A doctor helping people build a life they don't need a holiday from.
GP, lactation consultant and lifestyle medicine practitioner. For twenty years, one question has driven my work: how do we help people flourish, not just cope?
I knew everything about burnout. Until it happened to me.
"You cannot change what you don't see. I couldn't see my own life clearly, and in hindsight, burnout was inevitable."
For nearly a decade, I was the GP people came to when they were running on empty. I understood the physiology of stress and could explain the neuroscience of burnout. I taught boundaries, self-care and sustainable working. Then, quietly and completely, I burnt out myself.
I learnt the hard way that knowing what's good for you is not enough. The human part is the doing.
That gap between knowing and doing is one of the most underexplored in healthcare. It's where I love to work.
Burnout made me face patterns I'd long recognised in others: over-committing, struggling to wind down, filling every space with busyness. Seeing them in myself was another matter.
I can't honestly say it was the best thing that ever happened to me. But it did become a reset, a chance to bring together everything I'd learnt in medicine, yoga, meditation, breathwork, positive psychology and trauma-informed care, and make it genuinely useful for others.
That reset shaped everything I do today: a portfolio career at the intersection of medicine, mindfulness and human flourishing, across three brands and thousands of people supported.
Ancient practice. Modern evidence. Built for how people work.
Over fifteen years as a doctor, trained in lifestyle medicine and contemplative practice, and focused on the place most of us spend our lives: work.
Clinical & Lifestyle Medicine
A qualified General Practitioner, and an ASLM Practitioner Member completing a Master of Lifestyle Medicine. Sleep, movement, nutrition, connection and stress regulation are the biological foundations of health, energy and sound judgement.
Contemplative Practice
Registered Therapeutic Meditation Teacher with Meditation Australia and yoga teacher (RYT 200). Practices refined over thousands of years, taught as trainable skills for attention, regulation and clear decisions under pressure, and read through what modern neuroscience tells us.
Human Performance & Burnout Prevention
Burnout is a predictable result of how work is designed, not a personal failing. I help leaders and teams build the conditions sustained performance depends on: focus, recovery, boundaries and rhythm.
Work Design, Risk & Governance
Wellbeing translated into the language of the boardroom. Workload, role clarity, recovery and psychosocial hazards are design and risk questions, and I help leaders act on them within their existing WHS and governance obligations. I also serve on the board of Meditation Australia.
Behaviour Change & Adult Education
Knowing what to do and doing it are different problems. I design programs around how adults actually change, because information sessions alone rarely shift behaviour. Immersive and experiential learning, supported by a coaching framework is what helps to move the dial.
Doctor Wellbeing & CPD Education
Doctors work in one of the most burnout-exposed, risk-sensitive professions. Through Whole Hearted Medicine, I built Australia and New Zealand's first CPD-accredited wellbeing retreats for doctors, and was a 2x State Finalist in the Telstra Best of Business Awards.
Find your path to flourishing.
Four spaces, each born from a gap I kept seeing in clinical practice. Different audiences, same foundation: evidence-based, human-first support for the pressures and transitions that shape how we live.
Dr Emily Amos
Home of all my live and bespoke work: coaching, workshops, retreats, speaking, podcast guesting and wellbeing curriculum design for organisations.
See how to work with me
mind.life.me
My online learning home: self-paced courses in lifestyle medicine, mindfulness, meditation and yoga, plus podcast episodes to learn on the go.
Browse online courses
More Than Milk
Born from years of seeing the same knowledge gaps in new parents. IBCLC-led, evidence-based online courses on breastfeeding, sleep, settling and the fourth trimester.
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Whole Hearted Medicine
Australia and New Zealand's first provider of CPD-accredited wellbeing retreats for doctors, built on the belief that people who care for others deserve rigorous, evidence-based support for their own wellbeing.
Visit Whole Hearted MedicineGrounded in evidence, accountable to standards.
Ready to move from knowing to doing?
Looking for a keynote speaker, a team workshop, a leadership retreat or an online course? The best place to start is a conversation and I'd love the chance to connect.
