"This Is Just Part of Aging"

Why We've Normalized Feeling Off — And What Happens When You Decide Not To

A few years ago, someone I love—let’s call her Amy—sat in her car after a routine doctor’s visit and cried. Not because she got bad news. Not because something was broken. But because, after months of fatigue, weight gain, emotional volatility, and zero energy, her doctor smiled and told her:

“You're just getting older. It’s normal.”

Amy was 43.

The words were meant to reassure, but they hit like a sentence. Normal? The fog in her head, the exhaustion she couldn’t shake, the numbness that had crept into her marriage and self-image? Was that just the cost of being alive longer?

She wanted to scream. Not because she didn’t trust her doctor, but because, for the first time in her life, she realized the system might not actually be built to help her feel well. It was built to keep her “not sick.”

There’s a difference.

But what happened next changed everything.

What happened after that visit will surprise you...

Amy didn’t accept “normal.” And in doing so, she stepped onto a path that changed not only her health but her power.

But first...

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