Breaking Free - A Body, Mind, Spirit Approach to Mental Health

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.

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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.

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Why you'd press play

A body can say no before your brain finds words; Summer Seitz asks you to listen.

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  • to understand why going numb can be a survival response, without treating your body like the villain
  • to bring what you learn in yoga about noticing your feelings into the rest of your day
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Episode 53: Embodying Your Desire Part I

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.

Episode 54: Embodying Your Desire Part II

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.

Episode 52: Yoga is Life

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.

Episode 49: Body Awareness

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.

Episode 56: Reimagining Spiritual Community with Pastor Ric Shewell

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.

Episode 51: A Season of Soul Work

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,…

Episode 55: Returning to the Body: A Gentle Path Through Somatic Healing

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.

Episode 50: From Dogma to Dharma

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.

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Episodes

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    Episode 50: From Dogma to Dharma

    Summer Seitz returns after a long pause with something she has carried since her February recording.

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    Episode 54: Embodying Your Desire Part II

    Hidden gem

    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.

    ·46m·3 clips
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    Episode 55: Returning to the Body: A Gentle Path Through Somatic Healing

    Hidden gem

    Summer Seitz sits down with Andrew Zorich to talk about healing through somatics.

    ·47m·3 clips
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    Episode 53: Embodying Your Desire Part I

    Summer welcomes Naomi Slater to Breaking Free and starts with her own 12-week experience of working with Naomi.

    ·58m·3 clips
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    Episode 52: Yoga is Life

    Hidden gem

    Yoga begins off the mat here.

    ·54m·3 clips
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    Episode 56: Reimagining Spiritual Community with Pastor Ric Shewell

    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.

    ·45m·3 clips
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    Episode 49: Body Awareness

    Body awareness becomes a practice of love.

    ·50m·5 clips
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    Episode 51: A Season of Soul Work

    Sommer interviews Dr.

    ·36m·3 clips
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    Episode 48: Embodied Leadership

    Nov 29, 2022·1h 1m
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    Episode 47: Stewarding Our Kids

    Oct 7, 2022·57m
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    Episode 46: Defying Gravity

    Aug 3, 2022·43m
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    Episode 45: Soul lessons in Balance

    Jun 1, 2022·50m
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    Episode 44: The Audacity to be You

    Apr 29, 2022·1h 2m
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    Episode 43: Divine Union (Part 2)

    Mar 31, 2022·52m
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    Episode 42: Divine Union (Part 1)

    Mar 28, 2022·1h 17m
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    Episode 41: Nature as Healer

    Feb 23, 2022·45m
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    Episode 40: Healing our Mother Wound

    Feb 7, 2022·51m
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    Episode 39: Messages from a Donkey

    Dec 21, 2021·29m
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    Episode 38: Following Your True North

    Sep 29, 2021·44m
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    Episode 37: Are you Brave?

    Sep 8, 2021·31m
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    Episode 36: Getting Out of Your Own Way

    Aug 4, 2021·39m
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    Episode 35: Walk Uniquely with Oneness

    Jun 17, 2021·38m
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    Episode 34: Healing the Shadow of Self-Betrayal

    May 21, 2021·30m
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    Episode 33: Preparing for Presence

    May 17, 2021·25m
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    Episode 32: Revealing the Divine Feminine

    Mar 18, 2021·36m
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    Episode31: Healing The Divine Masculine

    Mar 5, 2021·51m
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    Episode 30: Radical Self-Love

    Feb 5, 2021·35m
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    Episode29: Balanced Goals

    Jan 10, 2021·46m
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    Episode 28: Let's Discuss Loneliness

    Dec 20, 2020·46m
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    Episode 27: The Courage to Heal

    Nov 17, 2020·39m
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    Episode 26: The Healing Power of Gratitude

    Oct 20, 2020·28m
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    Episode 25: We Rise Together

    Sep 22, 2020·46m
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    Episode 24: Born To Create (Part 2)

    Aug 26, 2020·28m
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    Episode 23: Born to Create (Part 1)

    Aug 3, 2020·23m
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    Episode 22: Emotion Coaching

    May 21, 2020·26m
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    Episode 21: We are all Interdependent

    Apr 7, 2020·23m
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    Episode 20: Swinging Into the Middle

    Mar 12, 2020·31m
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    Episode 19: Further Up and Further In!!

    Feb 13, 2020·28m
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    Episode 18: Showing Up As Yourself this Year!!

    Dec 26, 2019·33m
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    Episode 17: Acceptance is Doorway to Change

    Nov 30, 2019·24m
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    Episode 16: There is No Fear in Love

    Nov 5, 2019·27m
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    Episode 15: Creating Connection

    Oct 21, 2019·26m
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    Episode 14: Building from Strength toward Weakness

    Oct 3, 2019·21m
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    Episode 13: Source and Intention Matter

    Sep 9, 2019·29m
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    Episode 12: The Healing Power of Stillness

    Aug 19, 2019·27m
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    Episode 11: The Healing Power of Forgiveness

    Aug 3, 2019·29m
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    Episode 10: Breaking Free of the Try Hard Give Up Cycle (Part 2)

    Jul 25, 2019·25m
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    Episode 9: Breaking Free of the Try Hard Give Up Cycle (Part I)

    Jun 29, 2019·29m
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    Episode 8: Living from Abundance vs. Scarcity

    Jun 13, 2019·27m
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    Episode 7: Parenting from True Self

    Jun 2, 2019·33m
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    Episode 6: The Healing Power of Relationship

    May 20, 2019·28m
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    Episode 5: Internal Boundaries: Learning to Own Ourselves

    May 11, 2019·24m
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    Episode 4: Meeting our Unmet Needs

    Apr 27, 2019·24m
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    Episode 3: Developing Shame Resilience

    Apr 22, 2019·21m
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    Episode 2: The Body is the Gateway to Healing

    Apr 13, 2019·23m
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    Episode 1: Why a body, mind, spirit holistic approach to mental health?

    Apr 6, 2019·17m