How We Get Thru Podcast: Wellness, Healing & Spiritual Tools for Growth in Real Life · Jen Hershey

S2 Ep 75: Using Ayurvedic Lifestyle to Beat the Root Cause of Burnout with Courtney LaCava

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Courtney LaCava says most women's health issues come from doing too much and not enough nourishment.

1. How We Get Thru Podcast: Wellness, Healing & Spiritual Tools for Growth in Real Life centers on Courtney LaCava’s Ayurvedic approach to burnout and daily regulation. 2. Host Jen, a licensed therapist and founder of the How We Get Through app, interviews Courtney LaCava, an Ayurvedic practitioner who also uses somatic experiencing. 3. The episode asks how Ayurveda can help people simplify wellness by listening to body signals instead of overriding them. 4. Courtney says her father was into holistic health in the 1970s, and she remembers a tiny health food store called World of Nutrition. 5. She got into yoga in her early twenties, then hit chronic fatigue after graduate school and began searching through Western doctors and holistic care. 6. A woman teaching Ayurveda at yoga teacher training felt like a turning point because Courtney felt it in her whole body. 7. Courtney says her work with somatic experiencing started about four years ago and fits naturally with Ayurveda. 8. She says her master’s degree was in Latin American studies with a minor in gender studies, and her thesis focused on Ecuador’s HIV/AIDS program. 9. She describes burnout as a mix of social work, academia, and trying to heal the world while ignoring her own limits. 10. Courtney argues that many women’s health issues come from doing more than their system can hold and getting too little physical and emotional nourishment. 11. She frames stress hormones like adrenaline and cortisol as yang energy and sex hormones like estrogen and progesterone as yin energy. 12. Courtney says constant stress can draw down sex hormone production and leave the body depleted. 13. She explains that community matters because people have a social nervous system and move toward one another when they feel threat. 14. Jen and Courtney talk about how screens can imitate connection without replacing nervous-system contact in person. 15. Courtney defines Ayurveda as rooted in India, tied to the Vedic system, and meaning the knowledge or wisdom of life. 16. She says Ayurveda works with five elements—space, air, fire, water, and earth—and the doshas vata, pitta, and kapha. 17. Courtney gives examples of constitution-based care: vata types often need warmth, oils, regular meals, and gentler movement, while pitta types need cooling and less overheating. 18. She says kapha types often benefit from more rigorous exercise, and she explains prakriti as the dosha balance present at conception. 19. The conversation is conversational and practical, with Jen asking follow-up questions and Courtney translating Sanskrit concepts into everyday examples. 20. People looking for burnout relief through sleep, food, movement, and nervous-system habits will get the most from this episode, while listeners wanting quick fixes or rigid diet rules may skip it.

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