Ep24: From Burnout to Breakthrough: Non-Toxic Mindset & Emotional Healing ft. Kari Davis

Grief, stress, and emotional overload don’t just live in your mind—they live in your body. And if they’re not processed, they quietly reshape the way you breathe, think, love, and function.

In this powerful episode of your body speaks, Dr. Brook is joined by holistic life coach, essential oils educator, and host of The Well Podcast, Kari Davis. Together, they explore how emotions become “residents” in the body, what it takes to release them, and how faith plays a central role in healing what the world can’t see.

Kari shares her deeply personal journey of losing her first husband suddenly in 2015, the somatic practices that helped her survive it, and the gentle ways she rebuilt her identity, her health, and her family. This episode beautifully bridges emotional, spiritual, physical, and mental wellness—exactly the kind of whole-body conversation your body speaks is known for.

🔍 In This Episode, We Explore:

 ✨ Why grief must be moved through the body, not just talked through
✨ Kari’s story of walking through devastating loss—and the somatic practice that saved her
✨ What non-toxic living looks like for the mind, not just the home
✨ How essential oils can help regulate the limbic system & support emotional release
✨ Why self-care is not selfish—and the practical ways Kari protects her energy
✨ The truth about dopamine overload, overstimulation, and why the brain needs quiet
✨ How faith anchors the nervous system and reshapes identity after trauma

🎧 Connect with Kari Davis

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Transcript

My brain has a hard time detoxing through genetic testing. learned that MSG and just certain toxins are really, really terrible for me. And so I have to be really mindful to just rest and to stop.

Welcome to the body speaks podcast with me, Dr. Brook Sheehan. Join me, on a journey, in discovering how to interpret the subtle signs your body uses to communicate with you - the whispers, the screams, and everything in between. Your body truly holds the answers for your health and wellbeing. It’s time to discover them, together. Let’s dive in. 

Dr. Brook Sheehan (00:00)
Hi, friend, welcome back to another episode of your body speaks. Of course, I'm Dr. Brook, your host, and I am so excited to share with you a new dear friend of mine, Kari Davis. ⁓ She is the host of the Well podcast, and she's also the founder of the Well team, and she's a certified holistic life coach and a central oils educator. Kari is passionate about empowering women,

with the tools they need to reclaim their life through self-care, health, and finding their identity, which is a huge thing, while embracing the idea of a natural and non-toxic lifestyle in their products and mindset. know, or you guys know, as my listeners, we talk about not just physical healing, but mental, spiritual, and emotional healing as well. So this is going to be a great episode.

Kari Davis (00:36)
Thank

Dr. Brook Sheehan (00:51)
Kari and her husband Bobby live in Naples, Florida. So we are on opposite ends of the United States with their combined five children. So Kari welcome to the show. So excited you're here with me

Kari Davis (01:03)
Thank you. I'm so happy to be on. Very excited.

Dr. Brook Sheehan (01:06)
Yeah, it's going to be fun. So I love to start these conversations just to get to know you a little bit more, the listeners to get to know you a little bit more. So can you share with us your journey, how you went from who you were before to doing what you're doing now with the Well team and the education and the team of people that you have and how you got into what you're doing?

Kari Davis (01:28)
Yeah, so I was an education major. I taught fifth grade for one year and then had my first baby in 2003 and was a stay-at-home mom for years and years, always working at the church, leading worship, doing different things. But I got introduced to essential oils in 2013. And a lot of what, when you were just on my podcast, a lot of what just blew me away was that God had this provision through plants

and these gifts that He had given to the earth. And we had just been doing it in our own strength and really all wrong. And I was so excited to have antiviral solutions with little kids and just would not shut up about them. So kind of accidentally started an essential oil business. And then...

had just kind of stepped in to I'm really gonna do this and my husband, my kid's dad passed away suddenly in 2015. It was a massive brain hemorrhage on a Saturday morning and my world had just, was completely upside down in like life, everyday life, but I was more grounded than ever in just

wanting everyone to know not only God for salvation, for peace, for everything, but also just that He's so much better than we give Him credit for. And really threw myself into coaching and essential oils and leadership. And I just can't really do anything else at this point. When he was alive, I didn't like to be on social media. I was like, why do you post all the time? And then here I...

have totally put myself out there as a recovering introvert. I just, when you understand this, that when you feel that God has something for you to proclaim, it is so hard to stay quiet about it. And I just got over myself, because who cares, right? Like, who cares? The message is more important than the delivery, so.

Dr. Brook Sheehan (03:34)
I love what you said there in terms of the recovering introvert. I still feel like I'm an introvert. You some people don't believe it. They're like, I'm leading groups at church and doing all these things, working with patients and like you're doing putting yourself out there, podcasting social media the whole like. it's like, we're ambiverts, right? we can be extrovert, but we still have to recharge in our alone time, in our space, away from people.

You know, and so I think that's beautiful. I want you, there was something you said there and we're gonna get into all the natural health and all the things you're doing. But I really kind of wanna take this off a different angle here in the emotional and mental aspect because we know that emotions get stored in the body and if it doesn't get properly processed. So emotions are meant to be visitors. They're never meant to be residents.

Kari Davis (03:59)
Yeah.

Dr. Brook Sheehan (04:24)
A lot of times, I'm even going to go out on a far limb here and say, most of the time, people allow their emotions to be resident in their body, in their life, in the way that they see things. It really transforms their entire identity. And I know you talk a lot about identity. But what was the whole grief process like in 2015 to wake up one day and have your husband and your children and all of that too?

You mentioned your world being completely upside down. What was that process of walking through all of that? What did that look like? And how would you encourage other people if they're walking through really hard emotions, maybe not grief specifically, but other emotions like sadness or anger or resentment, how would you encourage them? I know I'm giving you a two-part question, but I'll let you speak now.

Kari Davis (05:13)
Yeah.

Well, it's funny, you already answered it. You said, how did you walk through it? And I walked through it literally. I have burned probably 12 pairs of tennis shoes in 10 years. Just absolutely like moving my body and putting good things in my mind to push the negative out, to focus a lot on the truth.

I call them affirming truths rather than affirmations. Your affirmations are very different, they're true affirmations, but I find that just like yours are, they have to be rooted in what is true. And I just really focused on heaven and that just that death is dead for those who believe that it is not the final sentence. And I felt this burden that death isn't the worst thing.

unbelief is and betrayal is and just not having that peace. Now not to say that there were just not sad days where grief is really messy and you know kind of gross you kind of try to torture yourself. I would try to imagine him like you know in the room or then just say I just didn't sign up for this I don't want this. It wasn't that there wasn't some of that but I really healed.

You know, it's hard to go to marriage counseling by yourself, but I had to to reconcile some of the communication that we had just started to get so much better. I just I was so sad that like I had seen a glimpse of even what our marriage could be. And then it was over. But just processing a lot of things, but really just that somatic. would scream at the end of I'd go on this canal or on this walk. And there was this canal in Cape Coral, Florida.

and there wasn't any close houses to me and I would just stand and scream my brains out, just crying and screaming. And I do, I think it just released, I had a somatic coach that was on the podcast once say, did you know that you were doing a somatic practice? And I said, no, I just had to get it out. just, I walked and cried and listened to so much worship music and podcasts and...

I have to say personal development too. mean, just really guarding my children, guarding my time and my dreams. I really started to dream really early on. And I really think that that helped move me through kind of that idea of creating a life that I love was something that I was like, well, it's just me. I'm going to create this life, set a list of non-negotiables of what was ahead.

I don't like the word manifested, I think that's a bunch of bull, but I did write a list of non-negotiables for a next relationship and God really delivered more than even I had asked of my husband.

Dr. Brook Sheehan (07:58)
⁓ my gosh. Well, it's beautiful to hear. ⁓

while painful and ugly and messy and all of that, the whole journey through that, it's beautiful to see and know you on the other side of it and know you in a beautiful relationship. you know, like you were saying, you're non-negotiables writing down your list and all of that. I know that for people who've experienced any sort of really hard, and we've all encountered it in

Kari Davis (08:07)
Mm-hmm.

Dr. Brook Sheehan (08:28)
some sort of way just in different things. It could be a loss of a relationship, right? Like a horrible breakup or a loss of a child, God forbid, or all of these things, we've all experienced these really hard emotions. And I love that you were saying you had that somatic coach on your podcast and she's like, hey, did you even know you were doing this? That was stuff that I would do when I was going through periods of grief in my life. You have

Kari Davis (08:30)
Okay.

Mm-hmm.

Dr. Brook Sheehan (08:53)
to get these emotions out. They have to be visitors. They cannot be residents because these kinds of things do impact our body in a physical way too. And they impact our mind. And they impact our spirit. They don't just impact us emotionally. They will have ripple effects. Like you were saying with your children, you could either stand up and work through this and go to that counseling and do what you did.

Kari Davis (08:55)
Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Dr. Brook Sheehan (09:20)
For you, yes, but ultimately for them too in how they were going to continue their development process without their dad and all of the things. So I just have to commend you and honor you for that because it's not an easy journey, but the fact that you were anchored to your faith, anchored to your belief, anchored to believing and knowing that regardless of the circumstances, God is still good.

Kari Davis (09:28)
.

Thank

Dr. Brook Sheehan (09:44)
And that what may have been intended for evil God's gonna turn for good which you know you're gonna see your husband again and you have a beautiful life with Bobby and you've got bonus children as a result of it and can you speak to that in terms of people going through these life changes and then coming to the other end of it but

Kari Davis (09:45)
Mm-hmm.

Thank

Yeah.

Dr. Brook Sheehan (10:06)
then navigating step-parenthood and understanding how to reclaim your self-care while now you're adding more people into your mix. Because it's one thing when it's just the group of three, you and your two kids, and then now you're adding more people into the mix. And it's like, well, how do we have self-care when we're taking care of all these people? Because a lot of us will die on the sacrifice of like, well, we're just helping our parents. We're helping our brothers and sisters. We're doing.

Kari Davis (10:19)
Mm-hmm.

Dr. Brook Sheehan (10:31)
I can't take care of myself. it's like, no, you have to. It is a non-negotiable. You have to take care of yourself in order to take care of these other people. So talk to us about that.

Kari Davis (10:31)
Yeah.

Yeah.

Well, and a lot of it was, I was kind of a, I was prideful. Like when I was a stay at home mom, I was the one watching other people's children. So I think a lot of that had to die, just my self-reliance and self-resilience when I had to ask for help, when it was no longer that I could just be the helper. That was way more comfortable for me. But when I had to truly,

lean on other people. And so that kind of part of me had already been humbled, I would say, by the time that I met Bobby three years later. And then I just was, I really stuck to that, like beginning with the end in mind. I just knew where I was going. I didn't know exactly how it was gonna get there. But I do,

find myself a little high maintenance with my self care. I mean, I feel like I require a lot of steps to the process. I am blessed to have a job that is flexible because I have to kind of do a lot, I would say. But I just wanted my kids to not see me anymore frazzled all the time and just always stressed and always needing the house to be perfectly clean and extending that grace to myself has, I think, benefited.

the kids, especially with five of them now in the house, now two are at college. But it's so important to look at what that takes. And back to the introvert, you know, my husband's always like, she's an introvert because watch after she goes to church and leads worship, like I crash in the afternoon. I mean, I have had to make rest a part of my, a part of my just every day or I just wouldn't make it.

Dr. Brook Sheehan (12:21)
So on that note, when you're talking about that, having to have your restful state, especially after big, in the public eye, doing these type of extrovert activities that are a little bit harder for us introverts, I would love to hear some strategies, like yes, you rest, and you talked about being high maintenance with your self care.

Kari Davis (12:22)
This

Dr. Brook Sheehan (12:43)
What are some things that you can teach the women who are listening to this podcast right now on ways to self soothe healthy versions of self soothing that aren't super selfish, but they're really taking care of the heart of the matter and the mind of the matter and all of it.

Kari Davis (12:59)
Yeah. So I have used essential oils, medicinal leaf now for 13 years. And so once you learn about your brain and just how when you smell something, it completely changes the way that your brain is processing those emotions, you might still have them. But when you and I won't get into all of the limbic system, but when we smell something, it's so powerful.

So I have used that for so many years that I almost take it for granted now. Just essential oils that calm your nervous system and just breathing. So many of us need a tool to just sit and breathe deeply. I also think it's really important to journal and to be really writing down some of those toxic thoughts that are creeping in, those ways that you're abusing yourself.

that you might not even realize that you would never talk to another person the way that you talk to yourself. Taking those thoughts captive, finding the truth in them, but also mostly the lies that you're gonna find and really rewriting them and then anchoring them with oftentimes an essential oil that is just helping your brain to rewire itself. And so it can sometimes be so quick.

And again, I did this before I knew anything about it. would use, there's two oils, one is Balance and one is Serenity, and we would tease that it was like a liquid Xanax blend. And so right after TJ passed away, I would put both of the drops in my hands and I would rub them together and just stand and look at myself in the mirror and be like, you're gonna go do this. You're gonna take care of the kids. You're going, you know, we're getting out of bed.

Dr. Brook Sheehan (14:24)
I love that.

Yeah.

Kari Davis (14:41)
We're taking them to school, we're gonna make breakfast. I would pep talk myself. And definitely movement. I I think that walking, lifting, I did bar workouts for a long time. I think that we're so much healthier when we get those endorphins going. Even if you don't want to, just put your shoes on. Walk to the mailbox, you're probably gonna wanna walk a little bit further. And just what you put in your mind.

Unfollow the people on social media. Give yourself a detox plan. Set your limits to your social media. You cannot put crap in your mind all the time and expect to be healthy. It's just not possible. So really guarding who you spend time with, what activities you give or do not give to other people. I said no to so many things. Like I almost don't recognize myself anymore because I'm not so codependent.

Like I almost feel like I'm not doing it in some ways because I just always said yes to everything and now I say no to almost everything.

Dr. Brook Sheehan (15:33)
I love that.

Don't make that face. It's good that you're saying no to And codependency that could be a whole other, topic of discussion, but I do want to go back ⁓ to the limbic brain and the smell and emotions or feelings in our body and all the things that you just spoke about because as a doctor and working with patients so many times. I'm like look

Kari Davis (15:40)
Mm-hmm.

Dr. Brook Sheehan (16:01)
that limbic system, that amygdala, that cingulate gyri, that hippocampus. Now I'm getting deep into physiology right now and I won't go very, very deep into these, but my listeners know Dr. Brook's always teaching and always talking about things. Those three aspects of that limbic brain are what sets on fire that sympathetic nervous system. That is what turns it on. That amygdala, very, very small almond-shaped thing in your brain.

very, very intelligent thing in your brain, but it's very, very small. It acts like a lighthouse. And so it is constantly scanning the horizon, scanning the environment, scanning the thoughts that you have in your head. So your body, your physiology does not know if there is a real threat, like, my gosh, there's a robber coming into the house and he's got a knife. Or if there's just bills due and you're standing in line at a

Kari Davis (16:29)
Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Dr. Brook Sheehan (16:57)
coffee shop and you're thinking about all those things going on, right? All the overwhelm, that limbic system gets triggered and it sets off that sympathetic nervous system. makes your blood pressure rise. It makes you start to push blood to your arms and legs because your body by design intelligently thinks that I need to run from this predator. And so when you talk about the sense of smell and how you would, you know, rub that on your hands and you were, smelling that

Kari Davis (17:01)
Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

Dr. Brook Sheehan (17:24)
Nature's Xanax and you were looking and you were speaking things into your mind you were you were canceling out those toxic thoughts the thoughts that would take you further deeper into a dungeon right of just darkness, but you chose to Step by step by step come trudgingly through all the things and into the light

Kari Davis (17:34)
Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Dr. Brook Sheehan (17:44)
anchoring to that faith. But that sense of smell, does not go to your thalamus. So you have a portion in your brain also called the thalamus. Every single sense, the taste, the touch, the sound, the seeing, everything goes into the thalamus. Smell does not. It is why even merchandisers at the mall, you guys can tell me, I'm sure every single one of us has experienced this. You go to the mall, you go

wherever you go and it's like a recognizable scent. And you're just like, yeah, they have these scents piping through their pipe, in the store to make you want to come in there to create an emotional experience around that. And so I too have patients, at times I'm you actually have to sniff this oil. This is not rubbing it on your skin or putting it in a diffuser. sometimes they have to do.

But I'm like, you take that bottle, you plug a nostril, and you sniff it because you need to have that shift in neurology and the support that each individual oil carries. So Kari, thank you for that. I know I got on a little soap box of teaching there, but it's important. So I know what you do.

Kari Davis (18:50)
No, I love it. love it. Absolutely.

Dr. Brook Sheehan (18:58)
in your personal life, that non-toxic living in your personal life, you do it with your family, your kids, your step kids, all of that. What does non-toxic living in the mindset, and I know you touched on this briefly, but I wanna go into it a little bit deeper on non-toxic living mindset-wise. What does that look like? What does that mean to have a non-toxic mindset?

Kari Davis (19:21)
Well, first of all, just everything that you let in, right? I just, don't believe that we were meant to carry the weight of every war across the world, to know every family members step by step, of course we want to hear about family going through hard things, but we're not meant to be absorbing all of the energy from everything bad that has happened. We're not meant to have all of those dopamine.

effects firing, non-stop with the TV and with your screen. So a lot of it is just like limiting, first of all, is just having that time like you were talking about of just silence, of just a breath. But then, like I mentioned, journaling and really journaling your thoughts, because I think a lot of us journal like what we did today or what we want our kids to find in our journal, but we don't really, really journal.

what we're ruminating about, what we're stressing about, what we're taking off of God's throne and putting on our own plate to deal with. And so, we put it under the title of prayer requests or different things, but we don't always really dig deep into what we are fixated on. And a lot of the times it's not even truth. It's stuff like, I can't lose weight.

the kids are so naughty, my husband doesn't look at me. It's stuff that is like, it might have some truth to it, but really getting to the heart of the matter about really what you're thinking and what view you're seeing things through is the most beneficial to walk through with people and yourself. Once you learn how to self-coach, you can get rid of that toxic mindset really not easily, but it's...

simpler than you think, because you just have to take those thoughts captive and really rewrite them into what God says. And that's why I don't like affirmations that are like, am enough, I am beautiful. Your brain is gonna go, no, you're really not actually. You haven't, you have dirty dishes in the sink, you haven't done the laundry yet. Your brain is gonna fight if it's about you.

My dad is a pastor and he calls it like navel gazing. So much of our lives we spent like thinking about ourselves, but not in like a truthful way. Like we're just focused on ourselves. So when we lift our heads up and we see the truth of what God says about us, it's really hard to sit in a toxic mindset when you're reading the power of God's word about what he says about you.

And that's actually who you are is who created you. It's not what you're thinking that you are. And so even if you think you have a good self-esteem, even if you are healthy, if you're, if you do a job where you kind of punch the clock and you don't have to put yourself out there the way that we do as entrepreneurs, you know, we have to like fake it till we make it a little bit. But even if you don't have to do all of those things,

You're still saying things to yourself that are really nasty and you wouldn't say those to anyone else but yourself. And it's just sad.

Dr. Brook Sheehan (22:11)
So good.

I know I'm so good, but so weighted in truth, right? We do talk to ourselves in such a demeaning kind of way. I would never say things to you that I would say about myself. So journaling is huge.

Everything you were saying I was just like, amen amen amen amen like wanting to scream out but I was like, her talk don't it's jump in But journaling is so impactful when you're truthful as you're doing it It's not about worrying if the kids are gonna see it if it is something that you are worried if somebody's gonna see it get it out write it on the paper little like vomit it I say these very strong words because I used to I still journal I used to journal a lot

I didn't have an outlet for getting my big emotions out. And so I would be vomiting on paper right through the words. And then you can burn it. You can do whatever you need to do so you don't have to worry like, oh my gosh, somebody is going to find it. But journaling is huge and super impactful. And then you talked about just how

Kari Davis (22:59)
Mm-hmm.

Dr. Brook Sheehan (23:13)
Being able to anchor ourselves in like what God sees about us and like being able to like move our eyes from looking down to like looking up how important it is to really understand that what we believe about ourselves we know all of our faults, know every area where we went wrong We know every area where we tripped and did all these things But if we bring our eyes up, we can then go I don't have to carry that shame. I don't

to carry that condemnation don't have to like believe these things about myself. And so how important it is to keep that positive mindset and really just know your body is going to respond. know, I, some of the ladies, who have struggled in their weight and dealing with these kinds of things, like not feeling good about themselves. I'm like, look,

Kari Davis (23:40)
Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

Dr. Brook Sheehan (24:00)
Like you will never get the body that you dream of until you learn to love the body you have and you build that deep relationship with it. And so it's so, so important. moving into the next question, as you've walked this path of faith and wellness, two of my favorite things to actually bring together, talk to me body card deck is a big, huge example of faith and wellness in action. But how

Kari Davis (24:05)
Yeah.

Dr. Brook Sheehan (24:22)
your body been a teacher to you? How has that been?

Kari Davis (24:27)
So I have just, I was raised by a mom who bought real food. my dad would want white bread and she would be like, it's not even food. And so I just, I've always probably, I've just been always kind of aware of what's real and fake. Is it made in a plant or is it a plant? And just, it was just modeled that and so.

Dr. Brook Sheehan (24:38)
Ha ha!

Yeah.

Kari Davis (24:52)
I have never had any major physical ailments in my life, but absolutely in my mindset and in grief, it has been just really, really vital to take care of myself. can tell when I'm, you know, and I also have history of mental illness. After I had COVID, I had a lot of neurological things. My brain has a hard time detoxing through genetic testing. learned that

MSG and just certain toxins are really, really terrible for me. And so I have to be really mindful to just rest and to stop and to put good things in and learning about the brilliance of nature, the brilliance of plants has just been.

really eye-opening because when I first got introduced I was like you know I'm never really sick my kids are really healthy I'm not really gonna ever really need any natural medicines and I just had no idea how much especially for the aromatherapy side and just for getting rid of toxins I've always had terrible headaches when I smell synthetics I can't smell a Yankee candle I can't walk by those stores at the mall

And so I've just always listened to my body in that way where it's like I know I can't handle neurotoxins the way other people can I guess

Dr. Brook Sheehan (26:06)
I would hope other people couldn't handle neurotoxins too. It's like, I get very wild, let's just go with that, about the brain. And people are like, well, I know people don't think like this, but their attitudes or their actions kind of think like this. They'll drink themselves to an oblivion and cause liver damage and then go get

a new liver get a new set of lungs or let me get a new heart I'll get a heart you do not get a new brain there's not a brain transplant surgery like there that is off the table It is not an option we live in an epidemic where not only mental illness in this DSM five type of mental illness, but like also with neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's and dementia and all these things that are happening.

Kari Davis (26:37)
Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

Dr. Brook Sheehan (26:49)
The brain is so important to preserve and to take care of. mean, the whole body is a whole. Everything works together. We can't just isolate one. But yes, like you're saying you recognize your body or your brain can't handle those kind of things. So I love that. There's a final question I ask all of my guests on the show. But before I get to that, is there anything

Kari Davis (27:04)
Yeah.

Dr. Brook Sheehan (27:14)
that you want to share, anything that I didn't ask, or just something on your heart that you would want to talk about before I ask that question?

Kari Davis (27:21)
the only other thing when you were talking about how to get rid of those toxic thoughts is that if you're used to it, I say it's simple to self-coach sometimes, but sometimes our blocks and our pain is something that we really need to verbally process with another person, and that's why coaching is so effective. Whenever you trust someone to let them in, it is the biggest honor. It's also many times the biggest blessing, and so if...

When we're talking about this, you're feeling like, my gosh, I didn't know other people did that. I didn't know other people talked to themselves like that. You're not alone, but if you don't know how to get rid of some of those toxic thoughts, I would just be happy to book a coaching call and to get to know each other a little bit better because hearing it come out of our mouths sometimes, even journaling doesn't work for some people. They need to kind of talk it out and...

Coaching is not a woo woo word, it's not therapy, but it's much more free than therapy to where we can talk about God and we can talk about things that are whatever the person needs. And so I just thought I would throw that in there. Little plug for coaching, cause it's vital.

Dr. Brook Sheehan (28:29)
Absolutely no it is absolutely vital coaching is a huge aspect and I know you would take care of all of my people and all of my listeners so beautifully for those that do need the support and I will also Have your coaching link in the show notes for people to connect with you on Instagram and in your Facebook group. I do know that you have a

freebie to offer people do you want to talk about that.

the

whole you plan, a holistic inventory and calm plan.

Kari Davis (29:00)
Okay, perfect. this is, sometimes in our holistic health, we're kind of like, I take my vitamins, I go for a walk, like what else do want? So it breaks down your body, your mind, and your heart kind of doing like an inventory and not just for you, but for everyone in your family. Because sometimes you just have that feeling like something's not right with one of your kids, but you can't really put it.

onto paper. And so you can do it kind of for them, but also with them depending on their age. And then it comes out with kind of a calming plan for each area of the body too. kind of, it's just a good exercise to teach our kids, to teach our husbands to actually do that self inventory, to check in with ourselves. Cause sometimes we think that we have a stomach ache, but your kid might...

might be really nervous about something at school, like you always teach about, your body is trying to talk to you, and so it helps you dig a little deeper into that.

Dr. Brook Sheehan (29:53)
Amen. I love that. It's beautiful. So on that note about the body speaking and how it will signal to us like, hey, I need some help here. There's some issues, right? Like it's waving a flag. Surrender. On that note, the question I always ask my guests on the podcast is in your experience, your personal experience, how have you

experience your body speaking to you? How have you seen it maybe in clients that you're working with? how would you say the body is speaking to you?

Kari Davis (30:24)
I can usually tell my body is speaking louder than usual when I am trying to push it past a point that when I'm just like exhausted, I went through some time after trauma of just adrenal fatigue, just being exhausted all the time. Usually my body is telling me to slow down and I'm trying to tell it to speed up. And so I have really tried to listen to that more as I get older. I am...

ready to embrace my next, maybe 10, 20 years from now, like my grandma years, I just can't wait to do puzzles and play with grandkids. Because I think that's going to be like my spirit decades. My body's always telling me to slow down.

Dr. Brook Sheehan (31:00)
I love that!

You're like, finally, finally I will slow down. will give you exactly what you're asking for, but not right now. No, just kidding. You are learning to listen and... Yeah!

Kari Davis (31:09)
Dr. Brooke, I tell you that, will it you that?

15 more years and you get to slow down. Will it listen?

Dr. Brook Sheehan (31:15)
think so because it trumps our what we want to do, right? And a lot of times we pay for it. And so I know I've brought this up multiple times, but in other episodes, but I talk about sneezing, for example, right? A lot of times we sneeze, God bless you. And we just walk in, we move on. What we failed to realize in that moment is that the body just notified us, Hey, you're on alert. My immune system is kicking into gear.

Kari Davis (31:22)
You

Mm-hmm.

Dr. Brook Sheehan (31:43)
This is not the time to push yourself. This is the time to drink more water. This is the time to get the rest and avoid all sugar. Like, cut the sugar from the diet because you are taking your immune cells and blindfolding them and telling them, hey, fight the bad guys. Well, I can't see great, so we're not going to do it really well, right? So it's so funny you say that because it's well, yeah. I mean, the body is going to trump what you were saying where it's like you're going to try to push past, and it's going to be like.

Kari Davis (31:53)
Yeah.

You

I'm

sorry.

Dr. Brook Sheehan (32:11)
Sorry,

uh-uh, we're gonna be flat on our back and we're gonna be not feeling well because if I have to get the rest I'm gonna get it from somewhere So so beautiful Yeah, yes, yes Well, it has been an absolute honor and so fun I laughed a lot and my heart was bursting from my chest just talking with you and chatting

Kari Davis (32:19)
Exactly. I do listen better than I used to. do.

Dr. Brook Sheehan (32:35)
And I just, had so much, fun on the show. I hope you as the listener had such a great time that you got a good chuckle, that, Kari had said some things that really made you think about your mental space, how you process things through your body, how you emotionally deal with things, how you are spiritually, how things are going, all four pillars of health, okay? It's not just the physical realm. And the physical realm can be impacted, like I said.

to just reiterate by the other three. So, Kari, I just want to thank you so much for your time. I will have all those show notes for you guys to be able to connect with her and get to know her like I have over these past couple weeks. So, ⁓ thank you again and have beautiful rest of your day. We'll talk to you soon.

Kari Davis (33:18)
Thank you. Thank

you so much for having me and it was so much fun.

Dr. Brook Sheehan (33:23)
Yes, thank you.