Time with Tim Fletcher Reconnecting With the Body After Trauma with Jamie Lee Finch | Ep. 21
Sep 18, 2025
Join Jamie Lee Finch, a writer and embodiment coach, as she navigates the deep waters of healing from religious trauma. Jamie shares her poignant experiences growing up in a fundamentalist environment and how it led to disconnect from her body. Discover her insights on body image, sexuality, and the shame that often inhibits self-connection. She introduces her unique 'body as a person' framework to foster understanding and compassion. Tune in for practical somatic tools that promote healing through movement and meditation!
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Treat Your Body As A Partner
- Use personified embodiment to heal body-focused eating disorders by treating the body as a partner.
- Jamie credits this approach with ending her 15-year eating disorder when other methods failed.
Attachment Drives The Search For Belonging
- The driving early felt need is to regain unconditional gaze and belonging from caregivers.
- Jamie connects that attachment wound to seeking God and external rules as survival strategies.
Sexuality Is Politicized Into Shame
- Sexuality and pleasure become politicized signals of moral worth in purity cultures.
- That politicization creates fear, guilt, and somatic shaming around natural drives.