Invisibly Unwell

About Invisibly Unwell

Conversations with clinicians, dietitians, and women living it, about autoimmune disease and chronic illness inside demanding careers. For the years spent unwell before a diagnosis, and everything that comes after. Plus the perfectionism, people-pleasing, and disordered eating that so often travel with it.

Publisher

Paige Lavell

Category

education · health & fitness · health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

9 Apr 2024

Latest episode

17 Dec 2024

Latest episodes

12 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   17 Dec 2024

   Learning to Slow Down as a Chronic High Achiever with Cristina Hoyt

   I sat down with Cristina Hoyt who shares how intelligent our bodies truly are. There is a massive impact if we can shift our perspective from my body is broken to my body is not broken, it's constantly trying to tell me a story and help me out. If we can slow down and listen, our health can fundamentally change for the better. This can, however, be very challenging for those of us who are high achievers and have grown accustomed to always

2. 

   10 Dec 2024

   Insights into Celiac Disease and Gluten Sensitivity with Alexa Prass

   Alexa Prass, MPH, RDN, and I discuss celiac disease, gluten sensitivity, and the difference between the two. I will acknowledge that I've re-incorporated gluten into my diet since this interview due to pregnancy and not being able to hold much down except sourdough bread during my first trimester. That said, I think there is a lot of misinformation (or frankly just a lack of information) out there about celiac disease which is a condition invisible to the naked eye. Many women struggle in silence with this condition and have difficulty both getting a diagnosis and obtaining a referral to a dietician. Alexa shares her diagnosis journey, what led her to pursue a career path as a dietician specializing in celiac disease, and what resources and personal practices she has found helpful throughout her journey with this condition.

3. 

   3 Dec 2024

   The Truth about Strict Diet Protocols, Inflammation, Cortisol, and What Counts as Exercise with Dana Monsees

   Dana Monsees returns to the podcast and debunks many health and fitness trends circulating around the internet. She speaks to a lot of the misinformation out there, stresses the importance of an individualized approach to nutrition and fitness, and calls upon us all to routinely prune our social media feeds.

4. 

   10 Sept 2024

   The Physical, Mental, & Emotional Benefits of Acupuncture with Lea Manilla

   Lea Manilla is a Licensed Acupuncturist and founder of Better Days Wellness. We discuss the many benefits of acupuncture that reach far beyond addressing pain which include immune system issues, problems with digestion, allergies, asthma, insomnia, anxiety, infertility, and stress. The list in its entirety includes over 100 conditions and continues to grow.

5. 

   9 Jul 2024

   Addressing the Gap in Women's Health, Getting Honest About the Impact of Burnout, and Calling out a Thyroid Epidemic with Kaely McDevitt

   Kaely McDevitt is a licensed dietician and fellow perfectionist, type-A high achiever. Upon experiencing her own health issues after years of education in diet & nutrition, she realized there a significant gender gap in healthcare research. We discuss the alarmingly small amount of nutrition and medical research that has been done to date on women's health specifically, the long term risks of birth control that are rarely shared with young females, the health impacts of burnout from constantly hustling, and the growing number of women facing thyroid issues. Based on extensive research and many years working with female patients, Kaely shares why she believes the high achieving, type A, deriving-our-worth-from what-we-do personality type ends in health issues (particularly hormone and fertility issues). It is because this mentality and the actions derived from it are a complete mismatch with our biological need for safety in order to manufacture hormones and be fertile. Our brain is filtering how we're eating, thinking, breathing, and moving through the lens of am I safe or not. Our bodies are very smart and always look out for number one. If we don't have enough energy or enough safety our body will shut "unnecessary" functions down. Kaely stresses that if we want to start to recover from burnout, we should begin with what is within our control to create that safety. Find Kaely McDevitt: https://www.kaelyrd.com/ https://www.instagram.com/kaelyrd/?hl=en Find your host: https://www.paigelavell.com/ (https://www.paigelavell.com/) Instagram: @paigelavellofficial Have questions about the episode, a guest you'd love for me to interview, or a topic you'd like for me to cover? Email me at paige@paigelavell.com! If you enjoy this podcast, please click Follow to get all new episodes and write a five-star rating & review on iTunes or wherever you listen to podcasts. This truly helps the show to grow and reach more audience members and potential guests. I appreciate you and am honored to have you as a listener!

6. 

   2 Jul 2024

   Taking a Holistic & Evidence Based Approach to Patient Care with Dr. Saimun Singla

   Dr. Saimun Singla was inspired to shift from practicing traditional medicine to a more integrative model that blends, as she says, "the best of the east and the west". She was inspired to explore a more patient centered approach after becoming a rheumatology patient herself and experiencing firsthand the impact that lifestyle practices and evidence based complementary methods have on overall health. We discussed our diagnoses journeys and the challenges chronic illness patients face in the current medical model. Dr. Singla also shares evidence based complementary treatments that have helped her patients with issues like pain management and sheds light on the importance of having patients define what healthy means to them. She encourages patients to understand why being healthy is important to them specifically so that they are more likely to maintain the lifestyle practices, stress management, medication regimen when necessary, and other factors that help them remain in good health. Find Dr. Saimun Singla: https://www.rheumtogrowtx.com/ IG: https://www.instagram.com/rheum.to.grow.tx/?hl=en Find your host: https://www.paigelavell.com/ (https://www.paigelavell.com/) Instagram: @paigelavellofficial Have questions about the episode, a guest you'd love for me to interview, or a topic you'd like for me to cover? Email me at paige@paigelavell.com! If you enjoy this podcast, please click Follow to get all new episodes and write a five-star rating & review on iTunes or wherever you listen to podcasts. This truly helps the show to grow and reach more audience members and potential guests. I appreciate you and am honored to have you as a listener!

7. 

   14 May 2024

   The Truth About Eating Disorders with Brandy Walker

   Brand Walker is an eating disorder survivor and Certified Independent Recovery Coach. She suffered from her own eating disorder, disordered thoughts and behaviors, and body dysmorphic disorder for well over 30 years. Having gone through an extensive recovery process, Brandy is now fully recovered today. She opened Recover You, LLC in 2019 as a part-time practice while still maintaining my 25+ year consulting career, and she is is the process of transitioning to a full-time recovery coaching practice. Brandy works from a value-based perspective to help her clients investigate and identify whether their eating disorder behaviors align or misalign with their value system. Some of her core values that helped her lean into and maintain recovery include compassion, empathy, integrity, autonomy, and empowerment. Her deeply knowledgeable insights into the false beliefs many people have about ED are eye opening. Brandy makes an unfortunately taboo topic feel approachable and she brings her expertise to the table without a hint of judgment towards those struggling with disordered behavior. Brandy also has personal experience with chronic illness, and we dive into the impact physical health issues can have on our mental and emotional state. I hope this episode provides some insight into the often hidden realities of women struggling with ED, especially if disordered eating and perfectionistic tendencies with diet, exercise, and work are part of your story. Find Brandy: https://recoveryoullc.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/recoveryoullc/?hl=en Find your host: https://www.paigelavell.com/ (https://www.paigelavell.com/) Instagram: @paigelavellofficial Have questions about the episode, a guest you'd love for me to interview, or a topic you'd like for me to cover? Email me at paige@paigelavell.com! If you enjoy this podcast, please click Follow to get all new episodes and write a five-star rating & review on iTunes or wherever you listen to podcasts. This truly helps the show to grow and reach more audience members and potential guests. I appreciate you and am honored to have you as a listener!

8. 

   7 May 2024

   Helping High Achievers Reconnect to their Body with Shannon Dolan

   Shannon Dolan was voted Best Nutritionist in Austin, TX 2021 & 2022. She specializes in helping high achievers regain connection to their body. Whether she's talking women's health or having inclusive conversations in corporate wellness, Shannon is passionate about helping her clients gain more energy and be deeply nourished so they can feel more like themselves. She has a multitude of impressive certifications (CE Fitness Nutrition Specialist, ACE Behavioral Change Specialist, ACE Functional Training Specialist, and ACSM Personal Trainer to name a few), but what stands out to me the most about Shannon is that she does not claim to provide a quick fix. Although her clients often start feeling better in days, her focus is offering them the what, why, and how so they can confidently develop long-term, sustainable results that go far beyond aesthetics. In this episode discuss the mental, emotional, and physical challenges that affect many high achieving women. Shannon is very open about her past struggles with negative body image, a disordered view of exercise and nutrition, and running herself to the verge of burnout. Her commitment to breaking through the noise in the crowded fitness and nutrition space is inspiring. Find Shannon: https://www.healthwithshannon.com/ (https://www.healthwithshannon.com/) https://www.instagram.com/healthwithshannon/ (https://www.instagram.com/healthwithshannon/) Find your host: https://www.paigelavell.com/ (https://www.paigelavell.com/) Instagram: @paigelavellofficial Have questions about the episode, a guest you'd love for me to interview, or a topic you'd like for me to cover? Email me at paige@paigelavell.com! If you enjoy this podcast, please click Follow to get all new episodes and write a five-star rating & review on iTunes or wherever you listen to podcasts. This truly helps the show to grow and reach more audience members and potential guests. I appreciate you and am honored to have you as a listener!

9. 

   30 Apr 2024

   The Challenges of Having an Invisible Disability with Anessa Powell

   Anessa Powell is the Founder and CEO of AllAbility Recruiting, a disability recruitment firm specializing in connecting the disability community with meaningful employers that also offers organization-wide disability training and consulting. In addition, Anessa is a patient advocate and speaker who believes in fostering community over competition and showing compassion to those living with a disability (whether invisible or apparent). Anessa will resonate with listeners as a high achieving professional woman who had to pivot once her autoimmune symptoms presented. She used her frustrating diagnosis journey, experience of being dismissed in medical settings, and disappointment in disability recruitment services available to her in the past as fuel to help others in similar situations. Disabled individuals are the largest minority group in the world, and Anessa is making an impact in ensuring this group is represented fairly and appropriately in the workplace. Her story is extremely inspirational, and her kindness and compassion radiate from every word shared. Find Anessa: https://anessapowell.com/ (https://anessapowell.com/) https://allabilityrecruiting.com/ (https://allabilityrecruiting.com/) Instagram: @_anessapowell_ Find your host: https://www.paigelavell.com/ (https://www.paigelavell.com/) Instagram: @paigelavellofficial Have questions about the episode, a guest you'd love for me to interview, or a topic you'd like for me to cover? Email me at paige@paigelavell.com! If you enjoy this podcast, please click Follow to get all new episodes and write a five-star rating & review on iTunes or wherever you listen to podcasts. This truly helps the show to grow and reach more audience members and potential guests. I appreciate you and am honored to have you as a listener!

10. 

    23 Apr 2024

    Rebuilding Self-Trust with Danika Brysha

    Danika Brysha is a 3X wellness entrepreneur, plus size fashion model, and mother. She has worked with thousands of people to spread wellness and cultivate self-care routines and systems that stick, and is passionate about empowering others to come back home to themselves. Through her journey of recovery from disordered eating, food addiction, body issues, excessive alcohol and drug use, deep debt, and an overall lack of confidence and purpose, Danika uses her own experience to help others transform and thrive. Danika has a refreshing approach to what she calls our "seasons" in life. While she continues to be a highly successful entrepreneur, her focus has shifted to taking intuitive action, being kind to her nervous system, and ensuring she does not pour from am empty cup. Listening to her story, shared with such refreshing vulnerability, will feel like taking a deep breath. I hope this episode leaves you feeling seen and heard, especially if disordered eating and perfectionistic tendencies with diet and exercise are part of your story. Find Danika: https://www.danikabrysha.com/ (https://www.danikabrysha.com/) https://www.ilovescs.com/home (https://www.ilovescs.com/home) Instagram: @danikabrysha    @selfcaresociety Find your host: https://www.paigelavell.com/ (https://www.paigelavell.com/) Instagram: @paigelavellofficial Have questions about the episode, a guest you'd love for me to interview, or a topic you'd like for me to cover? Email me at paige@paigelavell.com! If you enjoy this podcast, please click Follow to get all new episodes and write a five-star rating & review on iTunes or wherever you listen to podcasts. This truly helps the show to grow and reach more audience members and potential guests. I appreciate you and am honored to have you as a listener!

11. 

    16 Apr 2024

    The Dangers of Getting Sucked into the Latest Wellness, Diet, and Ideal Body Trends with Dana Monsees

    Dana Monsees is a Dietitian-Nutritionist and Body Image Coach specializing in neutral nutrition for chronic health conditions, gut and adrenal issues.  In this episode she shares her extensive experience with wellness culture, restrictive dieting trends, and the role mental and emotional issues play in our overall physical health. We discuss factors that played into both of us developing an eating disorder including but not limited to perfectionism, people pleasing, chronic illness, and being raised in a home where taboo topics were not discussed. We also reflect upon the evolution of ideal body types from our youth in the 90s and early 2000s to today, the variance of which shows just how unattainable a "perfect" body is. She stresses that not everyone (in fact most people) with an eating disorder are not underweight. Disordered eating is a coping skill to satisfy a need to feel in control. It can be rooted in a desire to control weight, but it's often more deeply rooted in the need to cope with unaddressed trauma. I hope Dana's personal stories and nutritional expertise resonate with listeners who feel stuck between a rock (ever evolving wellness trends) and a hard place (chronic illness, perfectionist tendencies, and a desire to find the magic bullet to fix our issues). Find Dana: https://www.realfoodwithdana.com/ https://www.realfoodwithdana.com/whole-hearted-eating-podcast/ Instagram: @danamonsees_cns    @wholeheartedeatingpod Find your host: https://www.paigelavell.com/ (https://www.paigelavell.com/) Instagram: @paigelavellofficial Have questions about the episode, a guest you'd love for me to interview, or a topic you'd like for me to cover? Email me at paige@paigelavell.com! If you enjoy this podcast, please click Follow to get all new episodes and write a five-star rating & review on iTunes or wherever you listen to podcasts. This truly helps the show to grow and reach more audience members and potential guests. I appreciate you and am honored to have you as a listener!

12. 

    9 Apr 2024

    Starting the Autoimmune Conversation with Lilly Stairs

    Lilly Stairs is an entrepreneur and autoimmune "triple threat" who turned her experience with chronic illness into a successful career. She is the founder of Patient Authentic and Chronic Boss Collective. We discuss the challenges of obtaining a diagnosis, how it feels to experience medical gaslighting, and the lengths we have gone to feel seen and heard. We share our personal experiences with restrictive dieting as a means to address our autoimmune symptoms and the toll it took on us both mentally and physically. We also stress the need for less judgment in both traditional and alternative medicine and embracing the notion that every person's health journey is unique. Lilly reflects upon her struggle to find a place in the chronic illness community as a highly success-driven woman whose symptoms are predominantly invisible. Because of this she is passionate about creating a positive, motivational, and supportive community for women who can relate. She is an inspiring force for change, and I know listeners will feel heard and motivated after listening to this episode. Find Lilly: https://www.chronicbosscollective.com/ (https://www.chronicbosscollective.com/) https://patientauthentic.com/ (https://patientauthentic.com/) Instagram: @lillystairs  @chronicbossco Find your host: https://www.paigelavell.com/ (https://www.paigelavell.com/) Instagram: @paigelavellofficial Have questions about the episode, a guest you'd love for me to interview, or a topic you'd like for me to cover? Email me at paige@paigelavell.com! If you enjoy this podcast, please click Follow to get all new episodes and write a five-star rating & review on iTunes or wherever you listen to podcasts. This truly helps the show to grow and reach more audience members and potential guests. I appreciate you and am honored to have you as a listener!

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

8 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

6 ratings

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