Is Your Obsession With Health Making You Sick? | The Tamsen Show

Hot flashes. Weight changes. Insomnia. Midlife is full of new symptoms and the pressure to “fix” them can feel relentless.

But Dr. Shefali warns: the quest for wellness can become another form of self-rejection.

On The Tamsen Show, she explained how the modern obsession with health…supplements, cleanses, perfect sleep routines, often masks deeper anxiety. “We treat our bodies like problems to be solved,” she says. “And we think that if we just do it right, we’ll be okay.”

But what if the path to healing doesn’t start with optimizing, but with surrendering?

Dr. Shefali offers a radical reframe: What if your changing body isn’t a betrayal, but a teacher? What if rest isn’t a failure, but a requirement?

If you’re exhausted by the pressure to get it all right, even your healing, this episode is the permission slip you’ve been waiting for.

To learn how to reclaim peace without perfection, listen to the full episode of The Tamsen Show Podcast.