[Health Anxiety] Addressing the Underlying Fears of Injury and Aging w/ Emily Hightower, Anders Varner, Doug Larson, and Travis Mash #784

Barbell Shrugged

Doug Larson

Business, Training, Fitness, Health & Fitness, Paleo, Weightlifting, Nutrition, Crossfit

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🗓️ 5 February 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

As an Educator and Coach at SH/FT, Emily Hightower leverages her expertise in the neurophysiology of trauma and resilience to help clients master their stress response and improve their quality of life. By combining over 25 years of experience as a breathing expert, yoga teacher, river guide, and wilderness EMT, Emily empowers high performers to disrupt limits, align with nature, and heal their bodies and minds.

Emily developed SH/FT’s Skill of Stress course and teaches the N=1 Exposure Experience and Mentorship program with Brian MacKenzie. Her experiential teaching approach enables clients to understand and direct their stress response to drive optimal performance under pressure while promoting long-term balance.

Before joining SH/FT, Emily founded Intrinsic, where she helped combat veterans, athletes, and clients recovering from substance abuse resolve past traumas and gain clarity using a science-based approach and tools such as breath, exposure, somatic yoga, archery, and integrative nutrition.

Earlier in her career, Emily’s practice was based in a neurology clinic, where she integrated her approach with cutting-edge neuroscience and research. Her clients include the United States Special Operations Command Adaptive Care Unit and other Veterans services in the US and Abroad. She also served as the Education Director for the Headwaters Institute, facilitating river education seminars on 28 watersheds in the US and Chile.

Emily is a Master Yoga Teacher with 16,000+ hours of teaching experience specializing in Pranayama Breathing. She lives with her husband, Brian Hightower, and their son and loves to ski, run rivers, and bow hunt.

Work With Us: Arétē by RAPID Health Optimization

Links:

Emily Hightower on Instagram

Anders Varner on Instagram

Doug Larson on Instagram

Coach Travis Mash on Instagram

Transcript

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0:00.0	Shrug family this week on barbell shrug Emily Hightower is back the most soothing educated calming voice inside
0:06.6	rapid health optimization that's right she is our behavioral health coach inside inside our company here
0:12.4	and we love having her on because today we're going to be talking about health anxiety and there's many
0:18.0	many people that we see coming to us and they are in pursuit of perfection, which is an awesome goal.
0:25.9	I want to be perfect too.
0:27.2	But we start to see things kind of go off the rails a little bit when instead of the opposite being perfection, people think that if they are not perfect, that they are going to be dying.
0:38.7	And if everything isn't perfect, then the next step is that things are just going to fall off the
0:42.3	rails and we are not going to be able to get anybody back.
0:45.2	And Emily is going to come in today and find us a middle ground in which we are looking at
0:49.8	where we are today as a place of growth in pursuit of where we are going, aiming our purpose and a
0:56.4	direction, and bringing a little bit of clarity to any anxieties that people have over this
1:02.7	binary, perfect or death approach to their health. As always, friends, make sure you get over to
1:08.3	auretelab.com. that is the signature program inside rapid health
1:12.4	optimization and that is where you can learn more about all things lab lifestyle analysis
1:18.3	testing and things that we are going to be working on on the performance side of things so that you
1:22.8	can achieve optimal health and performance and you can access all of that over at ArteiLab.com.
1:28.4	A-R-A-T-E-L-A-B-D-com.
1:31.0	Friends, let's get into the show.
1:35.5	Welcome to Barrel Shrug.
1:36.6	I'm Anders Warner, Doug Larson, coach Travis Mash,
1:39.9	our dear friend, Emily Hightower.
1:42.1	Welcome back.
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