{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Wellness Docket","title":"Worthy of Rest: Dr. Alicia Newsome on Burnout, Hormones and Sustainable Success","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2432,"description":"Host Tim Culbert welcomes Dr. Alicia Newsome, functional medicine doctor, executive advisor, and bestselling author, to the show for a conversation about burnout, high performance, and building a successful career without sacrificing health, relationships, or personal values. Drawing on more than fifteen years of clinical experience, Alicia works with high-performing leaders through an Integrative Leadership Framework focused on three areas: business, body, and belief. She shares how her own experiences with exhaustion, divorce, health challenges, and burnout ultimately transformed both her medical practice and her understanding of what sustainable success looks like.\n\nAlicia and Tim explore why high performers can become particularly vulnerable to burnout and why physical health, mental well-being, identity, and professional performance cannot always be separated. Alicia explains the importance of recognizing the body's \"check engine lights\" instead of simply pushing through fatigue, stress, poor sleep, and other warning signs. The conversation also explores perimenopause and the physical and emotional challenges women may experience during this stage of life. Alicia discusses the role of stress, sleep, nutrition, hormones, gut health, and environmental factors, while offering insight for partners, family members, and colleagues who want to better understand and support women navigating these changes.\nAlicia also introduces her forthcoming book, Worthy of Rest, which challenges a culture that rewards exhaustion and explores why high-performing people may struggle to believe they are worthy of slowing down. She and Tim discuss different forms of rest—including physical, emotional, sensory, and spiritual rest—and the importance of creating space for joy outside of work. When asked what she would change about the legal profession in relation to mental health, Alicia advocates for more opportunities to step away from the constant analysis and pressure of legal work....","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/ZW3fGwpowQh29sOYTrQ_gVXKlwv7d8wnEU-i9_e_bY8/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS84MjM5/N2RkZjIzNGQyZDNk/Y2U3OGY4M2MwYWMw/MGFmOC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}