Sacred Completion: A Year-End Ritual to Clear Burnout Residue & Reset Your Energy
Welcome back to Light Body Radio!
The final days of the year carry a frequency unlike any other. Even if life hasn’t slowed down externally, your nervous system recognizes that you are standing in a threshold—the space between what has been and what is coming next.
In this deeply reflective Wellness Illuminated episode, Dr. Lara May explores why this in-between moment is not meant for rushing, optimizing, or planning ahead, but for completion.
From a functional medicine and nervous-system-informed perspective, burnout isn’t only caused by doing too much. It often stems from what was never fully finished—unresolved conversations, unprocessed grief, boundaries that were crossed, intuition that was ignored, or roles and seasons of life you’ve outgrown but haven’t yet released. Neurologically, the brain and body do not distinguish between something unresolved and something still happening. Unfinished experiences keep stress circuits firing, quietly holding the body in survival mode and depleting energy over time.
In this episode, Dr. Lara May reframes the end of the year as a sacred opportunity to complete what has remained open. She weaves together neuroscience, functional medicine, and energy medicine to explain why the body cannot move forward cleanly without clearing lingering stress from the nervous system, physiology, and energetic field. Rather than pushing yourself into the new year with more effort or expectation, this conversation invites you to slow down, reflect, and honor what this past year has asked of you.
Free Listener Resource: Sacred Completion Worksheet
To support this process, we are offering a free downloadable SACRED COMPLETION — Listener Worksheet designed to be used alongside this episode. As you listen, the worksheet guides you through intentional reflection and gentle prompts to help you:
Identify what remains unfinished or unresolved
Acknowledge the emotional and energetic weight you may still be carrying
Release burnout residue from your nervous system
Consciously choose what you are ready to let go of—and what you wish to carry forward
To receive the worksheet, subscribe to our email list below, and it will be delivered directly to your inbox. We encourage you to pause, write, and reflect as you move through the episode, allowing your body and mind the space to complete this year with awareness and compassion truly.
This episode is for anyone feeling tired, emotionally full, or quietly ready for closure—not through force, but through presence. Completion is not an ending. It is the doorway that allows true renewal to occur.
About Dr. Lara May:
DR. LARA MAY
is an Advanced Practice Clinical Pharmacist who specializes in getting to the root cause of disease via functional medicine. Due to her struggle with her own health, Lara started studying & practicing functional medicine in 2017.
Dr. Lara’s passion & mission is to empower patients to take an active role in their health, so that they can create their health on their terms. It was during the COVID pandemic that Lara decided to focus on helping type 2 diabetics understand and reverse their disease, after she witnessed the increased death rates as a consequence of diabetes as a comorbidity.
Type 2 diabetes is completely preventable and reversible, yet its numbers are growing every year.
Dr. Lara believes that if patients are given the tools and knowledge they will make the right decisions for their health.
Contact Dr. Lara:
Email: laramay@drlaramay.com
Podcast Website: https://drlaramay.podbean.com/
Website: https://drlaramay.com
Social media: @drlaramay on IG, FB & Twitter
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@drlaramay
Tiktok: @drlaramayfxnmed
Spotify: @LightBodyRadio
Apple Podcast: @LightBodyRadio
Don't forget to rate and review Light Body Radio
→
Other ways to listen to today’s episode:
There is lots more on the way!
Don't miss it!
Namaste,
Subscribe
Join and receive exclusive tools, tips, and resources directly from Dr. Lara, plus a FREE copy of the Health Gut Guide!!
Find More Episodes
- 2024 3
- 2024 achievements 2
- 2024 grateful 2
- 2024 reflections 2
- 2025 1
- 4 step approach to gut health 2
- 4th chakra 1
- 90-days goal 1
- ALCAT testing for food intolerances 1
- Accomplist 1
- Adora Winquist 2
- Alie Harwood 1
- Anita Kaiser 1
- Autumn 6
- Blending science 1
- COVID-19 5
- Catherine Laub 2
- David Krantz 4
- David greenwalt 1
- Dr Melissa MacDonald 1
- Dr Shawna Jamieson 2
- Dr. Jo Anne WhiteDr Jo Anne WhiteJo Anne White PhDJo Anne WhitePower Your LifePower Your Life RadioDr. JoAnne WhiteJoanne white#poweryourlife#jwpoweryourlifePower Your Life Talk RadioPower Your Life Talk Radio ShowIntegrative Nutrition Health CoachIINHealth CoachDr. Lara MayLara MaLara Mayenergy medicineintuitive healingintegrative nutrition 1
- Dr. Lara May 235
- EFT 1
- Emma Foster 1
- Empowering women to take an active role in their health & healing 6
- Energy Medicine 2
- Equinox 6
- Fall Detox 6
- Fall Season 6
- Faultline and reasons 4
- Functional Medicine 17
- Getting Real About the Potential & Drawbacks of Psychedelics In Mental Health Treatment 1
- Healing 3
- Healthy journey 1
- Hormonal Imbalance 3
- Hormone Reset 3
- Hormones 3
- IBS 1
- Infinity wave 1
- Inspiration 18
- Integrative Nutrition 34
- Irritable bowel syndrome 1
- Jen Anderson 1
- Jessica Klasnick 1
- KC Kent 1
- Karen Cleveland 1
- LINCOLN STOLLER 1
- Light miracle workers 1
- MIT 1
Hi, I'm Lara!
(pronounced like Sarah, but with a L)
Are you ready to lose weight, reduce stress, and reinvigorate your life?! Together let’s uncover your motivators for change, and turn your vision for your vibrant future into your new reality.
Come say hi on Instagram
