She Decided to Run Her Way

In this heartfelt return episode, join me as I share the internal adventure I went on after reaching a significant milestone – turning 50. After years as a dedicated running coach and personal trainer, today’s episode dives into my decision to retire those roles and fully embrace my identity as a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (NTP), along with my struggle to release a long-held identity and embrace a new chapter in the next phase of my life.

From the challenges of acknowledging the need for change to the ultimate decision to let go, this episode is an honest reflection of me finding clarity and stepping into a future shaped by purpose and passion with the exciting announcement of my new podcast, "Living Free from Chronic Fatigue."

This fresh endeavor is not just a podcast; it's a lifeline for women who, like me, have struggled with chronic fatigue and health issues while trying to prioritize an active lifestyle.

If you'd like to continue hanging out with me over on the new podcast, "Living Free from Chronic Fatigue," CLICK HERE!

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In today’s podcast episode, I’ll be sharing with you 12 common causes of chronic fatigue. 

If you're a female runner who’s where I was a few years ago…fed up with feeling poorly, frustrated because you can’t do the physical activities that you used to be able to do and experiencing chronic fatigue that’s really messing with your life, then I feel confident that today’s episode is gonna help you identify where to start, encourage you to ask more questions, and begin to help you find answers to what’s really causing your fatigue.

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Episodes mentioned:
Episode 77: 3 Types of Fatigue: Are You Struggling to Run Because of Fatigue?

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Have you noticed that you're gaining weight, you’re losing the strength you had, and you're not feeling confident in your body like you used to? Your unrelenting fatigue and health issues are making your weight pretty darn challenging to manage.

Well, in today’s podcast episode, I share the silly thoughts that flooded my brain recently the moment I saw myself in a photo because of my weight, what shift I’ve made to help me manage those thoughts, and even two years into restoring my body and healing, how I still struggle and how I believe those struggles can help you if you're feeling the same.

I hope you'll join me!

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How many women do you know who are trying to do what they’ve always done with their running, despite the fact that their health has changed, their energy is dwindling, and they’re really struggling?

Feeling pulled or pushed to keep up with a running group or a running buddy, when inside they know they’re running way too fast, running way too far, and doing too much, while not enjoying it one bit!

Well, that’s exactly what I want to talk about on today’s podcast episode - How to keep running with the same running group or running buddy when your health issues are impacting your running.

In this episode, I offer you both a reminder about your running, as well as some recommendations on how to navigate this.

Mentioned in this episode:
Episode 078: Trying to Run, Feeling Fatigued, and Pretending I Was Just Fine

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I’m sure you’ve heard of the term oxidative stress, right? 

It’s a harmful process that can negatively affect several cellular structures in your body. When it kicks in and there’s an imbalance between free-radical formation and available antioxidants, and your body isn’t able to neutralize them, then these cellular structures get damaged.

Not such a good thing for a runner unless you’re in good health and you have a healthy functioning body that’s able to manage that process.

But what if you’re a runner who’s dealing with fatigue or other health issues - should you still be running and will this “stress” cause more damage to your body? 

Well, in today’s episode that’s exactly what I want to talk with you about - running, stress, and inflammation.

So join me today on the podcast as I answer the question, “Is Running a “Good” or “Bad” Stress On the Body?” and I dive deeper into the topic!

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There’s absolutely no way that I would have been able to continue coaching clients over the years and run races, while secretly struggling behind the scenes with my health issues without this method!

It’s the method I used before I was diagnosed with chronic fatigue and even before I had any energy issues at all. It’s how I’ve run since 2005 and it’s the only way I will ever run.

In today’s episode, I’m going to share with you what this method is and how I use it differently than I did when I started using it back in 2005 to manage my energy and move my body while doing other holistic things in my life and with my nutrition to reduce and reverse my chronic fatigue.

Join me on today’s episode to find out what it is!

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Today’s episode is the second in a 3-part training series all about the 3 methods that have helped me to manage my energy and fatigue, while still being able to run.

The sole purpose in putting this series together for you is to give you practical tools where YOU’RE in the driver's seat with managing your fatigue and energy, so that your fatigue isn’t managing you! 

In this episode I share the 3 biggest benefits of this method:

1. You don’t need any equipment like a watch or heart rate monitor to use it.
2. It’s a great way to tap into how you physically feel, reconnecting to your body, without focusing so much on metrics or numbers. 
3. It allows for daily changes in your running based on your energy state that day.

I also explain:

• how I use it alongside heart rate training, which was the method I explained last week.
• how I sometimes throw heart rate training out the window on a run and only use this specific method and why I do that.
• and why this method is best to use if you’re on a beta blocker or if you’re someone with a heart rate that is genetically super low or high, which I also talked about in last week’s episode

Join me to find out what it’s all about!

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Today’s episode is the first in a 3-part training series all about the 3 methods that have helped me to manage my energy and fatigue, while still being able to run. 

I’m pretty confident that the method I’ll be sharing is one you’ve already heard about, but maybe you never considered using or you never really understood.

And that method is…Heart Rate Training.

Now, if you’re someone who does in fact know about Heart Rate Training and you’ve already been using it with your running, I want to encourage you to continue listening because much of what I’ll be sharing, you may not have known.

I’ll be going over 7 key areas to Heart Rate Training so that by the end of this episode you’ll have a comprehensive understanding of it and you can start using it.

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Today I want to talk with you about the biggest misconception that I think many women are led to believe when it comes to running and chronic fatigue.

But first I want to ask you - what do you think that misconception might be?

• that you’ll have to stop running altogether until you resolve it
• that you’ll need to find another activity to do because you’ll have to hang up your running shoes for good
• that there’s just no way these two things can ever exist together

Well…I’m here to tell you that if any of those things are what you’ve been told…it just ain’t true.

I’m proof of that.

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Pretty, perfect, and “buttoned up beautifully” takes a lot of work. 

And for years I worked so hard to do that. To hold it all together, put a smile on my face, and pretend I was just fine until…my body began to break down and fall apart.

On today’s podcast episode, I’ll share how the compounding effect of extreme stress, in the combination of adrenal exhaustion, chronic reactivated EBV, and an autoimmune disorder finally hit their limits and resulted in chronic fatigue, why I’m not pretending to hold it all together anymore, and how I hope I can help you avoid falling apart if you’re doing the same darn thing.

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