Has Optimisation Culture Gone Too Far? | Sarah Ann Macklin

0:00My guest today isn't going to tell you to stop training, to stop tracking, or stop caring about all of the biomarkers that you're measuring.

0:08She's asking a different question.

0:11What is your inner dialogue like as you carry out these practices?

0:15And are you losing yourself and your self-worth in the wellness behaviors that you're engaging in?

0:21Sarah Ann Macklin is a registered nutritionist.

0:24She's the founder of the Be Well Collective, host of Live Well, Be Well podcast.

0:30And in her 20s, after years of doing all the right things, she ended up in hospital.

0:36Her thesis is that there is a very important variable underneath many of these wellness practices that we're engaging in that most of us aren't measuring.

0:44And that is the relationship we have with these wellness practices and more specifically with ourselves.

0:52In her new book, Healthy Shouldn't Be This Hard, and in this conversation that you're about to hear, Sarah explains how wellness can mask anxiety, what it's costing the people inside it, and the framework that she uses successfully with clients to bring more self-compassion into how they show up for their health.