Stress isn’t just about having too much on your plate. It’s about how your body responds to pressure, and why the same stressors affect people completely differently.

In this episode of The Lizzie Ens Show, Lizzie sits down with board-certified neurologist turned Eastern Medicine expert Trupti Gokani, MD, author of The Stress Rx, to unpack why stress is not a mindset issue, but a physiological and nervous-system pattern rooted in ancient Ayurvedic wisdom.

Together, they explore how stress shows up through three distinct stress personalities (Windy, Fiery, and Earthy), how chronic stress dysregulates cortisol, digestion, immunity, sleep, hormones, and the microbiome, and why many women remain stuck in burnout, anxiety, inflammation, or fatigue despite “doing everything right.”

Lizzie and Trupti also discuss the deep connection between emotions, identity, illness, and the body, including how suppressed self-expression, misaligned relationships, and long-term internal pressure can manifest as thyroid issues, sleep disturbances, immune dysfunction, and chronic illness.

This episode is for anyone who feels like stress keeps showing up in their body, even when their life looks “fine,” and who’s ready to stop managing symptoms and start understanding why their body is responding the way it is.

In this episode, you’ll discover:

Why stress is not about workload, but about internal vs external demand
The three Ayurvedic stress personalities and how they show up in the body
How chronic stress dysregulates cortisol, sleep, digestion, and immunity
Why anxiety, burnout, inflammation, and fatigue are stress responses, not failures
The connection between suppressed emotions, the throat, and thyroid health
How relationships, values, and identity mismatches create physical illness
Why labeling illness can reinforce symptoms instead of healing them
How nervous system regulation restores resilience and energy
Practical awareness tools to identify your stress pattern and break the cycle
Why healing stress starts with understanding yourself, not fixing yourself

We talk about:

00:00 Why stress needs to be understood differently
02:00 Trupti’s journey from neurology to Eastern medicine
05:00 Sleep disruption as an early stress warning sign
08:30 Why Western medicine misses the root of stress
11:00 Ayurvedic doshas and mind-body types explained
15:00 The Windy, Fiery, and Earthy stress personalities
19:30 Cortisol rhythms, adrenal fatigue, and burnout
23:00 Stress, emotions, and the three-brain model
27:00 How stress shows up as anxiety, anger, or shutdown
31:00 Relationships, values, and chronic illness
36:00 Thyroid health, throat expression, and self-suppression
41:00 Stress, immunity, and why some bodies stay vulnerable
46:00 Healing stress through awareness, alignment, and safety
50:00 How ancient wisdom supports modern nervous systems

Connect with Dr. Trupti

The Stress Rx by Trupti Gokani, MD
Stress Personality Quiz: https://truptigokanimd.com/stress-personality-type/
Website: https://truptigokanimd.com

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