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Welcome to the Peak Revival Podcast.

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My name is Ner.

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Today we are having a special episode where it's behind the scenes of me and

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my work, and I'm being interviewed by my lovely co-host, Melissa, who is on my

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team, who is the head coach on my team.

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So welcome Melissa.

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you so much for having me.

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I'm very interested to get to know you a little bit better, and I'm sure

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all of your listeners are as well.

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Dig deep for the questions.

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All right.

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All of these questions have been drawn from your active

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BBB community at the moment.

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So as you mentioned, I do run the Buy buy burnout program.

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I am the head coach there, and I've reached out to all our lovely participants

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and all our lovely clients, and then we've put together a list of questions for you

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that we are all very curious to know.

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So

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let's jump in.

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Let's jump in.

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Uh, I think first and foremost, people wanna know, how did you get here?

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you have obviously a naturopathic background.

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All of your work was created from this experience.

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Um, what did those clinic days look like and how did you get here?

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Clinic days were very busy.

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So I was in clinic for about 10 years and I loved it.

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Like I was the person who went straight into clinic after she graduated.

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Right?

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I was one of the very few, and it was nerve wracking, but I loved it.

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And I remember at one point for a very brief moment, I went working

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for another company actually called Nature Sunshine Company, if

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you've ever seen their supplements.

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And I worked with them and I wasn't in the clinic, so it was a full-time job.

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And I think I lasted about three months.

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And I was like, I can't do this.

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I just love to be in clinic.

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Right?

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And so I quit.

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They were really unhappy with me.

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And then I went back to my sweet spot, which is being in the clinic.

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So I loved working with people, I loved helping people.

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I love this work.

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growing up, you know, we went to see the naturopath and the homeopath.

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We didn't go to see the GP much at all, my mom cooked everything.

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Everything was organic and nutrition.

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And so that was a big part of my upbringing.

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And so, when I was about 13, 14, I was like.

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You know, in school people were like, what do you wanna do when you finish?

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I said, I wanna be a naturopath.

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And people were like, oh yeah, that makes sense.

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People were already like, that makes sense.

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Right.

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And um, so from a young age, I knew what I wanted to do, loved being in clinic.

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And then, you know, clinic also has a lot of challenges as

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well because you're very busy.

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Well, I was, anyway, it was like back to back six days a week and there's,

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you know, a business to run as well.

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So it's not just the naturopathic side.

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There is a business side as well, which I think that when you graduate,

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you don't know the business side.

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You are just well trained to be a naturopath.

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You do so many clinic hours and you're just immersed in this stuff,

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but not the business side of things.

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And I didn't.

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Love the business side of things.

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I liked it, but I didn't love it.

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And as a bus, you know, the clinic was very busy and I just got to this

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0.1 day where I was, you know, it consumed a lot of my life, right?

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I was, you know, thinking about work, I was thinking about my

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patients, on after work and time off.

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And I always looked a bit, I always looked stressed, right?

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And obviously I'd hit burnout.

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and I remember having this moment in the clinic one day.

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I was standing in my dispensary.

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I was in between patients and I just stood there and there was all

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this, you know, people from the next door shop were coming in talking.

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And the other guy that I, you know, the acupuncturist that I was working with,

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he was talking, I was just had this moment, you know, it was like a flash.

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And I went, five years from now, my life is going to be exactly the same.

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Hmm.

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Mm-hmm.

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I was like, I can't do this

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anymore.

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I actually can't do this anymore, even though I loved

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it, but I just couldn't do it.

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I knew I just couldn't do it anymore.

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And it was in that moment that I went, you know what?

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I am going to leave the practice.

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And everyone, like, I have to say, everyone was against me on that decision.

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Like everyone close to me was like, you're crazy.

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Like this is such a great practice, you know, such a great business.

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And I was like, yeah, but I just wanna do things differently.

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I wanted, I wanted a break first, and then I wanted to do

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things differently and bigger.

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And so when I finished up in practice, I remember it being a really hard,

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you know, hard to leave, right?

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Because, you know, I had so many patients, right?

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Over the years I had, I had so built up such a relationship with my clients

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that, people were crying like I was crying, you know, I was crying.

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People were crying.

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It was really hard.

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Anyway, it was a hard moment.

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And, um, and I remember when I had a break and I was like, I don't

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think I'll ever go back to business.

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I was like, I don't wanna do business anymore.

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It's too hard.

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It's too, oh, it's consuming right.

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But I didn't know then what I know now.

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Like I don't find it like that Now.

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I definitely, if I knew then what I know now, I'd probably, I may

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still be in practice, but I do much prefer what I'm doing now.

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but if I understood, yeah, like the things that I understand now, it would've

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been an easier process for me or an easier journey to, to run the clinic and

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the business being as busy as it was.

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And so the days in clinic We are busy.

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Lots of, lots of clinical experience, you know, seeing lots of different things

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and helping people in all sorts of ways.

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And the way I specialized in burnout was I went through burnout.

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And the other thing that I saw in my practice was everyone had some element of

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stress that was really holding them back.

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And at the time I didn't know how to help them.

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Like, I would sit there and I'd ask them what else is going on?

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Like, and they'd be like, oh, you know, just family, my children, my

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partner, my, you know, finances, my health, like, whatever it is.

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And I would just listen.

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And that was the best I could do then.

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'cause I, I couldn't coach them.

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I couldn't really help them in that way.

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So I thought, but listening was a

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lot.

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was really transformative for them because no one was listening, like

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they weren't talking about it.

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We see that a lot on the calls too, where, you know, we, we, we host the

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weekly coaching calls with the Bye-bye burnout program, where women are able

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to come and discuss what's going on in their lives and get a little bit more

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in depth and personalized support.

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And on these calls, a lot of the times it is just wanting that space to be

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heard, wanting somebody to listen and somebody to put intention and care

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into what's going on in their lives.

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Because sometimes you don't have these outlets.

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Not everybody has these outlets to be able to just talk to.

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Today, I felt bloated and I felt tired, and I felt right, like just having that

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space to let it go is really powerful.

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It is really powerful.

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That's, you know, it's definitely what I've seen in my work.

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Like I think, you know, now we talk to chat GBT or whatever, do

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you know, like it's not the same because it's something about that

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relationship, you know, with the practitioner and with your patient that.

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Does a lot of the healing work.

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Like actually they proved this scientifically.

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Like they, you know, I went very much into the placebo effection,

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understanding why some people get better and some people don't.

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Because that's something that I saw in my clinic.

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You know, some people were doing all the right things and they

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weren't getting better and it's just like, that is really weird.

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Right.

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and when I understood more about, you know.

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The placebo effect, how the mind influences the body to heal.

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And that all comes down to the nervous system.

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And then they did this a piece of research where one of the scientists or professors

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he, he basically told his patients in this study that they were receiving a placebo.

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Like it wasn't hidden.

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He was just like, I wanna see what happens here.

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I'm gonna tell them, here is your vial of medicine, but it's placebo.

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They're just sugar pills.

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And what he found is that his patients still got

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better.

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And what he put it down to was the relationship between the

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practitioner and the patient.

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So that being heard, that being held, that having that space, you

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know, was actually just as medicinal as anything you are going to put

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in as a supplemental medicine.

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Right.

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And you know, that's something that we've recreated online

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because yes, that one-on-one relationship is really powerful.

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But I noticed when I started Byebye Burnout online, actually the group is even

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more

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powerful, which I didn't think.

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Was something that was ever gonna be like that.

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I never, I never thought, I really did think that you needed the one-on-one.

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Like I was

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convinced.

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And then when I took it online and I saw the transformations, like you see it all

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the time in the group, the changes it that people, it's like, it's incredible.

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The community is super, it's really important in this healing space because

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so often, especially with online programs, people are managing these things.

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On their own and they feel like they're alone.

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And when you feel like you're alone in your healing process, you feel like

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you can never get better because there must be something wrong with me, right?

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I am.

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This is only happening to me and I'm the special case and something will go wrong

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'cause I have this, this, this, and this.

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And then you get into a community and you're like, whoa, you have that too.

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Like you feel that way too.

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And then it gives this spark of hope of.

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Wow.

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Like I'm not alone in this.

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And it is possible to feel, seen and feel heard and be supported

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and create new pathways for healing that rely on connection and

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relation and supporting each other.

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And that really is what the benefit of those calls is.

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And of that space is that community space.

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So yeah, I see it.

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I see it all the time that face-to-face, um, and the importance of community.

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Um, but I'm curious for you, now that you are outside of that space, now

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that you are now running these programs online, do you miss being in practice?

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I don't miss being in clinical practice like, you know, back to back appointments.

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Um, and I still obviously have private clients, but I do like

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doing things in a bigger space.

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I do love doing group calls, like I have to say, like the bigger group stuff is

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really kind of where my jam is right now.

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That really.

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That is really satisfying for me.

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and there's something about holding that space as well, which I find, like

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when you have women on the call, like, everyone's holding that space together.

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And if you don't know what I mean, like, it's kind of hard to describe what that

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means holding the space, but there's some kind of energetic shift that happens

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on those calls where kind of everyone is contributing in some way and It's

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like, yeah, you don't feel alone or you all feel kind of in the same boat.

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And there's something hopeful about that because you're all on this journey

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together and there's just, there's so much to that that a one-on-one

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interaction is not gonna give you.

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And the other thing is with the online space, is that you

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guys are in the group every

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day.

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And so they're getting responses every day.

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You don't have to wait to see me in two weeks time to get

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your question answered, right?

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You're getting answers daily, so that makes a huge difference because if you

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have a question or a concern or a doubt, and you're not sure, like that is going

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to stop you from doing or moving forward.

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I do.

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Uh, I love the online space.

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I love the group work.

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And that's something like for 2026, you know, if you heard my podcast at the end

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of 2025, I really talked about how, you know, I wanna build, you know, Esther

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Perel, you know that relationship coach?

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She was talking about building your village or your tribe.

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And I'm like, yes, that's what I wanna do for my personal life.

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Build the village, but I also wanna do that in my business.

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And that to me looks like doing more in-person stuff, like doing

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retreats, doing bigger group stuff.

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Yeah.

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I love that.

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I love that.

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That's beautiful.

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what did you find was missing in the wellness space that made

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you feel compelled to create the Bye-bye burnout program.

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Yeah, so it was definitely, I went through a lot of iterations

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because it was my own journey.

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So the nutrition and the supplements all very important.

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But I, as I mentioned, I was going through the, you know, the placebo

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effect, how, what are the other ways that people get better without any treatment?

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And so I really explored that area for many years and the work that I

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was doing with my clients was, forget about supplements and, you know,

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herbs, we are just gonna focus on mindset and your stress and, and your

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bad relationships and habits and, you know, all that kind of stuff.

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Right?

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And I thought, this is, this is it, this is the key difference.

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Right?

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But actually the results were really lackluster.

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They weren't that good.

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And I was like, Hmm, this is really interesting.

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Okay.

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So, and then I combined them.

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I went to the extreme of it's all this and then it's all this, and then combining

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them was where the magic really happened.

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That's where the, the biggest results, the fastest results, the results that

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we see in the community, it's like, wow.

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that's where that happened.

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So really understanding, yes, physiologically, you know, changing our

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nutrition and changing our biochemistry and reducing our stress, but also going.

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Beyond the body, like in a sense of let's go further upstream.

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Like what's going on in the mind, what's going on in your life?

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Like that's something that we really don't explore.

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We explore it in a sense of, gotta get over it, gotta get tough.

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I gotta push through, gotta overcome my behaviors, you know?

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That's not really understanding it, right?

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That's just kind of trying to put some more pressure on yourself, but really

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understanding how the mind works and, and how we operate and where our life is at

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and where do we really need to kind of step back and see where the deficiencies

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and where's the excess in our life.

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Where are the gaps?

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and spending a bit of time there.

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So really looking at the, you know, the body, the nutrition, but also the

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mind and the spirit of the person.

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Do you know, it's not just about, the physiological stuff, it's also, you

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know, you as a spirit, as a person.

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are you having your spiritual needs met?

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You mentioned this kind of all or nothing mindset.

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and this is something that I see a lot in the program with the women

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who are moving through the program.

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And when they feel as though they can't do everything perfectly,

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they abandon it completely.

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I think we all have this perfectionist mindset.

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You speak about it on your podcast, you speak about it in the program.

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Um.

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If you couldn't do something perfectly, would you completely abandon it?

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And how does this mindset of perfection actually drive burnout rather than

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creating a pathway for success?

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Yeah, I think at the end of the day, like I remember years ago I was on a podcast

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and I, and it's something like Freedom Wellness or something, and I thought.

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Yes, that's what it's about.

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Wellness and health should be about freedom, not about risk, not about

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like this perfectionist routine that's, makes you feel anxious or

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that if you're not doing it a hundred percent correctly, then you're failing.

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Like, health should be about freedom.

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It shouldn't be about, you know, being so all or nothing, right?

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All or nothing.

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I don't, I don't do all or nothing in my life.

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I look at that as just a, a way that we sabotage ourselves from

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getting the results that we want.

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That's actually really a sabotage habit.

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So when people come into the program, I am, and even with my

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private clients, I'm like, what?

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'cause people say to me, oh, if I can't do all of these things,

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it's not even worth it, is it?

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I'm like, even if you did just one thing.

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Just one.

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And you did that consistently, you would get results.

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Like you would see a massive shift in say, six weeks, right?

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You just did one thing.

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So this idea that we need to do everything in the perfect order, in

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the perfect way, you're just not going to have a perfect week, six weeks,

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three months, it doesn't exist, right?

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And so as long as you can be consistent.

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And you know, even with the BA burnout program, we look at like 80%,

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like no one sticks to it a hundred

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percent.

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If they stick to it, 80%, that's, that's where the results are, right?

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That's, that's pretty much what the people who are going gangbusters,

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they're doing about 80% of it.

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You know, they're having some bad days.

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They're falling off the wagon, but they're getting straight back on because

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they have nothing on it, because they don't have the all or nothing attitude.

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That attitude it derails people and then they're like, oh, I can't stick to this.

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This is just another thing I can't stick to, you know, I'm,

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I'm gonna try something else.

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And then they just keep repeating the same pattern, so.

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all or nothing I don't do, I just, I like to add things into my life bit by

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bit.

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And that's why the program's delivered like that, right?

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It's delivered exactly how I like to do things is like bit by bit and you're

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stacking habits, so it feels not, not overwhelming, it feels almost effortless

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and there's no pressure behind it.

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So I think people really wanna know because coming back to this all or nothing

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mindset, the perfectionist mindset.

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Obviously people you will have bad days.

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It is normal to have bad days.

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It's normal to just have those.

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Days where it's not happening, you know, things aren't working properly, and if one

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little thing goes wrong, it just blows up.

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We, you know, you talk about this a lot with, in regards to bandwidth, but I think

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people are really curious and want to know what does a bad day look like for you?

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how throughout this process and all of the learning that you've,

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you've developed, how have your thoughts changed on those days?

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So what was it like, maybe what did a bad day look like before versus now?

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Well, definitely before it was different.

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So if I had a bad day before, I would be the person who would

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catastrophize about problems.

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Like something happened in the business, I'd be like, oh my gosh, this is so bad.

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This is so bad.

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I would be stressing about it.

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I'd be thinking about it.

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I'd be talking to someone about it.

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Like, this is so bad, so bad.

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So I would really catastrophize problems.

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And then my bad day was all day.

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that's in terms of something happening in my day, but I could still have

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a bad day food wise, you know, where you have a complete blowout.

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And I think the difference today compared to back then, because you know, I, I speak

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to people, I have friends who are really.

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Rigid with their diet and you know, we do Christmas lunches and things

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like that, and you'll see me, I'll eat gluten, I'll have a glass of wine.

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I'll do the things that even though I don't do the majority

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of the time, I would do them at those times because I'm not rigid.

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I used to be rigid and it was really unhealthy for me.

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I had so many food issues.

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I had so much food anxiety that everything I ate reacted.

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In my gut.

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And I just, you know, I remember my mom saying to me at one point years ago,

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she goes, it's like you curse your food.

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And I was like, yeah, because I can't eat that.

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I can't eat that.

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This is bad, that's bad and this is bad for this reason and that reason.

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It was just like, oh my gosh.

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And so when I see people like that, like I would never slip back at into that pattern

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because I don't think that's healthy.

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I think we are more resilient than.

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Every single morsel of food is gonna bring us down.

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Like, you know, I talked about, um, this was really funny on that

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episode of the diary of a CEO

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we were talking about this last weekend, me and some friends, how.

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Steven, what's his name?

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Bar Bartlett.

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He said that he had two glasses of wine and then that night he didn't

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sleep properly, and then the next day it threw him out all day with

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his workload and his podcasting.

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And then actually for the next three days, he said it took him three

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days to get back into his normal routine from two glasses of wine.

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Yeah.

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And someone in the comments below said.

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Wow, how soft do you have to be?

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And I, and I thought that was hilarious because that's what I like, that,

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um, that's my personal opinion too.

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Like, I don't want to be so optimized that I can't handle two glasses of

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wine, and then my three day half my week is thrown out like that.

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That doesn't seem optimized to me, I'm not ever that rigid, right?

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Where there's these really hard rules and it's very distressing and it's

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very hard to keep to them, and it can suck the joy out of life, right?

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You go to nice events with people and there's nice food and

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you're like, I can't eat this.

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I can't eat that.

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I can't eat this, you know, look healing during the healing phase.

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Obviously we talk about in the program that's important, that's a hundred

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percent important, but that's, you know, six weeks, eight weeks out of your life.

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and, and maybe if it's longer too, that's okay as well, but.

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You know, I think overall, like you wanna enjoy life, you wanna have

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freedom, you wanna have freedom with food, that's really important.

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And so my bad days now, the other day, I think when we were talking about prepping

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this podcast, I was like, that day I was like, yeah, well I didn't, didn't

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have breakfast until like lunchtime, like I broke my own rules, you know?

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'cause it was such a busy morning.

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I had appointments and I had meetings and it was like from

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6:00 AM it was back to back.

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but I was okay because I'm not burnt out anymore.

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Right.

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When I don't stick to a routine, I don't carry as much, there's

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not as much weight on that, right?

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I'm not like, oh, I've broken it.

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It's a bad day.

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This is really bad.

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Like I broke my, I've ruined my whole week.

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Now I've gotta start back again.

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And do you know, you know, that's the stuff that I hear that a lot of people do.

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So I just look, I'm just straight back on the next meal,

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straight back on, you know, back into my habits.

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And a bad day to me is not.

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The catastrophe that it was before.

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So the days that I have low bandwidth, I just know that I have low bandwidth

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and I'm just like, you know what?

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You have no bandwidth.

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You're not gonna get this done right now.

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You need to just take a break for five minutes or do something

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else until your mind creates more bandwidth and then you can come

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back to it.

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And that has served me very well.

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It's allowed me to do a lot more work, get a lot more done, be very productive

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without feeling that catastrophe at all.

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But also without that overwhelming

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Mm-hmm.

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And so speaking of low bandwidth, you know, like we, you talked a lot

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about what they are and how you can handle them, but how can women tell

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the difference between laziness?

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And low nervous system capacity.

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laziness is just not ever normally laziness because there is still a

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metabolic process that's happening there.

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So either they don't have the energy.

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Right, or they're in that kind of freeze response, right?

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That, that they can't actually do another thing.

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They have zero capacity.

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So one of the things that I see with women who are, are burnt out, who have

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mitochondrial dysfunction, uh, they just don't have that energy production.

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And so it looks like laziness, but really they just don't have that energy.

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The body is conserving their energy.

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Whatever it has, you know, for metabolic processes, it's not,

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there's not enough overflow.

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to do things that they need to do because really a high think

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something like exercise, right?

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Our desire to exercise is a natural desire due to a surplus of energy.

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It's not as if we have to go, okay, now I've gotta go to the gym.

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I'm so tired, I can't be bothered, I'm so lazy, whatever.

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No, actually there isn't a surplus of energy there, so therefore you're using

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your willpower to push you through.

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and in terms of the nervous system, quite often people stuck in that freeze response

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Hmm.

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won't be able to do more.

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They won't recognize why, but they just have such a small capacity to

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take anything new on, and so everything feels like it's just too hard.

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It's just too much.

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I can't, like the, the brain just goes, no.

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Right.

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So.

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laziness, unless, you know, like even teenagers, like that's about the

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only example I would give laziness.

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And, but still they're going through a massive growth spurt, so that's

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why the energy's being used to grow.

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Um, and that's why it looks like laziness.

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So very rarely just laziness.

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There's a lot more going on internally.

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Mm. Yeah.

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'cause again, I see this a lot in the, in the calls and in the community

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where people feel like on those days where they have low bandwidth, if

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they stop that internal dialogue that they have with themself is,

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I'm lazy, I'm not good enough.

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Um, what would you say to these women when they're having these.

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Thoughts of I'm not good enough.

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I have to continually keep doing and keep moving and keep going and

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pushing through in order to feel enough and to feel like you've had a good,

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successful day, that you feel worthy.

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Yeah, it's interesting.

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Like I, I feel like, uh, that's more of a habitual pattern.

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So, you know, if you don't have a productive day, how does

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that make you less good enough?

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if your output is, determines whether you are good enough, then yeah, you're

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gonna have days where your, your sense of self-esteem is gonna fluctuate because

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you are, you're basing it on external output, which is, is not the case.

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Right.

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We are.

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You know, we are good enough.

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We, we, we should, you know, that's just not being able to tap into that

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self-esteem or that confidence because the mind is telling us other things.

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Right?

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Oh, you did that really badly.

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I can't believe you said that.

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That's so embarrassing.

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You know, like, like that's just the mind, right?

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But you know, when the mind quietens down, you don't feel

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like you're not good enough.

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Right?

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You don't even think about it.

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It's not even something that comes up.

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But it's only when we are being super hypercritical because our mind takes over.

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That we start to then go, well, if I do more, then I'm

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enough.

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that's a losing battle tying, tying your self-esteem to your output.

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And I think that's a really hard one.

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I've done podcasts on that because I've definitely seen that for myself, that,

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you know, if I'm achieving, then I'm enough, you know?

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But that, that's a trap because the goalpost is always

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moving.

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You know, and I think as soon as you can get awareness and disconnect from output

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and productivity and achievement and just know that that sense of enoughness

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is something that you are, is a feeling that you're connected to when you don't

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have a lot of crap going on in your head,

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No.

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when you're more centered, when you're more quiet, that's,

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that's a natural feeling.

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What are some of the unspoken things that you've learned from helping over

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10,000 women throughout the program?

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Yeah, so I guess some of the things that we haven't spoken about is.

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You know, I talk about in the program the rescuer profile,

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you know, the rescuer mindset.

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And again, I'm bringing a lot of my case studies into this because, you know,

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that's something I discovered for myself.

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So a rescuer is someone who is always rescuing people in a sense

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of, overcommitting to things, helping everyone leaving themselves last,

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and then, they can become resentful.

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And so.

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It takes up a lot of your, your time and your space and

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your bandwidth and your energy.

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so I'll give you an example that, you know, in my work, I have had

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moments and a lot of moments that I'm like, I just wanna make it as easy

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as possible for them to do so easy.

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And then if they don't find it easy, well then that's on me.

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I need to make it easier.

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Like I then make a breakdown easier, make it more clear, whatever.

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Right?

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And I got to that point where I realized.

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the fact that they, you know, if someone's struggling with

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something, then that's not.

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You know, it's not on me that I haven't made it easy enough for them.

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Right?

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In fact, a rescuer turns people into victims, and that's, that's the biggest

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lesson I learned is that as I'm trying to make it and do it all for them

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and make it as easy as possible, then I'm saying to myself that they don't

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have the resources or the ability to do it on their own without me.

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And so therefore I've created a victim.

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And then what happens is a victim will, you know, turn against you.

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Right.

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And so, you know, we'll say to mothers in the group, like, you're

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doing everything for your kids.

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And no one appreciates that.

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You feel resentful, but the kids become like the victim and

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then they become the aggressor.

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Like they don't appreciate anything.

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They fight back with you.

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And it's like, while the rescuer role is very nurturing and very helpful, like

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without rescuers, I don't think we'd have nurses and doctors and all of that, right?

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People who really wanna make a difference.

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So I don't think it's all bad, but I think there needs to be awareness of.

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how much are you being a rescuer in your relationships, in your

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work and just in your day to day?

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'cause that is extremely draining and just takes a lot from you, and

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it doesn't serve others either.

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I think that's, you know, the big lesson that I learned, it

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doesn't really serve people.

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And so that's, you know, probably one of the, you know, things that we talk

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about early on in the program that we haven't mentioned here on the podcast.

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The other final thing that I would mention is hyper vigilance.

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So, you know, we see people in the program that have been.

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Exhausted chronically that I've had.

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Chronic gut symptoms, chronic thyroid conditions, autoimmune, just chronic

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symptoms, right from whatever cause.

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And one of the things that I've noticed in my work, which makes a

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huge difference, is to recognize how much the hyper vigilance, which I'll

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explain, but how much the hypervigilance is contributing to the symptoms and

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really exacerbating them, if not.

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Prevent, like being the block to healing, right?

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And so hypervigilance means that, you know, I'll give you an example.

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When someone's tired, they've been chronic fatigue for years, and

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so the energy goes up and down.

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And so when it's down, they're like, oh, why am I so tired?

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I'm so sick of being tired.

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I've done everything.

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What am I not doing right?

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What did I eat yesterday?

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What about, did I take all my supplements?

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Or why?

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Why am I still like this?

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I can't stand being, I'm doing all the right things.

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This is so frustrating.

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Like that mental conversation or it's like.

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I can't do this 'cause I won't have the energy or I can't eat that because you

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know, that's gonna affect my health.

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So that's hypervigilance and that keeps the stress response active all day.

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It causes that slow drip drip of cortisol all day long.

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Which then has its downstream effect, right?

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It starts to hijack other systems of the body, changes our hormones, changes our

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biochemistry, creates inflammation, breaks down our gut, breaks down liver detox

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pathways, like so much is happening that then makes sure that the symptoms stay.

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And so a lot of people, when I have that conversation with them, they don't

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realize that, yeah, that's what I do.

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I really do that.

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And it's, it's like going to war with your body.

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Like they don't realize it, but that, that hyper vigilance is like you're in

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resistance.

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Yeah, so that's probably along with all the, you know,

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the dietary and the mindset.

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But those are the other two things that I think that are really

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important that when women come through the program that they see that.

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Beautiful.

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Amazing.

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Well, thank you, Melissa, for your interview style.

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Thank you so much for sharing with us Wena.

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Um, I know I learned a lot and I'm sure anybody listening also learned a lot and,

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Amazing.

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thank you so much.