Functional Nutrition is an approach where you address not just WHAT you’re experiencing, but WHY. What’s the environment that’s created your condition(s)?

In Part 2 of this 3-part mini-series on addressing burnout, I walk you through how to use the tools of Functional Nutrition to explore YOUR antecedents, triggers, and meditators (ATMs) and construct YOUR big picture to understand WHY you’re experiencing burnout.

I walk you through the methods I use to help myself (and others) recover from burnout.

There’s never a one-size-fits-all solution, but this approach helps you create one that works for you!

At some point in our lives, we’ve all experienced dreaded feelings of burnout. Be it from long periods of chronic stress from work, relationships, family, a pandemic, or anything that weighs heavy on us.

If you’ve ever experienced this, you’re definitely are not alone.

In this episode, I share my most intense moments of burnout from different periods in my life, and how I managed to relight the spark to keep on going!

Episode Highlights:

• What burnout is

• Signs, symptoms, and contributions to burnout

• Times in my life I’ve been burnout and what it was like

• Four steps to really addressing burnout

If you’ve ever seen your Human Design chart, you know that it’s very confusing. Without any knowledge of the basic foundations of Human Design, it’s hard to understand the basics, let alone the intricacies of your charts. As a Health and Human Design coach, I’m here to help you understand your design so you can determine how to best integrate your design, and live your life with the least amount of resistance.

In this episode, I aim to clear up a few questions and misconceptions of Human Design for you! Knowing your Human Design can help you understand yourself better, shed some light on your gifts that you can offer the world, and how we all function harmoniously together.

Episode Highlights:

• A summary of Human Design

• The foundational elements of a Human Design Chart

• A breakdown of my own Human Design

Just “listen to your body.” Haven’t we all heard this before? But what does it even mean? And more importantly, *how* do you even do that?

It’s a question I’ve asked myself for the better part of a decade while dealing with sports injuries, recovering from adrenal dysfunction, and a variety of circumstances.

In this episode, I share how confusing and overwhelming this question felt, how I came to realize that in many ways it’s a skill that not everyone has developed, and how I’ve come to learn what “listening to my body” means to me - and the tools that taught me how to do so.

Episode Highlights:

• Why listening to your body is confusing

• What it means to listen to your body

• How I learned to listen to my body

• The tools that taught me how to do so

Our skin is the biggest organ in the body, a big indicator of what might be going on internally, and one of the first things people see when they meet us -- so it's important to take care of it.

Today I brought along Sonia Vargas, a licensed aesthetician and skincare healer, who specializes in holistic treatment and practices. Her drive to keep learning and her passion for helping others manifest themselves in her certifications, namely; Sculptural Lifting Technique & Buccal Facial Massage, Vodder Manual Lymphatic Drainage, Connective Tissue Massage, and Reiki.

She believes that skin treatments go beyond the surface and that it’s deeply rooted in the systems of the whole body. She believes that our bodies are capable of healing themselves naturally, leading to improvement in many skin-related conditions.

Episode Highlights:

• The difference between Holistic aestheticians and traditional ones

• What Reflexology is and what it can do for you

• Sonia’s recommended daily skincare regimen

• How other body systems can affect our skin

There is so much wisdom in ancient medicines, where the parameters involve the mind, body, and spirit, and the harmony between these aspects of our human selves.

In this episode, I’m joined by Dr. Avanti Kumar Singh, a medical physician who left the conventional medicine world to devote her work to the healing tradition of Ayurveda.

You’ll hear Dr. Kumar Singh explain the foundational principles, misconceptions, as well as break down the stereotypes of how the western world dampens its deeper cultural meanings and interpretations.

Episode Highlights:

• How ancient healing traditions differ from western medicine

• What is Ayurveda

• Breaking Western misconceptions about Ayurveda

• Why she doesn’t advocate online dosha quizzes

• How yoga fits into Ayurvedic medicine

If you feel like there’s something that feels off within your body, don’t doubt yourself. Take inventory on what those changes are and what’s changed.

Recently, I felt like my gut could use some support. So, I decided to do the 7-Day Gut Reset, created by Mary Shenouda of Paleo Chef.

In this episode, I share my experience with this program. You’ll hear me share:

• Why I felt that my gut needed some repair

• What the program is and how it aligned with a healing protocol prescribed to me three years before that I never did

• A day-by-day recap of the experience

• The outcomes and my post-reset experience

Pairing this program with new exercises and meditation, got me in tune with my body again. I believe this is a program you should try - it doesn’t have to be just for when you’re feeling something wrong, but also if you feel like your body just needs a boost!

We expose ourselves to endocrine disruptors each and every day -- most of the time we aren’t even aware of it.

In this episode, I share with you six areas of concern for exposure to these toxins from within our very own homes. If we aren't conscious or careful, we run the risk of low-dosed and prolonged exposure that can negatively impact our health in the long run.

Episode Highlights:

• Everyday toxins we might not be aware of

• Endocrine Disruptors and where we can find them

• What we can do to lessen our exposure

I fully believe that what we feel physically has a direct connection to what’s going on with us mentally, spiritually, and emotionally.

In this episode, I discuss how even though we're well into the new year, I'm still feeling the effects of 2020.

You’ll hear me share:

• Feeling bothersome and overwhelmed

• Overcommitting and struggling with energy management

• What I did to reconnect with myself