your body speaks | Holistic Healing, Listening to Your Body, Women’s Health Over 40, Christian Health Podcast, Faith-Based Wellness
In a world obsessed with doing more, your body speaks is where you’ll finally learn how to do less and heal more.
This podcast is for women who’ve done “everything right” yet still feel exhausted, anxious, or disconnected from their bodies. Hosted by Dr. Brook Sheehan, chiropractor, functional health practitioner, and creator of the bodyOS framework, her journey began much like the women she now helps. For years, Brook lived disconnected from her body, chasing every new health hack and “fix” in search of balance. What started as a genuine desire to feel better spiraled into an obsession with doing more, tracking, restricting, pushing, performing. It wasn’t until she paused long enough to listen that everything changed. Through that shift, she discovered that healing isn’t about control, it’s about connection. Now, she helps other women move from overwhelm to trust, from striving to peace, and from force to flow.
You’ll learn how to listen to your body’s signals, trust what it’s telling you, and heal naturally through the four pillars of whole-body health: physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual.
Each episode blends science, soul, and practical strategy to help you stop forcing your body to perform and start flowing with how you were designed to thrive.
It’s time to tune out the noise of modern wellness, find peace in your process, and rediscover what wholeness feels like because when you learn to listen to your body, trust it, and heal naturally, healing isn’t forced... it flows.
✨ Connect with Dr. Brook Sheehan:
Website → www.drbrooksheehan.com
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Disclaimer: The information shared on your body speaks is for educational and informational purposes only and should not be considered medical advice. Always consult your qualified healthcare provider before making changes to your diet, lifestyle, or treatment plan.
your body speaks | Holistic Healing, Listening to Your Body, Women’s Health Over 40, Christian Health Podcast, Faith-Based Wellness
Ep4: Stress and Its Silent Impact on Your Health
In this episode, we dive into the complex world of stress, from understanding the different types, eustress and distress, to exploring how stress affects the body on multiple levels. Our host discusses the silent but impactful role of cortisol, often termed the “stress hormone,” and how our body’s ancient mechanisms respond to modern stressors. Through practical insights, you’ll learn how our biology, particularly our adrenal glands, reacts to various stressors, and why certain physical and emotional signs of stress may be more impactful than we realize.
Key Points Discussed:
- Types of Stress: Eustress vs. Distress
- Eustress: Positive, short-term stress that motivates and energizes us for life events like new jobs, performances, or celebrations.
- Distress: The commonly known “bad stress” that can leave you feeling overwhelmed and can lead to a lack of control over aspects like finances, relationships, and health.
- Cortisol and the Body’s Response
- Explanation of how cortisol is produced by the adrenal glands, which respond to perceived threats.
- The importance of balanced cortisol: While needed in healthy amounts for daily energy and bodily functions, chronic stress can lead to cortisol imbalances with wide-ranging effects.
- Physical Manifestations of Chronic Stress
- Common signs of prolonged high cortisol, such as “cortisol belly,” face puffiness, skin issues, joint aches, frequent colds, and disrupted sleep patterns.
- Discussion on how stress pushes our baseline higher, sometimes making us unaware of how stressed we truly are.
- Impact of Modern Life on Stress Levels
- Unlike our ancestors who alternated between “fight-or-flight” and “rest-and-digest” modes, today’s constant low-level stress keeps us in a heightened state, affecting our nervous system and contributing to chronic stress symptoms.
- How daily, often non-threatening events (like standing in line at a coffee shop) can still trigger stress responses, showing how our bodies some
✨ Ready to shift from fear to faith in your body? Discover the Talk to Me, Body affirmation card deck—your daily reminder that God designed your body with wisdom and resilience.
Get yours here → drbrooksheehan.com/talk-to-me-body
🎧 Stay Connected + Explore More Support:
If today’s episode spoke to something deeper in you, there’s so much more waiting for you inside my world.
💬 Start meaningful conversations with your body using the Talk to Me, Body affirmation card deck. Each card is written from your body’s perspective to help you shift from fear to faith in your healing.
📔 Track what your body is whispering with the My Body’s Whispers Journal, a gentle guide to help you connect physical symptoms with spiritual, emotional, mental, and lifestyle insights.
🌿 Want to deepen your listening practice and explore real-time body wisdom with others? Join the waitlist for the bodyOS™ membership, where we learn to decode the body’s signals together.
🌐 For more tools, free downloads, and upcoming course releases, visit drbrooksheehan.com
📲 And come say hi on Instagram: @drbrooksheehan
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