Why You're EXHAUSTED When You Finally Get To Relax
The Mom Room
Renee Reina & Podcast Nation
4.8 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
EP532. Have you ever noticed that the second you finally get a break, on vacation, or even just a quiet afternoon... you crash? That’s the let-down effect: when your body finally feels safe enough to relax, all the exhaustion you’ve been holding back shows up.
In this solo episode, Renee talks about what the let-down effect really is, why so many moms experience it, and three simple practices she is looking into that can help regulate your nervous system day-to-day:
1. Breath work to calm your body in the moment
2. Journaling to process emotions and release mental clutter
3. Cutting back on social media/phone use to give your brain real rest
If you feel like you’re constantly running on fumes, stuck in fight-or-flight, or crashing the second you get a break... this one’s for you.
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| 0:00.0 | Is drinking raw milk safe like RFK Jr. suggests? Can you reduce a glucose spike if you eat your food in, quote, unquote, the right order? I'm registered dietitian Abby Sharp. I host a nutrition myth-busting podcast called Bite Back with Abby Sharp. And those are just some of the questions I tackle with qualified experts on my show. |
| 0:21.4 | There is so much food misinformation and disinformation out there, and it can feel impossible |
| 0:27.9 | to know what's real and what's BS. |
| 0:30.7 | On Biteback, my goal is to help listeners create a pleasurable relationship with food, |
| 0:35.3 | their body, and themselves, which in my opinion is the |
| 0:38.6 | fundamental secret to good health. Listen to bite back wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:44.8 | This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation. |
| 0:49.7 | Welcome to the mom room. I was going to wait until the house was absolutely silent to record this. |
| 0:55.5 | But now that I think about it, it's almost 5 p.m. on Wednesday. This episode goes out Thursday morning. |
| 1:01.8 | And there's just never been a silent moment. So I apologize if you hear background noise, like a child's yelling and yippin and yapping and yappen. |
| 1:10.1 | I just saw my mom walk by with a fly swatter. So you never know. |
| 1:13.3 | We could be killing flies in the background of this episode. It's exciting. You just never know |
| 1:18.2 | what's going to happen. Okay, today, this is what I wanted to talk about. I have been at my mom |
| 1:23.5 | since Saturday. Today is Wednesday. That's a good chunk of time. And it's funny because every time I |
| 1:29.7 | plan to come here for an extended amount of time, my mindset is such that I'm like, oh, this is |
| 1:36.6 | going to be perfect. I don't have any of the day-to-day distractions that I have when I'm at home. |
| 1:42.2 | For example, it's wild. |
| 1:44.4 | Like working from home, there are major benefits to it, but there are major downfalls as well, |
| 1:50.9 | especially if you have a fragile, let's say, attention span. |
| 1:55.4 | Because I get deliveries all day, the factor meals get dropped off, and then I have to |
| 2:00.0 | empty the box, put them in the fridge, |
| 2:03.2 | empty the ice things in the sink, like it's a whole rigmarole. The dogs, oh my God, don't even |
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