Episode 1 – Welcome to the Chronic Fatigue and Burnout Recovery Podcast

Show Notes Welcome to the Chronic Fatigue and Burnout Recovery Podcast. Your host, Anna Marsh, introduces herself and explains what you can expect from listening to the show. Anna is a Trauma-informed Functional Medicine Nutritional Therapist who has worked in the health industry for over two decades. However, when her health began to circle the drain, and she was eventually diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS),Anna realised there was so much she didn’t know she didn’t know about health generally and fatigue specifically. In her fatigue recovery journey, she realised there weren’t many valuable podcasts dedicated to fatigue recovery.  The Podcasts that did exist were from people who had recovered but didn’t have the scientific background OR those who had scientific knowledge but not a personal experience of the debilitating effects of fatigue. Then there were those with a nervous system-centred background but without a deep understanding of where Functional Medicine meets trauma-informed care. Anna’s goal for this podcast is to offer insight from a deep understanding of the experience from a Functional Medicine and Trauma-informed lens while integrating her personal experience overcoming the condition. Useful links: Website: https://annamarsh.co.uk/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anna_marsh_nutrition/ Fatigue Recovery Quiz: https://app.annamarsh.co.uk/quiz Welcome to the chronic fatigue and burnout recovery podcast. I am your host Anna Marsh, a trauma-informed Functional Medicine and nutritional therapist, which I appreciate is a bit of a mouthful.  I just wanted to create this introduction episode today to talk to you a little bit about the podcast, and a teeny tiny bit about myself, so that you can know what to expect. And if it’s appropriate to keep on listening, I’ll be sharing a much more detailed account of my own fatigue recovery story in the next episode, but for today, I thought I would keep it brief and just share some of the bare bones back.  So I have been practicing now as a nutritional therapist since 2009. Over time, I’ve also done my certification with the Institute of functional medicine. Although my master’s degree is in personalized nutrition, I am South African, if you can hear a little tinge of my accent. I grew up in South Africa and did my first degree in South Africa, in what was called Human Kinetics and Ergonomics, which I usually say to people is the same as Sports Science and Biochemistry.  I have a lot of training in the human body and its workings, including working with clients. Despite all this experience and knowledge, I was not invincible. In 2019, I hit my health rock button or my energy crisis. I was diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome. When I was diagnosed, I began to search for more information.  Of course, I was at an advantage because I already had a background in health and was already connected to various people, practitioners, and thinking frameworks.  So maybe it was a little bit easier to find the information, but I found having a lived experience of chronic fat...