Healthy AF
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Categories: Health & Fitness, Alternative Health
Healthy AF is real talk for real women who want to feel good again—inside and out. Hosted by Amy Chang—nurse, mom, health coach, and fellow human with a Master’s in Nursing and advanced training as a Nurse Practitioner—this podcast is where honesty, humor, and heart meet real conversations about what it actually takes to feel healthy and whole. Because getting healthy (and staying that way) isn’t about perfection—it’s about choosing yourself, one loving decision at a time. Each week, Amy helps you quiet the noise, drop the guilt, and reconnect with your healthiest self through stories, insights, and gentle truths that meet you right where you are. You don’t have to do it perfectly. You just have to start choosing you. To connect with Amy visit her website here!
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Recent episodes
- Nobody Gave You Permission (and You Don’t Need It)
Tiffany Cripps has a lot going on: a local TV segment, a docuseries, a wellness brand, and a full-time career in clinical research. Amy sits down with her to find out how she got here. Tiffany shares the stress-filled season that made her realize that if she was struggling with balance, plenty of…
- Trust the Process: Patience, Higher Power, and the Long Game of Transition
In the final October episode, Amy and TIDES recovery care manager Gabrielle Young go deep — into the unglamorous reality of getting a driver's license when you have a criminal record and a newborn, into the kind of patience that nobody wants to practice but everyone needs, and into the role of…
- Baby Deer Legs and New Beginnings: Inside TIDES with Gabrielle Young
If you want to understand what the TIDES program really does for women, hear it from someone who lived it. Gabrielle Young is now the recovery care manager at TIDES — and she's also a graduate of the program. In this conversation with Amy, Gabrielle shares her story with honesty and grace: what it…
- What It Really Takes to Rebuild: Transitions Inside the TIDES Program
What does it actually look like to rebuild your entire life — housing, sobriety, relationships, finances, identity — all at the same time, with a baby in your arms? In part two of her conversation with TIDES CEO Debbie Leggett, Amy gets specific. They talk about what it means to have your life…
- From Here to There: Meet the TIDES Program
This month on Healthy AF, Amy is shining a spotlight on a local nonprofit that stopped her in her tracks — and it's easy to see why. TIDES (Transforming Individuals through Dedicated Empowerment and Support) serves one of the most vulnerable and most overlooked populations in Wilmington: pregnant…
- Pickleball, Golf, and the Transition I Didn't See Coming
Amy closes out Transitions September with a personal story that is equal parts hilarious and deeply relatable. It starts with a Tuesday pickleball meltdown and ends with a pretty profound realization about patterns she didn't know she was still carrying. If you've ever white-knuckled your way…
- The Space Between 'Eff It' and 'I've Got This
What happens when your only two options both feel terrible? In this episode, Amy takes us inside a real coaching session with a client who was bouncing between two attitudes — one that felt like giving up and one that felt like suffocating obligation — and couldn't find her way out of either. If…
- From Here to There: How to Move Through Life's Transitions Without Losing Yourself
September on Healthy AF is all about transitions — because Amy has come to realize that transitions are basically her entire job. In this episode, she makes the case that all of life is one long move from here to there, whether here is a sedentary lifestyle, an empty nest, a worn-out dining room…
- Balance Isn't a Myth — But Your Approach to It Might Be
A friend asked Amy a loaded question the other day — one that came with a tone that said I am barely holding it together over here: how do working people actually create balance? Amy's honest answer? You're probably not going to love it. This episode digs into the mindset that keeps so many…
- From Eight Women in a Living Room to a Movement: The Story of Midlife Divorce Recovery
What started as a folder, a few radical names, and a roomful of broken-hearted women in Kansas grew into something Suzy Brown never quite planned for. In episode three, she walks us through how word of mouth, a journalism degree, a very supportive second husband, and a son named Grady helped turn…
- RADICAL: How One Woman Turned Her Worst Chapter Into Other Women's Lifeline
What do you do after you've cried in the closet, stalked your ex's apartment at midnight, and slowly crawled your way back to functional? If you're Suzy Brown, you call eight other women who are in the same wreckage, show up with handouts, and start building something. In this second episode, Amy…
- Frisky Ridgewood and the Art of Surviving Midlife Divorce
Amy Chang sits down with Suzy Brown — author, advocate, and self-described survivor — for a conversation about the thing nobody prepares you for: the complete unraveling that comes with an unwanted midlife divorce. Suzy was in her early fifties when her marriage ended suddenly. What followed was…
- The Power of the Pause, Part Two: What the Pause Actually Looks Like
Pausing sounds simple until you're in the middle of a conflict, your nervous system is on fire, and every cell in your body wants to either blow up or disappear. In part two, Amy gets honest about what avoiding the pause actually looks like — the spin, the obsessing, the replaying of conversations…
- The Power of the Pause, Part One: Getting Out of the Corner
You said yes when you meant no. You're grinding through something you dread. You're backed into a corner and scratching your way out — and none of it is getting you where you actually want to go. In this first of two August episodes, Amy introduces one of the most underrated tools in her coaching…
- The App, the Journey, and the Invitation Home: 9D Breathwork with Michelle Gallagher
Part two gets practical — and still manages to land with heart. Amy shares what her first virtual 9D Breathwork session was actually like, Michelle walks us through her upcoming July breathwork journeys, and there are a couple of surprising physical wins from consistent breathwork practice that…
- Coming Home to Yourself: The Science and Soul of 9D Breathwork
In part one of this final breathwork conversation, Amy and Michelle go deep — into the body, into the emotions, and into the kind of healing that doesn't have a name until you've experienced it. Michelle shares what happens when breath reaches the places that talk therapy can't, and Amy brings…
- Breathwork, Heartbreak, and Healing: The Personal Path with Michelle Gallagher
In part two of this breathwork conversation, Amy and Michelle get personal. Michelle shares how her own seasons of loss and life upheaval led her deeper into breathwork — and how what she found there became something she couldn't keep to herself. Amy opens up about her own journey through divorce…
- Your Breath Is Talking — Are You Listening? with Michelle Gallagher
Health coach Amy Chang sits down with her friend and breathwork facilitator Michelle Gallagher for a conversation that will make you look at every inhale and exhale differently. Michelle shares how her background in fitness and personal training led her to discover that the way people breathe — or…
- You Can't Outwork Life: On Grief, Growth, and Letting Go of Control
A bonus fifth Monday in June brings an unexpectedly raw and beautiful episode. Health coach Amy Chang set out to wrap up a month of fun and play, but life had other plans. After the sudden loss of her beloved German Shepherd Ginny, Amy shares a deeply personal reflection on something many…
- Walking Into Santiago: On Rest, Release, and Coming Home to Yourself
This is the one where Amy runs. In a giant blue poncho. Through a forest. In the rain. With absolute unbridled joy. And it is everything. In this final June episode, Amy and Karla wrap up their month on the Camino with the parts that are hardest to put into words — walking into the cathedral at…
- Storm, Form, Reform: What a Pilgrimage Teaches You About Groups — and Yourself
Whether it's your family, your team at work, your friend group, or fourteen pilgrims walking the coast of Portugal — every group goes through the same stages: form, norm, storm, reform, and break apart. This week Amy and Karla get specific about what that looked like on the Camino, and more…
- The Miracle of the Two Old Men: What Happens When You Walk With Your Spiritual Lenses On
Last week Amy admitted she mostly just wanted to escape her life when she signed up for the Camino. This week, she tells you what actually happened when she got there — and it is tender, raw, funny, and genuinely miraculous. From blisters that should have stopped her to a stranger on a cobblestone…
- All of Life Is a Pilgrimage: A Conversation with Karla Woggon
June is here and so is a very special guest — Karla Woggon, retired Episcopal priest, spiritual director, and pilgrimage leader. Amy and Karla just returned from walking the Camino de Santiago in Portugal, and this month they are unpacking all of it — the walking, the transformation, the…
- Fixing To: The Plan You've Had for Sixteen Years Is Good Enough
ou've got the plan. You've had the plan. You've tweaked the plan, revised the plan, and perfected the plan — and somehow you're still right here, not doing the plan. Sound familiar? This week Amy wraps up May's new beginnings series with the stage she calls "fixing to" — that maddening preparation…
- Thinking About It: The Stage Where Everything Stays the Same
You know that thing you've been meaning to deal with? The habit, the relationship, the health issue, the job — the one where you keep saying "someday" or "when the kids are older" or "when I finally have more time"? Welcome to the contemplation stage — and you are not alone here. This week Amy…
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