High achieving women are burning out inside systems built around a 24 hour male rhythm. In this conversation, coach and founder of Nervous System Mastery for Women, Rachel Korb breaks down why so many women feel like they are failing at productivity when in reality the framework is failing them. She explains the science of the circadian versus infradian cycle, how the four phases of the menstrual cycle affect energy, focus and emotional regulation, and why capacity is never meant to be constant.
Rachel walks through the concept of the window of tolerance, the difference between fight or flight and freeze or shutdown, and how chronic stress and allostatic load quietly erode health, hormones and performance. She also names the early warning signs women tend to override . tension in the body, distraction cycles, perfectionism and a brutal inner critic.
If you are successful on paper yet exhausted in your body, this episode gives you a practical, physiology based playbook to renegotiate how you work, rest and relate to yourself. Think less hustle, more strategic nervous system regulation that actually fits a female body and a real life.
About the Guest:
Rachel Korb is an ICF certified coach and the founder of Nervous System Mastery for Women. She has worked with women from more than 40 countries, helping them move from burnout and chronic dysregulation to sustainable high performance that respects their biology. Drawing on two decades of mindfulness, somatics and leadership work, Rachel teaches women to work with their nervous system, menstrual cycle and lived realities instead of trying to squeeze into a one size fits all productivity model.
Key Takeaways:
Women in their reproductive years run on a 24 hour circadian rhythm plus a roughly 28 day infradian rhythm, so expecting the same energy and output every day is biologically misaligned.
The four phases of the menstrual cycle (follicular, ovulation, luteal, menstruation) change how flexible the nervous system is. Capacity for stress and social engagement is usually higher in the first half of the cycle and more vulnerable after ovulation.
The window of tolerance framework helps women name three states. regulated connection, hyper arousal (fight, flight, fawn) and hypo arousal (freeze, shutdown). Chronic time outside this window drives burnout.
Allostatic load is the wear and tear of chronic stress on the body. When women never fully recover, it accelerates cellular aging, disrupts hormones, worsens sleep and sets the stage for burnout, anxiety and physical symptoms.
High performing women often ignore early red flags . constant tension, migraines, insomnia, doom scrolling, binge watching, emotional numbness, and self soothing with food or alcohol instead of regulation.
Many women carry a strong inner critic, impostor syndrome and perfectionism, with very little self compassion. This nervous system pattern shrinks the window of tolerance and makes recovery harder.
Sustainable regulation is not about rigid 30 minute routines. It is about micro practices woven into daily life. breathwork, movement, humming in the shower to stimulate the vagus nerve and somatic sensing that meets the body where it is.
Practices should change by cycle phase. what works in the high energy follicular phase will not be appropriate in the more sensitive luteal phase. Adapting regulation tools to biology turns them into a genuine strategic advantage.
Rest is not optional. it is infrastructure. Women need explicit permission to stop performing long enough to listen to their bodies instead of chasing worth through constant productivity.
When women understand their physiology, they can stop blaming themselves, redesign their work around their actual rhythm and build careers and lives that do not require a fourth round of burnout to get the message.
How Listeners Can Connect with Rachel Korb :
Listeners can connect with Rachel Korb and her work here.
Website: https://rachelkorb.com/ for coaching, resources, and updates on Nervous System Mastery for Women
Learn more about her nervous system informed leadership tools and upcoming cohort based programs directly through her site contact options
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