#37: Are You Trying Too Hard to Be Healthy? How to Simplify Wellness in Your 40s with Amy Mewborn

What happens when you're doing everything “right” for your health... and your body still collapses on you?  Amy Mewborn knows that feeling well. After a stroke at 29 and another serious health crisis that landed her in the ICU at 48, the longtime health and fitness professional was forced to reconsider everything she believed about wellness, achievement, and what it actually means to take care of yourself. In this episode, Amy and I talk about why high-achieving women are especially vulnerable to turning wellness into another thing to achieve, the problem with “wellness maxing,” and why the answer in our 40s may not be another supplement, tracker, protocol, or harder workout. We also get very real about my own inability to choose sleep over my 5 AM workout, even when I KNOW better. Amy's philosophy is simple: “Simple works. Complicated sells.” And maybe that's exactly what some of us need to hear right now. In this episode: slowing down without giving up your ambition, sleep and circadian rhythm, cycle syncing and exercise, testing instead of guessing, nervous system regulation, and what Amy wishes high-achieving women understood before their bodies force them to listen. About Amy: Amy Mewborn is the founder of Living Simpler, a TEDx speaker, Integrative Health Practitioner, life coach, and wellness educator who has helped more than 9,000 women throughout her 20+ years in health and fitness. Amy's free Seven Signals Method: living-simpler.com/health