#14 4 Ways to Start Building Trust in Your Body

In this episode of The Rebellious Healer, I’m walking you through four powerful ways to start rebuilding trust in your body—even if right now, it feels like the last thing you can count on. You’ll learn:

• The first step to shift out of fear and into trust when symptoms show up
• A daily rewire that builds self-trust from the inside out
• Why your current healing routines might be blocking trust—and how to change that

This belief—“I can’t trust my body”—is more than just a thought. It’s the root of why nothing is working, no matter how much you try. 

In this episode, you’ll learn how to finally rebuild that trust… so healing doesn’t just feel possible—it becomes inevitable. 

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Transcript

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Most of you with one or more chronic symptoms are walking around with a silent belief that is running the show. It's my body can't be trusted. You might not say it out loud, because most beliefs we don't say out loud, but it shows up in the way that we respond, behave, and think. It shows up in the way you brace for symptoms, obsess over food, and second guess every decision. But what you may not realize is that this belief is the number one thing that is keeping you stuck. If you don't trust your body, your body won't feel safe enough to heal. And that's exactly what we're going to change in today's episode. Today I'm walking you through four ways to start building trust in your body. Even if right now your body feels like the last thing you can count on. You're going to learn three things. Number one, the first step to shifting out of fear and into trust when symptoms show up. Number two, a daily rewire you can start using right away to start building trust in your body. And number three, why your current healing routines might actually be blocking the trust that you're trying to build with your body and what you can do instead. Welcome to the Rebellious Healer, where we ditch the fear, decode the symptoms, and take healing into our own hands. I'm Jenny Peterson, a former holistic practitioner, turn symptom-free mind-body rebel. I help women break free from protocols and step into trust, confidence, and full body healing. If you're done with the rules, restrictions, and outsourcing your power, you're in the right place. Let's get into it. So why does building trust with your body matter so much? Because without trust, healing will always feel like a fight. You'll constantly question your body, overthink every symptom, and chase solutions that leave you even more confused. When you don't trust your body, you also don't trust yourself. And when there's no self-trust, everything feels fragile. Every food choice, every sensation, every decision gets filtered through fear. But when you rebuild that trust, healing gets simpler. You start responding instead of reacting. You create safety from within, and that changes everything. Before we talk about how to build trust with your body, it's important to understand why you might have lost it in the first place. Most of us were never taught to trust our bodies. From an early age, we're conditioned to override how we feel, to finish your plate even if you're full, to sit still even when you're anxious, to push through even when you're tired, to hold the need to use the restroom because there's not enough time. Then as we grow up, we're told that symptoms are scary, that pain is bad, and that our bodies need to be managed, medicated, or fixed by someone else. And that creates a persistent message. You can't trust your body. You need something or someone else to tell you what's wrong. And when symptoms become chronic, when nothing seems to work, that belief gets reinforced. It doesn't mean your body is broken. It means your trust has been broken. But there's good news because trust can be rebuilt. And that's what this episode is here to help you do. So the first thing you can do to start building trust with your body is stop reacting to every symptom like it's a problem. Let me just explain this in a metaphor. I want you to imagine trying to speak to someone who only ever yells back at you. Every time you open your mouth, they interrupt, panic, or try to fix what you're saying before you even finish. Eventually, you stop speaking. You don't feel heard, you definitely don't feel safe. This is exactly what happens when we treat our symptoms like problems to eliminate. Your body is constantly communicating with you, not trying to sabotage you, it's trying to get your attention. But when your default response to a symptom is panic, analysis, or overreaction, your nervous system registers one thing. So it activates protection mode, which keeps the healing process stuck. If you're constantly responding to your body with urgency or trying to get rid of symptoms the moment they appear, you never get to the place where you can hear what your body is actually trying to say. So this first step in building trust is choosing a new response. Instead of reacting, what if you paused? What if you simply said, okay, I feel this. I don't need to fix it. I can listen. This simple pause is a trust-building moment. It communicates, you're not a threat. I'm here with you. This is where healing starts. So the second thing that you can do to build trust in your body is find daily evidence that your body is working. I know I've talked about in previous episodes, but I want to just re-emphasize the importance of your brain's filtering system here. The reticular activating system or RAS, it decides what information to let in and what to filter out based on what you focus on. This is the thing that happens when you buy a new car and suddenly you see that same car everywhere. That's your RAS at work. Now I want you to think about how this applies to your body. If you're constantly scanning for symptoms, flare-ups, or discomfort, guess what you're going to continue keeping seeing? So if you want to build trust, you have to retrain your brain to look for what is working. This doesn't mean pretending everything is fine or spiritually bypassing symptoms. It means building a more balanced view of your body's reality. Many people are so used to identifying with their symptoms that they miss the hundreds of things that are actually going right. Your heart is beating, you're breathing, your skin is repairing, your body is regulating temperature, you're digesting food, you're processing thoughts, and so, so much more. When you bring those things into conscious awareness, you start to relate to your body with much more appreciation and trust instead of hypervigilance and fear. This is a rewiring process. Each time you identify something that's working, you're depositing trust into your subconscious. You start to believe maybe my body isn't broken. Maybe it's doing more than what I realized. And this shift alone starts to create changes. So the third thing that you can do to start building trust in your body is to stop outsourcing your power. This one might sting a little, but we need to talk about it. Every time you hand over your authority to a protocol, a practitioner, or even a plan that doesn't feel aligned, you send a message to your subconscious. I don't trust myself, I can't be trusted. And your body listens. Trust can't be built if your power is always in someone else's hands. Let me paint a picture for you. Imagine your body is a GPS that's constantly trying to reroute you back to alignment. But instead of following that GPS, you pull over at every gas station and ask strangers for directions. Some of them might help you, some might totally derail you. But either way, you lose the signal of your own GPS. That's what it feels like when you chase protocol after protocol, diet after diet, healer after healer, without checking in with yourself. No, I'm not saying support is bad. I'm a coach, I believe in guidance. But real healing happens when support helps you turn toward yourself, not away from it. So here's the trust practice. I want you to start making small, intuitive decisions and then letting them be enough. These can be very simple, like choosing what to eat based on how your body feels, not what a chart says, not what somebody on Instagram is telling you, but what you want to eat based on how your body feels. Or something as simple as resting when you need it, even if the world says you need to hustle. Or saying no to something that doesn't feel aligned, even if it looks quote unquote healthy on paper. These micro decisions are moments of trust. They send the message, I listen to you now. I hear you, and I respond with respect. But here's the reality for so many people who come to us. They've lost all sense of trust in themselves, not just their bodies, but their own inner voice. After months or years of outsourcing to social media, doctors, podcasts, and wellness influencers, they no longer know how to hear their body signals or make choices without second guessing. They've collected so much noise that their own knowing has been buried underneath it. Rebuilding trust means reclaiming that knowing with these small micro decisions. And that's what we help people do ultimately every day in our programs. But you can start doing this right now with just these small little steps. Now, the fourth thing that you can do to start building trust with your body is commit to one daily practice of some type to help ground you. Practice something small that is consistent that you can do. Trust is built through consistency, not intensity. So let me say that again. Trust is built through consistency, not intensity. You don't need a two-hour nervous system routine. You need one thing your body can count on a simple practice, a small promise you keep, something that says, I'm here and I'll show up again tomorrow. Here's the metaphor I love to use with my clients. You don't trust someone the first time you meet them. You trust them because they consistently show up. They follow through and they do what they say. And when they don't follow through, that trust gets broken. Your body is the same. It doesn't need perfection, but it does need reliability. So I want you to pick one practice, just something that you can consistently do every day and make it small. Pick one practice that you can do that's just slightly out of your norm. And it can be as simple as a five-minute morning check-in with yourself or a short walk without your phone. And a short walk could be just a half a mile if you're not used to walking at all every day. Don't go extreme or sitting out in nature for 10 minutes with no phone, waking up every day and saying, today is gonna be a great day with a smile on your face. Just pick something that feels good, that you want to show up for yourself every single day, and then show up, even on the hard days, especially on the hard days, because that's the days that your brain wants to go back to the old patterns, and you're gonna step in and say, Nope, I'm showing up today. I'm breaking that old pattern in my brain. Because consistency tells your body, I'm here. You can count on me. And that's what builds real biological safety and trust will grow from there as you continue to build that practice. But you have to start somewhere. So here's what we covered today: the four ways you can start building trust in your body. Number one, stop reacting to symptoms like they're emergencies. And please use also common sense when you are having an emergency. The thing is with chronic symptoms, when they are chronic and they're happening every single day, those are typically not going to be emergency type of symptoms. Number two, train your brain to see what is working. Number three, make intuitive choices instead of outsourcing your power. Just small little actions every day that you decide what you want to do for your body rather than letting Instagram, social media, or somebody else tell you what needs to be done. What do you want to do? Number four, build trust through one consistent practice. Just pick one thing that you do consistently to show up for yourself every single day and have it be where it's just a couple of minutes. It doesn't need to be hours. Start with one and let that one thing be the beginning of a new relationship with your body. Thanks for listening. I'll see you in the next episode.