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Functional Medicine and Burnout: Discovering the Roots of Wellness with Dr. Laura Miles

Functional Medicine and Burnout: Discovering the Roots of Wellness with Dr. Laura Miles

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Speaker_00 - 00:00 I completely agree. I think a lot of what's talked about is for burnout recovery is just all the stress management things which is like the band-aid but we're not actually fixing the rushing wound that's underneath that if we're not addressing the contributing factors. So I have heard a little bit about adrenal fatigue and I was working with a functional medicine physician and that was helping me with that but why don't you explain a little bit more about what that is for the people that wouldn't know. Hi, I'm Avery Thatcher, a former ICU nurse, and this is not your standard stress management podcast where we just focus on those band-aid solutions like the benefits of meditation, mindfulness, and self-care. You already know that you need some kind of recovery strategy to deal with your stressful life. But what you may not know are all of the sneaky ways that society, our upbringing, and our high achieving nature, and so many other factors contribute to our risk of burnout. That, my friend, is what we talk about here on this podcast because you can't do something about a situation that you're not aware of, right? Avery- 01:03 So if you're ready to get out of the pattern of burning out, feeling better, only to burn out again, it's time for us to shut the light on the truth about burnout. I am very excited to bring on my guest today because Laura has a really interesting story to share and I know it'll be one that a lot of us can relate to in different stages. So welcome, Laura. Happy to have you here. Laura - 01:29 So glad to be here. Thank you for having me here. Avery- 01:32 Yes, course. I just think it's so wonderful when people are willing to share their story because, you know, our story can become somebody else's survival guide and I think that's just such an important piece of our human experience, so thank you. Laura - 01:46 Absolutely. Avery- 01:48 So why don't you tell us a little bit about you and when you first identified as a high achiever? Laura - 01:54 I think I've been a high achiever my whole life and it just snowballs so I was I'm a physician and I was in my own practice and I had two younger kids and it was just blowing and going everyone was busy my kids were in their own activities they were doing you know soccer and Piano, ice skating and then I had my life of working full-time I'd literally drop them off at school and I'd run to work and then run back and pick them up and then all the festivities began. I think I was living out of the back of my car is what I always said because I had soccer chairs and I had you know coolers and dinner was kind of whatever we drove by that was close and so you hate to even admit that now but it's like yeah you know how it goes. And over time that just kept, you know, I just kept thinking, well, I can do it all. You know, I'm, I'm not that busy. And they'd ask you to do something at school. Sure. Laura - 02:54 I can do that. So, you know, here's another added, added stressor and another added thing that you had to accomplish. And so over time it really started wearing, you know, wearing me out and I was really getting tired and, and I'd come home. I was just exhausted all the time. It was irritable. My cycles got really all messed up. I started kind of losing words and my kids would be saying mom we told you that and I couldn't even remember the conversation. Laura - 03:22 I named it word inversions I would be thinking something and something else would come out and I go oh wait that's not what I meant to say and it really just It just kept getting worse. So that's kind of when I first started realizing that hey there's really something wrong but I didn't recognize it as burnout. I thought there was something physically wrong with me and so you just kept plugging away. Avery- 03:52 Yeah. And that's really common. When I talk with people and they're just like, oh, I don't think I'm burned out. And then we start to go through some of the signs and symptoms and then they're like, oh, okay, so maybe. And it sounds like that's kind of where you were at is you were seeing all of some of these cardinal burnout red flags, but we didn't admit that it was burnout, didn't know it was burnout and you were still looking for something else so that you could keep going at the pace that you were. Is that fair? Laura - 04:22 Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. I even went to my doctor and I said, you know, I'm starting to wonder if this is stress. Oh, what do you have to be stressed about? You're fine. Oh, okay. Well, maybe I am fine. Laura - 04:35 So you just plug away and keep going another year and then suddenly you're really starting to crash and really feeling terrible. And that's when there was one particular event that happened that really shook me up so much that I had taken my kids to school, run to work. And it was a little different day, the schedule had changed a little bit. Got off work, you know, jumped in my car and I had put a ...
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