88 episodes
She Decided to Run Her Way Pamela Otero, Nutritional Therapy Practitioner and Certified Running Coach for Women
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- Health & Fitness
Are you standing in a place of frustration? Struggling with fatigue that’s zapping your energy, making your running difficult, and often leaving you in bed for hours and sometimes days after doing some of the simplest tasks?
Maybe you’re drowning in medications and doctor visits, only to still be hitting walls with your health and your running, and not getting answers?
Spending hours reading blogs, books, and listening to podcasts without a clear understanding of what’s really going on and what to do, but...you’re still “pushing through?”
If you’re a female runner who’s frustrated with not being able to run the way you used to and you’re ready to ditch that energy-depleting fatigue, then tune into "She Decided to Run Her Way" podcast with your host, Nutritional Therapy Practitioner and Certified Running Coach, Pamela Otero.
Each week she’ll be sharing running strategies and healing protocols to help you get back the energy you once had, the body you desperately desire, and the things you absolutely love.
If you want to know how to resolve your chronic fatigue and reclaim your running, then sit back, grab your favorite glass of kombucha, and learn how it’s totally possible for you!
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087: From Running Coach to NTP: Unveiling the Next Chapter and Living Free
In this heartfelt return episode, join me as I share the internal adventure I went on after reaching a significant milestone – turning 50. After years as a dedicated running coach and personal trainer, today’s episode dives into my decision to retire those roles and fully embrace my identity as a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (NTP), along with my struggle to release a long-held identity and embrace a new chapter in the next phase of my life. From the challenges of acknowledging the need fo...
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086: 12 Common Causes of Chronic Fatigue
In today’s podcast episode, I’ll be sharing with you 12 common causes of chronic fatigue. If you're a female runner who’s where I was a few years ago…fed up with feeling poorly, frustrated because you can’t do the physical activities that you used to be able to do and experiencing chronic fatigue that’s really messing with your life, then I feel confident that today’s episode is gonna help you identify where to start, encourage you to ask more questions, and begin to help you find answer...
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085: Is Your Unrelenting Fatigue Making You Feel Fat, Frustrated, and Not So Confident In Your Body?
Have you noticed that you're gaining weight, you’re losing the strength you had, and you're not feeling confident in your body like you used to? Your unrelenting fatigue and health issues are making your weight pretty darn challenging to manage.Well, in today’s podcast episode, I share the silly thoughts that flooded my brain recently the moment I saw myself in a photo because of my weight, what shift I’ve made to help me manage those thoughts, and even two years into restoring my body and he...
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084: Are You Trying to Keep Up with Your Running Group, But Having a Hard Time?
How many women do you know who are trying to do what they’ve always done with their running, despite the fact that their health has changed, their energy is dwindling, and they’re really struggling?Feeling pulled or pushed to keep up with a running group or a running buddy, when inside they know they’re running way too fast, running way too far, and doing too much, while not enjoying it one bit!Well, that’s exactly what I want to talk about on today’s podcast episode - How to keep running wit...
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083: Is Running a “Good” or “Bad” Stress On the Body?
I’m sure you’ve heard of the term oxidative stress, right? It’s a harmful process that can negatively affect several cellular structures in your body. When it kicks in and there’s an imbalance between free-radical formation and available antioxidants, and your body isn’t able to neutralize them, then these cellular structures get damaged.Not such a good thing for a runner unless you’re in good health and you have a healthy functioning body that’s able to manage that process.But what if y...
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082: (Part Three) 3 Methods I Use to Manage My Energy & Fatigue and Still Be Able to Run
There’s absolutely no way that I would have been able to continue coaching clients over the years and run races, while secretly struggling behind the scenes with my health issues without this method!It’s the method I used before I was diagnosed with chronic fatigue and even before I had any energy issues at all. It’s how I’ve run since 2005 and it’s the only way I will ever run.In today’s episode, I’m going to share with you what this method is and how I use it differently than I did when I s...