I'm a doctor who helps people build a life they don't need a holiday from.
I'm an Australian GP, Board Certified Lactation Consultant and lifestyle medicine practitioner โ and for the past two decades, my driving question has been the same: how do we help people not just manage their health, but truly flourish?
I knew everything about burnout. Until it happened to me.
"You cannot change what you do not see. I couldn't see what was happening in my own life โ 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. I could explain the neuroscience of burnout with clinical confidence. I taught others about boundaries, self-care and sustainable working. And then, quietly and completely, I burnt out myself.
I learnt the hard way that knowing something is good for you โ and how to do it โ is not enough. The really human part of that process, the part that so many of us struggle with, is the doing.
The disconnect between knowing and doing is something I now consider one of the most important โ and most underexplored โ gaps in healthcare. This is where I love to work.
My own burnout forced me to confront patterns I had long recognised in others: over-committing, struggling to wind down, telling myself things couldn't be different, filling every available space with busyness. Recognising them in myself was a different matter entirely.
I wouldn't say burnout was the best thing that ever happened to me. But being forced to face my own unconscious habits was one of the most transformative experiences of my professional life. Rather than treating it as a setback, I chose to treat it as an opportunity to reset โ and to integrate everything I had spent years learning across clinical medicine, yoga, meditation, breathwork, positive psychology and trauma-informed care into something genuinely useful for others.
That process gave rise to everything I do today: a portfolio career at the intersection of medicine, mindfulness and human flourishing, spanning four distinct brands and thousands of people supported along the way.
Where medicine meets the whole person.
Two decades of clinical practice, personal experience and formal training have shaped a breadth of expertise I bring to every person I work with โ not as a list of credentials, but as an integrated set of tools in service of lasting, meaningful change.
Mindfulness & Meditation
My approach to mindfulness is rooted in both personal practice and clinical application. A Registered Therapeutic Meditation Teacher with Meditation Australia and trained yoga teacher (RYT 200), I teach mindfulness as an evidence-based skill โ accessible, secular and grounded in the science of how the mind and nervous system actually work.
Lifestyle Medicine
Lifestyle Medicine is the discipline that shifted how I understand health entirely. Rather than viewing wellbeing through the lens of pathology and what's going wrong, it asks a different question: what does it look like to truly thrive? It recognises that how we sleep, move, eat, connect and manage stress shapes not just our absence of disease, but the full quality of our lives. As an ASLM Practitioner Member, this framework underpins everything I teach.
Stress & Burnout Recovery
My work in this area is informed by both clinical training and lived experience. Having navigated burnout personally, I bring a depth of understanding that goes beyond theory. Whether through speaking, workshops, coaching or consulting, this is the thread that runs through everything I do โ helping people build the conditions for a sustainable, flourishing life.
Perinatal Wellbeing & the Fourth Trimester
As a GP and Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC), I have supported thousands of new parents through the profound complexity of early parenthood. My work through More Than Milk grew from years of consulting room observation: that education, delivered well, is one of the most powerful forms of support we can offer new families.
Doctor Wellbeing & CPD Education
Through Whole Hearted Medicine, I have pioneered CPD-accredited wellbeing education for doctors across Australia and New Zealand โ widely recognised as a first-of-its-kind initiative and a 2x State Finalist in the Telstra Best of Business Awards. My colleagues in medicine give so much of themselves to others โ and I feel a genuine calling to help them not just survive the demands of the profession, but truly thrive within it.
Behaviour Change & Adult Education
The knowing-doing gap is something I have studied academically, observed clinically and experienced personally. I teach at Monash University and have a deep passion for curriculum design and innovative educational approaches โ because how we teach matters as much as what we teach. My training in coaching, positive psychology and adult education methodology shapes every learning experience I design, because information alone rarely changes lives. The right conditions, carefully built, do.
Find your path to flourishing.
My work has grown into four distinct spaces, each one born from a gap I kept encountering in clinical practice. They serve different audiences, but share the same foundation: evidence-based, human-first support for the transitions and pressures that shape how we live.
Dr Emily Amos
My personal brand is the home of all live, in-person and bespoke work โ coaching, workshops, retreats, speaking engagements, podcast guest appearances and wellbeing curriculum design for organisations.
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mind.life.me
My online learning portal and podcast home โ self-paced courses in lifestyle medicine, mindfulness, meditation and yoga, plus on-demand podcast episodes to learn on the go.
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More Than Milk
Created after years of observing the same knowledge gaps in new parents, More Than Milk offers IBCLC-led, evidence-based online courses covering 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 โ built on the conviction that the people who care for others deserve rigorous, evidence-based support for their own wellbeing.
Visit Whole Hearted MedicineMaking complex science land in the room.
Speaking and facilitation are where my clinical training, research background and love of teaching converge. Whether presenting at a corporate wellness day, a medical conference or a professional development retreat, my intention is always the same: to leave audiences with frameworks they understand deeply enough to actually use.
Keynote Topics
- Burnout & Stress Management โ the science of why high achievers crash, and what to do instead
- Mindfulness in the Modern Workplace โ practical, secular, immediately applicable
- Lifestyle Medicine โ the six pillars of sustainable health, explained clearly
- Doctor Wellbeing โ evidence-based self-care for healthcare professionals
- The Knowing-Doing Gap โ behaviour change science for people who already know better
What audiences say
"Thought provoking, genuine, warm and engaging. Dr Amos has a rare ability to translate complex science into ideas that stick."
Corporate Wellness Event, Melbourne"Emily's workshop was the highlight of our professional development programme. The room was completely silent โ you could have heard a pin drop."
Medical Education Conference"She doesn't just talk about mindfulness โ she embodies it. Our team left feeling genuinely inspired and equipped."
Corporate Retreat ParticipantBasic Life Support Self Careยฎ
A practical, evidence-based framework for sustainable self-care, developed from both clinical training and personal experience. Delivered in corporate settings across Australia.
Grounded in evidence, accountable to standards.
Ready to move from knowing to doing?
Whether you're looking for a keynote speaker, an online course, a corporate retreat for your team, or simply want to explore what working together might look like โ the best place to start is a conversation. I'd welcome the opportunity to connect.
