Episode 23: Bonus Episode - From Burnout to Purpose: Healing Women Through Faith & Functional Medicine with Guest Dr. Tabatha Barber
An Encouraging Health Journey!
In this powerful and deeply faith-filled episode of The Flourishing Life Podcast, Jackie sits down with women’s health expert and functional medicine physician Dr. Tabatha Barber — known online as @gutsydoctabatha — for a conversation that will encourage, challenge, and inspire you.
Dr. Tabatha vulnerably shares her incredible story of going from a teenage pregnancy and traumatic birth experience to becoming a successful OB/GYN surgeon… only to find herself completely burnt out, unhealthy, exhausted, and disconnected from the life God was calling her to live. After a life-changing health crisis and spiritual awakening, she shifted from conventional medicine into root-cause healing, functional medicine, and faith-centered wellness.
This episode is packed with wisdom, encouragement, practical health insight, and reminders that true healing involves mind, body, and spirit. If you’ve been feeling exhausted, stuck, inflamed, anxious, disconnected, or simply “not like yourself,” this conversation is for you.
KEY TAKEAWAYS:
The hidden root causes behind hormone imbalance, fatigue, inflammation, and chronic illness
Why gut health and nervous system regulation are foundational to healing
The connection between stress, adrenal dysfunction, and symptomatic perimenopause/menopause
The importance of mindset renewal and healing emotionally & spiritually — not just physically
Why women are more overwhelmed and hormonally depleted than ever before
Tune in to our podcast as we share what we see on the daily in the clinic and provide up-to-date therapeutics and strategies for healthy aging. TFL podcast focuses on foundational medicine - restoring and replenishing the body to the way it was created for optimal functioning, even with age. With thousands of patients treated each year, we have become pattern recognition specialists who focus on individualized care, hormone mimicry and optimization, and healthy habits.
