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Beneath the Surface introduces Dr. Erin | Pelvic Health & Physical Therapy.

What if part of recovering from burnout starts with building a body that feels strong, capable, and supported?

Erin is joining us at the 3rd Annual Beneath the Surface Women’s Summit to explore an often-overlooked piece of the burnout conversation: the physical body and specifically, the pelvic floor.

The pelvic floor impacts far more than bladder function. It plays a role in posture, movement, core stability, sexual health, birth, daily comfort, and our ability to feel strong and confident in our bodies.

In her session, Erin will connect pelvic health, movement, nervous-system regulation, and burnout, while giving women practical strategies for building a body with greater capacity for the demands of everyday life.

Because burnout isn’t only happening in your mind. Your body is carrying the load, too.

September 26, 2026 | Chattanooga, TN

This is just ONE of the conversations we’re bringing beneath the surface this year.

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Women supporting women is what Beneath the Surface is all about.

We’re inviting women-owned businesses, women’s health organizations, and businesses that support and empower women to be part of the 3rd Annual Beneath the Surface Women’s Summit!

✨ Sponsorship opportunities are available
✨ Vendor tables available to showcase and sell your products
✨ Connect with 100+ women from our community
✨ Support an event created to help women feel whole, powerful, and unapologetically seen

If your business believes in empowering women and building a stronger community of women, we’d love to have you join us! 💗

Sponsorship applications close September 10.

Click the link to learn more and apply...

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Beneath the Surface would like to introduce Expert Presenter Karisa Kaye, LMFT, CST, owner of I LOVE US Relationship & Intimacy Counseling, LLC.

The Burned-Out Brain: The Neuroscience Behind Burnout and How to Restore Motivation, Joy, and Resilience

Burnout isn’t just feeling tired. It can change the way our brains respond to stress, motivation, connection, and even the things that once brought us joy.

As part of The Many Faces of Burnout, Karisa will take us inside the burned-out brain to understand what is actually happening neurologically when we’ve been under stress for too long. She’ll help us recognize why motivation can disappear, why we may feel disconnected from ourselves and others, and why simply telling ourselves to “push through” often doesn’t work.

Karisa is passionate about deep identity work and multidimensional health, helping people better understand who they are and how the different parts of their lives work together to create true wholeness.

Most importantly, this conversation won’t stop at why burnout happens. Karisa will help us understand how we can begin working with our brains, not against them, to restore motivation, reconnect with joy, and build resilience.

Your brain may be burned out. That doesn’t mean you have to stay there.

Reserve your seat today and join us as we go Beneath the Surface of the many faces of burnout.

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Beneath the Surface would like to introduce Expert Presenter Phaedra Roberts.

Nature as Nervous System Medicine

What if part of recovering from burnout requires stepping outside?

Not to exercise. Not to accomplish something. Not to check another box.

Simply to reconnect.

As part of The Many Faces of Burnout, Phaedra will invite us to explore something many of us have become increasingly disconnected from in our busy lives: the restorative power of time in nature.

After a career in education and leadership, Phaedra entered her own “second act,” intentionally reconnecting with herself through the natural world. She is now training through the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy Guides and Programs to become a Certified Forest Therapy Guide and is passionate about helping others discover what can happen when we slow down enough to notice what is around and within us.

In this experiential session, women will learn about the mental, emotional, and physical benefits associated with intentional time in nature, including nervous-system regulation, concentration and memory, cardiovascular and metabolic health, and greater awareness of breath and body.

But you won’t just hear about it.

Phaedra will guide women through sensory practices designed to help them slow down, become present, and reconnect with themselves and nature in a judgment-free space. She’ll also share simple ways to make these practices part of everyday life because restoration doesn’t always require a major life overhaul.

Sometimes, it starts with 20 intentional minutes outside.

You spend so much of your life responding to everything around you. What might happen if you became still enough to hear yourself again?

Reserve your seat today and join us as we go Beneath the Surface of the many faces of burnout.

www.beneaththesurfacewomen.com

We’re beginning our 2026 Gold Sponsor spotlight with an organization that has been part of Beneath the Surface from the very beginning: Lotus Center for Women.

For all three years of Beneath the Surface, Lotus has continued to show up, not only as a sponsor, but as a partner in our shared commitment to making women’s health conversations more accessible, informed, and heard. We are incredibly grateful to welcome them back as a Gold Sponsor for the 3rd Annual Beneath the Surface Women’s Summit.

Lotus Center for Women is a Chattanooga-based medical practice specializing in perimenopause, menopause, and women’s sexual health and wellness. Their team takes a whole-person, individualized approach to concerns that are too often minimized or overlooked, from hormonal transitions and sexual wellness to pelvic health, PMDD, low libido, and other conditions that can significantly affect a woman’s quality of life. (Lotus Center for Women)

Their philosophy aligns closely with why Beneath the Surface exists: women deserve time, answers, education, and a place to talk openly about what is happening in their bodies and their lives.

Thank you, Lotus Center for Women, for believing in this mission year after year and continuing to invest in the health and well-being of women in our community.

We are proud to have you with us for Year Three.

Learn more about Lotus Center for Women:
www.lotuscenterforwomen.com

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Beneath the Surface would like to introduce Expert Presenter Dr. Ashley Odom-Rodrigues, licensed mental health professional, educator, and clinical sexologist specializing in women’s mental, sexual, and reproductive health.

Evolution, Not Decline: What Women Over 60 Can Teach Us About Burnout, Reinvention, and Living Authentically

What if some of the most important lessons about burnout come from women who have already spent decades navigating expectations, identities, relationships, careers, caregiving, and change?

For much of our lives, women are taught to measure their worth by what they produce, provide, achieve, and sacrifice. But those same expectations can quietly become the foundation for chronic stress and burnout.

As part of The Many Faces of Burnout, Dr. Rodrigues is bringing something unique to the conversation: findings from her doctoral research exploring the intimate experiences of women over 60.

And what she found challenges the idea that aging is simply about decline.

Instead, these women’s stories reveal an evolution toward greater authenticity, self-trust, freedom, connection, and fulfillment.

Drawing from her research and clinical work across women’s reproductive and hormonal health from fertility and postpartum through perimenopause, menopause, and healthy aging, Dr. Rodrigues will explore how burnout can be rooted in a disconnection from our own values, identity, and desires.

Together, we’ll examine the beliefs that keep women caught in cycles of over-functioning, perfectionism, and self-sacrifice and consider what might happen if we stopped seeing life transitions only as something to endure.

Women will leave with practical tools for reconnecting with what truly matters and a different perspective on the chapters ahead.

Maybe the next version of you isn’t a decline from who you were.
Maybe she’s an evolution into who you were always becoming.

Reserve your seat today and join us as we go Beneath the Surface of the many faces of burnout.

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Beneath the Surface would like to introduce Jennifer Maklan, LMT, Ayurvedic Practitioner, owner of Perimenopause Massage Therapy & Ayurveda.

The Inflamed Mind: Chronic Stress, Brain Fog & Burnout Through the Lens of Ayurveda

What if your brain fog, depleted energy, and feeling of burnout aren’t just signs that you need more rest?

Chronic stress doesn’t only affect how we feel, it can affect the body, too.

As part of The Many Faces of Burnout, Jennifer will take us beneath the surface of chronic stress to explore the relationship between stress, inflammation, mental clarity, and our overall vitality all through the lens of Ayurveda, India’s ancient system of holistic healing.

Jennifer specializes in holistic care for women navigating perimenopause, menopause, and post-menopause, integrating Ayurvedic principles with massage, bodywork, and lifestyle support. Her work focuses on looking beyond individual symptoms to better understand what may be happening throughout the whole body.

During The Inflamed Mind, Jennifer will explore how unmanaged stress can contribute to inflammation, brain fog, and depleted energy and, more importantly, what we can begin doing about it.

You’ll walk away with practical, holistic strategies including dietary adjustments, cooling lifestyle practices, and nervous-system-supportive approaches designed to help calm the body, clear the mind, and restore energy.

Because sometimes burnout isn’t only in your schedule.

Your body may be carrying it, too.

Reserve your seat today and join us as we go Beneath the Surface of the many faces of burnout.

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Beneath the Surface would like to introduce Expert Presenter Judy K. Herman, LPC-MHSP, NCC, licensed psychotherapist, author, retreat facilitator, and founder of Relationship Wellness, LLC.

Why High-Functioning Women Burn Out Quietly: A Licensed Therapist’s C.A.L.M. Method for Coming Back to Yourself

She’s capable. Dependable. The helper. The leader. The one everyone calls when something needs to be handled.
And she may be completely burned out.

As part of The Many Faces of Burnout, Judy is bringing a clinical lens to a form of burnout that can be incredibly easy to miss: the high-functioning woman who continues to show up while quietly becoming more and more depleted.

Judy has spent decades helping women understand not only what they are carrying, but why they feel responsible for carrying it in the first place. Because sometimes doing less, getting more organized, or taking a break doesn’t address the subconscious relational patterns underneath our exhaustion.

In this interactive session, Judy will introduce her C.A.L.M. Method - Clarify, Awaken, Lift, Master - a four-step framework designed to help women recognize and interrupt the hidden patterns driving burnout and begin finding their way back to themselves.

This is a conversation about the weight we carry in the name of love, loyalty, leadership, and being the strong one, and what can change when we finally examine whether all of that weight was ours to carry in the first place.

You don’t have to stop being strong. But you may need to redefine what strength requires you to carry.

Reserve your seat today and join us as we go Beneath the Surface of the many faces of burnout.

Beneath the Surface would like to introduce Expert Presenter Jenni Morris, Integrated Life & Leadership Coach.

The Hidden Capacity Drain of Being Unfelt

We carry responsibilities. Relationships. Expectations. Decisions. Emotional labor. The needs of the people we love.

We show up. We handle it. We figure it out.

But what happens when we become so good at carrying everything that no one realizes how much we’re carrying?

As part of The Many Faces of Burnout, Jenni will explore a form of exhaustion that rest, better time management, and even stronger boundaries may not fully fix: the experience of carrying so much while rarely feeling truly met in return.

Drawing from her work in nervous system regulation, somatic coaching, mindfulness, communication, and relational healing, Jenni will help us understand the difference between being seen and being felt, how chronic self-reliance can quietly drain our capacity, and why meaningful connection directly impacts our resilience and well-being.

Through reflection and experiential exercises, women will identify the invisible loads they may be carrying and walk away with practical ways to create more support, honesty, connection, and responsiveness in their lives.

Because sometimes increasing your capacity isn’t about becoming stronger.

It’s about becoming more supported.

Reserve your seat today and join us as we go Beneath the Surface of the many faces of burnout.

www.beneaththesurfacewomen.com