086. Breaking Free from the Cortisol Trap: Weight, Energy & Mental Health with Lauren Gary

Season #3 February 05, 2025

In this episode, I’m joined by Lauren Gary, a nurse practitioner turned holistic health coach, to dive deep into the struggles so many women face—weight loss, exhaustion, and anxiety. We discuss why traditional medicine often leaves women feeling unseen, the real reason your labs come back “normal” even when you feel anything but, and the cortisol trap that keeps so many of us stuck.

Lauren shares why eating more (not less) and working out smarter (not harder) is the key to reclaiming your energy and metabolism. We also explore nervous system regulation, food freedom, and the truth about GLP-1 weight loss injections—plus, simple shifts you can make today to feel your best.

✨ In this episode, we cover:
✔ Why traditional healthcare often fails women struggling with weight and energy
✔ The “cortisol ball” and how stress impacts weight loss
✔ The biggest mistakes women make when trying to lose weight
✔ The importance of food freedom and breaking up with diet culture
✔ Practical tools for nervous system regulation and reducing stress
✔ A holistic perspective on GLP-1 weight loss injections

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Episode Transcript

Hello, everybody, and welcome to another episode of the show. I'm so excited about today's guest. We have Lauren. Welcome.

here. Thank you for having me. And I'm just, I'm excited to see where this conversation goes today.

Yeah, me too. I think there's a lot that we can dive into. For those of, um, the audience listening who might not know you, could you just introduce yourself? And what I always love to understand is looking back at your life. What are some of the like, key moments that have led you to who you are today?

That's a deep seated question, but I, um, I'm a nurse practitioner by trade and, um, I recently launched my own holistic health program where I help women with weight loss and having more energy and overcoming anxiety and depression. Those are kind of like my biggest goals. big three pillars that I work on, um, with the clients that I work with.

But taking you back, like, how did I go from traditional medicine nurse practitioner to now like holistic wellness consulting? Um, when I first started as a nurse practitioner, I loved preventative health and I love working with in primary care and treating their blood pressure and their cholesterol and all of that fun stuff.

But I soon realized after being in that field for a while that there were women that were coming to me with the same three problems like over and over. And it was always, they're having trouble losing weight. They couldn't seem to get back to a certain number that maybe they had previously for whatever reason. They felt constantly drained, no energy run down in the afternoons, like just didn't have the energy to play with their kids and just to get through the work day. Um, or they were struggling with l...

And in traditional medicine, the way we tackle like all of those complaints is we do a workup and we do some labs and we just check things out. And like nine times out of 10, everything came back perfectly fine. it was really aggravating for me and for the patients because they're like, well, then why do I feel this way?

What do I do? And traditional medicine is just not great at connecting those dots, mainly just from a time constraint. We just don't have the time in a 20 minute appointment to dive into nutrition and lifestyle and stressors and sleep and all these really important components of health. so I realized that if I wanted to help these women in that way, that I needed a different platform to be able to do that in. And that's when I launched Lauren Gary wellness, like this consulting practice. So now I coach ...

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086. Breaking Free from the Cortisol Trap: Weight, Energy & Mental Health with Lauren Gary

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