E160 | Why High Achieving Women Get Stuck In Survival Mode

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Let's go, girls.

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Hello, ladies.

Welcome back to the Rejuvenate Health Podcast.

I am mindset coach Laken, and as always, I'm joined by women's nurse practitioner Lindsey Van Schoyck.

And today, we are talking to the woman who is doing everything.

These are the ladies [chuckles] that are running the house, taking care of the kids, supporting aging parents a lot of the time, managing a full-time job, and well, just keeping everyone alive and fed and scheduled and emotionally regulated [chuckles] and the household functioning and all the things.

And then on top of that, we get it.

You're told, "Strength train three times a week minimum.

Make sure that you're hitting a daily protein goal.

Walk every day to get your steps in.

Prioritize your sleep.

Manage your stress," all the things.

And, you know, you're like, "Cool," but with what time? With what energy? Like, how am I supposed to handle all this? [chuckles]

Yeah.

It can be super overwhelming.

And from the health side, this matters so much because we can give the women...

We can give you guys the best supplement pan- plan, the best workout plan, the best lifestyle medicine plan, but if there's no room in your life for the plan, if you don't have the capacity for it, it's not gonna stick.

And it, it doesn't mean that the plan is bad, um, it means that we have to look at where you're at in life and your capacity.

That also doesn't mean that just because you're busy you can put your health on hold.

I wanna put in there as a caveat too, because this, this is not a conversation that means, "Oh, I'm just gonna wait six months until things get better," because-

Right

... that's not gonna happen.

'Cause life is always gonna be life-ing.

Yeah.

There's, there's not gonna be...

There's never an ideal season to prioritize yourself.

It's that it needs to be a priority, but we also have to make space for it.