Episode 5: Why Doing More Is Keeping Your Body Stuck (Especially After 40)

Why does doing more stop working at a certain point?

In this episode of The Transformation Show, Janell Yule unpacks a pattern she sees constantly with high-achieving women. When the body stops responding, the instinct is to double down. More control. More restriction. More effort.

But the body does not always respond to more. Often, it responds to safety.

This Coaching Perspective episode explores why effort-based strategies can keep the nervous system, metabolism, and hormones locked in protection. Janell explains how stress load, perfectionism, and control create shutdown, loss of energy, and the familiar feeling of being stuck even when you are doing everything “right.”

Inside this episode:
• Why doing more can signal threat to the body
• How discipline becomes tied to worth instead of self-trust
• What cortisol and leptin have to do with feeling stuck
• Why normal labs do not always tell the full story
• How to shift from “What should I do?” to “What does my body need?”

If you have felt frustrated, exhausted, or confused by your body’s response, this episode offers clarity and reassurance.

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