Episode 17: Lyme Disease, Being Gaslit, and Getting Your Mojo Back, We Hear Amy Down's Four-Year Fight for Truth 🩺

Episode 17: Lyme Disease, Being Gaslit, and Getting Your Mojo Back - Amy Down's Four-Year Fight to Be Believed 🩺

Amy Down spent four years being told there was nothing wrong with her. Exhausted, foggy, gut in revolt, running on adrenaline while raising two small children and working full time in wellness.

Test after test came back normal. Doctor after doctor suggested it was probably just stress. This week Amy joins Lee and Irene in the cabin to tell the story of what it actually was, and what four years in the medical maze taught her about being a woman who knows something is wrong and cannot get anyone to listen.

Amy is a certified nutrition, health and life coach, a master hypnotherapist, and an EFT and NLP practitioner who spent over a decade at Australia’s biggest natural healthcare company before founding Living Mojo. She is also one of Lee’s closest friends, so this is less a polished interview and more two people who have walked a long road together finally telling the whole thing out loud.

Her diagnosis, when it finally came, was a tick-borne illness. In Australia that opens a genuinely contested conversation, and Lee and Irene handle it the way the show always does: warmly, honestly, and without pretending the science is settled. Irene, who went in convinced Lyme was something you only caught in the Hamptons, asks the questions everyone at home is thinking.

Then Justin arrives with a Womansplain for the ages (froyo versus gelato versus ice cream, with receipts), and Lee closes with a rave about the most underrated wellness tool there is. Not a supplement. A boundary.

✨ In this episode we chat about:

● Why four years of normal test results does not always mean nothing is wrong

● What a tick bite can actually do, and why Lyme is so contested here in Australia

● The MOJO framework Amy built to climb out: Mindset, Oxygenation, Optimisation, Joy

● How to advocate for yourself when you know something is wrong and you are not being heard

● Justin’s three-day froyo bender and the great gelato-versus-ice-cream-versus-froyo shootout