The Advisor with Stacey Chillemi
by Stacey Chillemi
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Chronic Illness and Keeping Going When Hope Is Gone
Chronic Illness and Keeping Going When Hope Is Gone
About this podcast
Your body has been in survival mode long enough. The Advisor with Stacey Chillemi is where you learn how to turn it off.
If you're running on stress, lying awake with anxiety, or so burned out that rest doesn't touch it, this daily show was built for you. Every day, 20-time bestselling author Stacey Chillemi sits down with doctors, therapists, and leading experts who explain what's really happening in your nervous system and give you science-backed tools to calm it, release the emotional patterns holding you back, and get your energy and focus back.
These are honest conversations about how stress and trauma live in the body and what helps you heal. You'll hear something you can use in every episode, whether you have five minutes or an hour.
A new episode every day. Wherever you're starting from, start here.
Episodes
The newest 50 of 1,348 episodes
- Chronic Illness and Keeping Going When Hope Is Gone · 51 minChronic illness turns ordinary mornings into a fight, and being told to stay positive only makes it heavier. Feeling worn down is not a failure of attitude. Hope was never meant…
- Longevity Is Staying Strong Enough to Do What You Love · 53 minLongevity shows up in small moments, like taking the stairs without a second thought or kneeling to play with your grandkids. When your body starts to resist, it is easy to…
- Why Food Noise Is Never Really About Food · 51 min · Season 2Your food thoughts aren’t about food — they’re about safety, scarcity, and old beliefs running quietly in the background. Shirley Billigmeier, founder of Innergetics and author…
- Shoulder Pain and the Life You Are Not Ready to Give Up · 30 minShoulder pain that keeps you from lifting a grandchild, combing your hair, or sleeping through the night gets brushed off as normal aging. It is not a weakness to want more than…
- Functioning Alcoholic With a Life That Looked Perfect · 44 minA functioning alcoholic can run a career, raise three kids, and still hide empty bourbon bottles around the house. Everyone sees a life that works. Inside, it is falling apart in…
- Drop the Maybe: Stop Waiting to Feel Ready · 45 min · Season 2Maybe is not caution. Maybe is the thing keeping you exactly where you are. Tracy Liberatore, attorney, physician assistant, certified hypnotherapist, NLP master practitioner…
- The Truth Behind Hydrogen Therapy · 45 min · Season 2Most hydrogen products are missing the one piece that makes the science work. George Wiseman, founder of Eagle Research, breaks down the 2025 mitochondrial hydrogen discovery…
- Why Blood Pressure Pills Don't Fix the Problem · 51 minBlood pressure pills lower the number, but whatever drove it up is still there, untouched. That's the quiet doubt so many people carry after years on the same prescription. You…
- Knowing Is Not the Same as Doing · 50 min · Season 2The breakthrough was not more answers. It was finally acting on the ones she already had. Grace King describes how obedience became a source of clarity instead of restriction…
- Why Slow Living Keeps Your Mind Young in a Rushed World · 35 minYou finish the day and cannot remember how you got through it. Slow living and deep thinking offer a way back when life blurs into a scroll of skimmed headlines and unanswered…
- Burnout Recovery When You Keep Putting Yourself Last · 44 minBurnout recovery starts with a moment: the to-do list is handled, everyone else is cared for, and you are quietly running on empty. If you look fine on paper and feel depleted…
- Why Quitting Alcohol Fails Until the Inside Changes · 33 minQuitting alcohol feels impossible when you are fighting the same pattern you watched a parent live. You make the promise, change the routine, and the old pull wins. That is not a…
- Eating Healthy but Still Tired Because Your Genes Need More · 1 h 2 minEating healthy for years, a cabinet full of supplements, blood work that keeps coming back normal, and still waking up exhausted. Nothing is wrong with your effort. Folic acid…
- Why Strong Women Stop Feeling — And Pay the Price · 54 minSuppressing emotions feels productive — until the body keeps score for you. High-performing women are often the last to notice how long they've been running on autopilot, burying…
- Why Men Stay Silent — and What It's Costing Them · 42 min · Season 2What happens when the man everyone depends on has no one to lean on? Victor Bretting — construction executive, 8th-generation Texan, ranch founder, and author of The Man That I…
- The Science of Performance: Athlete Habits for Everyday Health · 27 min · Season 2You do not need perfect genetics, a perfect plan, or perfect conditions to get stronger. Sports scientist and biomechanist Dr. Amber Murphy reveals what separates people who…
- What's Really Draining Your Body's Ability to Heal · 41 min · Season 2Your body runs on hydrogen — and most people are chronically short on it. George Wiseman, founder of Eagle Research and one of the world's foremost researchers on Brown's Gas…
- Biological Age Isn't Your Birthday — Your Brain Controls It · 40 minBiological age isn't locked in by genetics — it's regulated by the hypothalamus, and when that system is supported, people routinely measure 8 to 18 years younger than their…
- Hormone Imbalance Is Real Even When Your Labs Are Normal · 46 minYou slept eight hours, woke up exhausted, snapped at your kids, and your doctor still says your labs are normal. Hormone imbalance in women is common, and common is not normal…
- When Positive Thinking Is Not Enough · 45 min · Season 2She was hallucinating and had to walk home alone in the middle of the night. Grace King talks about the parts of recovery that looked impossible from the outside, including…
- Starting Over After Divorce When You're Falling Apart · 47 min · Season 2You finally left, so why does freedom feel like falling apart? This is the part of starting over after divorce that no one posts about. Still living with her ex after filing for…
- Is It Just a Phase? The Early Autism Signs Parents Miss · 39 min · Season 2What if the signs you keep brushing off are your child's way of asking for help? Alisha Simpson-Watt, LCSW, BCBA, founder of Collaborative ABA Services and author of It's Okay…
- When Love Isn't Enough: Calming Your Child's Big Emotions · 43 min · Season 2Is your child's meltdown defiance, or a nervous system asking for help? Jane Hoffman, founder of MOOD Tools, turned her daughter's mental health crisis into a mission to give…
- What Your Labs Aren't Telling You · 40 min · Season 2Exhausted, foggy, and told your labs are fine? That's not aging; That's a glitch in your healthcare. Dr. Angela Petersen, founder of AMPD Health and author of The Wellness…
- Exhausted After 45? Why Midlife Is Your Second Spring, Not Your Decline · 44 min · Season 2Feeling exhausted or like you are losing yourself in your 40s or 50s? Dr. Sonal Bhatia, founder of Ojas Vida and author of The Bridge, dismantles the midlife crisis myth. She…
- Stop Trying to Get Your Old Life Back After Illness · 44 min · Season 2You can't heal while measuring yourself against who you used to be. After more than 30 years as a registered nurse, Jenny White became the patient. She survived brain surgery…
- NFL Star Shawne Merriman on Mental Toughness Nobody Teaches · 33 minMental toughness gets built when you have no idea if an eviction notice is waiting at home. If you feel like your starting line is holding you back, that is not a verdict on you…
- The Grief That Started Before He Was Born · 46 min · Season 2What if the wound shaping your whole life was one you never knew you had? Robert Haden lost his twin sister in the womb and carried the guilt for decades. A 2013 near-death…
- PCOS Starts in Your Brain, Not Your Ovaries · 59 min · Season 2PCOS has been misnamed for decades — it's not an ovarian condition, it's a brain regulation problem. Irregular cycles, infertility, weight gain, and hair loss all trace back to…
- Midlife Crisis Is You Finally Refusing to Abandon Yourself · 44 minMidlife crisis is what people call it when you keep handling everything and still feel drained by a life that looks good from the outside. Self care that only soothes you sends…
- Alcohol Addiction Hides Behind a Good Job and a Nice House · 59 minAlcohol addiction looks like standing in a grocery store line on a Wednesday afternoon, realizing you cannot remember the last day you did not drink. That quiet recognition is…
- Rebuilding Your Mind After Psychosis and Brain Injury · 44 min · Season 1She saw Jesus during her recovery, and almost nobody around her believed it. Grace King returns to unpack the verse that started her eight-year search and what she found in it…
- Migraine Is Never Just One Trigger, It's Usually Four · 40 minYou skipped the wine, you drank the water, and the migraine came anyway. Chasing one trigger is exhausting, and when it fails you feel like nothing works. Migraine rarely has a…
- Midlife Crisis Hits Hardest When You Did Everything Right · 53 minMidlife crisis is not the sports car. It is waking up inside the life you built- career, marriage, kids, house- and feeling nothing. Everyone else looks fine, so you say nothing…
- Stop Second-Guessing Yourself: How to Rebuild Self-Trust · 46 min · Season 2If simple decisions leave you exhausted, this episode will feel uncomfortably familiar in the best way. Guest Kamini Wood unpacks why self-trust erodes, why overthinking is…
- Eating Disorders Are Biology, Not a Failure of Willpower · 38 minEating disorder recovery keeps failing at the same point, and every relapse feels like proof of weak character. It is not. Willpower was never the mechanism. Genetics, stress…
- Surgeon Explains How to Avoid Surgery and Opioids for Chronic Pain · 36 min · Season 2A surgeon who wants to keep you off the operating table could change how you handle pain for good. Dr. Ethan Kellum treats pro athletes and everyday patients with regenerative…
- IVF Is Not Your Only Option: The Truth About IVM · 34 min · Season 2Most fertility patients go through months of stimulation cycles before anyone mentions there might be a simpler way. In vitro maturation (IVM) skips the hormones, the daily…
- Your Blood Pressure Isn't a Heart Problem · 50 minThat BP reading that spiked at the doctor's office? It might not mean what you think. Registered nurse and naturopath Joel Polley breaks down what your blood pressure numbers…
- Losing Weight Is Not Your Fault and Here Is the Proof · 42 minAnother Monday, another plan, and by Thursday the takeout is ordered, and the blame lands where it always does: on you. Losing weight was never meant to be a lifelong fight, and…
- Parental Burnout Is Making You Feel Like a Failure · 40 minParental burnout is the drive home from practice with a headache, a kid in the back seat who stopped smiling, and the fear that you are still not doing enough. You did everything…
- Rebuilding a Sound Mind After Brain Injury · 46 min · Season 2Doctors could not explain what was happening to her mind. Grace King came out of a brain injury, a stroke, and a steroid overdose into years of psychosis and confusion, and she…
- Stop Ignoring Your Body Before It Makes the Decision for You · 44 minYour body has been warning you. Most women just get good at ignoring it. It's not failing you; it's asking for your attention. Michelle Ford, MPH, founder of Navigating Your…
- Autoimmune Disease Starts in Your Brain, Not Your Immune System · 57 minAutoimmune disease isn't a misfiring immune system — it's a brain that lost the ability to regulate one. Years of chronic stress, poor sleep, gut imbalance, and hormonal shifts…
- Root Cause of Symptoms Your Labs Keep Calling Normal · 58 minRoot cause questions rarely come up when a scan comes back clean. You are handed a prescription for the fatigue, the flares, the dizziness, and sent home with nothing explained…
- Male Infertility: What Men Are Never Told · 36 minMale infertility is a factor in half of all fertility struggles — yet men are rarely the first one tested, and almost never the first one supported. If you or your partner has…
- Heart Transplant Wait Made Their Marriage Stronger · 54 minHeart transplant lists hold twelve thousand names, and for three and a half years he was one of them, losing strength while the woman he loved watched it happen. Illness usually…
- Built From the Ground Up: Victor Bretting on Faith, Family & Breaking Generational Patterns · 23 min · Season 2Some lives are built to last — Victor Bretting's runs eight generations deep in Texas soil. A childhood shaped by a missing father, a tireless mother, and nearly 50 years in…
- Emotional Literacy Starts With You, Not Your Child · 45 minEmotional literacy is not something you teach a child with a talk. It is something they absorb by watching you, every time you name a feeling out loud, own a mistake, or sit with…
- Hydrogen Therapy Is Missing One Critical Piece · 49 minHydrogen therapy is one of the fastest-growing areas in health science, and most of the products being sold are missing the single component that makes it work. Pure hydrogen is…
