Resilient & Thriving Podcast with Coach Kirsten
You were made to thrive—not just survive.
This podcast is your safe and empowering space to break through fatigue, burnout, chronic stress, and illness so you can build a body and life that are truly resilient.
I’m Coach K—Certified Holistic Health & Nutrition Coach, Clinical EFT Practitioner, and Functional Movement Specialist—and I’m here to help you heal from the inside out. Together, we’ll explore tools and strategies to recover from life’s stressors, restore your energy, and feel strong in your body again.
Each episode blends science-backed tools and heart-based practices—like plant-powered nutrition, functional breathwork, emotional freedom techniques, and mindset rewiring—to support your healing journey.
You’ll learn how to:
- Reverse chronic fatigue and stress patterns
- Rewire your nervous system for peace and energy
- Break free from emotional and physical stuckness
- Create sustainable, joyful routines in movement, food, and rest
This is for you if you’re ready to reclaim your health, feel vibrant again, and live a life that reflects your true strength. Let’s build resilience—one step at a time.
Resilient & Thriving Podcast with Coach Kirsten
How Stress & Cortisol Causes Your Body to Use Food Differently—Episode 42
When I was in the height of my healing journey, my Functional doc discovered that while I was eating highly nutrient-rich foods and fiercely abstaining from inflammatory ones, I still wasn't absorbing the nutrients from the foods I ate.
You can imagine how discouraging that was.
And at that moment in time, I wasn't in a stress-state anymore.
I was truly doing what I thought was resting.
In fact, I couldn't work anymore.
But I was experiencing the effects of a few years of intense stress on my body.
What unfolded was many years of research, trials, and errors, and digging deeper and deeper into the effects of stress on our bodies.
Researchers now say that highly stressed individuals actually have a harder time utilizing the foods they eat. There was a study conducted specifically regarding caregivers and how the stress they endure affects their bodies’ ability to process the foods they eat. And guess what? They found that those under extreme stress didn’t handle junk food as well – it led to larger waistlines and insulin insensitivity.
Tune in to find out more and for a couple of simple practices you can begin to implement today!
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