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

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

Can the pursuit of healthy become unhealthy?

In this episode, I’m joined by Abbie Attwood, a clinical nutritionist and an endurance athlete coach based in San Francisco. Abbie specializes in the intersection of sports nutrition and disordered eating and is passionate about helping athletes of all abilities improve their body image, their relationship with food, and their mindset around exercise.

You’ll hear us discuss:

• Abbie’s experience as a marathon runner training for the Olympic Trials

• What led to her to discover an undiagnosed autoimmune condition and how it shifted her training and ultimately her life

• My experience with overtraining and burnout

• Disordered eating, body image, and mindset in endurance athletes

• What recovery actually looks like

Can the pursuit of healthy become unhealthy?

In this episode, I’m joined by Abbie Attwood, a clinical nutritionist and an endurance athlete coach based in San Francisco. Abbie specializes in the intersection of sports nutrition and disordered eating and is passionate about helping athletes of all abilities improve their body image, their relationship with food, and their mindset around exercise.

You’ll hear us discuss:

• Abbie’s experience as a marathon runner training for the Olympic Trials

• What led to her to discover an undiagnosed autoimmune condition and how it shifted her training and ultimately her life

• My experience with overtraining and burnout

• Disordered eating, body image, and mindset in endurance athletes

• What recovery actually looks like

Getting adequate rest and sleep is essential to maintain your health and well-being. Though it might sound simple, it’s not easy to do.

If you're like me who's struggled with sleep then this episode will help you get an idea of what's keeping you from getting good rest and what you should do about it.

Join me for this episode as I talk about the key to adrenal recovery, rest, and the importance of sleep. Find out what happens when you sleep and how to embrace rituals to help you get in a state of rest.

Episode Highlights:

• What happens when we sleep

• Your sleep problems are deeply rooted

• What’s keeping you from getting a good rest?

• My eating routine before bed that helped me balance my blood sugar

• How to live your life in alignment

• The importance of rest and sleep

Do you struggle with sleep too? What does that struggle look like? What have you tried that worked and hasn’t?

At the time of recording, I’m on Day 43 of sheltering-in-place solo, and I think by now we can all attest to how important social connections are to our health and wellness. For some of us, its even more important than a healthy diet, exercising or even sleep!

The only thing keeping me company is my puppy girl, Coco Pop! I am so grateful to have her with me because this experience would have been so lonely without her and I know many of you feel the same way about your pets as well.

Joining me today is Samantha Vaccaro. She’s a public health professional but she’s also known as Poppy the Doodle’s mom. We’re both crazy dog mom’s who have Instagram accounts for our doodles, Coco Pop and Poppy, and that’s how we connected.

In this episode you’ll hear us chat about:

• How we’re each sheltering in place solo and how our puppy girls are helping us through it

• How having a canine companion can teach us, humans, how to have structure, routines, and boundaries, which are pretty vital to our health

• How our pups help us maintain social connections, especially as adults when its so harder to meet people and make new friendships

In this solo episode, I’m sharing what life has been like for the first 36 days of sheltering in place - solo.

I share what’s changed and what hasn’t when it comes to my work, my workouts, meditation, my mindset and new introspections, and of course, food - and wanting all the comfort food!

I also share what I’ve been up to daily, new things I’ve tried, and three new curated recipe collections that I created for you (that you can find in the show notes for this episode!):

• 22 Healthy Recipes that Support Your Immune System

• 14 Healthy Pantry Staple Recipes

• 12 Healthy and Affordable Recipes

Studies have shown that clutter is a major source of stress. So how can you alleviate it? Get rid of the clutter! Perhaps you’ve already started the process while sheltering-in-place, but if you haven’t now might be a great time to get started!

Joining me in this episode is Carly Adams of the Tidy Revival. Carly is a Professional Organizer based in Sacramento, CA. She helps her clients get organized in their homes & businesses by working alongside them, or virtually through personalized action plans. Whether that’s helping clients declutter, create a Pinterest-perfect pantry, or helping busy parents re-examine the flow of their kitchen or utility closet - Carly is a self-proclaimed “organizational nerd” that loves to geek out to her clients’ benefit.

You’ll hear us discuss:

• The Tidy Revival story

• Her top tips of how to start decluttering when it feels so overwhelming

• What to do when emotions take over

• 7 tips for decluttering any space

I started decluttering my home back at the beginning of the year and with each space that I cleared, it felt like a weight lifted off my shoulders, leaving me with a lightness I haven’t felt in a long time.

I truly believe that decluttering has helped make sheltering-in-place for a prolonged period of time feel comfortable because my home is now a space that I enjoy being in.

In this episode of The Live FAB Life Podcast, I’m joined by Sadie Adams, the Proprietress of Take Care, a spa with locations in New York City and in the Venice Beach area of Los Angeles where a collective of practitioners explore conversations of beauty and health, authenticity, and self-expression.

You’ll hear Sadie share:

• How she started her career studying Ayurveda and teaching yoga

• How she became an esthetician

• What is microcurrent and the origins of it

• How she cultivates relationships with her clients by working with intention to explore the schism between where their motor actions are, and how they can integrate their intentions closer to their motor actions and become more integrated beings.