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UK Health Radio Podcast
Brian D. Smith talks with Anna/ Inna Segal about how grief, stress and inherited trauma can manifest as physical symptoms and how she began decoding her body’s messages. The conversation blends science, spirituality and personal experience to show that emotional healing can complement medical care in meaningful ways.
46:37•3 Jul 2026
After The Storm: What Your Body Might Be Trying to Tell You
Episode Overview
- Belief and expectation can create measurable changes in the body, as shown by placebo research and surgery studies.
- Stress, grief and trauma are not just emotional experiences; they can alter immune function, healing speed and long-term health.
- Symptoms such as back pain, skin conditions and digestive issues can reflect unprocessed emotions, life experiences and even inherited family trauma.
- Self-healing is a practice that involves curiosity, breath, emotional release, journalling and repeated inner work rather than a one-off fix.
- Conventional medicine remains essential, but adding inner work and body awareness can deepen healing without blaming yourself for illness.
“We can stuff our pain down and it can make us sick. Or we can turn toward it and let it transform us.”
How do people find strength in their journey to sobriety and healing when grief and chronic pain collide? This episode of *After The Storm: Where Healing Begins* zooms in on the powerful link between mind, body and unresolved trauma, making it ideal for anyone curious about how emotional pain can show up as physical symptoms – especially those in recovery who know all too well how the body keeps score. Host Brian D.
Smith, a certified grief guide whose own path was shaped by the death of his 15-year-old daughter, sets the scene with science rather than mysticism. He breaks down placebo studies, stress research and epigenetics to show that belief, expectation and inherited trauma can affect blood pressure, pain levels and even how our genes express themselves.
As he puts it, the mind–body connection "is one of the most thoroughly established facts in all of medicine" – yet most people still approach health as if they were "a machine" with a broken part. The heart of the episode is Brian’s conversation with author and healer Anna Siegel (also referred to as Inna Segal), who grew up with psoriasis, severe back pain and digestive issues that conventional medicine couldn’t resolve.
After the devastating loss of her baby, a practitioner told her, "your body actually wants to be stuck" – a comment that initially enraged her but ultimately pushed her to ask, *what is my body trying to say?* Through breathwork, emotional release, self-inquiry and journalling, she began decoding her "secret language" of symptoms – linking skin problems to bullying and shame, back pain to money fears and family conflict, and digestive issues to inherited war trauma carried by her grandmother.
Her experience evolved into her book *The Secret Language of Your Body* and ongoing body-mind programmes. Brian keeps circling back to a grounding message: your illness is not your fault, modern medicine is vital, and emotional work is an *addition*, not a replacement. If your body feels like it’s shouting at you, could it be time to start listening rather than fighting it?
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