Autoimmune Health Secrets | Ease Fatigue & Improve Your Health With Autoimmune Disease Using Simple Feel-Good Habits

#208 | 2 "Healthy" Habits That Are Sneakily Increasing Stress And Autoimmune Fatigue

Dr. Amy Behimer, NBC-HWC

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Are your “healthy” habits actually making your autoimmune symptoms worse?

If you’ve ever felt exhausted trying to keep up with the perfect wellness routine, strict protocol, or endless tracking apps, this episode will feel like a deep exhale. I'm exploring how habits that look healthy on the outside can quietly create more stress, pressure, and fatigue on the inside — especially for people living with autoimmune disease. Instead of chasing perfection, you’ll learn how to build habits that feel supportive, flexible, and sustainable in real life.

In this episode, you’ll discover:

  • Why perfectionistic wellness routines can secretly increase stress and work against healing 
  • How tracking habits can either support your health or disconnect you from your body 
  • A simple mindset shift that helps you create feel-good habits rooted in self-trust instead of pressure 

Press play to learn how to create healthier habits that calm your nervous system, support your autoimmune health, and actually feel good to live with.

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This podcast explores health & wellness with autoimmune disease—multiple sclerosis (MS) and others—how challenges like fatigue, brain fog, flares, & symptoms related to the nervous system, inflammation, & mitochondria can be supported by healthy habits in food, movement, sleep, and rest, while fostering consistency, self-care, & a resilient mindset. If you’ve read Atomic Habits by James Clear and still don’t have the healthy habits you want, this show is for you. Adjacent to functional medicine, holistic health, AIP diet, and the Wahls Protocol, this is guidance from a health and wellness coach to help those navigating chronic illness feel better and thrive.