**Top 1.5% globally ranked podcast** for busy, health-conscious women leaders in midlife who want to recharge energy, reduce anxiety, and rebalance hormones through faith and functional health strategies.Are you a busy, health-conscious woman in midlife who’s tired of pushing through anxiety, brain fog, burnout, belly fat and a myriad of other hormone struggles? You’ve tried to do all the right things — eat healthy, exercise, keep it all together — but you still don’t feel like yourself.Welcome to Aligned Vitality, the podcast that offers faith and functional health strategies for high achieving, health conscious women in midlife who want to heal from chronic stress, body and spirit.I’m your host, Tanya Engesether — certified functional health practitioner, Christian Life coach, and midlife woman who’s walked this road herself. After many years of living with anxiety and burnout, I finally found freedom by pairing faith with functional health — and now I help other women uncover wha
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293. Your Nervous System Is Running the Show — And Here's How to Change the Channel
Oct 6, 202625 min
You closed the laptop. The workday is over. But your body didn't get the memo. If you're lying awake at night with a brain that won't quit, hitting a wall every afternoon, or feeling wired and exhausted at the same time — your nervous system may be stuck in overdrive. And the cost goes far deeper than stress. In this episode, Tanya breaks down what's actually happening when your nervous system gets locked in that ON position, why it matters so much for your hormones, metabolism, sleep, and mood — and one specific, research-supported tool that is changing how she approaches nervous system reset with her clients and in her own life. This one is practical, grounded, and designed to give you something you can actually try today. Key Takeaway Your nervous system is not broken. It is doing exactly what it was designed to do — protect you. It just got the message that danger never passed. This episode is about helping it find its way home. This Episode Is for You If: You feel tired but can't sleep — or wake up already anxious You struggle to transition out of work mode at the end of the day You've been told your symptoms are "just perimenopause" but something feels like more You've tried all the stress reduction advice and still feel like you can't turn it off You want a practical, research-supported tool you can use today — not next month I hope this episode blesses you! Xoxo, Tanya #nervoussystemregulation #bilateralstimulation #EMDRaudio #parasympatheticnervoussystem #HPAaxis #cortisolandprogesterone #perimenopausewellness #functionalhealth #adrenalhealth #nervoussystemhealing #bilateralbeats #stressandhormones #christianwomenwellness #alignedvitalityhealth #burnoutrecovery #womenshormones #holistichealth #midlifewellness #nervoussystemreset #functionalnutrition #nervoussystemsupport #highcapacitywomen Episode Resources: Episode Catalog My trusted Supplement Dispensary: Aligned Vitality Fullscript Dispensary My trusted Telehealth Peptide Provider: EllieMD_Tanya Engesether *I do get a small commission when you use one of the above affiliate links. 3 Ways To Connect With Me: 1️⃣COACHING: Are you READY to Lead Well, Live Well and BE Well? Book a FREE discovery call with me to find out more about functional health coaching. It’s the accountability and guidance you need to reclaim your health and happiness! ➡︎ https://alignedvitalityhealth.com/coaching 2️⃣ FACEBOOK: Become part of our Supportive Facebook Group. Connect, share, and learn with others navigating life and leadership ➡︎ https://alignedvitalityhealth.com/community 3️⃣ CONTACT: Leave me a question or comment ➡︎ https://alignedvitalityhealth.com/contact "Yes! Finally, a podcast helping others become the thriving leaders they’re meant to be outside of hustle-culture! This is an amazing resource! Thank you so much for sharing and helping us become Spirit-driven, peaceful leaders!" If you can relate, please consider rating and reviewing my show! It helps me reach more people – just like you – to help them change their future. Don’t forget to follow the show so you don’t miss any episodes! And, if you’re feeling really generous, I’d be SO honored if you would share this podcast with someone. Click here to view our privacy policy . Reminder: The information you hear on this show is not meant to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent disease. It is for educational purposes only. Always consult with your own health practitioner before you make any changes to your health.
292. What Do You Want to Be Remembered For? What Charlie Kirk's Answer Changed for Me
Sep 10, 202636 min
One year ago today, Charlie Kirk was shot and killed while speaking at Utah Valley University. He was thirty-one years old. Before his death, when asked what he wanted to be remembered for, his answer was immediate and unambiguous: I want to be remembered for courage for my faith. In this deeply personal episode, Tanya Engesether reflects on that answer — and on what it has stirred in her own wrestling with the legacy question. Not from a safe distance, but from the middle of her own discernment about leadership, about timing, about what it means to leave well, and about what the best legacy actually looks like. She names the ways she has been getting the legacy question wrong — holding on until everything is fixed, waiting for the approval of people who may never give it, allowing one hard season to loom too large over the whole story of a leadership tenure. And she offers the biblical reframe that has begun to change her relationship with the question: legacy is not the reputation you leave. It is the seeds you plant. And the harvest belongs to God. She talks about the roles that are most permanently hers — wife, mother, grandmother, daughter, friend — and the honest reckoning of what those relationships have sometimes received and what they have sometimes not. She addresses the courage for faith that Charlie Kirk's answer named — and that her own context has sometimes muted in favor of the safer, more professionally digestible version of herself. And she closes with the invitation that is at the heart of everything: what do you want to be remembered for? And are you living toward it? This episode is honest, vulnerable, and genuinely personal. It is for every woman who is carrying the weight of a legacy she is not sure is good enough — and who needs to hear that faithful is more than enough. I hope this episode blesses you! Xoxo, Tanya "Yes! Finally, a podcast helping others become the thriving leaders they’re meant to be outside of hustle-culture! This is an amazing resource! Thank you so much for sharing and helping us become Spirit-driven, peaceful leaders!" If you can relate, please consider rating and reviewing my show! It helps me reach more people – just like you – to help them change their future. Don’t forget to follow the show so you don’t miss any episodes! And, if you’re feeling really generous, I’d be SO honored if you would share this podcast with someone. Click here to view our privacy policy . Reminder: The information you hear on this show is for educational purposes only.
291. The Story We Were Made For: What C.S. Lewis Knew About Every Great Tale
Aug 18, 202634 min
Why do certain stories break us open in ways we cannot fully explain? Why does the sacrifice of a fictional lion make a grown adult cry? Why does a humble gardener carrying his friend through darkness produce that catch in the throat that feels like something more than sentiment? Why does a wrongly imprisoned man emerging into the rain with his arms outstretched feel less like a plot point and more like a moment of genuine liberation? In this episode Tanya explores one of the most beautiful ideas in all of Christian thought — the concept C.S. Lewis called Sehnsucht — the inconsolable longing that no earthly experience can satisfy. Drawing from Ecclesiastes 3:11, Lewis's works including The Weight of Glory and Mere Christianity, and Tolkien's argument that the gospel is the myth that is also true, Tanya makes the case that the stories that move us most are not accidental. They are echoes. Breadcrumbs scattered by God across the human imagination — in Narnia and Middle Earth and nineteenth century Paris and the walls of Shawshank — all carrying the same thread. The same fingerprint. The same frequency that the eternity in every human heart was designed to recognize. She walks through the gospel thread running through The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Lord of the Rings, Les Misérables, The Shawshank Redemption, Beauty and the Beast, and Encanto — showing the specific gospel element each story carries. And she addresses what we see in people who reject the longing versus those who follow it home — drawing from Pascal, Frankl, and Augustine. This is not a theology lecture. It is a joyful, relational, wonder-filled conversation about the Story we were all made for. In This Episode You'll Learn: What Ecclesiastes 3:11 means when it says God set eternity in the human heart C.S. Lewis's concept of Sehnsucht — the inconsolable longing and what it points toward The famous argument Lewis received from Tolkien — the gospel as the myth that is also true Why story bypasses the defensive intellect and reaches the soul directly The gospel thread running through The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe — substitutionary atonement and resurrection The gospel threads in The Lord of the Rings — providence, sacrificial love, and human insufficiency completed by grace The grace-and-law dynamic in Les Misérables — and what Javert shows us about the person who cannot receive grace The resurrection imagery in The Shawshank Redemption The gospel of love-before-worthiness in Beauty and the Beast The performance-based identity and grace-restoration arc in Encanto What Pascal, Viktor Frankl, and Augustine contribute to the question of the rejected longing What is different about the life of the person who has received the True Story An invitation to pay attention to the ache — and follow the thread home People and Works Referenced C.S. Lewis — The Weight of Glory, Mere Christianity, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, An Experiment in Criticism J.R.R. Tolkien — The Lord of the Rings, On Fairy Stories Victor Hugo — Les Misérables Blaise Pascal — Pensées Viktor Frankl — Man's Search for Meaning Augustine of Hippo — Confessions Carl Jung — Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious Scripture Referenced Ecclesiastes 3:11 — "He has set eternity in the human heart." Romans 5:8 — "While we were still sinners, Christ died for us." John 1:5 — "The light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it." Romans 8:22 — "The whole creation has been groaning." Revelation 21:5 — "Behold, I am making all things new." Key Takeaway The stories that move us most are not accidental. They carry the frequency of the True Story — the gospel of sacrifice, grace, resurrection, and love-before-worthiness that God has been telling since before time began. The ache they produce is not sentiment. It is the eternity in your heart recognizing where it belongs. Pay attention to it. Follow the thread. It points home. I hope this episode blesses you! Xoxo, Tanya Episode Resources: Episode Catalog My trusted Supplement Dispensary: Aligned Vitality Fullscript Dispensary My trusted Telehealth Peptide Provider: EllieMD_Tanya Engesether *I do get a small commission when you use one of the above affiliate links. 2 Ways To Connect With Me: 1️⃣ FACEBOOK: Become part of our Supportive Facebook Group. Connect, share, and learn with others navigating life and leadership ➡︎ https://alignedvitalityhealth.com/community 2️⃣CONTACT: Leave me a question or comment ➡︎ https://alignedvitalityhealth.com/contact "Yes! Finally, a podcast helping others become the thriving leaders they’re meant to be outside of hustle-culture! This is an amazing resource! Thank you so much for sharing and helping us become Spirit-driven, peaceful leaders!" If you can relate, please consider rating and reviewing my show! It helps me reach more people – just like you – to help them change their future. Don’t forget to follow the show so you don’t miss any episodes! And, if you’re feeling really generous, I’d be SO honored if you would share this podcast with someone. Click here to view our privacy policy .
Everyone is talking about burnout. But Tanya believes the conversation is incomplete — and that the missing pieces are actually the most empowering ones. In this evidence-rich, countercultural, and deeply personal episode, Tanya goes beyond the surface conversation about burnout to address what the research actually shows, what is happening physiologically in a burned-out body, and why the most powerful levers for recovery may be more within reach than most people have been told. She starts with a surprising finding: by most objective measures, people are not working dramatically more hours than previous generations. So why is reported burnout rising so significantly? The answer — rooted in research on the always-on culture, the expectation gap, social comparison, resilience development, and workism — is more complex and more personal than most burnout conversations acknowledge. She brings her Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner lens to the physiology of burnout — explaining what is happening in the HPA axis, the dopaminergic system, and the prefrontal cortex in a way that is clinically grounded and completely accessible. And she addresses the faith dimension honestly — when faith protects against burnout, and when distorted religious messaging actually accelerates it. Then she says something countercultural: the current narrative that places burnout responsibility almost entirely on organizations and systems may actually be making individual recovery harder — because it removes agency from the people who need it most. This is not a harsh episode. It is a hopeful one. Because the most honest thing you can say to a burned-out woman is: you have more power in this than you have been told. In This Episode You'll Learn: The surprising data on working hours — and why burnout is rising even when hours have not dramatically increased Christina Maslach's three-dimension definition of burnout — exhaustion, cynicism, and reduced efficacy — and why it matters The physiological signature of burnout — HPA axis dysregulation, dopamine depletion, prefrontal cortex suppression Why you cannot think your way out of a physiological state — and what that means for recovery The always-on problem — how the collapse of recovery time drives burnout more than volume of work The expectation gap — Derek Thompson's concept of workism and the rise of work-as-identity The social comparison problem — how upward social comparison on a global scale creates a new kind of depletion The resilience research — what Nassim Taleb's antifragility and Ann Masten's resilience work actually say The faith dimension — what the research shows about religion as a protective factor against burnout When distorted faith messaging accelerates burnout instead of preventing it The countercultural take on whose responsibility burnout recovery actually is Martin Seligman's learned helplessness research — and why external locus of control makes burnout worse What actually helps — physiological recovery, identity work, expectation recalibration, structural limits, community A direct word to the woman who is in burnout right now Researchers and Sources Referenced Christina Maslach — Burnout: The Cost of Caring; Maslach Burnout Inventory Herbert Freudenberger — original burnout research (1974) Barry Schwartz — The Paradox of Choice Derek Thompson — Workism (The Atlantic, 2019) Leon Festinger — Social Comparison Theory Martin Seligman — Learned Helplessness research Ann Masten — Resilience research Nassim Nicholas Taleb — Antifragility Matthew Walker — Why We Sleep Robert Sapolsky — Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers Adam Grant — Languishing research (2021) Gallup State of the Global Workplace Report Indeed Burnout Survey (2021) Bureau of Labor Statistics — Average Working Hours data Scripture Referenced Matthew 11:28 — "Come to me all who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest." Psalm 23:2-3 — "He makes me lie down in green pastures... he restores my soul." Genesis 2:2-3 — God rested on the seventh day Galatians 6:9 — "Let us not grow weary in doing good." Isaiah 40:31 — "Those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength." Key Takeaway Burnout is real, physiologically measurable, and clinically significant. It is also shaped — significantly — by what we believe about our worth, what we expect work to provide, and how much recovery we protect. The most empowering truth about burnout is that the most powerful levers for recovery are more within your reach than the current conversation acknowledges. You have more agency in this than you have been told. I hope this episode blesses you! Xoxo, Tanya Episode Resources: Episode Catalog My trusted Supplement Dispensary: Aligned Vitality Fullscript Dispensary My trusted Telehealth Peptide Provider: EllieMD_Tanya Engesether *I do get a small commission when you use one of the above affiliate links. 2 Ways To Connect With Me: 1️⃣ FACEBOOK: Become part of our Supportive Facebook Group. Connect, share, and learn with others navigating life and leadership ➡︎ https://alignedvitalityhealth.com/community 2️⃣CONTACT: Leave me a question or comment ➡︎ https://alignedvitalityhealth.com/contact "Yes! Finally, a podcast helping others become the thriving leaders they’re meant to be outside of hustle-culture! This is an amazing resource! Thank you so much for sharing and helping us become Spirit-driven, peaceful leaders!" If you can relate, please consider rating and reviewing my show! It helps me reach more people – just like you – to help them change their future. Don’t forget to follow the show so you don’t miss any episodes! And, if you’re feeling really generous, I’d be SO honored if you would share this podcast with someone. Click here to view our privacy policy . Reminder: The information you hear on this show is not meant to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent disease. It is for educational purposes only. Always consult with your own health practitioner before you make any changes to your health.
Have you ever been in a conversation where someone said something about Christianity that you knew was not right — but you struggled to articulate exactly why? That is the conversation that prompted this episode. In this honest and grace-filled exploration of Christian apologetics, Tanya Engesether shares a personal interaction that left her convicted — not of wrongdoing, but of the need to go deeper into the foundations of her faith. To know not just what she believes, but why it matters. And to be able to say so graciously when a conversation requires it. In this episode Tanya addresses two of the most foundational doctrines in Christian belief — the Holy Trinity and the finality of salvation in this life — with theological substance, scriptural grounding, historical context, and a consistent spirit of grace toward those who hold different views. She explores what is actually at stake if the Trinity is wrong — why it is not a secondary theological detail but the load-bearing wall of everything Christianity teaches about salvation and the character of God. She walks through the key Scriptures on post-mortem salvation and the finality of the opportunity for salvation in this life. And she addresses the question every thoughtful Christian wrestles with: what about those who never heard? Throughout, the spirit of 1 Peter 3:15 guides the episode: always be prepared to give an answer — with gentleness and respect. This is not an episode about winning arguments. It is an episode about knowing the God you love well enough to describe Him accurately — and about holding that truth with enough grace that it can actually reach the people you care about. In This Episode You'll Learn: Why doctrine is not the opposite of relationship — it is the description of the One we are in relationship with The difference between secondary issues Christians can disagree about and load-bearing doctrinal walls What the Holy Trinity actually is — simply, accessibly, without academic jargon Why the Trinity is not just a theological technicality but the foundation of how salvation works What is actually at stake if Jesus is not fully God — the salvific implications Key Scriptures on the Trinity — John 1:1, John 10:30, Matthew 28:19, Genesis 1:26 The historical context of Nicaea and the Arian heresy — and why it is still relevant today What Scripture teaches about the finality of salvation in this life The parable of the rich man and Lazarus — what it reveals about the state after death The difference between Catholic purgatory and post-mortem salvation theology The compassionate answer to "what about those who never heard?" The spirit of 1 Peter 3:15 — how to hold hard conversations with gentleness and respect Why knowing what you believe is not arrogance — it is an act of love What Jude 3 calls every Christian to — and what contending for the faith actually looks like Scripture Referenced 1 Peter 3:15 — "Always be prepared to give an answer... with gentleness and respect." John 1:1 — "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." John 10:30 — "I and the Father are one." Matthew 28:19 — "Baptize them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit." Genesis 1:26 — "Let us make mankind in our image." 1 John 4:8 — "God is love." Hebrews 9:27 — "It is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment." Luke 16:19-31 — The parable of the rich man and Lazarus 2 Corinthians 6:2 — "Now is the day of salvation." Romans 3:26 — "The just and the justifier." Jude 3 — "Contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to God's holy people." John 14:16-17 — Jesus promises another Counselor Philippians 2:9-11 — "The name above every name." Key Takeaway Knowing what you believe — and being able to say it graciously — is one of the most loving things you can do. The Trinity is not a theological technicality. It is the load-bearing wall of Christian salvation. The finality of salvation is not a harsh rule. It is the foundation of the gospel's urgency. And being rooted in these truths — able to hold them and articulate them with grace — is an act of faithfulness to God and love toward the people around you. I hope this episode blesses you! Xoxo, Tanya Episode Resources: Episode Catalog My trusted Supplement Dispensary: Aligned Vitality Fullscript Dispensary My trusted Telehealth Peptide Provider: EllieMD_Tanya Engesether *I do get a small commission when you use one of the above affiliate links. 3 Ways To Connect With Me: 1️⃣COACHING: Are you READY to Lead Well, Live Well and BE Well? Book a FREE discovery call with me to find out more about functional health coaching. It’s the accountability and guidance you need to reclaim your health and happiness! ➡︎ https://alignedvitalityhealth.com/coaching 2️⃣ FACEBOOK: Become part of our Supportive Facebook Group. Connect, share, and learn with others navigating life and leadership ➡︎ https://alignedvitalityhealth.com/community 3️⃣ CONTACT: Leave me a question or comment ➡︎ https://alignedvitalityhealth.com/contact "Yes! Finally, a podcast helping others become the thriving leaders they’re meant to be outside of hustle-culture! This is an amazing resource! Thank you so much for sharing and helping us become Spirit-driven, peaceful leaders!" If you can relate, please consider rating and reviewing my show! It helps me reach more people – just like you – to help them change their future. Don’t forget to follow the show so you don’t miss any episodes! 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