About this episode

The episode discusses the importance of listening to your body to combat exhaustion and burnout.

You’re eating clean, exercising, meeting your responsibilities, and pushing through every demanding day, but you’re still exhausted. Here’s something every overwhelmed woman needs to hear: you may not need more discipline. You may need to stop fighting your body and start listening to what it is trying to tell you. In this eye-opening episode of Women Road Warriors, Shelley M. Johnson and Kathy Tuccaro talk with Katie Hardie, a Board-Certified Holistic Nutritionist, FDN Practitioner, and founder of My PEAK. Katie explains how constantly pushing through stress without adequate recovery can affect your energy, sleep, blood sugar, hormones, digestion, metabolism, mood, and overall performance. Even symptoms we have been taught to accept—nighttime waking, afternoon crashes, brain fog, stubborn midsection weight, bloating, and feeling unlike ourselves—may be signals that the body needs something different. Katie understands burnout personally. Years of working harder, overtraining, under-fueling, and ignoring her body’s warning signs eventually took a physical toll. Functional testing helped her connect the dots between her stress hormones, recovery, and a serious injury—and taught…

People in this episode

Hosts: Shelley M. Johnson, Kathy Tuccaro

Guest: Katie Hardie

Topics covered

• burnout
• holistic nutrition
• stress management
• energy levels
• body awareness

Keywords

• exhaustion
• nutrition
• stress
• energy
• hormones
• digestion
• recovery

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: My PEAK

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