The Physical Cost of Daily Life: What is your nervous system actually paying?
When stress becomes a chronic baseline, your body quietly compensates—diverting resources away from deep restorative sleep, balanced digestion, and steady immune function. Over time, that unpaid biological bill shows up as persistent brain fog, muscle tension, and chronic physical depletion.
Watch as JoAnn Yánez, ND, MPH, CAE shares practical advice that you can implement today to reset your nervous system. This is a 35-minute working masterclass designed to help you take an objective, compassionate inventory of your daily stress inputs.
During this webinar replay, Dr. Yánez will help you:
- Audit the Hidden Load: Pinpoint the micro-stressors quietly draining your energy reserves throughout the day.
- Practice Real-Time Down-Regulation: Learn and test simple somatic and vagal exercises live to shift your body out of fight-or-flight within minutes.
- Identify Your Highest-Leverage Fix: Isolate the single most impactful physical friction point to remove this week—without overhauling your entire life.
If your body has been sending warning signals that it needs relief, reserve your free seat live and leave with a clear plan to restore your biological margin.
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About the Speaker:
JoAnn Yánez, ND, MPH, CAE, is Executive Director of the Association of Accredited Naturopathic Medical Colleges (AANMC), where she leads the association’s strategic initiatives, advocacy, research, and collaborative efforts on behalf of accredited naturopathic medical colleges and programs. Her work focuses on advancing excellence in health professions education, supporting the naturopathic medical workforce, and expanding awareness of naturopathic medicine and careers in the profession.
A nationally engaged leader in health professions education and association management, Dr. Yánez works across academic, accreditation, health policy, and interprofessional communities. She is a past chair of the Academic Collaborative for Integrative Health (ACIH) and has held leadership and advisory roles with numerous professional organizations. Her service has included the National Academies of Practice (NAP), Federation of Associations of Schools of the Health Professions (FASHP), National Association of Advisors for the Health Professions (NAAHP), American Association of Naturopathic Physicians (AANP), Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine (AIHM), Council on Naturopathic Medical Education (CNME), and Integrative Health Policy Consortium (IHPC).
Throughout her career, Dr. Yánez has contributed to national conversations on health professions education, accreditation, workforce development, student access and affordability, interprofessional collaboration, and federal higher education and health policy. Her professional experience spans association leadership, advocacy, academia, clinical care, and public health, with a longstanding commitment to prevention and improving health and health care.
Prior to joining AANMC, Dr. Yánez led government relations for the New York Association of Naturopathic Physicians, advocating for recognition and licensure of naturopathic physicians in New York. She also served for six years as a director of the Council on Naturopathic Medical Education.
Dr. Yáñez has received the Legacy Award from Sonoran University of Health Sciences (formerly Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine) and the New York Association of Naturopathic Physicians’ Physician of the Year Award. She is a member of the Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health and has been inducted into the Omicron Delta Kappa and Rho Lambda leadership and scholarship honor societies. Dr. Yanez currently serves on the National Academies of Practice Public Health Academy with policy work.
She holds a Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine degree, a Master of Public Health degree, and the Certified Association Executive (CAE) credential.
Disclaimer: Please note that watching an AANMC (Association of Accredited Naturopathic Medical Colleges) webinar does not qualify for continuing education (CE) credits. While our webinars provide valuable information and insights into the field of naturopathic medicine, they do not fulfill the requirements for CE credits.
