A calm, body-centered conversation about healing, shutdown, and the work of coming back to yourself.
Summer brings Naomi Slater back to Breaking Free Podcast for a conversation that stays grounded in healing, embodiment, and life after trauma work.

Sommer A. Seitz, MA, LMHC
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Podcast hosted by Licensed Professional Counselor, Sommer A. Seitz, MA, LMHC for Whole Women Link Association.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Breaking Free makes body awareness practical by connecting trauma, intimacy, yoga, and emotional language through candid conversations and personal reflection.
Breaking Free follows Summer Seitz into the places where mental health becomes physical: protective numbness, bodily cues, breath, movement, desire, and the strain of overriding personal boundaries. Guest conversations and solo reflection share the same curious method.
A body can say no before your brain finds words; Summer Seitz asks you to listen.
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A calm, body-centered conversation about healing, shutdown, and the work of coming back to yourself.
Summer brings Naomi Slater back to Breaking Free Podcast for a conversation that stays grounded in healing, embodiment, and life after trauma work.
Desire needs language, practice, and patience before a relationship can hold it.
Summer Seitz and Naomi Slater keep the conversation on a useful, practical question: how people learn to carry desire, love, and commitment in a real relationship.
Yoga is presented as a lived practice, with mindfulness carried into ordinary life.
The conversation treats yoga as something lived, not polished into a studio ideal. Summer Seitz and Dora Dramati keep pulling it back to daily life, where mindfulness means noticing what is moving through the body, staying with it, and not forcing it away.
A calm, grounded conversation about body awareness, unconditional care, and letting go of conditional self-judgment.
Summer Seitz and Bella Haig keep the focus on body awareness through a body, mind, spirit lens, and they do not soften the central point: care for the body does not have to be earned.
A direct conversation about belonging, spiritual safety, and what a church is for.
The episode stays focused on safe spiritual community and what a church is for when welcome comes before restriction. It follows a personal search for that kind of belonging, then turns to the early church as a model where entry did not depend on prestige, money, or gender.
A grounded conversation about healing that moves from access and restorying to practical compassion.
This episode keeps its footing when it stays close to lived experience. Dr. Sarah Campbell brings training in nutrition, traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture, and naturopathic medicine, and that range carries the conversation through mind-body medicine, women’s health,…
A calm argument for starting trauma work in the body, not rushing past resourcing.
Summer Seitz and Andrew Zorich make a calm case for trauma work that moves at the speed of trust. Their discussion keeps returning to somatics, massage, psychotherapy, meditation, and the idea that people should not be pushed past their capacity before they have enough support.
A quiet return to inward faith, where humility matters more than polish.
Summer Seitz comes back after a long pause with a quiet, personal look at faith as practice, not performance. She starts with a reset, moves through Father Keating, and keeps circling the gap between outward obedience and inward change.

Jonquilyn Hill chases one listener question per episode to the experts who can answer it.

Three hosts and psychologist Dr Emily talk vulnerability, therapy, and imperfection with guests.

Fearne Cotton interviews guests like Boy George and Bryony Gordon about mental health and identity.

Dr. Joy Harden Bradford pairs therapy insight with Black TV recaps, maternal health, and history.


Summer Seitz returns after a long pause with something she has carried since her February recording.
Summer Seitz brings Naomi Slater back to keep talking about desire, relationship building, and the tools people need to live into what they want from their relationships.
Summer Seitz sits down with Andrew Zorich to talk about healing through somatics.
Summer welcomes Naomi Slater to Breaking Free and starts with her own 12-week experience of working with Naomi.
Yoga begins off the mat here.
The host welcomes Rick Kuhl, a pastor at Faith United Methodist Church in Samaritan, Washington, and sets the conversation around safe church and safe community.
Body awareness becomes a practice of love.
Sommer interviews Dr.