Mom guilt isn’t just emotional...it’s physiological. And for many women, it’s one of the biggest reasons their bodies feel stuck, inflamed, exhausted, or resistant to healing.

In this episode, we unpack how chronic mom guilt quietly drives stress responses in the body, why that stress blocks healing, and what actually helps, beyond “thinking positive” or doing more.

This is for the mom who:

• Feels guilty resting

• Feels guilty working

• Feels guilty staying home

• Feels guilty prioritizing her health

• Feels like no matter what she does, it’s never enough

And yet… wonders why her body won’t respond.

Mom guilt isn’t a character flaw. It’s a chronic internal stress loop driven by:

• Constant self-monitoring

• Fear of letting others down

• Internalized expectations

• Lack of true rest or recovery

📊 Research shows chronic perceived stress activates the same physiological stress pathways as external threats, even when nothing “bad” is happening.

When guilt becomes constant, the body doesn’t feel safe.

That leads to:

• Elevated or flattened cortisol patterns

• Poor sleep quality

• Increased inflammation

• Blood sugar instability

• Hormone disruption

• Slower metabolism and healing

📊 Studies show prolonged cortisol dysregulation is linked to fatigue, weight retention, anxiety, and impaired immune function.

You can eat well. You can exercise. You can “do all the right things.”

But if your nervous system is stuck in:

• Hyper-responsibility

• Self-criticism

• Emotional vigilance

…the body prioritizes survival over repair.

📊 Healing processes (digestion, hormone balance, tissue repair) only fully activate when the nervous system perceives safety.

Unchecked mom guilt often shows up as:

• Burnout that doesn’t resolve

• “Unexplained” symptoms

• Emotional numbness or overwhelm

• Feeling disconnected from your body

• Frustration with health plans that don’t work

📊 Research links emotional suppression and chronic guilt to higher inflammatory markers and poorer stress recovery.

What doesn’t help:

• More discipline

• More restriction

• More pressure

• Pushing through exhaustion

What does help:

• Nervous system regulation

• Understanding stress patterns in your body (Inside our GET REGULATED™ System)

• Removing self-blame through data and clarity

• Supporting healing without adding more to your plate

This is where regulation changes everything.

You are not failing. Your body isn’t broken. It’s responding exactly how a stressed system responds.

When we stop blaming moms and start supporting their nervous systems, healing becomes possible again.

• Moms who feel stuck in their health

• Women who feel guilty resting or prioritizing themselves

• Anyone who’s tried “everything” and still feels exhausted

• Moms ready to heal without shame, pressure, or burnout

Healing doesn’t require you to become a better mom. It requires your body to feel safe enough to let go.

And that starts with understanding, not guilt.

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In this episode, we go straight into the heart of a silent struggle so many women carry alone. This one is for the mom who is doing everything; working, caregiving, cleaning, remembering appointments, pouring into her kids, pouring into her marriage, and still trying to squeeze in care for her own body and heart...yet somehow feels like she’s not measuring up.

It’s for the woman who loves being a homemaker, who loves creating a home, who loves caring for her family…

but quietly wonders if her husband wishes she were someone “easier,” “lighter,” “younger,” or untouched by motherhood.

It’s the episode for the woman who feels replaced by a fantasy she can never, and should never, compete with.

We’re breaking that open today.

Why so many women feel like they’re losing to a younger, childless version of womanhood, and why that feeling isn’t actually rooted in truth.

We talk about fantasy vs. reality, and why partners sometimes escape into the idea of “someone easier,” and what that actually signals (hint: it isn’t that you’re not enough).

A raw look at how becoming a mother deepens your identity, wisdom, emotional capacity, and power… even when the world doesn’t recognize it.

Including:

• Releasing the pressure to be the woman you were before kids

• Returning to your own approval

• Redefining homemaking as world-building

• Choosing nourishment over punishment

• Healing the “never enough” narrative in your body, not just your mind

A truth-telling conversation about letting go of the fantasy self and honoring the deeply lived, deeply layered woman you’ve become.

The closing message every mother, wife, and exhausted, stretched-thin woman needs to hear.

• You feel like your husband admires women you can’t relate to anymore

• You compare yourself to your pre-baby body or pre-kid life

• You feel invisible or taken for granted

• You love your role at home but also want to feel chosen, seen, valued

• You’re tired of feeling like you’re not enough — in your marriage, in your body, in your life

You are not losing. You are not falling short. You are not replaceable.

You are becoming — deeper, wiser, fuller. And you deserve a love that honors the woman you are now.

If this episode spoke to you, share it with a woman who needs the reminder today.

And if you’re ready to heal your stress, hormones, and nervous system from the inside out, the Get Regulated™ Beta is officially open!! Founders pricing. High-touch support. Limited to 10 women.

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I'm truly grateful for you always,

Stacy

In this episode, we uncover what chronic stress is really doing inside a woman’s body; far beyond the tension, fatigue, or mood swings you can feel. We break down how stress rewires your hormones, your metabolism, your sleep, your emotional regulation, and even your relationships.

You’ll learn:

• How survival mode changes your brain and body

• The hormone pathways most impacted by chronic stress

• Why women experience higher rates of stress-related illness

• The overlooked connection between stress, cardiovascular risk, and long-term health

• The symptoms that show up first, and the ones most women miss

And inside it all… the part no one talks about: how chronic stress influences the very statistics that determine women’s morbidity and mortality.

If you’re ready to get out of survival mode and finally understand your stress-hormone patterns, join my free Get Regulated Workshop. We’ll break down your nervous system, your hormone pathways, and the exact steps to reverse the effects of chronic stress.

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