Episode 11: Recovery Is a Season: Simple Steps to Heal After Surgery and Stress

In this episode Amanda from the Elevated Health Podcast shares her personal recovery after surgery and offers practical, easy-to-follow strategies to support healing. She explains what recovery means — moving from fight-or-flight to rest-and-digest — and why intentional recovery matters in modern life.

Key topics include the importance of protein for tissue repair, how hydration plus electrolytes restore balance, and why sleep and rest are where true healing happens. Amanda also covers gentle movement to improve circulation and lymphatic drainage, and the emotional and mental side of recovery, encouraging listeners to give themselves grace.

She offers concrete tips like using protein shakes or easy high-protein snacks when appetite is low, drinking electrolyte solutions or bone broth, prioritizing cool dark sleep environments, taking short gentle walks, and choosing nourishing, light meals. The episode emphasizes that recovery is a season, not a setback, and encourages listeners to be intentional and kind to themselves while healing.