After being diagnosed with MS at 27, Amy chose to redefine health as “autoimmune health”—the health you still have plus the health you create. 💪✨ In a fragmented system filled with “infobesity,” she teaches that real transformation begins with inner habits (thoughts and feelings) that drive outer habits like diet and exercise. You cannot outnourish or outrun a cruddy mindset.

Her method? 🌱 “Trust in the Tiny.” Small actions build evidence, momentum, and empowerment. Words matter. And instead of waiting 17 years for research to become standard care, coaching helps you take control of your health now, as a Doctor of Pharmacy that is exactly what Amy chose to do for herself. 🔥

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Episode Summary:

Key Takeaways

1. Redefine Health: After her MS diagnosis, Amy redefined health as "autoimmune health"—the health you still have plus the health you create—to move beyond a textbook definition that felt impossible.
2. Inner Habits Drive Outer Habits: Sustainable change requires addressing "inner habits" (thoughts/feelings), which drive "outer habits" (diet/exercise). You cannot outrun a "cruddy mindset."
3. Build Evidence with "Trust in the Tiny": Overcome overwhelm by focusing on one small habit at a time. This builds personal evidence of progress, creating a positive feedback loop.
4. Don't Wait 17 Years: Research takes ~17 years to become standard care. Proactively working with a coach is a way to get ahead of this lag and take control of your health now.

Topics

The Problem: A Fragmented System & "Infobesity"

1. The conventional medical system is fragmented (e.g., neurologists for MS, GI doctors for IBD), leaving patients to coordinate their own care.
2. This creates an "infobesity crisis" where more information doesn't lead to action; it causes paralysis.
3. Solution: A good first idea and support to follow through.

The Solution: Redefining Health & Habits

1. Amy's personal journey (MS diagnosis at 27) led her to redefine health, creating a framework that integrates conventional and holistic medicine.
2. Inner Habits: Habitual thoughts and feelings that drive all behavior.
3. Outer Habits: Physical actions like diet, exercise, and sleep.
4. Core Principle: You cannot outrun a "cruddy mindset."

The Method: Practical Strategies for Change

1. "Trust in the Tiny": A belief seed that small actions matter.
2. Example: A 2-minute PT exercise is valuable even when a 30-minute session feels impossible.
3. Rationale: This builds personal evidence of progress, creating a positive feedback loop.
4. "Words Matter": Language shapes perception and motivation.
5. Example: Shifting from "I don't get to eat X" to "I choose not to eat X" creates empowerment.
6. "Life is 50-50": A rule for accepting both positive and negative emotions with grace.
7. Rationale: Resisting negative emotions causes dis-ease; acknowledging them allows them to pass.

The Recommendation: Coaching as a Catalyst

1. Coaching is a powerful tool for those who feel they've "tried everything."
2. Rationale: Research takes ~17 years to become standard care. Proactively working with a coach is a way to get ahead of this lag and take control of your health now.

About the Guest:

is a pharmacist and board-certified health and wellness coach who helps people build better health after a diagnosis than before. Living with autoimmune disease herself, she teaches simple, science-backed habit strategies that bridge the gap between knowing what to do and actually doing it. Through her podcast, Autoimmune Health Secrets, and her coaching community, The CLUB Habit Hub, she empowers people to create sustainable energy, resilience, and confidence in their everyday health journey.

Contact:

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About the Host:

Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner and a Board Designated Master Trainer of Hypnotherapy, Trainer of NLP, Time Line Therapy®, and NLP Results Coaching, helping people get to the root cause of their health issues and then get lasting results. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discover your “toxic load” and then removing the toxins. Melissa offers functional medicine lab testing that helps you “see inside” to know exactly what is going on, and then provides a personalized wellness protocol using natural herbs and supplements. Melissa’s business is 100% virtual – the lab tests are mailed directly to your home and she specializes in holding your hand and guiding the way to healing so that you don’t have to figure it all out on your own.

Melissa has launched Amplify Impact Academy, with business partner, Billie Aadmi and together they train other coaches, practitioners and counsellors in the 4 mind-body healing modalities mentioned above, giving them powerful tools to use with clients to get results with greater ease, speed and grace. These courses teach life skills and anyone can take them, if you want to be a better leader, parent, partner, be empowered in your own life, these courses are for you!

Melissa’s passion project is her non-profit, Girls Matter (www.girlsmatter.ca), breaking the poverty cycle 1 girl, 1 family, 1 village at a time. The mission is to keep girls in school and stop teenage marriages, because school isn’t free in over 50 countries around the world and when parents have to make the difficult choices of feeding their kids or paying for school, food wins. And when the girls hit their teen years, they will often be married off so that someone else becomes responsible to feed them. Keeping girls in school instead creates a generational ripple effect, because an educated girl is more than twice as likely to ensure her own children are educated. Educating girls also grows the GDP of countries, when they get into the workforce. This is how together, we can change the world. Guests on this podcast are invited to donate to this important cause. Learn more here in this short video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R3-xqzJLZW14om1PhFClcU_oRSZ8zgip/view?usp=share_link

Melissa is also the winner of the 2024 Women in Podcasting Awards in the “inspiration & motivation” category and the 2021 & 2022 Quality Care Award by Business From The Heart and is also the recipient of the Alignable “Local Business Person of the Year “Award 2022, 2023 & 2024 for Whistler.

Melissa has been featured at a number of Health & Wellness Summits, such as the Health, Wealth & Wisdom Summit, The Power To Profit Summit, The Feel Fan-freaking-tas-tic Summit, the Aim Higher Summit and many more! She has also guested on over 90 different podcasts teaching people about the importance of prioritizing our health and how to get started.

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