Wellness: Maintenance Required

You’re running a high-capacity life, but is your body paying a hidden tax? 🧠⚡ When you're running a company, a career, or a household full of moving parts (or people), your own needs and priorities are the first things to get bumped. And the wellness advice out there is typically another 12-step routine that feels like one more job. In this episode, Dr. Summer sits down with Dr. Sin Lai to break...

You’ve probably stopped clocking the bloating… The stomach that never quite feels settled, the energy crash every afternoon like clockwork. At some point, it just all became normal. 🤷🏼‍♀️ Allison Christiani, Director of Nutrition at Centner Wellness, joins me to connect some surprisingly related dots between gut health, digestion, circadian rhythms and hydration : how you start your morning, why...

What keeps highly capable people hitting the same ceiling? Sometimes your next move is hiding in a place you never thought to look: the mirror.🪞 In Part 1, Wealth Embodiment Coach Heidy Caminero and I took apart the self-improvement toolbox: mindset, manifestation, subconscious work, nervous system regulation, hypnosis, NLP, EFT. This time, we’re putting the toolbox to work. 👷🏻‍♀️ We take three...

You can vision board it, affirm it, tap it, meditate on it, regulate your nervous system into next Tuesday… and still be broke, stuck, or repeating the same pattern for the fortieth time. So what’s actually working? This week I’m sitting down with Wealth Embodiment Coach Heidy Caminero, and we’re taking a microscope to the self-improvement buzzwords everyone’s throwing around right now: money mind...

You did the labs. They came back “normal.” So why do you still feel like a stranger in your own body? 🤔 This episode is for everyone stuck in that maddening gap between “your bloodwork looks fine” and “then why do I feel like garbage.” I sat down with Chiropractor and Functional Medicine Provider Dr. Bryan Deloney to talk about what happens when you stop treating the body like a junk drawer of un...

When did “no pain, no gain” become a personality trait? 🤔 If your relationship with exercise feels a little toxic… this one’s for you. Because nobody accidentally ends up with an overtrained nervous system. Somewhere along the way, exhaustion became a badge of honor, soreness became proof we did something right, and rest days became something we had to earn. In this episode, I sit down with Perfo...

Nobody wakes up one day and says...👇 “You know what sounds fun? Learning about hormones.” Usually the interest starts after the third cup of coffee stops working, your sleep evaporates into thin air, your sex drive files for divorce, or you find yourself standing in a room wondering why you even walked in there. 🤔 ‼️ Spoiler: hormones don’t check ID. Men, this means you too! 🙌 If you have a bod...

Most people see the highlight reel. The trophy. The ranking. The scholarship. The win. 🏆 What they don’t see are the injuries, the self-doubt, the pressure, the loneliness, and the thousands of invisible decisions happening behind the scenes. Turns out discipline isn’t always the inspiring thing people make it out to be. Sometimes it’s waking up exhausted and doing it anyway. Sometimes it’s learn...

What you do after an accident can make or break your personal injury case—and most people don’t find that out until it’s too late. Turns out “I’ll just walk it off” is not a legal strategy after an accident—and neither is “I’ll deal with it later.” And yet here we are, because no one gets a handbook when life decides to knock you flat. 😅 We’re talking about that today—because what you do between...

Do you ever realize your body has been filing complaints for months… and you’ve just been answering with stretching, foam rolling, caffeine, and “I’ll deal with it later”? 👀 Because a weird thing humans are really good at? 👉🏼 Compensating. In this episode, I’m joined by Dr. Brandon Rosa, Doctor of Physical Therapy and Functional Fitness Coach, for a conversation on what people often miss when i...

Do you ever realize something “isn’t working”… but stay anyway because you’ve become really good at surviving the discomfort?  👀 This conversation with Jesi Carroll gets into the subtle turning points people ignore for WAY too long—the quiet misalignment, the over-functioning, the intuition you keep talking yourself out of, and the difference between being truly fulfilled vs. just highly capable...

Feeling drained, even though you’re doing everything “right”? This conversation with Dr. Sin explores what happens when your system is running on effort instead of alignment—and why more discipline isn’t always the answer. 😮‍💨 We get into Ayurvedic medicine as a framework for understanding your body’s natural rhythms, digestion, and energy patterns… and how modern wellness habits can actually cr...

Not everything that feels effective… actually is. 👉🏻 And more intensity doesn’t always mean better results. In a space that’s growing fast—especially Pilates—the lines between what works , what’s being marketed, and what’s actually aligned for your body can get blurred. 🎙️ In this episode, Summer sits down with Pilates instructor Christina to unpack how the method is evolving, why the way someth...

She was getting promoted...And crying in a parking garage before work. In this episode, Jesi Carroll shares the moment everything started to crack—despite doing everything “right” on paper. We talk about what happens when your identity no longer fits your life, how physical symptoms and anxiety can be signals (not problems), and what it really takes to pivot into something more aligned. From corpo...

What happens when the life you built suddenly stops feeling aligned with who you really are? In the first episode of Wellness: Maintenance Required , Dr. Summer Sanders sits down with astrologer and Ahai energy practitioner Jaclyn Carmen to talk about career pivots, burnout, and the deeper signals that often push people toward change. This conversation explores how our nervous system, environments...

What actually keeps people healthy and functioning well in a demanding world?   Wellness: Maintenance Required is a podcast about what it truly takes to maintain health, clarity, and resilience over time. Hosted by Dr. Summer Sanders, Doctor of Physical Therapy and Integrative Wellness Consultant, the show features conversations with professionals across the wellness industry, from physical health...