Vanessa G Fitcast

Ep. 299 Healing Requires Safety: The Nervous System Piece You’re Missing For Lasting Change

Episode Summary

What if the thing standing between you and your health goals isn’t another supplement, but a conversation you’ve been avoiding?

Episode Notes

What if the thing standing between you and your health goals isn’t another supplement, but a conversation you’ve been avoiding? 

Omar and I are back this week, fresh off our team retreat and feeling full after a weekend with people who challenge us to grow. That got me thinking about a viral post from Dr. Sarah Campbell that I read aloud in this episode, asking whether it’s histamine or three hours of pretending you weren’t mad, and whether it’s anxiety or never setting a boundary in your entire life. 

I share why I don’t see this as an either/or, because the women I work with often have a real autoimmune disease and have also been holding in a scream for twenty years. We talk about why healing physically means changing your environment, not just doing the inner work to tolerate it, and why that mind management is exhausting for your nervous system on its own. 

Omar and I get into why so many women struggle to ask for support, from learning early on to put their needs aside to staying busy because it feels productive. I redefine what being productive really means and why rest might be the most productive thing you can do. We also talk about the nuance of big life changes, like how to make a smart plan when you can’t just walk away from a job or relationship overnight. 

And I explain why your body won’t heal or lose weight in an unsafe nervous system, which is why stress management and nervous system regulation are the foundation of everything we do. 

If you’ve been chasing gut and hormone fixes without lasting results, this episode might be the push you need.
 

Time Stamps:

 

(2:07) Excitement In The Air & Spending Time With Our Team

 

(4:04) Recent Instagram Post

 

(5:52) Holding In A Scream

 

(13:52) Making Big Changes

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