Wellness: Maintenance Required

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...