The Healthy Me Reset

How healthy are you, really? And what if improving your health didn't require changing everything about your life? In this episode of The Healthy Me Reset , Dr. Emily invites you to take a closer look at your overall well-being by evaluating three essential areas: your body, your mind, and your soul. Using a simple 1–10 rating exercise, Dr. Emily walks you through questions to help you identify wh...

Do you have a healthy relationship with control, or do you find yourself trying to manage everything and everyone around you? In this episode of The Healthy Me Reset, Dr. Emily explores what happens when life feels out of control and why trying to control other people or circumstances rarely creates the peace we're looking for. She also shares one of her favorite coaching tools, " passing through...

Have you ever known you needed to say something, but stayed quiet because you were worried about upsetting someone, creating conflict, or saying it the wrong way? In this episode of The Healthy Me Reset , Dr. Emily shares a simple three-step process for approaching difficult conversations in a healthier, more intentional way. Whether the conversation is with your spouse, your child, a friend, or s...

What can spending time in Spain, France, and Italy teach us about eating healthier at home? After returning from a Mediterranean cruise, Dr. Emily shares three simple habits she noticed again and again: eating more vegetables, keeping meals simple, and moving naturally throughout the day. This isn't about perfectly recreating a Mediterranean diet or following another rigid food plan. It's about no...

What does healthy eating really look like—and how can we make it simple enough to actually stick with? In this episode, Dr. Emily breaks down the latest dietary guidance and connects it to what we can learn from the Blue Zones . She talks about prioritizing whole foods, especially plant-based foods , limiting ultra-processed foods , and choosing a flexible eating pattern that fits your life and cu...

Do you really need to see your doctor every year for a physical? It's a question many of us ask—especially as technology makes it easier to track our health from home. Watches, rings, telemedicine, urgent care, and at-home testing can give us more information than ever. But can technology really replace having a doctor who knows you and your health history? In this episode, Dr. Emily takes a close...

Back-to-school season can bring excitement, but it can also bring a whole lot of worry. And sometimes, that worry feels bigger than we know how to handle. Dr. Emily gets real about back-to-school anxiety, parenting fears, safety concerns, social media, and the stories our minds create when we feel afraid. She shares honestly about her own worries as a mom and how this year has felt heavier. With e...

The new school year is coming—and if you're anything like me, you're probably thinking about schedules, school drop-offs, pickups, work, dinner, and how on earth all of it is going to fit together. But there's something else that happens when a new school year begins. We reset, too. In Episode 113, I'm talking about that feeling of a fresh start—and how easy it is to get really excited about all t...

If the scale suddenly feels unpredictable, your clothes fit differently, or your body no longer responds the way it once did, you are not imagining it—and you are certainly not alone. In this episode, Dr. Emily shares one of the most noticeable—and often frustrating—changes women experience during this season: weight gain . She also shares practical ways to support your health during this transiti...

Could the mood changes, brain fog, weight gain, joint pain, swelling, or exhaustion women experience in midlife be connected to perimenopause—or is something else going on? Over the past year, Dr. Emily has experienced several health concerns that seemed unrelated at first—shoulder pain, back pain, swelling in her ankles and eyelids, weight changes, infections, mood changes, brain fog, and simply...

Have you ever looked at someone who appears healthy and thought, "I want that," only to immediately tell yourself, "But I'd have to starve," "I don't have the time," or "That's just not me"? In this episode, Dr. Emily talks about "skinny thoughts"—the quick, unhealthy thoughts that run through our minds and quietly limit our progress. Even after more than 15 years in her own weight-loss journey an...

What does it really look like to help your child build a healthy relationship with food? In this episode, Dr. Emily tackles one of today's biggest parenting challenges—raising healthy eaters in a culture that often confuses health with dieting. Her message is simple: "We really don't want our kids dieting." Instead of focusing on restriction, she shares practical, evidence-based habits that help c...

Talking about weight with children can feel uncomfortable. What if the words we choose today shape how they see themselves for the rest of their lives? Dr. Emily shares why the conversation around children's weight deserves a completely different approach. Drawing from years of coaching families, personal experiences, and insights from  Your Child Is Not Their Weight by AAP, she explains how well-...

What if overeating isn't really about food? In this episode, Dr. Emily is sharing one of the biggest mindset shifts she has had in years—one that completely changed the way I understand emotional eating. It all started with a book about highly sensitive people, and what I discovered helped me connect the dots between sensitivity, self-soothing, and why so many of us turn to food when life feels ov...

Have you ever heard a statistic that completely stopped you in your tracks? In this week's episode, Dr. Emily shares a surprising study that sparked a deeper conversation about women, health, perfectionism, burnout, leadership, and the hidden pressure many of us carry every day. What started as a conversation about physician longevity quickly became a powerful reflection on how women often navigat...

How do we navigate health information when we are constantly flooded with opinions, studies, social media advice, expert voices, and "evidence-based" claims? As a family medicine and obesity medicine physician, Dr. Emily vulnerably shares the tension she personally feels between trusting evidence, honoring expert perspective, and learning how to listen to your own body. This episode is not about r...

Feeling the pressure? Physical pressure. Mental pressure. Emotional pressure. Spiritual pressure. After returning from a Route 66 road trip in their family camper, Dr. Emily shares how an unexpected chemical incident near Los Angeles became a powerful metaphor for the way many of us live our lives — constantly building pressure internally without realizing how close we are to overflowing. From anx...

In this deeply personal episode of The Healthy Me Reset , Dr. Emily opens up about the next 100 episodes and the bigger mission behind them. This conversation is about more than goals, productivity, or checking boxes. It's about becoming more of who you were created to be. Dr. Emily shares how comfort, routine, fear, anxiety, and even success can quietly pull us into "existence mode" — where we st...

Something is happening right now in our world. You can feel it in medicine. You can feel it in faith. You can feel it in mental health, relationships, motherhood, leadership, and honestly… in the hearts of women everywhere. It's the desire for change, for transprency, for better.  In this episode, Dr. Emily speaks directly to the women who feel that stirring deep inside of them — the women who kno...

Warning: this episode comes with a powerful tool, learned through decades of pain chasing perfection.  In this episode, Dr. Emily talks about one of the most important mindset shifts for real healing and growth: progress over perfection . So many of us delay change because we think we need the perfect plan, perfect motivation, or perfect execution before we begin. But real growth doesn't work that...

This episode feels different. Not because it's episode 100… But because of what it took to get here. In this conversation, Dr. Emily is not just reflecting on the journey of this podcast. She's reflecting on the journey of her life over the past few years. The lessons, the pivots, the unlearning, and the deep personal resets that shaped not just her work… but who she is. After hundreds of conversa...

As I'm approaching episode 100, I've been doing a lot of reflecting. Not just on this podcast… but on health, on medicine, and on what I've seen in my own life and in so many of yours. Because if I'm honest, a lot of us feel like we have 99 health problems . And when you're in that place, it's overwhelming. It's exhausting. And it's confusing. We live in a time where: There's more information than...

This week, I'm joined by someone very special to me—writer, educator, speaker, and my friend, Ashley Martin. You know I don't bring guests on often. It takes someone who has truly walked the walk —and Ashley is one of those people. In this episode, Ashley shares her powerful journey through over-drinking, marital infidelity, depression, and the moment that brought her to complete surrender. From t...

Holiday weight gain can be frustrating. Yet, for most of us, some regain at the holidays is inevitable. It's not the few pounds that matters most: it's what we do with that information.  In this episode, we're gently reframing that story. Dr. Emily explains why the weight you see after a holiday isn't what you think. Most of it isn't fat—it's fluid. Your body is simply responding to changes in sug...

What if the problem isn't Monday… but the pressure we attach to it? In this episode, Dr. Emily talks about the quiet weight many of us carry into Mondays—especially after a meaningful weekend, holiday, or season like Easter. We come in with good intentions: "This is the week I'll finally do it right." But when real life hits—work, home, responsibilities—that pressure quickly turns into overwhelm....