Speaker 1: Hey, the Healthyish listeners, thank you for tuning into the
Speaker 1: daily podcast from Body and Soul. I am Felicity Harley.
Speaker 1: Are you feeling deep cellular exhaustion or perhaps you just
Speaker 1: want to get off that damn treadmill. Oh it's a cliche,
Speaker 1: but it's true, isn't it. Well. My guest today is
Speaker 1: doctor Philippa Bellette. She's a PhD scholar, nutritionist, functional medicine practitioner,
Speaker 1: and author of a new book called End Body Burnout,
Speaker 1: and today she's going to discuss the importance of addressing
Speaker 1: both the imbalances in your body systems and also the
Speaker 1: deeper causes of burnout that are probably in your mind.
Speaker 1: If you do like what you hear from Philippa, and
Speaker 1: I know you will. It's a great chat listening to
Speaker 1: Extra Healthy Issue where she discusses her four step approach
Speaker 1: to healing. You can grab that wherever you get your podcasts. Philippa,
Speaker 1: thank you for joining us on the podcast today. I
Speaker 1: hope you're feeling well, refreshed and not exhausted.
Speaker 2: I'm doing really well.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 1: I know your book is going to well ring true
Speaker 1: for so many of our listeners. I mean, exhaustion is
Speaker 1: just the norm. You've worked with more than two thousand
Speaker 1: and five hundred so called burnt out clients.
Speaker 4: That's a lot talk to us about this. What do
Speaker 4: you hear? What do you see?
Speaker 3: Something I do here A lot is exhaustion is the
Speaker 3: norm you have? That you said that really specifically, and
Speaker 3: it's so correct. And it's also a story that a
Speaker 3: lot of people who end up working with us or
Speaker 3: end up in our circle, that they've got that message
Speaker 3: from like a GP as well, especially when they're running
Speaker 3: tests and they're like, oh, oh, your markers or your
Speaker 3: blood tests are fine, but you don't feel fine, So
Speaker 3: what's going on?
Speaker 4: That's what the patient is thinking.
Speaker 3: Yeah, But then often people are just sold the story
Speaker 3: of oh, you're a mom, or you're a business owner,
Speaker 3: or like, everyone's busy and stressed out these days, so
Speaker 3: it's just really normal to feel the way that you are.
Speaker 3: So that's definitely one theme that I see. Another theme
Speaker 3: is that people who get stuck in a busy pattern
Speaker 3: often have underlying other patterns going on. So perfectionism, people
Speaker 3: pleasing all on thing, thinking over responsibility for others, and
Speaker 3: also a need to control, and that is a huge
Speaker 3: theme that people aren't quite really seeing on the surface
Speaker 3: level when they're feeling exhausted, and that really steeps back
Speaker 3: into the childhood patterns or beliefs that you created when
Speaker 3: you're a little kid, and those beliefs then drive these
Speaker 3: busy perfectionism people pleasing patterns as a way to try
Speaker 3: and really run away from the greatest fear that you
Speaker 3: have about yourself.
Speaker 4: It's so true, isn't it.
Speaker 1: And I feel like, oh, look, me included and many
Speaker 1: of our listeners and my friends and colleagues, and you're
Speaker 1: just you're on I mean, it's such a cliche, but
Speaker 1: you're on that treadmill. And someone actually I had Kate
Speaker 1: Lambrook on here a couple of years ago, and she
Speaker 1: described it as deep celliar exhaustion. And I just feel
Speaker 1: like that sums it up. But you just keep going,
Speaker 1: You just keep on going. So how do you know?
Speaker 1: What I want to know is, how do you know
Speaker 1: if you're on that treadmill, if you actually exhausted, if
Speaker 1: you burn out before you start addressing those other issues
Speaker 1: of perfectionism, control, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 3: Yes, So, some common symptoms that we see in burnout
Speaker 3: clients or energy mood gut.
Speaker 2: And gut issues.
Speaker 3: We also use the word body burnout, so not just burnout.
Speaker 3: A lot of people think about burnout that they've been
Speaker 3: working too much and you know, their brain is kind
Speaker 3: of cooked, so mood issues can definitely show up, and
Speaker 3: that might look like irritability, snappiness, your inability to respond
Speaker 3: to stresses like you used to. But on the other
Speaker 3: spectrum too, maybe people are now dropping down into deep
Speaker 3: depression PTSD. And then energy issues, so if someone's noticing
Speaker 3: that their energy levels are dropping, whether they're struggling to
Speaker 3: wake up in the morning or doing the three pm
Speaker 3: slump kind of like early science, and then later signs
Speaker 3: that I am so exhausted, I am chronically fatigued. And
Speaker 3: energy issues could also show up as sleep issues, so insomnia,
Speaker 3: brain fog, low motivation, So they're kind of like the
Speaker 3: top two.
Speaker 2: And then the third one that not many people.
Speaker 3: Think about in relation to burnout is gut issues. So
Speaker 3: when you've been running busy burnout patterns for a really
Speaker 3: long time, you get stuck in fight flight and basically
Speaker 3: that switches off your gut and then that can show
Speaker 3: up as bloating, reflux, constipation, diarrhea, food sensitivities and other
Speaker 3: inflammatory type issues that often stem from the gut, like
Speaker 3: skin issues, auto immunity, even chronic pain.
Speaker 4: I feel like so many of us.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know all the symptoms you've talked about,
Speaker 1: there are so many that I mean, we're all putting
Speaker 1: your hands up. Yes, that's me, that's me, that's me.
Speaker 1: We are just one stressed out society in so many ways.
Speaker 1: So to us about your four step method of healing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, cool.
Speaker 3: So you can't have symptoms without there being some sort
Speaker 3: of physical imbalance. So we always first look at body systems.
Speaker 3: And this is really great too. If you have gone
Speaker 3: to the GP or specialist and you're feeling really crappy,
Speaker 3: but all the results are showing up as fine, there
Speaker 3: are there must be. There has to be physical imbalances
Speaker 3: happening inside the body systems, and so first step is
Speaker 3: getting clear on those body systems.
Speaker 2: We're a functional medicine practice.
Speaker 3: So we use different types of lab testing that look
Speaker 3: at gut health and adrenal stress hormones and your detox
Speaker 3: pathways and heavy metals and nutritional deficiencies. When you can
Speaker 3: uncover that, then it's like okay, cool, Now we can
Speaker 3: start resetting, rebalancing the physical part of the body so
Speaker 3: that you can start feeling well, and then the other
Speaker 3: steps are really diving deeper into the root causes. So
Speaker 3: step number two is heal thy mind, and that's what
Speaker 3: I would call the deepest root cause of body burnout.
Speaker 3: So that's where we're circling back to perfectionism patterns, people
Speaker 3: pleasing overdoing.
Speaker 2: Where did those patterns actually come from?
Speaker 3: Because you could take a bucket load of supplements based
Speaker 3: on lab testing, but if you're not addressing that deeper root,
Speaker 3: then you will only get short term relief, if at all.
Speaker 3: So that's really important to kind of like go deeper
Speaker 3: into the unconscious mind nervous system to look at how
Speaker 3: you're wired, how you're programmed, and any blockages or baggage
Speaker 3: stuck in your system that is causing those patterns in.
Speaker 2: The first place. Step number three is then heal my body.
Speaker 3: So once you have started to reprogram that deeper part
Speaker 3: of yourself, it's actually now safe to be able to
Speaker 3: heal because a lot of people get stuck in burnout
Speaker 3: and chronic health.
Speaker 2: Safety to be well because the health issues are.
Speaker 3: Hiding deeper unconscious core wounds within themselves. So when you
Speaker 3: can start clearing that, now you can start getting strategic
Speaker 3: and start supporting your boy with different lifestyle changes, different
Speaker 3: lab based supplements, sleep. Everyone knows that the things that
Speaker 3: we should be doing, so we do whole foods, movement,
Speaker 3: all those really important things. And then the fourth step
Speaker 3: is looking out towards your environment. So you could be
Speaker 3: doing all the lovely things inside your body, but if
Speaker 3: you're living in a really toxic environment, and that might
Speaker 3: look like chemical toxic, so things like toxic skin care.
Speaker 2: Products, cleaning products.
Speaker 3: Even mold. But also if you're living or have relationships
Speaker 3: with toxic people or toxic workplaces, that's going to affect.
Speaker 2: Your ability to be able to heal as well.
Speaker 1: So if someone's listening to this and can identify with
Speaker 1: all the symptoms of burnout, is your recommendation. The first
Speaker 1: step getting tests done, going to your doctor apart from
Speaker 1: buying your book.
Speaker 3: That is, look, if someone's really not doing well, I
Speaker 3: would go to the GP first and foremost, because you
Speaker 3: want to you want to screen out to make sure
Speaker 3: you don't have something like cancer or you know, a
Speaker 3: tumor or something grow inside your body, something that could
Speaker 3: be really detrimental. If that's all fine, then.
Speaker 4: I would be so.
Speaker 3: In our functional medicine practice, we use lab testing that
Speaker 3: goes beyond just GP tests, and it's a nice, good
Speaker 3: first step because people actually really like to have that
Speaker 3: data to validate how they're feeling. It's like, it's not
Speaker 3: just all in my head. I'm not just a hypochondriac.
Speaker 3: There are actually real things happening inside my body. And
Speaker 3: then as you can start supporting those body systems therapeutically,
Speaker 3: that also helps people to start feeling a bit bitter
Speaker 3: mood wise, and motivation and energy to then be able
Speaker 3: to do the root cause work and you know, the
Speaker 3: lifestyle changes that are going to help them to heal.
Speaker 1: Yeah, great advice, Philippa, thank you for coming on Healthy
Speaker 1: each Thank you two and a half thousand Burnout guests.
Speaker 1: That's a lot, and no doubt there is many more
Speaker 1: than that who are listening to these podcasts like you.
Speaker 1: If you do want more from Philippart, her new book
Speaker 1: is called Ending Body Burnout and it is out now.
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