{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"This Strange Land","title":"The Body Remembers: Trauma, Healing, and Discipleship with Robbie de Fleuriot","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":6212,"description":"In this episode of This Strange Land, Jason sits down with physiotherapist Robbie de Fleuriot to explore the profound connection between the body, trauma, and spiritual healing. Together they examine how pain, posture, and the nervous system carry our stories, why modern culture often disconnects us from embodiment, and how healing the body can become a pathway into deeper discipleship. A wide-ranging conversation on presence, trauma, theology of the body, and what it means to live integrated lives as followers of Jesus in an overstimulated world.\nGuest Bio\nRobbie de Fleuriot is a physiotherapist and the founder of Fort Sport +Family Physio in Fort Langley, British Columbia. He works with individuals to understand pain, injury, and healing through a whole-person lens, integrating the body’s story with physical, psychological, and relational experience. Robbie has a particular interest in trauma, understanding anxiety, embodiment, and how physical healing can support deeper presence and integration. He lives in the Lower Mainland with his wife and their four children.\nTimestamps\n00:00 — A Fishing Moment That Exposed a Lack of Trust in the Body\n02:16 — Choosing “Kindness” as a Word of the Year—and Missing the Point\n05:05 — A Physiotherapy Session That Reawakened Trauma\n06:20 — The Body Keeps the Score Becomes Personal\n07:45 — Prayer, Sensation, and Following the Body’s Memory Trail\n10:55 — Evangelizing the Body as a Pathway to Reality\n12:30 — Trauma as Dissociation and the Body as Truth-Teller\n16:50 — Injury as a Portal for Deeper Healing\n18:45 — Salvation, Healing, and the Resurrection of the Body\n22:00 — Why Bodies Heal Themselves—and What Clinicians Really Do\n31:20 — Chronic Pain as an Invitation to Relationship\n41:30 — Posture as an Emotional and Spiritual Expression\n47:00 — Healing Requires Trust, Not Just Repair\n53:45 — A Javelin Thrower, an Ankle Injury, and a Career Saved\n01:06:45 — Presence as the Core Task of Ministry\n01:10:45 — Matching Energy to Love...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/IvZQUuuFDBdc51EMBHmWxYCYhxBYO83KUbsAW75PSkc/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS85Yzk3/YWVlZTZhZjg0MWJm/NGQyNmEyNGE0N2E0/MWUxNS5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}