Nourish with Sarah | Holistic Wellness
Nourish with Sarah is hosted by Sarah Aufdenblatten, a Holistic Health Coach dedicated to helping women manage stress and overcome binge and emotional eating, so they can feel energized and at home in their bodies. Tune in for open discussions and inspiring conversations around holistic health, hormone balance, gut health, mindset, lifestyle, spirituality, and habit transformation. This podcast will leave you feeling empowered, inspired, and equipped with the knowledge and motivation to embrace a nourished life. Ready to feel vibrant and comfortable in your body? Let's embark on this nourishing journey together.
Nourish with Sarah | Holistic Wellness
I optimized myself right off enjoying my own podcast
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I optimized myself right off enjoying my own podcast. So I stopped.
This episode is the story of why I disappeared for a while, what happened when I stepped back from chasing every YouTube best practice, and what that break taught me about the exact same thing so many of you are doing with your health right now: stacking more rules, more protocols, more optimization on a foundation that was never solid to begin with.
We talk about:
- Why more optimization doesn't equal more progress
- The real reason your body won't feel safe to "just be" when everything becomes a project to fix
- Why the boring basics (real food, enough sleep, managing stress) will always outperform the next supplement or protocol
- A simple inventory exercise you can do this week to find out what's actually helping you, what you're doing because you "should," and what's adding stress instead of relieving it
- Why doing less, consistently, beats chasing the next big thing
If you've tried diet after diet, protocol after protocol, and you're exhausted from starting over, this one's your permission slip to stop adding and start trusting what already works.
Inventory exercise questions:
- What am I currently doing that's actually helping?
- What am I doing because I "should," not because it's working?
- What is adding stress or pressure instead of relieving it?
- What is one thing I could remove this week, instead of adding?
Send me your answers or your questions for future episodes on Instagram: @nourishwith.sarah
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