Empowering Midlife Women Through Self-Paced Virtual Wellness Retreats & Guided Journeys
My Journey
Then my body began to whisper. I didn’t listen.
Burnout and insomnia followed me for years. My heart raced without warning, brain fog dulled the sharpness I had always relied on, and exhaustion changed how I moved through my life. One morning, I looked in the mirror and barely recognized the woman staring back at me—depleted, disconnected, and still trying to be who I had always been.
If you have ever been told that your tests were “normal” or that what you were experiencing was “just anxiety,” even as something inside you knew there was more to the story, you are not alone.
Following a severe post-viral season, my health reached a breaking point. My blood pressure surged dangerously high, severe chest pain began, and repeated testing did not initially explain what I was experiencing.
Through persistence, research, and self-advocacy, I continued searching until I found a care team willing to listen more closely and look more deeply.
Specialized cardiovascular testing ultimately led to diagnoses of endothelial dysfunction and coronary microvascular dysfunction (CMD)—a form of heart disease affecting the heart’s smallest coronary blood vessels and one I had never heard of, despite experiencing symptoms for so long. I was also diagnosed with adult-onset asthma.
As I began connecting the pieces, I came to understand my changing health within the context of several powerful, overlapping influences: coronary microvascular dysfunction, long COVID, perimenopause, and profound burnout. No single factor explained everything, but together they offered a clearer context for what my body had been experiencing.
I finally had answers—but answers alone were not the same as meaningful support.
My health had changed my body, my capacity, and my sense of safety. As those parts of my life shifted, my identity shifted too. I had to grieve who I had been while learning to live in a body that felt unfamiliar and discovering who I was becoming.
I would never have chosen these diagnoses, and I do not minimize what they have taken from me. My path forward has not been linear. My health and capacity continue to ebb and flow, bringing periods of progress as well as regression.
But learning to pace myself, respect my limits, recognize patterns, and return to the practices that genuinely support me has given me hard-won wisdom I now carry into everyday life.
I no longer measure my strength by how much I can carry or how far I can push. I am becoming a wiser, more capacity-conscious woman—one who listens to her body, honors what she needs, and allows her life to evolve with her.
My search for a deeper understanding led me to functional nutrition, menopause education, mindfulness, restorative practices, and the interconnected influences that shape wellbeing. The more I learned, the better prepared I became to document what was happening, recognize possible patterns, ask informed questions, and advocate for my health.
Yet the information I needed remained scattered across appointments, notes, memories, resources, and unanswered questions. I found myself carrying the responsibility of bringing the pieces together while already struggling to feel like myself.
I wanted to create the kind of support I had been searching for.
MidVita Wellness grew from that intention: to offer women one thoughtful place to learn, experience, reflect, recognize possible patterns, prepare for important conversations, and discover what genuinely supports them.
This is the space I needed when my own life changed—and the space I hope helps other women feel more informed, more supported, and less alone as they navigate the changes in theirs.
Welcome to a place where your experience matters, your capacity is honored, and the wisdom within you has room to grow.
I'm Susie Ernsberger, the founder and heart behind MidVita Wellness.
My work brings together training in functional nutrition, health coaching, menopause support, mindfulness and restorative sound design—with the perspective of a woman who has had to listen more closely to her body, advocate for answers and reshape her life around a changing capacity.
The name MidVita reflects how I see this stage of life. Vita means "life," and MidVita brings together midlife, vitality and the many dimensions of a woman's lived experience.
I don't see midlife as an ending. I see it as a significant passage—one that can hold uncertainty, loss and unfamiliar change, but also greater self-awareness, restoration, discovery and renewed possibility.
The Philosophy Behind MidVita
I believe meaningful wellbeing begins with learning to listen to ourselves.
Wellness isn't simply about adopting healthy habits or doing everything "right." It's also about understanding yourself, respecting your capacity, recognizing patterns in your body and daily life, advocating for your health and making informed choices that support the life you're living now.
That's the philosophy behind MidVita: bringing together evidence-informed education, personal exploration, restorative practices and practical tools to help women become more attuned to their bodies, confident in their choices and empowered to participate in their own care.
Because caring for yourself isn't about following someone else's idea of what wellness should look like. It's about discovering what works for you and giving yourself permission to adapt as your needs evolve.
Bringing This Philosophy to Life
That belief shapes every MidVita Wellness Experience.
Through self-paced Virtual Wellness Retreats and Guided Wellness Journeys, I bring together evidence-informed learning, restorative practices, personal reflection, self-advocacy resources, immersive sound experiences and practical wellness tools. Each experience is designed to help you move beyond simply learning about midlife to discovering what genuinely supports you.
The MidVita Path guides you from information to personal understanding. The Daily Rhythm of Support helps you listen to your body and respond to your changing needs. Your Wellness Companion brings your observations, reflections, questions and discoveries together, helping you recognize patterns and gradually develop your personalized Wellness Blueprint—a practical resource for supporting your wellbeing in everyday life.
As a wellness sound designer, I also create original ambient music, meditative soundscapes and binaural audio experiences for MidVita Experiences and the MidVita Sonic Spa, offering another way to pause, restore and reconnect with yourself.
I believe education can be credible without feeling clinical, and support can be structured without becoming rigid. Midlife wellness should make room for real life—including changing health, fluctuating energy, competing responsibilities and the freedom to move at a pace that is genuinely sustainable for you.
My purpose isn't to define your path for you. It's to offer thoughtful guidance, meaningful experiences and practical tools that help you better understand yourself, advocate for your health and discover a way forward that feels authentically your own.
—Susie Ernsberger
Founder & Heart Behind MidVita Wellness
Credentials
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Certified Functional Nutrition Counselor, CFNC — Functional Nutrition Alliance
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Board-Certified Functional Health Coach — ANWCB
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Certified Menopause Health Coach — MyMT
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Certified Mindfulness Teacher — Teach Mindfulness
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Reiki Level I and II Practitioner
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Sound Therapy Practitioner — Tuning forks, crystal bowls, and ambient meditative sound design
Areas That Inform My Work
My areas of education and interest include:
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Midlife and menopausal transitions
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Nutrition and sustainable lifestyle support
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Burnout and chronic stress
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Post-viral health challenges
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Women’s cardiovascular and endothelial health education
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Nervous-system regulation
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Mindfulness and restorative practices
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Health literacy and self-advocacy
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Identity, resilience, and personal reinvention
MidVita Wellness provides educational and general wellness resources designed to complement—not replace—care from licensed medical and mental-health professionals.
Meet Susie
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Why MidVita Wellness is Different
A restorative, whole-person approach to midlife—designed to meet you where you are, help you understand your patterns, and support you at your own pace.
Rooted in Lived Experience
MidVita was shaped by my experience of complex health changes, hormonal shifts, burnout, self-advocacy, and personal reinvention—creating a space where women can feel recognized, respected, and less alone.
Guided by Your Current Season
Your needs may change throughout midlife. The complimentary 5-Minute MidVita Wellness Assessment helps you recognize what may need your attention now and discover the Experiences and resources most aligned with your current priorities and capacity.
Whole-Person by Design
MidVita recognizes the connections among physical health, emotional wellbeing, energy, nourishment, stress, sleep, relationships, identity, and purpose—supporting the whole woman rather than reducing midlife to a list of symptoms.
Designed Around Real Life
Every Experience is self-paced and accessible from home. Pause when life becomes full. Spend longer where you need to. Return to the practices that support you. There is no falling behind in an experience designed around your pace.
More Than Information
Each Experience brings together evidence-informed learning, restorative practices, immersive sound, personal reflection, and practical tools. Your Wellness Companion helps you observe possible patterns, prepare for meaningful conversations, and turn what you discover into a personal Wellness Blueprint you can carry forward.
A Supportive Framework
I believe women are better prepared to advocate for their wellbeing when they have the education, experiences, and practical tools to understand their own patterns and needs.
Each MidVita Wellness Experience offers a thoughtfully designed path to help you deepen your awareness, put what you learn into practice, and build a personalized Wellness Blueprint you can carry into everyday life.
