The Nourish to Thrive Podcast

Have you ever woken up feeling rested, checked your sleep score, and suddenly felt tired? There is actually a name for that. It's called orthosomnia, and it's more common than you might think. In this final episode of the June sleep metrics series, Tanya breaks down what consumer wearables actually measure well, where they fall significantly short, and how to use your data as one input among several rather than the final word on your health. She covers the real limitations of sleep stage dete...

Hunger, cravings, motivation, and consistency are often treated like character traits. In reality, they’re physiological signals. In this episode, we continue following the chain we’ve been building together...from the nervous system, to hormones, to metabolism...and now into behavior. For many women, frustration shows up at the level of follow-through long before it ever shows up on a lab report. Motivation feels unreliable. Consistency feels harder to sustain. Hunger and cravings feel loude...

Hormonal imbalance is rarely the starting point. It’s almost always the response. In this episode, we step upstream and widen the lens. Many women are told their symptoms come down to estrogen, progesterone, cortisol, or thyroid function. While those hormones matter, that explanation often stops short. Hormones don’t operate independently. They respond to signals and the system coordinating those signals is the nervous system. When the nervous system perceives ongoing demand without adequate ...

Most women don’t struggle with resolutions because they’re unmotivated...they struggle because traditional resolutions work against how the brain and nervous system were designed to change. In this episode, we talk about: why big overhauls trigger the nervous systemthe dopamine drop that shows up around day 5–14the identity shifts that make habits stickhow to build goals your brain can actually supportthe role of repetition, reward, and predictabilitywhy starting small (and starting now) crea...