Why Women Feel Exhausted Even When They’re Doing Everything Right | Ep 75

About this episode

Why do so many women feel exhausted, anxious, overwhelmed or disconnected—even when they seem to be doing everything “right”?

Nurse, health coach and NLP practitioner Erika Muralidhar says the answer may require looking beyond surface-level health and paying attention to stress, the nervous system, beliefs, and what your body has been trying to tell you.

In this episode of Powerful on Purpose, Erika shares her own journey from traditional nursing into functional medicine, health coaching and NLP—and the personal health wake-up call that changed the way she thought about wellness.

After years of trying to do everything right, Erika found herself facing thyroid issues she'd worked hard to avoid. She asked her doctor for six months before starting medication and began looking more closely at her priorities, boundaries, stress and relationship with her own body. Six months later, she says her labs had returned to normal.

We talk about the connection between stress, cortisol, burnout, perfectionism and women's health, why many women have learned to equate productivity with worth, and what can happen when we stop overriding the signals our bodies are sending us.

Erika also shares why sustainable health requires more than food, exercise and sleep; how stress can show up physically; and one deceptively simple practice we can all use when overwhelm hits:
Pause.

🎁 Take Erika's free Hidden Stress Assessment: https://unmqav5v6xh.typeform.com/to/ydZcMHd9

Discover how you tend to respond under stress, the symptoms that may accompany that response, and strategies for releasing stress based on your pattern.

Connect with Erika Muralidhar:
Health E Wellness: https://www.healthebyerika.com/
F The Hustle Collective: https://fthehustlecollective.com/invitation?code=B7G8B3

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Chapters
00:00 Meet Erika Muralidhar
02:30 When control becomes coping
06:15 Erika's health wake-up call
09:20 Beliefs we learn early
12:15 Connecting mind and body
15:10 Why surface-level health isn't enough
18:10 When your labs say “fine”
20:00 Stress, cortisol and women's health
23:15 Listen to what your body says
25:10 Discover your hidden stress response
26:20 The power of the pause

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