Awaken Your Wise Woman
Welcome to the Awaken Your Wise Woman podcast with host Elizabeth Cush, licensed clinical professional counselor and life coach for highly sensitive women. Every other week you’ll hear from Elizabeth and her guests as they explore women’s needs, desires, fears, hopes, and dreams—all that it means to be a wise, sensitive woman moving through life's joys, challenges, and transitions. Tune in to learn from Wise Women who know the struggles that come with being a sensitive woman today. We'll explore how to live a more grounded, authentic, purposeful, joyful, and compassionate life. The stories Elizabeth and her guests share will help you find the path back home to the brightest version of you — your truest, most beautiful, messy self.Together, let's shine our divine feminine energy brightly. The world needs us now more than ever.Awaken Your Wise Woman is the evolution of the Woman Worriers podcast.
Awaken Your Wise Woman
Functional Medicine for Sensitive Women
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Elizabeth Cush
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Season 5
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Episode 14
If you’re struggling with a chronic health issue, the answer may be closer than you realize. Listen in on this episode of Awaken Your Wise Woman, as host Elizabeth Cush welcomes Andrea Nakayama, a functional medicine nutritionist, for a talk about the healthcare journey for highly sensitive women.
“Functional nutrition is a place for those addressing chronic health challenges to settle into a different way of approaching them.”
— Andrea Nakayama
Listen and learn:
- Two of the most glaring gaps in our medical system and how functional medicine helps address them
- The three primary tenets of functional medicine and their implications for highly sensitive women
- The three elements of the functional nutrition matrix and how they can help you understand and manage your health
- How antecedents, triggers and mediators shape our health story—and help us shape it going forward
- The benefits of making decisions in terms of risk and reward
- Why looking for the one thing that will “fix it” is counterproductive
- How to detoxify from a functional nutrition perspective—and it’s not what we’re hearing about in the media
- How to tap into the pharmacy inside us
- How our sensitivity and our health might be connected