Stop Optimizing. Start Living: Choose Meaning Over Wellness

Wellness culture is everywhere. Optimize your body, extend your life, chase the protocol. But what if midlife is asking us a completely different question? In this solo episode of Butterfly Days, Tami gets real about the wellness and longevity industrial complex and what it quietly sells to women in midlife: the idea that aging is a problem to solve. She makes the case for ikigai, the Japanese concept of a reason to get up in the morning, and the Stoic practice of amor fati, love of your fate, as the two things that actually deliver what every supplement stack promises and cannot deliver. This episode is a warm but bold rally cry to stop optimizing your body and start inhabiting your life.   Subscribe to Tami Jorden's Substack and visit her website 🦋    More from Butterfly Days:  Substack: https://tamijorden.substack.com/  Website: https://tamijorden.com/  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tamara-jorden-322918227/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1ASQDpGEUX/  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/butterflydayspodcast