Michele Weston
54 episodes listed below
Practical health coaching beyond the chart.
Beyond My Diagnosis with Michele Weston treats chronic illness as a daily management problem, not an identity or endpoint. Recent conversations focus on midlife movement, nutrition, inflammation, burnout, emotional eating, and MS mobility with plainspoken encouragement.
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Beyond My Diagnosis with Michele Weston is a chronic-condition wellness show with a strong coaching spine. It treats diagnosis as context, not a full definition of a life. The episodes return again and again to the same useful question: what can still be shaped today? That makes the show feel practical rather than sentimental. Recent conversations focus on movement, nutrition, inflammation, burnout, emotional eating, and the energy required to keep participating in the parts of life that matter. Midlife health gets particular attention, especially the changes women notice as their bodies age and chronic illness adds more complexity. The show is careful about language. “Exercise” often becomes “physical activity,” and “diet” becomes nutrition, because the framing matters when someone already feels overwhelmed. Guests are used as working partners in the conversation, not as distant authorities delivering polished lectures. Tess Chang talks through small habit changes, realistic goals, and the value of trying one thing at a time. Nancy Lum’s episode brings food choices, bariatric nutrition, processed foods, inflammation, and gut health into the chronic-illness frame. Herb Karpatnik’s MS-focused appearance turns mobility, gait, and strength into concrete areas where a patient can take ownership. The show’s strongest episodes are grounded in ordinary resistance: no time, low energy, failed attempts, and the fatigue of being told to do everything perfectly. It answers that resistance with smaller steps. Write the vision down. Choose one or two goals. Make movement something livable. Pay attention to food without turning eating into shame. Work with doctors, but do not outsource the entire body to them. The tone is warm, talkative, and direct, with enough repetition to feel like coaching rather than performance. It best suits listeners who want companionship and practical prompts more than clinical distance. Its promise is simple: life with chronic illness can still be questioned, adjusted, and actively lived.
Made for: For people living with chronic conditions, especially listeners interested in MS, midlife health, nutrition, mobility, and realistic lifestyle change. It also fits caregivers or supporters who want a more grounded view of daily self-management.
What sets it apart: The show blends personal chronic-illness perspective with coaching-style conversations that favor small, manageable changes over sweeping wellness claims. Its focus on ownership, language, and realistic goals gives it a practical texture.
Welcome to Beyond My Diagnosis, the podcast that brings real conversations, real stories, and real breakthroughs in health, healing, and hope. I’m your host, Michele Weston—Holistic Health and Wellbeing Coach—and I'm here to help you look past the symptoms and into the deeper story of living with your chronic condition.Each week, we go beyond the chart and challenge the status quo of conventional care. From powerful patient journeys to expert insights in functional medicine and integrative practitioners, using mindset and lifestyle medicine, you’ll get the tools and inspiration to become the most informed, empowered version of yours...
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A grounded take on physical activity as a practical way to support the life someone wants to live.
Michelle Weston and her guest treat movement as part of living well with aging bodies and chronic conditions, not as a narrow gym obligation. Walking, Pilates, hikes, and similar routines are framed as practical ways to keep pace with the life someone wants to live.
A grounded, encouraging case for small changes that fit real life with a chronic condition.
Michelle Weston's weekly podcast, Beyond My Diagnosis, finds a steady rhythm in this conversation with Tess Chang, a holistic coach who has studied nutrition and lifestyle coaching, about living with a chronic condition and making practical changes.
A practical discussion of bariatric eating, inflammation, and the food habits that matter in chronic conditions.
Beyond My Diagnosis turns bariatric nutrition into a clear entry point for inflammation, processed foods, and the daily habits that can shape chronic conditions.
Beauty talk with real-life stakes.
Training, honesty, and Parkinson's in motion.
Lyme science, translated for patients.
Whole-life care for chronic bodies.
Nancy Harrington describes how the Passionistas Project community supported her during a suspected gallbladder cancer scare.
Michelle Weston examines how autoimmune disease intersects with work, finances, fluctuating energy, healthcare access, and personal identity.
Michelle Weston explains how heat, humidity, UV exposure, and dehydration can worsen symptoms associated with multiple sclerosis, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, and other autoimmune conditions.
Michelle Weston and Cara Michelle Nether frame the conversation around women's aging bodies, chronic conditions, and why physical activity matters more than gym-based exercise.
Michelle Weston and Tess Chang use Beyond My Diagnosis to frame chronic-condition care around “nutrition” rather than “diet,” and they connect that idea to sleep, stress management, movement, and social connection.
Nancy Lum says sugar is "probably the most inflammatory thing you can eat out there in life."
Host Michelle Weston introduces PT expert Herb Karpatkin to discuss improving mobility and strength for people with multiple sclerosis.