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103. Midlife Burnout for Women & Why Healing Work Can Make Us Worse - Dr. Suuzi Hazen

Medicine Stories

Amber M Hill

Herbs, Health & Fitness, Ancestry, Alternativemedicine, Herbalism, Alternative Health, Dreams, Healing, Society & Culture, Psychedelics

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2023

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Suuzi has been one of my best friends for 15 years, and our lives have taken parallel tracks recently- deeply interested in health & natural living for decades, we have nevertheless both found ourselves in total burnout at the edge of collapse in our early 40s. We share what got us here (and the irony that so much of it is doing things we truly believed were making us healthy), the current state of our metabolic/thyroid/mineral health, and our paths going forward. We hope this inspires others feeling stuck and confused- despite tremendous effort to be healthy- to quiet the outside noise, self attune, and more deeply understand your own biochemistry.

Dr. Suuzi Hazen is a wife, mother, farmer and founder of Mother's Best Liver Pills. She holds a doctoral degree in TCM, graduating in 2009 from ICTCM Vancouver. Suuzi completed extensive internships in Anhui Hospital of TCM in Hefei, China. She also interned with Dr. Katrine Heigelmann (Victoria), and Dr. David Li Lam (Vancouver). She brings a grounded yet radical, no-nonsense perspective to ancestral health and wellness.

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RESOURCES:

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Video of Niecia interpreting my recent HTMA results is at the Medicine Stories Patreon

Dr. Suuzi on Instagram

Mother’s Best Liver Pills

Sena Maria’s post on Why Your Healing Work Isn’t Moving the Needle

Sarah Kleiner Wellness on Instagram

Niecia’s post of Alison Luterman’s poem

What Is Mineral Balancing?

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Related previous episodes:

100. Returning the Mother to Herself: Our Nourishment Shapes How We Receive Life - Niecia Nelson

91. The Mineral Matrix & the Motherline That Made You - Hamid Jabbar

87. Elemental Interbeing, Food Information Overwhelm, and Cell Deep Nourishment for Women - Kymber Maulden

63. Your Cycle, Your Self: Period Empowerment, Fertility Awareness, & the Risks of Hormonal Birth Control - Dr. Elizabeth Wade

My website MythicMedicine.love

Mythic Medicine on Instagram

Medicine Stories Facebook group

Music by Mariee Siou (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)

Transcript

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0:00.0

There's just so many warning signs that were showing up earlier in my life

0:04.8

that I just ignored and kind of powered through them because I had no idea what to do about it.

0:10.8

I started having low energy around age nine and so I just basically spent my whole life

0:16.9

kind of powering through for like literally everything I did.

0:21.0

Hey friends, welcome to medicine stories where we are remembering what it is to be human

0:30.4

upon the earth in relationship to the elements that birthed the cosmos.

0:38.9

You're gonna hear a lot more from me on this topic as I recover my energy because I've been

0:45.8

really deeply interested in it for so long this elemental intervene between us, the earth,

0:52.4

our ancestors and the cosmos exploding stars that throughout the elements that traveled

1:00.7

throughout space and time and now make up my very body and your very body and what happens when

1:09.6

those minerals become dysregulated. How this is the foundation of our energy, wellness,

1:17.6

psychological, well-being, emotional reality and physical health. This is my interview with one

1:24.8

of my closest friends in the world, Susie Hazen. We have been friends for 15 years and in recent

1:33.4

years have just been going through the same thing with a adrenal fatigue, complete burnout,

1:41.6

energy, absolutely tanking and for me it's gotten really bad in the last couple of months and I'm

1:49.1

really pulling back from work and a lot of things so as I'm always saying I will do this podcast

1:56.8

forever. I hope but I am gonna probably be slowing down big time right now as I heal.

2:06.0

So this is me and Susie's conversation just a really real look at where we're at, what got us here

2:13.5

and how ironically so much of what has depleted and dysregulated our minerals has been doing things

2:21.3

that we truly thought were making us healthy and this is you know the deepest paradox for

2:29.4

everyone really interested in health and wellness and well-being is that in an age of information

2:34.9

overwhelm we can hook into ideas that makes sense to us but we don't have the full picture and

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