramE...

    36 min
  2. APR 8

    Episode 12: What Is Somatic Therapy? Why Your Nervous System Is Stuck in Survival (And How to Shift It)

    Message me at briony@thesomatherapycollective.com There comes a point in healing where insight stops being enough. You understand your trauma. You know your patterns. But your body is still reacting - anxious, overwhelmed, shut down, or stuck in the same cycles. In this foundational episode of The Unfuckwithable Woman, Briony Montgomery breaks down what somatic therapy is and why it’s one of the most powerful approaches for trauma healing, nervous system regulation, and emotional resilience in today’s world. You’ll learn: – What the nervous system actually is (in simple, accessible 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 keeps you overgiving, people-pleasing, and disconnected from yourself – Why talk therapy alone often isn’t enough – How somatic therapy works to create safety in the body – And how to begin shifting from survival into grounded, embodied flow This episode explores how your body holds your lived experiences and how healing happens when you work with it, not against it. Because your body isn’t the problem. It’s the pathway. 🔗 Explore somatic practices, The Daily Root, and work with Briony: www.thesomatherapycollective.com Join the Unfuckwithable Movement Stay connected and empowered with The Unfuckwithable Woman. Subscribe, share, and continue your healing journey with us. Stay Updated: Receive daily somatic support at The Daily Root 🌳🤎 Music by Finn Holleman  Photography by bethcronin_stillpoetry Listen to Season 1: The (re)Sourced Woman here  Connect: briony@thesomatherapycollective.com Let’s Connect: Follow us on Instagram, Facebook, Tik Tok and You-Tube to dive deeper into the conversation and stay inspired. Want More? Check out our resources: Free Guide: Is Your Body Holding Your Mother’s Pain?Somatic Healing SessionsThe MotherWay ProgramE...

    28 min
  3. JAN 22

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

    Message me at briony@thesomatherapycollective.com Why does healing feel good in the moment but hard to sustain when life gets loud? In this powerful episode, Briony Montgomery breaks down the truth about integrated practice - what it means to live your healing rather than perform it. From nervous system realities to protective archetypes like the Martyr, the Parentified Child, and the Death Mother, she reveals why your healing work might not be “landing”-and how to finally bring your somatic practices into the car, the kitchen, the boardroom, and your relationships. This is for anyone tired of the retreat high/crash cycle and ready to stay with the work. Learn how to build rhythm, regulation, and real presence through daily embodied action. 🌱 Subscribe to  The Daily Root 🌳🤎- your daily nervous system drop of somatic healing, power & support. 👉 www.thesomatherapycollective.com/thedailyroot ✨ Subscribe, rate and share The Unfuckwithable Woman podcast. Join the Unfuckwithable Movement Stay connected and empowered with The Unfuckwithable Woman. Subscribe, share, and continue your healing journey with us. Stay Updated: Receive daily somatic support at The Daily Root 🌳🤎 Music by Finn Holleman  Photography by bethcronin_stillpoetry Listen to Season 1: The (re)Sourced Woman here  Connect: briony@thesomatherapycollective.com Let’s Connect: Follow us on Instagram, Facebook, Tik Tok and You-Tube to dive deeper into the conversation and stay inspired. Want More? Check out our resources: Free Guide: Is Your Body Holding Your Mother’s Pain?Somatic Healing SessionsThe MotherWay ProgramE...

    21 min
  4. JAN 8

    Episode 10: Listen to Your Body, See Your Future: Visioning Through Feeling

    Message me at briony@thesomatherapycollective.com 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. Join the Unfuckwithable Movement Stay connected and empowered with The Unfuckwithable Woman. Subscribe, share, and continue your healing journey with us. Stay Updated: Receive daily somatic support at The Daily Root 🌳🤎 Music by Finn Holleman  Photography by bethcronin_stillpoetry Listen to Season 1: The (re)Sourced Woman here  Connect: briony@thesomatherapycollective.com Let’s Connect: Follow us on Instagram, Facebook, Tik Tok and You-Tube to dive deeper into the conversation and stay inspired. Want More? Check out our resources: Free Guide: Is Your Body Holding Your Mother’s Pain?Somatic Healing SessionsThe MotherWay ProgramE...

    44 min
  5. 12/22/2025

    Episode 9: Embodied Grief - The Alchemy of Feeling

    Message me at briony@thesomatherapycollective.com Grief is not a problem to be solved. It is an initiation, a teacher, a sacred reckoning. In this tender episode, Briony Montgomery takes you into the landscape of embodied grief - the kind that lives in your nervous system, your bones, your motherline, your voice. This episode is a love letter to the grief you’ve been taught to silence. The one that arrived when you lost someone or something. A version of yourself. A dream. An identity. The mother you never had. The care you never received. The vitality you forgot you were worthy of. Briony weaves together personal story, somatic healing, and the frameworks of The SomaTherapy Collective to explore: What happens when grief is left unfelt and how it shapes your bodyHow the nervous system holds unspoken, ancestral griefThe link between grief, rage, and reclamationPractices to alchemise grief through the body, not bypass itGrieving as a political and spiritual act of returning to wholenessIf you’ve ever felt numb, disconnected, or like you’re holding back tears you don’t understand, this is for you. Let this episode hold you, crack you open gently, and remind you that grief is not weakness, it is power in its most honest form. Join the Unfuckwithable Movement Stay connected and empowered with The Unfuckwithable Woman. Subscribe, share, and continue your healing journey with us. Stay Updated: Receive daily somatic support at The Daily Root 🌳🤎 Music by Finn Holleman  Photography by bethcronin_stillpoetry Listen to Season 1: The (re)Sourced Woman here  Connect: briony@thesomatherapycollective.com Let’s Connect: Follow us on Instagram, Facebook, Tik Tok and You-Tube to dive deeper into the conversation and stay inspired. Want More? Check out our resources: Free Guide: Is Your Body Holding Your Mother’s Pain?Somatic Healing SessionsThe MotherWay ProgramE...

    46 min
  6. 12/08/2025

    Episode 8: Tending to the Nervous System, Reclaiming Power

    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 environmentThe functional freeze state (and why you can’t "just try harder")Why grief and anger are vital, sacred, and necessarySomatic pathways to move from collapse into connection, from exhaustion into reclamationThis 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 Movement Stay connected and empowered with The Unfuckwithable Woman. Subscribe, share, and continue your healing journey with us. Stay Updated: Receive daily somatic support at The Daily Root 🌳🤎 Music by Finn Holleman  Photography by bethcronin_stillpoetry Listen to Season 1: The (re)Sourced Woman here  Connect: briony@thesomatherapycollective.com Let’s Connect: Follow us on Instagram, Facebook, Tik Tok and You-Tube to dive deeper into the conversation and stay inspired. Want More? Check out our resources: Free Guide: Is Your Body Holding Your Mother’s Pain?Somatic Healing SessionsThe MotherWay ProgramE...

    34 min
  7. Episode 7: What It Really Means to Be Unfuckwithable

    11/22/2025

    Episode 7: What It Really Means to Be Unfuckwithable

    Message me at briony@thesomatherapycollective.com In this episode of The Unfuckwithable Woman, Briony Montgomery dives deep into what it really means to be unfuckwithable - beyond the Instagram aesthetic and the false idea of perfection. This is a raw, real transmission on: Nervous system coherence and how it relates to powerThe death mother archetype and internalised suppressionReclaiming the exiled parts of yourself: rage, grief, creativity, claritySomatic safety and presence when life hits hardRage as sacred, life-giving force, not shameful emotionHow to move with your story, not against itThis is not a podcast about pretending you’re untouchable. It’s a deep remembering of your wholeness - messy, wild, sacred. 🎧 Listen now and return to the most rooted version of yourself. Join the Unfuckwithable Movement Stay connected and empowered with The Unfuckwithable Woman. Subscribe, share, and continue your healing journey with us. Stay Updated: Receive daily somatic support at The Daily Root 🌳🤎 Music by Finn Holleman  Photography by bethcronin_stillpoetry Listen to Season 1: The (re)Sourced Woman here  Connect: briony@thesomatherapycollective.com Let’s Connect: Follow us on Instagram, Facebook, Tik Tok and You-Tube to dive deeper into the conversation and stay inspired. Want More? Check out our resources: Free Guide: Is Your Body Holding Your Mother’s Pain?Somatic Healing SessionsThe MotherWay ProgramE...

    52 min
  8. 10/15/2025

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

    Message me at briony@thesomatherapycollective.com When the world speeds up, our bodies brace. In this deeply grounding episode, somatic therapist and guide Briony Montgomery maps the nervous system through a trauma-informed, decolonised lens and shows why regulation isn’t compliance-it’s power. We explore how fight/flight/freeze/fawn show up in everyday life (snapping at kids, doom-scrolling at midnight, code-switching to feel safe, shutting down during hard conversations), and how to move from panic to presence without bypassing grief or rage. You’ll learn: The polyvagal map, made livable-ventral (connection), sympathetic (mobilisation) and dorsal (shutdown), and how we shift between them all day.Functional freeze & collective trauma fatigue - why so many women feel numb, unseen, and “on” all the time, and how to thaw safely.Sacred rage vs. dysregulated anger - how regulated rage becomes a boundary-building force for protection, clarity and culture-change.Real-world regulation - simple, body-first cues (breath pacing, orienting, contact, consent, pausing) to respond instead of react.Being unfuckwithable - not armoured or detached, but rooted: present, discerning, and unmovable in your values even when life is chaotic.This is a nervous-system homecoming for women who are done performing “fine” and ready to reclaim sovereignty in their bodies, families, communities, and work. ✨ Next step: Join the 21-Day Nervous System Reset A somatic, decolonised practice journey to restore safety, steadiness and vitality-daily micro-practices, nervous-system education, and gentle accountability. Starts 1 November 2025. Join here → www.thesomatherapycollective.com Join the Unfuckwithable Movement Stay connected and empowered with The Unfuckwithable Woman. Subscribe, share, and continue your healing journey with us. Stay Updated: Receive daily somatic support at The Daily Root 🌳🤎 Music by Finn Holleman  Photography by bethcronin_stillpoetry Listen to Season 1: The (re)Sourced Woman here  Connect: briony@thesomatherapycollective.com Let’s Connect: Follow us on Instagram, Facebook, Tik Tok and You-Tube to dive deeper into the conversation and stay inspired. Want More? Check out our resources: Free Guide: Is Your Body Holding Your Mother’s Pain?Somatic Healing SessionsThe MotherWay ProgramE...

    1h 4m

About

Welcome to The Unfuckwithable Woman - a podcast for the woman reclaiming her power at the root. This is not your average healing podcast. Here, we return to the wisdom of the body, unearth the truth beneath trauma, and rise from the deep compost of colonisation, patriarchy, perfectionism, and pain. Hosted by Briony Montgomery, somatic therapist, mother guide, and founder of The SomaTherapy Collective, this is where we explore healing not as performance, but as practice - a revolutionary return to yourself. Season One: The (re)Sourced WomanThis foundational season is for the woman who is tired of bypassing her body and ready to embody her roots. We explore nervous system repair, embodied grief, intergenerational healing, the myth of regulation, archetypes, somatic safety, the power of rhythm, and remembering your wholeness in a world that profits from your disconnection. Whether you’re a practitioner, a mother, or a woman navigating the messy, sacred terrain of becoming - you belong here. Subscribe now, share with your kin, and visit thesomatherapycollective.com/podcast to explore more, join The Daily Root email for daily nervous system support, or book a 1:1 session with Briony. You are not broken. You are being remembered.