There’s Still More in you Yet!
Health. Strength. Longevity. And a life that still has so much more to give.
I’m Ams, 53 — a writer, midlife health coach and woman who is every bit as curious about what comes next as I am about how we get there.
Through Ageless By Ams, I share what I’m learning about health, ageing, stress, recovery, strength and longevity — alongside the real stories of what it means to find yourself again in midlife.
Because I don’t believe our best years have to be behind us.
Who is Ams?
Hi, I’m Ams.
I’m 53 — a mum of two teenagers, a wife, a corporate professional of more than 20 years, a writer, and the founder of Ageless By Ams.
And if you’d told me a few years ago that I would feel stronger, healthier and more excited about what comes next than I did in my forties, I’m not sure I would have believed you.
Midlife has changed me.
Yes, physically. I’ve reduced my body fat, built muscle and strength, improved my health markers and even managed my first pull-up at 52. I’ve used testing, wearables and health data to understand my body in a way I never had before.
But the biggest change has been harder to measure.
I started paying attention to myself again.
After years of work, motherhood, responsibility, expectations and being the person who could always cope, I began questioning what I actually wanted the next part of my life to look like.
That question took me much further than I expected.
It led me into studying sleep, stress and recovery, nutrition, menopause, strength and longevity. It also led me back into meditation, nervous-system work and some of the deeper beliefs and patterns I had carried for years.
And somewhere in all of that, I rediscovered something else I had always loved.
writing.
Through my blog, There’s More In You Yet™, I write about what I’m learning — about our health and our bodies, but also about ageing, identity, motherhood, stress, the things women carry and what can happen when we finally start asking what we want too.
I’m not writing about midlife from the other side of it.
I’m living it.
And Ageless By Ams has become the place where I share what I’m discovering along the way.
Why I do this work
I Was Very Good at Coping
Turning 50 was a wake-up call for me.
On paper, my life looked full — a successful career, two children I adore, a marriage, a home and years of working hard, achieving, organising and being the person who could always keep going.
But underneath all of that, I was exhausted.
I was overwhelmed, impatient and pushing myself to keep up with a pace I could no longer sustain.
I didn’t think of myself as stressed.
I thought I was coping — and I was very good at coping.
Like so many women, I had spent years working, mothering, planning, remembering, fixing, carrying the mental load and being the one who made everything happen.
There was always something that needed doing.
And I was usually the woman who did it.
I Stopped Looking for More
At first, I did what I had always done.
I went searching for answers.
I read. I researched. I tried different ways of eating and training, supplements, wellness practices and the latest ideas in health and longevity.
Some helped. Some taught me something.
But eventually I realised that constantly searching for the next answer had become part of the problem.
I didn’t need another thing to add to my life. I needed to start listening to the body I already had.
I returned to meditation and therapy and became fascinated by sleep, stress, recovery, nutrition, strength, menopause and longevity.
Instead of asking “What else can I do?” I started asking:
“What does my body actually need?”
The answer wasn’t one miraculous intervention.
It was hundreds of ordinary decisions made consistently over time.
Better sleep. Recovery. Strength training. Nourishment. Managing stress differently. Learning when to push — and when not to.
Gradually, I became stronger. My body composition changed. My health markers improved. My recovery improved. My energy came back.
But the biggest change wasn’t something a wearable or blood test could measure.
I started putting myself back into my own life.
Then My Body Made Me Stop
Later that year, I became ill and was hit with a level of fatigue I couldn’t shake.
My energy disappeared. I wasn’t bouncing back. The tests I had didn’t give me an obvious explanation for why I felt so depleted.
For someone who had always been able to push through, that was frightening — and frustrating.
But it gave me something I hadn’t been willing to give myself:
Permission to stop.
And when I finally did, I realised how long I had been living in a constant state of doing.
Working. Mothering. Organising. Achieving. Looking after everyone. Trying to improve myself.
Even wellness had become another thing to succeed at.
And I think I finally saw just how long my nervous system had been permanently “on” — running, coping, responding, carrying — without ever truly switching off.
Why I Care About This Work
Because I see versions of my old self in so many women.
Capable women. Successful women. Women everyone relies on. Women who have spent years looking after everyone else while quietly moving themselves further down the list.
Then midlife arrives and things begin to change.
Sleep. Energy. Our bodies. Menopause.
And our instinct can be to try harder.
Eat less. Exercise more. Find another supplement. Follow another plan. Be more disciplined.
But sometimes the answer isn’t more.
Sometimes it starts with understanding what is already happening — what is draining you, what your body needs now, what you can let go of and what you want the next part of your life to look like.
I don’t want women to become a version of me.
I want them to become curious about themselves. To understand their bodies. Build strength. Protect their health. And have the energy to live the lives they’ve spent so many years creating.
Because looking after ourselves shouldn’t be something we earn once everybody else has been taken care of.
For me, midlife stopped being the point where I thought I should start accepting less.
It became the point where I started asking what else might still be possible.
I stopped looking for the perfect answer.
And started giving the basics time to work..
What Consistency Has Looked Like for Me
I love learning about health and longevity. I’ve experimented, studied, measured and questioned — and I use health testing and wearables because I’m fascinated by what the data can tell us.
But one of the biggest lessons I’ve learnt has been surprisingly simple:
The basics work — when you give them enough time to work.
Over the last few years, consistency with strength training, nutrition, sleep, stress management and recovery has changed my health in ways I can both feel and measure.
I don’t share these numbers because I think every woman should chase them. And they certainly don’t mean I’ve cracked ageing.
I share them because for years I thought I needed to find the thing that would finally work.
What changed me was learning to show up for myself consistently — sometimes brilliantly, sometimes imperfectly, but repeatedly.
That has become my definition of longevity.
Not simply adding years to life, but building the strength, health and capacity to live those years well.
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