Episode title: Your Nervous System Isn't Broken — It Adapted

Runtime: ~55 minutes

Episode summary: In Episode 2 of The Inked Therapist, Del Knight goes deeper on the nervous system arc — unpacking what 'adapted' actually means, why the story of dysfunction causes additional harm, why insight alone doesn't shift nervous system patterns, and what the foundational shift from combat to curiosity actually makes possible in healing.

Topics covered: Nervous system adaptation · Dysfunction language and its costs · Prediction machine model · Individualizing systemic harm · Neuroplasticity · Why 'just relax' doesn't work · Somatic healing frame · Curiosity as a clinical starting point

Companion blog post: 'Your Nervous System Isn't Broken — It Adapted' — somaroots.com

Next episode: Episode 3 — 'Slow Therapy for Exhausted Humans'

Episode title: Chronic Vigilance Is a Trauma Response (And No, It Doesn't Mean You're 'Too Much')

Runtime: ~50 minutes

Episode summary: In the first full episode of The Inked Therapist, Del Knight breaks down chronic vigilance — what it is, how it develops, who carries it, and what healing actually looks like. If you've never been able to fully relax even when everything is technically fine, this one is for you.

Topics covered: Chronic vigilance / hypervigilance · Nervous system adaptation · Minority stress · Window of tolerance (intro) · Somatic approach to healing · Titration

Links: Website: somaroots.com · Blog companion post: https://www.somarootstherapy.com/soma-roots-therapy-blog/chronic-vigilance-is-a-trauma-response · Reach Out & Get Started: https://www.somarootstherapy.com/reach-out

Next episode: 'Your Nervous System Isn't Broken — It Adapted' (Episode 2)

The Inked Therapist is back. New chapter. Same unapologetic voice.

In this pilot episode, Del Knight, PsyD, LPC, LMHC (they/them) — licensed psychotherapist, and cofounder of Soma Roots Therapy — introduces the show, the practice, and the specific kind of person this podcast was made for.

Not a general wellness podcast. Not a clinical lecture series. A show for people who have been told, in one way or another, that the way they experience the world is the problem — and who are starting to suspect that maybe the world's framework was just the wrong one.

This episode covers who Del is and why they're making this show, what Soma Roots Therapy is and what it's built around, what "slow, embodied, and rooted in liberation" actually means in clinical practice, and who this podcast is talking to directly — queer and trans people, neurodivergent people, trauma survivors, people whose bodies have been pathologized, people who have tried therapy and found it wasn't quite built for them.

If you've ever left a therapy session feeling like you performed something rather than healed something — this one is for you.

If you've ever been told your nervous system is broken, your body is a problem, or your identity is a clinical complication — this one is for you.

If you are exhausted by healing frameworks that ask you to optimize and hustle your way to wellness — this one is definitely for you.

Welcome. The door is open.

Website: https://somarootstherapy.com