Episode Details

Amy Clover has battled her own demons, and won.  Now she helps other people take back the power to fight their own demons through fitness and positive action.  Amy is the founder of StrongInsideOut.com and the driving force behind the 2014 Strong Inside Out Tour.

When you talk to Amy, she seems like the epitome of strength, endurance, and physical health.  She’s also funny and upbeat.  You’d never guess that just seven years ago she was ready to end her life.  She was struggling with depression and OCD, and when she was put into a psychiatric hospital against her will, she knew she had to get back in the driver’s seat.

But the message she got from just about everyone was that these demons were something she’d have to live with her whole life… and that maybe with medication she could at least exist. Then she stumbled into fitness-- and finally felt in control.

Now, seven years later, Amy knows how to play that daily mental game and win—and she’s sharing her mad demon-slaying skills with anyone who wants to listen.  Here’s what we talk about on the show:

• The one thing the fitness industry downplays, but shouldn’t.
• Why we need to become “anti-fragile.”
• How pushing yourself to the point of struggle makes you stronger.
• Workout advice for women—and Amy’s “happy foods.”
• Changing your body to change your brain.
• So, check out the show below.  Check out Amy’s web site, or hit up the tour near you… because who doesn’t have a few demons to slay?

SHOW NOTES

Amy says that she dyed her hair red to look more like Jean Grey from X Men… and she certainly does have the strength and resilience of a super hero.  She keeps things light as we talk about a very heavy subject—depression, suicide, and digging your way out of it all.

When Amy was in high school, she was dismissed as one of the bad kids.  Clinically depressed and diagnosed with OCD, she would hold it all inside until she’d finally let it g