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.

Guest Bio
Robbie de Fleuriot is a physiotherapist and the founder of Fort Physiotherapy 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 emotional and relational experience. Robbie has a particular interest in trauma, embodiment, and how physical healing can support deeper presence and integration. He lives in the Lower Mainland with his wife and their three kids.

Timestamps
00:00 — A Fishing Moment That Exposed a Lack of Trust in the Body

02:16 — Choosing “Kindness” as a Word of the Year—and Missing the Point

05:05 — A Physiotherapy Session That Reawakened Trauma

06:20 — The Body Keeps the Score Becomes Personal

07:45 — Prayer, Sensation, and Following the Body’s Memory Trail

10:55 — Evangelizing the Body as a Pathway to Reality

12:30 — Trauma as Dissociation and the Body as Truth-Teller

16:50 — Injury as a Portal for Deeper Healing

18:45 — Salvation, Healing, and the Resurrection of the Body

22:00 — Why Bodies Heal Themselves—and What Clinicians Really Do

31:20 — Chronic Pain as an Invitation to Relationship

41:30 — Posture as an Emotional and Spiritual Expression

47:00 — Healing Requires Trust, Not Just Repair

53:45 — A Javelin Thrower, an Ankle Injury, and a Career Saved

01:06:45 — Presence as the Core Task of Ministry

01:10:45 — Matching Energy to Love Others Well

01:17:55 — Sugar, Performance, and Hidden Belief Systems

01:25:50 — Presence, Formation, and Spiritual Disciplines

01:33:55 — Becoming Yourself as a Vocation

01:39:15 — Health Is Not Holiness

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Thank you for listening to this episode with Robbie de Fleuriot. To learn more about Robbie' work visit fortphysio.com.

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