Natural Ways to Improve Self-Care and Self-Compassion to Reduce Burnouts: Interview with Functional Medicine Health Coach, Suzy Glaskie.

Mind Vox

Suzy Glaskie is a Functional Medicine Health Coach and Founder of Peppermint Wellness. During her career as a PR boss, Suzy became underweight, exhausted and constantly burnt-out. Suzy believes her previous career created toxic stress hormones that led to a constant flood of inflammation in her body. These health conditions and death of her father led Suzy to retrain as a health coach, where she learnt various ways to help reduce burnouts and improve wellbeing. Suzy wants to share ways the body can heal itself and prevent future burnouts, using self-care and self-compassion tools. This episode explores: -What burnout can look like. -Suzy’s personal journey through burnout. -How the death of Suzy’s father was a catalyst for a career change. -What functional medicine is. -The benefits of natural lifestyle changes for wellbeing. -Things we can do to reduce or prevent burnout. -What self-care is and why it’s important. -The benefits of self-compassion and ways to do it, including journaling using various voices. -How food and drink can harm or heal. -Suzy’s negative experience trying mushrooms for wellbeing. *Trigger Warning* Contains conversation about Grief, Weight Loss and Food, Stress, Anxiety, Depression, ADHD, Autism, Burnout, Breakdowns, Masking, Parenting and Psychedelics. Links To send us ideas for future episodes, or offer to be interviewed, please contact us via Instagram or email [e-mail] To donate the price of a coffee to help keep the pod running, find the CashApp, Paypal and BuyMeACoffee options on our Linktree in our bio. Read Suzy's article about how to recognise and manage burnout on Claire's website. Suzy can be found on Instagram, Facebook and her podcast is called Midlife Illuminated. The free Wellness Unwrapped app can be found on Suzy’s Peppermint Wellness website. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mindvox/message