How She Did It: Holistic Mental & Physical Healing With Psychotherapist Kim Gillette

Do you believe in "miracles" when ambitious wellness-minded runners understand simple sustainable ways to work with our changing hormones and female physiology?  After this profound client success story, you will!

Let's explore the question, "What if the pain, exhaustion, and burnout you have been pushing through are not things you have to “power through,” but signals asking for a different approach?"

In this episode, Louise, a multi-award-winning women's integrative health practitioner and exercise physiologist, sits down with her longtime running friend Kim, a mental health practitioner, to share a deeply honest journey overcoming chronic injuries, perimenopause symptoms, nervous system overload, and healing from the inside out. Kim opens up about years of persistent pain, hot flashes, disrupted sleep, autoimmunity, blood sugar chaos, running injuries, and feeling stuck despite doing all the “right” things.

They explore how shifting focus from pushing harder to regulating the nervous system, revamping how she trains and lifts, and up-regulating natural hormone production and balance, energy and blood sugar balance using the Breaking Through Wellness whole foods fueling framework changed everything.

Kim shares how less overall running mileage, more strength training, strategic speed work, better fueling, and simple yet consistent nervous system regulation helped eliminate chronic pain, reversed prediabetes and autoimmunity labs, and restore her confidence as a runner and caring compassionate professional.

The conversation also introduces brain spotting, a powerful therapy that helps process stored trauma and stress at the root level rather than just talking about it. Through a live demo, listeners hear how this work can reduce emotional activation, improve calm, break through performance blocks, and support long-term healing.

This episode is especially valuable for active women who love to run, feel, and look their best navigating perimenopause, burnout, stored trauma, or chronic stress who want a sustainable path forward without feeling broken or overwhelmed.

Learn more about Kim’s psychotherapy practice & services: https://www.gillettepsychotherapy.com 

Find a brain spotting therapist near you: https://brainspotting.com/directory/ 

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Episode Highlights:
(0:00) Intro
(8:37) Reconnecting Through Running And Community
(11:54) Burnout, Injury, And Reaching A Breaking Point
(13:34) Chronic Pain, Hot Flashes, And Stress
(15:57) Shocking Health Improvements And Lab Results
(17:13) Nervous System Regulation Changes Everything
(22:17) Healing Through Community And Support
(27:09) Leaving Burnout To Build A Private Practice
(30:48) What Brain Spotting Is And How It Works
(36:33) Trauma, Metabolism, And Physical Health
(43:11) Live Brain Spotting Session Demo
(55:31) Brain Spotting For ADHD, Burnout, Trauma
(57:56) How To Work With Kim And Resources
(1:01:54) Outro