What They Didn’t Tell You: From Core to Floor

What Your Body Knows That Your Mind Doesn’t

• Millie Schweky

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What if your body could speak and tell you what it truly needs? In this episode, Dr. Millie sits down with Dr. Yardena Bauer to explore Body Talk and energy work, powerful practices that go beyond talk therapy to uncover hidden stress, stored trauma, and the body’s own wisdom.

You’ll learn how guided body talk sessions, visualization, and energy healing can help release past experiences, calm the nervous system, and even support fertility, cycles, and overall well-being. From “little T traumas” to the science of neuroplasticity, this conversation bridges science and soul, showing how true healing often starts from within.

Whether you’re curious about holistic healing or searching for tools to move past stress, stuckness, or burnout, this episode will open your eyes to how the body holds the key to transformation.

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[Dr. Millie Schweky]:: [00:00:00] Hey sis, and welcome back to the What they Didn't Tell You from Core to Floor. I'm your girl, Dr. Millie Schweky, your favorite pelvic floor physical therapist. And I'm here with Dr. Yardena Bauer, a PhD and highly qualified dietician with an impressive academic background and expertise in the fields of psychology, physiology, dietetics, nutrition, neuroscience, and endocrinology.

[Dr. Millie Schweky]:: Her focus is on hormone nutrition, including PCOS, fertility and endometriosis. We're back in the studio with  Dr. Yardena Bauer. And today we're talking about body talk and energy work. Some topics that a lot of you might not know about. So Yardena, can you tell us what body talk is? 

[Dr. Yardena Bauer]:: Okay, so this is part of my, journey from science to soul.

[Dr. Yardena Bauer]:: I think we could call it a soul science, is I've got these degrees. Uh, little, you know, certificates I put on the wall, which is I've got a bachelor's of science, I've got a master's of science, and I've got a PhD in endocrinology and neuroscience, and then I'm treating clients and they're [00:01:00] coming to me and there's a pain in them and there's, or they're having a hard time implementing the changes that they want to implement.

[Dr. Yardena Bauer]:: I know the whole, I know what to do, I just need to do it. So I started this process of exploring what else is going on. This is where body talk, energy work and visceral manipulation have come into it, which is what else is going on that your body is trying to tell you? Why do some people have a predisposition to incident resistance?

[Dr. Yardena Bauer]:: Why do some people have a predisposition to IBS or IBD and we, we wanna really. Know what's going on in the body that maybe we don't necessarily know our conscious brain when we talk to you like, you're like, oh, what's going on in your life? You're like, no, everything's fine. So we wanna like really tap into each organ and see and each part of our body and go and see what we've gone through.

[Dr. Yardena Bauer]:: Because when we go through an experience, our body goes through it [00:02:00] well as well and the trauma goes somewhere. They've actually, since the 7th of October, they've opened a lot of holistic healing places because they find it, they were finding that there's more than just talk therapy. Talk therapy is very important and very healing.

[Dr. Yardena Bauer]:: But we also need other modules and modalities of healing and we finding how the body heals. And if we can find the, what's going on in, in our bodies, we can to some extent heal our soul. 

[Dr. Millie Schweky]:: Heal ourselves. So how does body talk work? Like what exactly how is the modality done? So, um, body talk 

[Dr. Yardena Bauer]:: is you, um, you lie in my, I do it by lying on a massage table, which, and also use a heat energy mat because it's also, I can't get out of the science.

[Dr. Yardena Bauer]:: So, and I think that's also, I think that's why, . People like that when they come to me is because I, I do the two together and I bring in the sign. So while they lying on it, even if you are, you know, you think, oh, I don't believe in this. Just, you know, tell me what to do. I'm gonna give you the heat mat.

[Dr. Yardena Bauer]:: And the heat mat [00:03:00] actually has, there's a lot of research on the heating powers of heat. And saunas are also coming out, just by the way, you know, like, because not all women do cold plunges very well. We you mean we don't 

[Dr. Millie Schweky]:: tolerate it. We don't tolerate, 

[Dr. Yardena Bauer]:: tolerate. It shouldn't be as cold. Um. I mean, there is good research on, its, its ability to give us immune boost and resilience.

[Dr. Yardena Bauer]:: But it's for a lot of women, it causes increase in cortisol and that's not good in our bodies. So we wanna be really focusing more on, sauna as women and heat. So I have a heat mat and you lie down there and the whole idea of body talk is letting your body talk instead of. Our conscious brain.

[Dr. Yardena Bauer]:: Oh, I love this. It is, what does your body need to tell us? Get 

[Dr. Millie Schweky]:: out of the analytical brain and drop in. Yeah, exactly. Okay. And what, how would a session look like? Are you, is there like a guided meditation or are you just listening? 

[Dr. Yardena Bauer]:: There is guided, it is getting your there's tapping involved. I also put like EFT tapping, EFT, tapping.

[Dr. Yardena Bauer]:: Cool. You know, connecting mind. [00:04:00] Mind's, uh, soul, gut you know, we've spoken about that and getting everything aligned and in the. In the right rhythm and just going in deep and finding out what's going on. It is guided. I often will end the session with a little bit of red light just to give the people a little bit of energy because it can be quite deep work and can be quite draining.

[Dr. Yardena Bauer]:: So it's just given like a boost. 'Cause I've got the red light machine and the benefits of the red light. But the body work is saying, let's get. Not so much talk, not so much analytics. Let's get out of our brains and let's see what else is going on. 

[Dr. Millie Schweky]:: Wow. I've been listening to a lot of do Dispenza lately, and he's basically saying like, you know when you're ready to take the next step and you're telling yourself like, okay, tomorrow I'm gonna do it, and then like, you don't do it.

[Dr. Millie Schweky]:: Because your brain knows that you weren't being serious and your body, he said something along the lines of, your body knows that your brain is lying, so you're not actually gonna do anything about it. But if you physiologically change the state. Of your body, then it could listen to your brain [00:05:00] better.

[Dr. Millie Schweky]:: Like go back to a time in your life where you said, okay, I'm gonna do it, and then you actually go ahead and make a big change. The reason why you were able to do that is because something happened viscerally in your body and then you're able to move forward and not be like in that level of stuckness.

[Dr. Millie Schweky]:: So exactly the level of 

[Dr. Yardena Bauer]:: stuckness we're trying to unstick, and where I see the soul signs is. In the neuroplasticity, the, you know, the old science was that your brain from the age of seven, after the age of seven, you cannot make new neuronal connections. You are who you are. And that's it. That's the whole, this is just me accept me for who I am.

[Dr. Yardena Bauer]:: I can't change. We can change all the time. You can't, where it's true is that you actually, you can't lose, you can't unbreak a neuronal connection. You can't unlearn to ride your bike. You'll always be able to ride your bike, but you can create a new neuronal connection that is stronger than an old one.

[Dr. Yardena Bauer]:: And that is how a ha that is habit forming. 

[Dr. Millie Schweky]:: Interesting. 

[Dr. Yardena Bauer]:: So we can't, you don't just say the whole [00:06:00] idea of I know what to do. I just need to do it is so hard on ourselves because we are saying we are stronger than our hormones. We are stronger than our tiredness. We are. And then 

[Dr. Millie Schweky]:: when you don't do the thing you said you were gonna do, you feel even worse about yourself.

[Dr. Millie Schweky]:: Exactly. 

[Dr. Yardena Bauer]:: So we get into a shame, guilt cycle. What's wrong with me? Why can't I do this? Oh, I can never, I'm not ever gonna be able to achieve. Let me go have some more chips and cookies and then I'll feel better. And then we do feel better. But then we come with like, oh, well now that's over. Now why did I do that?

[Dr. Yardena Bauer]:: I'm never gonna be able to reach my goals. So in the body talk, I also want to do, I'm gonna do visual visualization. 'cause that is a very powerful way of making a new 

[Dr. Millie Schweky]:: neuronal connection, like visualizing the future self that you want to see, or like visualizing yourself already being the person that you wanna be.

[Dr. Yardena Bauer]:: Even more visualizing those can, those can both be very painful because then you open your eyes and you're like, 

[Dr. Millie Schweky]:: I'm not that. I'm 

[Dr. Yardena Bauer]:: not that and I'm never gonna be that. And that's very painful and a very [00:07:00] painful experience. What I do is we visualize ourselves in the situation that we trying to get through and we're trying to solve, and we see ourselves solving it.

[Dr. Yardena Bauer]:: And then the brain has practiced. So the brain believes that actually happens. Exactly. So we practice, we an easy example that everyone could do is close your eyes not if you're driving, but anyone else. Close your eyes. See yourself charging your phone downstairs in the kitchen, in the bathroom.

[Dr. Yardena Bauer]:: Wherever it's not next to your bedroom, but see yourself doing it. You've gotta see yourself literally taking your phone and going and plugging it in and walking away. Then later your body's already performed it, your body's already gone through it. So it's easier to then now do it. I we do this through, while I'm still doing the body talk and I'm tapping and I'm connecting to their body.

[Dr. Yardena Bauer]:: We can also do powerful neuro neuroplasticity to, to actually be the, to help you become the person you wanna be. 

[Dr. Millie Schweky]:: How many times do you need to do the same [00:08:00] visualization? Because I know it takes like, what, 21 times to form a habit. Do you need to do that 21 times or is like one time enough? 'cause you're in like a different meditative kind of seat?

[Dr. Yardena Bauer]:: It depends. It depends what we are working on. But you also then have to like you can visualize yourself riding a bicycle, but you also need to go ride a bicycle. 

[Dr. Millie Schweky]:: Right? Exactly. You have to put it into practice. You have to do both. You have to do both. Meaning, yeah. Okay, cool. When you do this body tell kind of work, do you see that there's like stored emotions or past trauma?

[Dr. Millie Schweky]:: People's bodies that are then maybe interfering with their menstrual cycles or with their fertility? Well, they definitely are past 

[Dr. Yardena Bauer]:: stories and past trauma that our body has. And I, we definitely, like, I work on releasing that trauma and often it's not even a trauma. They know I did a lot of work or son Miller Wi Wives.

[Dr. Yardena Bauer]:: Wow. Who were just. So wives whose husbands were in the army, wives whose husbands were in the army, I was like, well, I'm not in the army, but these wives need some support and they need help. And so I had them come, I mean, I had wives come in with their babies that I was like holding their babies while doing their work because there was no one to leave the baby with.

[Dr. Yardena Bauer]:: And their husband was in the army and releasing their stress, [00:09:00] working on their adrenal glands. So sometimes it's to get an immediate response just to, you know, feel a little bit of comfort, grounding, support. Sometimes it's to release past trauma. And they're doing this work on a lot of the Nova survivors because they there's a lot of guilt survivor's guilt and going and helping them relieve that trauma.

[Dr. Millie Schweky]:: So I really appreciate the way that you're blending nutrition with different modalities of like people finding their own inner strength. So you're using something from the outside, which is food and using from the inside, which is your own. Power and your own strength, and you're blending it together to help people improve their health, regulate their periods, their mood, their cycles.

[Dr. Yardena Bauer]:: You know why I'm also seeing The Body Talk really helping is for the people who don't have an obvious trauma. For people 

[Dr. Millie Schweky]:: who don't have something obviously wrong with it, I call it a little T Trauma. A little T. It's like a trauma with a little T. 'cause we all have trauma. It doesn't have to mean you were in a car accident.

[Dr. Millie Schweky]:: It doesn't have to mean someone died, but someone could have said something to you [00:10:00] in your life that you stored and your body perceived it as a trauma. Little T trauma. I love that little T trauma because I'm 

[Dr. Yardena Bauer]:: seeing how it's coming out in marriage. And I'm seeing it that a lot of the clients who I have the most, who are able to really gain from body talk are clients who are married and how that trauma is being triggered in their new stage of life.

[Dr. Millie Schweky]:: Wow. So who knew that going to a nutritionist could help you with your marriage? That's really incredible. Thank you, your Dana, for your time. This was such a good talk and I look forward to seeing you next time.