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From Burnout to Balance: Strategies to Combat Exhaustion from The Well Nourished Mama Podcast

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Brit outlines three burnout phases: alarm, resistance, and exhaustion.

1. The Balance with Britt Podcast episode centers on burnout strategies to combat exhaustion from The Well Nourished Mama Podcast. 2. Brittany Nicholson hosts as a registered holistic nutritionist and personal trainer, and Brooke Harmer hosts The Well Nourished Mama Podcast while interviewing Brit as a friend and former guest. 3. The episode asks how to move from burnout to balance without pretending stress can be eliminated. 4. Brit says her own early-20s life included two jobs, university pressure, moving cities, anxiety, fatigue, digestive issues, and irregular periods. 5. She connects that period to fasted workouts at 6 a.m., coffee before breakfast, and working from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. 6. Brooke frames the episode for moms who feel normalizing symptoms like PMS, tummy troubles, and constant stress. 7. Brit explains that stress is not always bad because deadlines, marriage, and having a baby can create useful stress. 8. She describes the adrenal glands as small triangular glands above the kidneys that produce hormones for metabolism, blood pressure, and stress response. 9. Cortisol is named as a key hormone with a daily rhythm that rises around 6 a.m. and falls toward evening. 10. Brit says burnout becomes a problem when cortisol is chronically high or, later, depleted and low. 11. Brit groups burnout into alarm, resistance, and exhaustion phases, and she compares the first phase to a superwoman or honeymoon period. 12. The resistance phase includes feeling wired yet tired, irritability, insomnia, energy crashes, and waking between 2 and 4 a.m. 13. She says abdominal weight gain can appear as a protective response tied to hormone imbalances, blood sugar instability, and inflammation. 14. Brit links fight-or-flight stress to glucose being routed toward skeletal muscles and the brain instead of long-term digestive stability. 15. She says digestion can slow to constipation or speed up to diarrhea, and she points to stress and anxiety as overlooked pieces in IBS. 16. Brit names magnesium, vitamin C, B vitamins, iron, protein, fat, fiber, and hydration as important supports during stressful periods. 17. The tone is conversational and practical, with Brooke asking direct questions and Brit answering with examples from client work and personal experience. 18. The format stays interview-based and advice-driven, with repeated back-and-forth on physiology, food, and realistic routines. 19. People managing stress, busy mothers, and anyone noticing fatigue and digestive symptoms would likely benefit. 20. Listeners wanting a purely motivational talk without nutrition details may skip it.

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A grounded reset that names burnout clearly without overselling the fix.

Burnout is treated here as a concrete stress pattern rather than a vague mood, with Brit and Brooke laying out the three tiers, the stress bucket, and the pressure points that can tip it over.

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If your stress bucket is overflowing, start here.

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