Episode 369: When Your Body Says No: Burnout, Boundaries, and Hormonal Imbalance
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When you ignore your own boundaries, your body will set them FOR you – through burnout, hormonal dysfunction, autoimmune flare-ups, and chronic fatigue. So if you’ve ever pushed your needs aside “just for now,” consider this your compassionate wake-up call.
In this live call from the Your Hormone Revival program, Erin delivers a tough-love, no-shame framework for your health journey so you can reclaim your vitality, learn how to say no, prioritize yourself, and heal at the root level.
Erin highlights the powerful (and often overlooked) mindset shifts that create lasting results, like the difference between intention and commitment, and how subconscious stressors sneak into your system.
You’ll also get access to a game-changing visualization exercise to anchor your goals.
In this episode:
Why symptoms like fatigue, burnout, and autoimmune flare-ups are your body’s way of enforcing boundaries you haven’t set for yourself
The 7 hidden, subconscious stressors (like hyper-responsibility and the inability to say no), that silently drive hormonal chaos
A guided visualization exercise designed to uncover your deepest blocks and clarify your future vision
The critical difference between “setting an intention” and “making a commitment”
Actionable tools for setting energetic and time boundaries so you can prioritize your healing - even when life feels too full or chaotic!
Resources mentioned:
Your Hormone Revival
The Boundaries Course
1:1 Functional C.A.R.E with Erin & her team
Organifi supplement powder (save 20% on your order with code FUNK)
OneSkin (Use code FUNK for 15% off your first purchase)
Qualia Senolytic (get up to 50% off and an extra 15% off your first purchase with link + code FUNKS)
Bon Charge (Use code FUNK to save 15%)
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Erin Holt:
When we're ignoring our own needs for the sake of others, your body picks up the slack. When we can't say no, the body will eventually find a way to say no for us. And that is a gift, and that is a beautiful thing. It usually doesn't feel like it, though, but that is a beautiful thing. Your body always has your back. It's like the core thesis of this entire program. Your body always has your back. So fatigue, exhaustion, burnout, hormonal imbalance, autoimmune flare ups, they're not random. It's your body's way of saying no. For you, it's your body's attempt to set the boundaries. The B word that you haven't been able to set for yourself.
Welcome to the functional nutrition podcast, spelled with a K, because we do things a little differently around here. I'm your host, Erin Holt, and I've got 15 years of clinical experience as a functional nutritionist and mindset coach, creating a new model that I call intuitive functional medicine, where we combine root cause medicine with the innate intelligence of your body. This is where science meets self trust. Your body already knows how to heal, and this show is going to show you how. If you're looking for new ways of thinking about your health, be sure to follow and share with a friend because you never know whose life you might change.
Erin Holt:
Hello, my friends. I hope everybody out there is having a wonderful July. Today we're doing something a little different. And this is part of a live class that I taught this spring for your hormone revival, our three month hormone program. My whole team was on this call that I taught live and they were like, okay, we have to release this as a podcast because everybody needs to hear this message. Now you'll hear me reference how to be successful on this program. And of course, by program, I'm referencing yhr. But everything that I say works for any health journey that you're on.
If you're a starting point, any health endeavor, plug this into your ear holes and let this be the compassionate kick in the pants that you need. You know me, I love tough love. I love people to tell me like it is no nonsense, but do it in a compassionate way, one that does not invoke shame, but, like, I don't know, gets me to do the thing for myself that I know I need to do. That is my intention of sharing this episode with you more publicly. In this, I'm also sharing a really powerful visualization technique. Now, you can use it as a visualization or even a meditation technique, or you could Use it as a journal exercise, like journal prompts. I actually prefer to do both. So, you know, pick your poison, do whatever works for you.
But this one is really powerful and this is something that you'll want to like, keep in your back pocket and pretty much bring out anytime you're working on something new, whether that is a health goal or something else altogether. Really, really powerful stuff. And then finally, I am sharing the difference between intention and commitment. I love setting intentions and I love for everything I do to be very intentional. So love me some intentions. But in the past couple of years I've toyed around with the difference between intention versus commitment and I do feel like they carry different frequencies. And if you're starting something new and you're like, this is the time, like this is the time that I'm actually going to to do it. Make sure you stay to the end so you understand the difference between setting an intention and setting a commitment.
Now, like I said in this call, I do reference YHR a few times and that program is already well underway. But if you are looking to get started working on your hormones, working on your health, that is absolutely what we can help you do in our one to one. And the cool thing about working with us one on one is that you actually get access to the YHR program and all of the resources that I mentioned here in this call. So I will link up the application to work with us one on one in the show notes. And I really look forward to seeing your application come through so we can get you feeling good as you deserve to feel. Okay, here is the call. Congratulations on being here. I mean that very earnestly.
It's a little cheesy to say, but I think it's important to acknowledge that you are here. So great job. I have been doing this work for 15 years and something that I always hear any time we run any type of program or anything is that people are like, I want to do this. I want to do this program so bad. I need to do this program. Just it's not a great time for me. What I'm about to say, I mean, with zero stark. Okay, none whatsoever.
No sass. But like, when will it be a good time for you to put time, attention and care into yourself? Like, at what point is it a good time? Because a lot of people are like, I'm just going to wait for my life to settle down before I take care of myself, before I take the steps that I know I need to take. And I'm just like, how is that Going for everybody. How is that approach working? Because what we see in practice is like, not so great. Not the best. In our practice, just the past few months alone, we have seen undiagnosed ibd. So somebody who just kind of ignored their gut symptoms for like a long time, like, yeah, they got these like, belly issues, but they'll, you know, I'll work on it when I have time. Turned into full blown out of remission.
Irritable bowel disease, which is an autoimmune condition. Fatty liver disease. So knew they had to work on diet, knew they had to work on blood sugar, just kind of kept pushing it off or putting it off and ended up with fatty liver disease. Hashimoto's had some signs of autoimmunity, didn't get the stress in check, and full blown autoimmune disease. So these are all healthy women that could be with us right now. Like, I mean, they're not dead. Like, they could be in this. They're. They're part. They're one of us. Right? They're like in this cohort. Right. We can relate to them. They're our neighbors, they're our sisters. They're people we know. But they have put everybody else on their priority list.
So much so that their own health came last. Women are really good at putting ourselves last. Moms, caretakers, eldest daughters. So you probably do a lot, and that's probably part of the reason that you're here. And if you're somebody who's like, I can handle it all, I can handle a lot. Well, we'll see. That's what this program is going to show us. Maybe so, maybe not.
This is where I really do love labs. I sometimes, like, poke fun at lab testing a little bit because I don't think healing begins and ends with lab testing. I think a lot of people will tell you that, and I don't necessarily agree, but labs can be so insightful because the labs that you run in this program, they'll tell us if that is actually true, if you are actually handling it all, if your body feels the same, because your hormonal picture is a byproduct of how you have been living your life. And the labs don't lie. The labs don't lie. Years ago, a lot of years ago now, when I very first started running hormone tests and Dutch panels, I realized how collectively not great we are at understanding when we're under stress and how much stress we're under. So my clients would say to me, like, I'm not under stress. And they would mean it, but then we'd look at the labs and be like, yeah, but your body totally is.
So there's a disconnect there. And a lot of this program is kind of realigning with that disconnect, like bringing that disconnect together, connecting it, if you will. And honestly, this is why I first created this program back in 2019. I keep trying to fact check this, and it was 2018 or 2019, whatever, a while back, but it was really as a rally cry to women, like, let's not wait until things become so catastrophic with our health, you know, before we learn how to take care of ourselves. It was on the heels of me receiving, like, a really significant and scary diagnosis where I'm like, I don't want other women to have to, like, wait till it gets this bad before they see themselves worthy of taking care of themselves. Like, this is insane. So by signing up for this program, you're doing exactly that. So good job already, like, amazing. Gold stars all the way. By signing up for this program, you have said yes to yourself. You have put yourself on your own priority list. I know that that is not easy to do. I just want to keep you there for the next three months minimum. Okay, so you've put yourself on your priority list. Now let's keep you on your priority list. Okay.
There are some fun transformations that we've seen women go through in this program that I want to share with you. The biggest ones we see are increased energy, less fatigue. That's like the biggie. We do see some weight loss, just feeling less puffy. Of course, that's not appropriate for everybody, but it's nice if that's one of your goals. Better periods, overall periods for those of you still menstruating, increased fertility. Just like a heads up. We've had a lot of YHR babies, and some of them were surprises.
I'm thinking of a client of mine who's now a friend. She was originally a client and she was pretty much done having kids. Her and her husband were like, it's a wrap. It wasn't a wrap reader. They were not done. So just a heads up, you know, when you start really working on your health and prioritizing your health and your hormones come into balance, fertility can increase if. Depending on your. Your age and where you are in your hormonal lifespan.
And then the other thing that I love to see is just a greater understanding of body, like, oh, this is why I feel this way. And then making those connections, okay, when I do this, I feel this way. That is stuff that you'll take with you way long after this program. So I really want you to have these transformations too. So let's talk about how to make that a reality for you.
Erin Holt:
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Erin Holt:
Start with the HPA access. So I want to explain why that is. It is because it impacts everything. So whether you're here for irregular cycles, fertility, perimenopause, thyroid, it all starts here.
This is like command control for everything else in your body. So we really have to, if we want any type of hormonal health, we really have to understand what impacts the HPA access. This is the analogy that I often use when I'm describing what a functional root cause approach is. If you can step on attack right, and it's probably going to hurt your foot, like a lot, there's different ways you can alleviate the pain. You can take Advil, you can put an ice pack on it, maybe sprinkle some essential oils on it. But the actual problem, the core of the problem, the root of the problem isn't going to go away unless you remove the tack. So I think about functional medicine as looking for the tax. And those tax are different for everybody.
So that's what I mean by like we have to understand what impacts the HPA access and then also what is impacting your HPA access too. So there's a couple of modules in week one looking at typical causes of adrenal fatigue or burnout and then how to identify your own triggers. What I don't talk about in week one, what I really want to talk about today is that some of the stressors are more obvious and we'll go through those together in the course curriculum. But some of them are not so obvious, some of them are less obvious. And these are the ones that I refer to as subconscious stressors. Subconscious just meaning below your level of awareness. You're not aware of them, so they're subconscious. And so these are stressors that you might not be aware of, but they're impacting your body nevertheless because stress is stress.
So some of the big common ones that we will see, and these are associated with people who Struggle with their health too. It's been like, backed up in the research. The inability to express feelings or even just like full on. Suppressing or repressing feelings, just like cramming them down. Rigid identification with duty in responsibility. Caretaking others, like, this is my identity. I am the caretaker. I do the caretaking.
Overdriven, hyper responsibility as a way to, to prove your worth or feel like you have a sense of value. Like, this is what I bring to the table. Beliefs. I am responsible for how other people feel. That's a big one. Putting oneself last and are you ready for the last one? It's a doozy. It's a doozy. Inability to say no.
So the tricky part about this is that a lot of these are regarded as admirable strengths. So when we're doing them, we feel like we're doing a good thing. We're not like, I'm doing the stressful thing. We're like, look at me, I'm doing the good thing. I am doing the right thing. And a lot of these are the societal norms and expectations of girls and women. So they don't always register as stressors. It's just the way that we live our lives.
I had somebody say to me, we were talking about management, like managing teams and managing people. And she said, well, that's why women are better managers, because they care more. And I was like, do they care more or have they just been conditioned to be caretakers? Because there's a difference. There is a big difference. So like I said earlier, I want you to continue to say yes to you for the next three months. You've already said yes. You're here. Whether you're here live with me or you're watching the replay, you're here.
You said yes. So let's keep saying yes for the next three months. But in order to say yes to yourself, it might require you to say no to some other things. And this might rub up against how you typically run things. Okay, but how you typically run things might be what landed you here. So when we're constantly saying yes, when what we really mean is no, when we are essentially like taking in and absorbing everybody else's stress, when we're ignoring our own needs for the sake of others, your body picks up the slack. When we can't say no, the body will eventually find a way to say no for us. And that is a gift and that is a beautiful thing.
It usually doesn't feel like it though, but that is a beautiful thing. Your body always has your back. It's like the core thesis of this entire program. Your body always has your back. So fatigue, exhaustion, burnout, hormonal imbalance, autoimmune flare ups, they're not random. It's your body's way of saying no. For you, it's your body's attempt to set the boundaries, the B word that you haven't been able to set for yourself. So this is why you get access to the boundaries course.
I just wanted to like, give you a heads up because it is planted in weeks one curriculum. And I didn't want you to see that and be like, this is kind of random. What's this all about? I originally created that course for practitioners, so it's really like I'm speaking into practitioners through some of it, but it is so many people who are not practitioners wanted access to it. So now it's just everyone gets it. But I really do see boundaries being the antidote to burnout. And so I think it really fits in very, very, very well to this hormone program. Oftentimes we have to create boundaries for our own transformation and think boundaries can sometimes get a bad rap. They sometimes feel a little harsh.
But boundaries are not against anybody else. They are just for us. Boundaries are self protection. So when we look at them that way, it kind of helps to take a little bit of the sting out of it. Boundaries are self protection. So you know what else is self protection? Excess weight. That's self protection. Autoimmunity can be self protection.
Flare ups can be self protection. Exhaustion, fatigue, depletion can be self protection. Hashimoto's thyroiditis can be self protection. So the question that I have for you is, would you rather have self protection through the ability to say no, or would you rather let your body speak for you because you do have a choice? Sometimes it feels like we don't, but we always have a choice. There's always, always, always options. Whenever I feel stuck. Because the worst feeling in the world to me is feeling stuck. I feel like a rat in a cage.
I want to claw my way out. And so I have to tell myself there's always options. I don't always see them. You get tunnel vision, right? I don't always see all the options, but just knowing that there's options really helps me. Okay, so, Diana, that's a great mantra for you. There's. There's always options. There's always other options.
And when I say that, sometimes you could be like, show me the other options. I'm open to guidance. Whoever you speak to, you know, and you can start to see things another way. I am willing to see this another way is a great one when I feel stuck and trapped. So setting boundaries doesn't always have to be like a hard, grisly conversation either, you know, it doesn't always have to be. Sometimes it's as simple as asking ourselves, what am I tolerating? That's like one of my favorite questions. Like a great question to ask yourself, what am I tolerating? What am I tolerating? And you can start to see. Huh.
Maybe that's something I don't want to tolerate anymore. I recently heard this and I felt like it was a good thing to share here. We want to be selfish with a capital S. Not selfish, lowercase S. Selfish with a capital S. So, like, not the selfish that we all know or like, you don't care about anybody else. We only care about ourselves, but selfish capital S. We caretake ourselves because when we make ourselves a priority in our own life, see ourselves as a self worthy of support, worthy of care, worthy of love, it really positively impacts everybody around us.
Like, when we're our best self, capital, self, it truly, truly does positively impact everyone around us. I've had a mantra for years, and I probably say it in the YHR curriculum in different places and spaces. When I take care of me, everybody wins. And I have seen that time and time and time and time and time again with my family, with my kiddo, with my friends, with my team. When I take care of me, I am a better human being. I'm a better person to be around, and everybody gets to win. So I'll share that mantra with you. Okay? So for success in this program, we want to create some boundaries for transformation.
One way we can do that is by creating energy boundaries. When we shift the inside, the outside starts to look different. So how I personally do this is meditation. I do this through breath work. And that's why there are. We're going to do a curriculum tour in just a sec. But that's why there's a lot of these things infused into the program. I pull out my best practices, like the ones that I use and have used in practice and just find the most success with.
They are baked into this program. There's more classes. You know, this program is really, like, focused on the physical body, your biochemistry, what your hormones are doing. But if you're interested in, like, more of the esoteric, metaphysical, spiritual stuff, there's some of that baked in as, like, optional, as an invite, you know, like, if you want to partake, you Totally can. They're all labeled intuitive functional medicine. Those classes I label how we practice as intuitive functional medicine because we blend the systems biology, science, the root cause approach of functional medicine with the innate intelligence of the body. And we are addressing healing on all four levels. Physical, emotional, mental, and energetic.
So energetic is a big one. And I am really a big believer in setting energetic boundaries. And again, I do that through energy practices and meditation. So you can try those out in this class. It's a lot easier than setting having a hard conversation, but sometimes in meditation, I realize I have to have the hard conversation. Oh. The other way to set boundaries is time boundaries. Set time boundaries with yourself.
So YHR is about one to two hours a week max, not including the nervous system support classes. Busy people can do this program. Okay, so you can't write yourself a like a rain check if you feel busy, because busy people can do this program. And what I would recommend doing is this whole program is housed in Kajabi. And if you don't already have the Kajabi app downloaded to your phone, do that, then you can take it on the go. So you can listen to the modules. Some people like to sit down and like watch the modules like a video and take notes. If you like that, if you're like just like a total nutrition health nerd and you, you want to geek out like that, go for it.
You totally don't have to. Okay, you can listen to it like a podcast. When you have app, you can go for a walk. I always listen when I'm cooking dinner. I'm listening to things or like when I'm in the tub folding laundry. I love to listen to courses when I'm folding laundry because I hate folding laundry. So it makes it a little bit more enjoyable. So bake this into the fabric of your life.
But you have to establish time for it because what's going to happen is things are going to snowball and then whoops, there goes the time. So that's a way that you can create boundaries is by setting time boundaries with your self.
Erin Holt:
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The other way to especially if you're somebody who has a little bit of a hard time setting boundaries for yourself, choosing yourself. The way that I look at it is that we have to want something so much that it overrides our desire to want to keep the peace with others in the discomfort of choosing ourselves.
If you historically have a hard time choosing yourself. We have to create a vision that we want so badly that we're willing to sit with the discomfort because we want that vision so much. So let's for the next few minutes do a little visualization technique. I am obsessed with this. I have done this recently and I Knew I had some blocks, but I wasn't 100% sure what they were. And I did this, and it was so powerful. I was like, I gotta bring this to yhr. So you're more than welcome to close your eyes.
You don't have to, though. Typically, when I'm trying to visualize stuff, it helps for me to have my eyes closed because there's less distraction. But you do you. Okay, so just take a moment. I'm going to ask you a couple of questions. I want you to take a moment to reflect on what I'm asking you. Eyes open or eyes closed? Totally up to you. Here's the first question.
What is the recurring pattern or belief in your life that is holding you back from receiving more health, energy, vitality, vibrancy? What's the recurring pattern or belief in your life that is holding you back from receiving more vibrancy, vitality, energy, health? In what areas of your life or health or body do you feel consistently stuck, no matter how hard you try, no matter how hard you work? So just pay attention to what's coming up. If you're watching the replay, you might even write things down in a journal as they come up. And if this feels rush for you, if you're on the live call with me right now, this feels rushed for you. You can absolutely come back to the recording and go through this all over again and turn it into a journal, exerc size. But for now, pull that. Whatever's coming up, let it come up. Let it come through. And then I want you to imagine what your life would look like if you never decided to work through this block.
So visualize yourself continuing with these same patterns or patterns in a year from now or five years or even ten years from now. And what do you see? How do you feel knowing that this block is still present? What relationships or opportunities or experiences are you missing out on? On? So this is what your future looks like and feels like if the block is left unresolved. And again, if you're watching the replay, you can take a moment to journal about what comes up. And now, this time around, I want you to imagine yourself having fully and completely moved through this block so it's no longer a problem. You've already worked through it. Visualize your life a year out from now, five years, 10 years into the future. Picture the health, the vibrancy, the vitality flowing to you, unrestricted, without this block present. What has changed? How do you feel? What new possibilities have opened up for you? And now that you've Seen both sides.
Why do you feel it is essential for you to break through this particular block now? What is the highest version of yourself that you hope to become by overcoming it? What is your highest vision for yourself at the end of these three months so you can open your eyes? And this part is so important. Your highest vision of yourself at the end of the three months is so important because this gets to be your anchor. Let that be the thing that you plug into to give you clarity and purpose and even motivation. Because here's the deal. Like I said, I've been working with women for 15 years. I've been running this particular program for over six. I've seen some things. So I'm going to tell you the patterns that I have seen.
We start out hot and heavy. And then something comes up. Life happens because life is going to last life. And then a lot of people bail. We bail on ourselves. So the part of you that said yes to the program, the part of you that's here right now, full body, yes, you bail on her. One of the biggest mistakes that we make in life, we do something really, really, really, really good for us. Really good.
And then we look, look for immediate validation that it was the exact right move. And if we don't get it, if we can't see it, or if an obstacle gets in the way, then we stop doing the good thing for us. So life doesn't just hit pause for you because you decided to sign up for a three month program. I am so sorry. I wish it did. I wish it were that simple. So life isn't going to do that for you. So how are you you going to do that for you? What is your plan for when life lifes? What is your plan? To not bail.
What is your plan? To not go dark on the parts of you that need this. How are you going to show up for yourself in those times? It's easy to do it now. Little less easy six weeks from now. Just going to tell you the truth. It's going to get more challenging. So how are you going to rise the challenge? We can do hard things. You can do hard things. You're here, you're so when we have a strong and clear vision of that future self, the highest vision of ourselves, that can be the tether that pulls us along.
When you hit a moment where you feel like you don't want to do it anymore, that's the thing that we hook into because you will hit those moments like, hello, you're human. No big deal, no shame. It is what it is. We just need something to like pull us along when times get tough. We have the community group for the that we will be your support. You know we can do that for you, but you have to eventually learn to do that for you too. So at the beginning of programs it's very common to set it intention so you're welcome to do that. But there's a huge difference between intending to do something and committing to do something.
So I encourage you tonight instead to set a commitment to yourself and you can let this highest vision of yourself at the end of these three months that can be the commitment that you make to yourself. Thanks for joining me for this episode of the Functional Nutrition Podcast. Please keep in mind this podcast is created for educational purposes only and should never be used as a replacement for medical diagnosis or treatment. If you got something from today's show, don't forget, subscribe, leave a review, share with a friend and keep coming back for more. Take care of you.