101: Unleash Your Sixth Sense and Level Up with Teresa Lodato101: Unleash Your Sixth Sense and Level Up with Teresa Lodato
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Host Tamar Medford talks with coach Teresa Lodato about how chronic stress ended Teresa’s career and pushed her towards recovery, self‑awareness, and a new purpose. The conversation touches on balancing life, listening to the body, and using simple tools to create healthier relationships and long‑term sobriety.
1:06:49•24 May 2021
Chronic Stress, Sixth Sense & Self‑Love with Teresa Lodato
Episode Overview
- Chronic stress can seriously damage health and career, especially when self‑worth is tied to overachievement.
- Balancing masculine traits like control with feminine traits like rest and inner listening can calm the nervous system.
- Simple breathing and tactile mindfulness exercises can interrupt stress responses and create space for clearer choices.
- Seeing yourself as “naturally creative, resourceful and whole” supports a healthier relationship with self and others.
- Tuning into body wisdom—your personal “sixth sense”—can guide decisions about work, health, and recovery rhythms.
“You are naturally creative, resourceful and whole; you are not a broken person who needs to be fixed.”
What can we learn from those who have battled addiction? This conversation between host Tamar Medford and coach Teresa Lodato brings chronic stress, purpose, and long‑term recovery into sharp focus. Teresa shares how a high-pressure career in financial services, long hours, and a difficult marriage led to a rare condition called hemiplegic migraine, with stroke‑like symptoms that abruptly ended her 20‑year career.
Her honest question, “Who am I without my career?” will ring familiar for anyone who’s tied their self‑worth to job titles and achievements. From there, you’ll hear how graduate studies in psychology and consciousness work helped Teresa notice how much she lived in “masculine” traits like control and competition, while neglecting “feminine” qualities such as rest, flow, and going within.
As she gently practised surrender and balance, her body responded: the migraines eased, and she rebuilt her life as a coach helping leaders tap into what she calls their “sixth sense” and deeper body wisdom. Tamar brings her own experience of stress, hospital trips, addiction, and early recovery into the mix, highlighting how overachievers in sobriety can slip back into chronic stress by trying to “prove” their worth.
Together, they talk about self‑love, fixed versus growth mindsets, and how addiction often starts as an attempt to numb unprocessed pain. You’ll pick up practical tools: simple breathing techniques to interrupt stress cycles, tactile mindfulness exercises, and Teresa’s TRUCE framework for conscious relationships—trust, respect, understanding, curiosity, and feeling genuinely strong in yourself. There’s also a memorable discussion about listening to the body’s signals, from choosing a salad over ice cream to spotting burnout before it takes over.
If you’re sober, ambitious, and wondering how to build a life you love without running yourself into the ground, this episode offers grounded stories, gentle humour, and plenty of food for thought. How might your own “sixth sense” be trying to get your attention today?
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