Welcome to Your B-Side | Midlife Metamorphosis

Deb Achak did not set out to be a fine art photographer. She set out to survive. After leaving a career in social work, caring for her mother through lung cancer, losing her mother, and then twenty-five days later giving birth to her second son, and navigating years of grief while raising two young boys, Deb picked up a camera. Not because she had a plan. Because something in her needed it. In thi...

Integrity is not just about showing up on time or doing what you said you would do. It goes deeper than that. In this episode of Welcome to Your B-Side , Dr. Amy Lindsey breaks down why integrity - real integrity, through and through to the bone - is directly connected to your health. When you are out of integrity, there is a current of stress running beneath the surface of your life that your bod...

What does it actually look like to stop keeping one foot out the door and jump in with both feet? In this episode, Dr. Amy Lindsey sits down with Dr. Megan Walker - naturopathic doctor, healthcare entrepreneur, co-founder of Health Hives, speaker, author, and one of Dr. Amy's closest colleagues - for a conversation about what happens when you start reverse engineering the life you actually wan...

The biggest risk for your health and your life is not the thing you are afraid to try. It is the decision to stay safe, stay comfortable, and keep doing what everyone expects you to do. In this episode of Welcome to Your B-Side , Dr. Amy Lindsey breaks down the hidden cost of status quo thinking. The version of risk nobody talks about because it doesn't feel like risk at all. It feels like bei...

What do soccer drills and piano arpeggios have to do with your midlife reinvention? More than you think. In this episode of Welcome to Your B-Side , Dr. Amy Lindsey shares two conversations, one with a teenager in her carpool and one with her own son, that stopped her in her tracks and forced her to turn the mirror on herself. The lesson that came out of both: the boring, unglamorous, repetitive w...

If your long-term relationship has started to crack in midlife, you are not alone. In this episode of Welcome to Your B-Side , Dr. Amy Lindsey breaks down why one in three marriages between the ages of 50 and 60 end in dissolution, and why midlife hormonal transitions are often the match that lights the fire. This isn't just about hot flashes and missed periods. It's about the mental and e...

In this episode of Welcome to Your B-Side , Dr. Amy Lindsey is calling out one of the most common blind spots in the wellness and spirituality world: using "inner peace" as an excuse to opt out of political engagement. She names it clearly - that's spiritual bypassing, and it has consequences for real people. This episode covers the difference between victim consciousness and actual...

In this episode of Welcome to Your B-Side , Dr. Amy Lindsey shares her experience with clairvoyance and what it actually means to trust a sixth sense in real life. She opens up about the first clairvoyant experience she had as a child, a vivid premonition of her brother’s death, and how that moment shaped her relationship with grief, fear, and shame around her intuitive abilities. For years, she p...

Ambition is not the same thing as burnout. In this episode of Welcome to Your B-Side , Dr. Amy Lindsey breaks down the difference between healthy ambition, resilience, and aligned action versus the chaos, busyness, and self-betrayal that actually lead to burnout. Using real-life examples (including an abrupt housing change in France and a revealing conversation with her brother), Dr. Amy explores...

Forgiveness is one of the most misunderstood concepts in personal growth and healing. In this episode of Welcome to Your B-Side , Dr. Amy Lindsey breaks down what forgiveness actually is, what it is not, and why holding onto resentment has real consequences for your mental, emotional, and physical health. This is not a conversation about excusing harm, forcing forgiveness, or pretending something...

In this episode of Welcome to Your B-Side , Dr. Amy Lindsey shares something deeply personal: her relationship with psilocybin, and how guided psilocybin therapy impacted her PTSD, nervous system, and sense of self. For a long time, she kept this part of her story quieter than she wanted to because of how psilocybin is viewed in conventional medicine. As research continues to grow and clinical use...

What if your purpose isn’t just about you, but the entire line of souls that came before and after you? In this episode of Welcome to Your B-Side , Dr. Amy Lindsey explores how saying yes to your soul’s calling becomes a living act of generational healing. Through a vulnerable parenting moment and a series of intuitive leaps that carried her family from Seattle to Kilimanjaro to Barcelona and Fran...

Self-trust is not a personality trait. It is the single biggest needle mover for your health, your peace of mind, and the way you move through midlife.  In this solo episode of Welcome to Your B-Side , Dr. Amy Lindsey breaks down why so many people struggle to trust themselves and what actually gets in the way of making confident, aligned decisions. Most of us are raised to live by external valida...

What happens when you’ve checked every box, built an impressive career, and still feel like something is missing? In this episode of Welcome to Your B-Side , Dr. Amy Lindsey sits down with Chrysalis client and longtime executive Tiffany Stith, President & COO of Lawry’s Restaurants, to talk about what it really looks like to reinvent your life and health in midlife… even when everything looks...

What actually happens when you hit midlife, realize the status quo no longer works, and finally choose yourself? In this powerful conversation, Dr. Amy Lindsey sits down with her friend and Chrysalis client Erin Hauk, who entered midlife feeling out of alignment in her career, her health, and her relationships… and knew something had to change. Through deep self-trust, honest reflection, and the s...

Surprise: by definition, menopause is one day - the first day after your last period. Once it’s been that full first year with no period, you are actually one year post-menopausal. The truth about what most of us mean when we say “menopause” is usually the timeline of late perimenopause through early post-menopause. But the full spectrum of Perimenopause can span 10–20 years. And hot flashes and m...

In this episode of Welcome to Your B-Side , Dr. Amy Lindsey sits down with John Richards, longtime KEXP DJ, podcaster, bar owner, and mental health advocate, to explore how grief has shaped his life, his show, and his community. After losing his father, and then his mother, John turned pain into purpose by processing his grief live on air and inviting listeners to do the same. He went on to create...

It’s a tough question, but one that midlife often makes impossible to ignore. In this episode, Dr. Amy Lindsey takes a candid, compassionate look at how alcohol use can quietly shift from casual to concerning. What begins as a glass of wine to unwind can evolve into a nightly ritual… and before we know it, dependence hides behind the label of “self-care.” Dr. Amy explores why midlife is often the...

Months after her second hip replacement left her depressed and questioning if she’d ever walk normally again, Dr. Amy Lindsey stood on top of Mount Kilimanjaro, crying frozen tears of joy at 19,341 feet. How? By listening to the voice of her ten-year-old self and saying “yes” to the mountain that once felt impossible. What began as a recovery goal became a spiritual and physical awakening. In this...

What if the secret to getting unstuck is creating a bigger problem for yourself? In this episode, Dr. Amy Lindsey continues her story of how a hip replacement, a dream to climb Mount Kilimanjaro, and a little midlife magic led her from depression to joy… and eventually, to a farmhouse in France. Dr. Amy unpacks how setting soul-aligned goals (not “should” goals) can rewire your dopamine pathways,...

When did you first learn to question your body? For Dr. Amy Lindsey, it started at 12 years old — a single comment from her father that unknowingly became her first introduction to diet culture . In this powerful episode of Welcome to Your B Side , Dr. Amy unpacks how diet culture seeps into our lives early, how it follows us into midlife, and why it’s time to finally divorce it for good. She expl...

What if grief isn’t something to get over… but something to grow through? In this deeply personal episode of Welcome to Your B-Side , Dr. Amy Lindsey opens up about losing her 18-year-old brother to an avalanche when she was just 10 - and how that loss shaped decades of her life, her fears, and eventually, her purpose. Dr. Amy explores the other side of grief - the clarity, love, and purpose that...

What if the day everything falls apart is actually the day everything starts falling into place? In this episode, Dr. Amy Lindsey shares the story of how losing her internet and shattering her iPhone on the same day led to finding the exact piano she’d been searching for… in the most unexpected way. From meltdown to miracle, Dr. Amy unpacks how frustration can become fuel when you shift from “why...

What if one of the most powerful health hacks isn’t something you take, it’s something you make? In this episode, Dr. Amy Lindsey reveals the secret health pillar almost no one talks about: creativity. As humans, we’re wired to create. But when we don’t have a creative outlet, that energy doesn’t disappear - it turns into worry, anxiety, and rumination. Dr. Amy explores how art, writing, music, an...

Welcome to Your B-Side | Midlife Metamorphosis with Dr. Amy Lindsey - naturopathic doctor, speaker, and unapologetic guide for creating the second half of your life. Dr. Amy has helped thousands of people of all genders align their purpose with their health. When those two finally work together, magic happens. This podcast is your permission slip to start fresh for the second half of your life. It...