Learning to Slow Down as a Chronic High Achiever with Cristina Hoyt
Wed Mar 19 2025
This week's guest is Cristina Hoyt, MS,CNS, Integrative Clinical Nutritionist, and Body Image Coach. She helps her clients cultivate a positive relationship with food and their body by integrating the principles of functional, neutral nutrition, Health At Every Size™, and weight inclusive, non-diet medical nutrition counseling.
Cristina posed a question early in this interview which is still bouncing around my head. Cristina said we should be asking ourselves, "Is my body perceiving everyday life as something I have to survive?" Those words hit very close as a high achiever who struggles to slow down and acknowledge when my body is telling me it needs recovery time.
We discuss the impact of trusting in the intelligence of your body. The truth is that we can only support our nervous system by slowing down, and we need to heed our body's warning signs to do so. This is extremely difficult for high achieving individuals to process since their tendency to power through an endless to do list despite any setbacks will not be a successful approach when it comes to their health. Society rewards us for being high achieving and high functioning, especially in the US, so turning that switch off when your body is telling you it needs a break to recover becomes a very difficult task.
Cristina shares incredibly insights into what slowing down can do for our health and how we often have to rewire our hustle minded brains to embrace a rest and recovery period.
Find Cristina:
Podcast: Millennial Body Image Project
Website: cristinahoyt.com
IG: @cristinahoytnutrition
Find your host:
https://www.paigelavell.com/
Instagram: @paigelavellofficial
Have questions about the episode, a guest you'd love for me to interview, or a topic you'd like for me to cover? Email me at paige@paigelavell.com!
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This week's guest is Cristina Hoyt, MS,CNS, Integrative Clinical Nutritionist, and Body Image Coach. She helps her clients cultivate a positive relationship with food and their body by integrating the principles of functional, neutral nutrition, Health At Every Size™, and weight inclusive, non-diet medical nutrition counseling. Cristina posed a question early in this interview which is still bouncing around my head. Cristina said we should be asking ourselves, "Is my body perceiving everyday life as something I have to survive?" Those words hit very close as a high achiever who struggles to slow down and acknowledge when my body is telling me it needs recovery time. We discuss the impact of trusting in the intelligence of your body. The truth is that we can only support our nervous system by slowing down, and we need to heed our body's warning signs to do so. This is extremely difficult for high achieving individuals to process since their tendency to power through an endless to do list despite any setbacks will not be a successful approach when it comes to their health. Society rewards us for being high achieving and high functioning, especially in the US, so turning that switch off when your body is telling you it needs a break to recover becomes a very difficult task. Cristina shares incredibly insights into what slowing down can do for our health and how we often have to rewire our hustle minded brains to embrace a rest and recovery period. Find Cristina: Podcast: Millennial Body Image Project Website: cristinahoyt.com IG: @cristinahoytnutrition Find your host: https://www.paigelavell.com/ Instagram: @paigelavellofficial Have questions about the episode, a guest you'd love for me to interview, or a topic you'd like for me to cover? Email me at paige@paigelavell.com! If you enjoy this podcast, please click Follow to get all new episodes and write a five-star rating & review on iTunes or wherever you listen to podcasts. This truly helps the show to grow and reach more audience members and potential guests. I appreciate you and am honored to have you as a listener!