64: Feng Shui Your Way with Janine Lowe and guest Su Winsbury64: Feng Shui Your Way with Janine Lowe and guest Su Winsbury
UK Health Radio Podcast
Janine Lowe talks with Su Winsbury about why exhaustion feels normal, how somatic practices can calm the nervous system, and what her Recalibrate programme offers. The conversation blends personal experience, stress science and practical tools for people feeling overwhelmed and burnt out.
41:12•20 Jul 2026
Recalibrate Your Life: Su Winsbury on Rest, Burnout and Somatic Calm
Episode Overview
- Rest is productive, not lazy, and constant busyness keeps the nervous system on high alert.
- Turning off phone alerts and reducing tech noise can quickly ease overwhelm.
- Simple somatic tools such as deeper breathing and short grounding breaks help the body feel safer.
- Burnout and chronic fatigue often build through layers of stress, grief and overwork rather than a single cause.
- Small, consistent practices over time can rebuild self-trust and make putting yourself first feel more natural.
“"Self care is never selfish. And without your health, you've got nothing anyway."”
What drives someone to seek a calmer, less frantic life? This conversation on UK Health Radio’s *Feng Shui Your Way* brings together host Janine Lowe and intuitive healer, somatic guide and wellness practitioner Su Winsbury to unpack why so many people feel exhausted and wired, yet unable to slow down.
Aimed at stressed, overwhelmed and burnt-out people (especially women), the chat has an easy, friendly feel, with Janine openly sharing her own reality TV habits and Su gently reframing them as more "work mode" than true rest.
Su talks about how constant phone alerts and media noise keep the nervous system on high alert, saying that being permanently tired has become "almost normal" because "we've forgotten how it is to actually switch off properly." You’ll hear clear explanations of fight, flight and freeze responses, why phones are "our dummies", and how years of patriarchal conditioning have taught many people to see rest as laziness.
Su’s approach is practical rather than airy-fairy: somatic practices like simple breath work, small pauses and grounding on the grass are presented as everyday tools anyone can use. There’s a deeply personal section where Su describes supporting her son through severe chronic fatigue, calling it "the greatest gift wrapped in the most terrible wrapping paper" and using that experience to stress why people need to stop before they burn out completely.
Her four-week programme *Recalibrate* is introduced as a live group space offering short, usable practices each week, helping people build a "toolkit" rather than chasing quick fixes. If you’re tired of wearing exhaustion like a badge of honour and curious about how to "recalibrate" without running off to a mountain retreat, this episode might nudge you to take your shoes off, stand on the grass, and start listening to your body again.
Where could you add just five minutes of true stillness into your day?
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