E43 - I wrote a book Running On Empty

Dr. Tiffany announces her new book, Running on Empty, and explains how she uses wearable sleep data (HRV, oxygenation, interruptions) alongside trauma-informed psychotherapy to understand and treat autoimmune fatigue, chronic fatigue, and fibromyalgia, including her personal journey putting lupus into remission.

The episode summarizes the book’s chapters: listening to your body, nervous system and ACEs, decoding ring data, sleep for healing, lifestyle and supplements, staying on track, and building a personalized plan, plus upcoming read-along sessions and downloadable tracking guides.

Running On Empty by Dr. Tiffany Brown-Bush

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Welcome to episode 43 of Integrative Mental Health Therapy with Dr. Tiffany.

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And I am excited to be here talking to you about how I wrote a book.

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Running on Empty, What Sleep Data Reveals About Autoimmune Fatigue and How to Recover is on Amazon.

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And as of today, as you're able to listen to this podcast, it is available not

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only as a Kindle, but it is available as a paperback, which I'm super excited

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about because it is an appropriate book for paperback.

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And it is going to be available over the next few months.

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It's going to take me a second as an Audible as well.

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So I am very, very excited about the fact that this book is now available to

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my clients, to the world, to my family.

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I'm also really pleased that I was able to get all of this out of my head.

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Many of you who use wearable technology with me and my practice and the work

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that we do know that I have strong feelings about utilizing HRV sleep data,

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you know, oxygenation, sleep interruptions, just overall sleep quality when

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it comes to applying the Dr.

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Grambush method. So looking at brain-body-mind relationships,

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Because, you know, that three-leg stool has transitioned to a four-leg stool over the past two years.

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And you know that I take seriously monitoring, you know, what's affecting your HRV.

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Where is it? What is the backdrop of, you know, your overnight heart rate?

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As you're telling me about how your stress management is, as you're talking

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to me about your autoimmune symptoms, as you're talking to me about

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feeling foggy and fatigued and all of those things and trying to heal,

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we have always talked about what those numbers look like.

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And so my last episode was a couple months ago, I think almost three months

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ago, as I was in the editing phase of the book and really kind of mired in just

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edit over edit after edit.

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It was a lot. And then trying to run the practice and take care of my health

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and drop into joy in my own personal life.

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So I've been juggling blogging, trying to keep the podcast going, and then focusing on.

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It has been an extremely busy year in the practice, unusually so throughout the year to be busy.

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And then I have participated in my own three-day psychological intensive, working on my own parts.

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I flew to Nashville to do that and worked with three amazing therapists for

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24 hours to do my own work.

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And then in a method that I have been training in over the last past year as well.

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And then I had that puppy I told you all about.

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And the puppy, she is still very much, you know, trying to run our lives.

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And so that was a busy piece of things that has been very joyful.

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I absolutely adore her. She's bald rotten.

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And then, gosh, it's just trying to, oh, play a lot of tennis.

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So it has just been kind of a full experience here as I was completing the book.

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And so Running on Empty is available now on Amazon, and I'm just very excited

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