Dr. Tabatha Barber uses a phone battery metaphor to explain why constant energy drain without rest leads to chronic fatigue and nervous system problems. She argues that identifying what drains you and what restores you is the key to avoiding dysfunction.
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And, like, talk to my ladies about their schedule, because, yeah, you can't just be crazy all day and then hop into bed and expect miracles, right?
Your body is like a cell phone. You know, the more performance you want out of the phone, Right. The more apps you want to have on, the longer you have to plug it in at night. And. And if not, the phone will die. Well, you won't die. You'll just internalize that with a lifetime of dysfunction. Right. Hypersensitivities, autoimmune issues. That is just a severely imbalanced fatigue system. So when we look at that during the day, life starts with expending energy and then replenishing energy, right? We want to look at that balance. We want to remove pressure on the nervous system to allow the body to balance more effectively. And then we want to look at the things within our environment that give us energy.