How Elizabeth Endres Rebuilt Her Life Through ‘The Wellness Process’

Elizabeth Endres built her name with Sweats in the City, but it’s her next act—The Wellness Process—that reveals who she really is. In a recent episode of Jessica Gill’s To Be Magnetic (which was also shared on Endres’s own podcast), Endres reflects on the healing pivots in her life that shaped her: chronic pain that wouldn’t quit, a breakup that reset her life, and the daily rituals that pulled her out of survival mode. 

Throughout the conversation, she mentions how TBM has been a major framework in her healing and manifestation practice. In Endres’s story, alignment happens when you slow down enough to hear yourself and take the next honest step. From letting go of a good relationship to stepping away from a successful brand, she shows how following that inner nudge can change your health, your work, and your sense of home in your own life.

The rock bottom that sparked her healing transformation

Endres describes her first major turning point as arriving in 2020, after a breakup and the isolation of early COVID lockdowns. “I had just gone through a breakup…and it was my first time living alone in New York City,” she says. “I truly have never felt more alone and isolated and scared.” Chronic pelvic pain, brain fog, and fatigue soon followed, symptoms that left her desperate for answers.

“I became obsessed with finding the answer to what was going on with my body,” she recalls. “I was like, ‘my whole body is melting down,’ like what is happening?” Despite countless tests and supplements, nothing worked—until she encountered the work of Nicole Sachs, who teaches that stored emotions can manifest as chronic pain. Through daily journaling, Endres began to release the emotions she had long suppressed. “Her work…has landed me in a place where I sit here today completely pain-free and healthy,” she says.

Let go and trust the process

The idea of surrender became central to Endres’s philosophy. “Sometimes it’s easier said than done to not try to use force to get our way with these manifestations,” she says. For years, she had been in what she calls “dog paddling energy”—overthinking, overworking, and trying to control outcomes. It wasn’t until she slowed down that transformation began.

“I really hope that this episode speaks to the person that’s in transition,” she told listeners. “Even if it’s not you leaving a relationship or being broken up with, it could be [a] career, it could be your health. I feel like I really hit on all of those areas.”

When it came to love, Endres took the same approach—clarity and trust. After leaving a long-term relationship that no longer felt aligned, she wrote a list describing her future partner down to the last detail. Six months later, she met her fiancé, Clayton. “My future partner has brown, thick hair with little waves in the back,” she read from her list, laughing. “Clayton has that.”

Moving beyond mediocrity

One theme that surfaced repeatedly in Endres’s story was her deep fear of being “mediocre.” “I don’t think I’ve ever actually said this on a podcast before,” she admits. “I had this debilitating fear of being mediocre…and I felt very comparative to other people and the things that they had.”

Through years of self-work, Endres reframes that fear not as a flaw but as a compass. “That fear of [mediocrity] was like, don’t settle in these different areas of your life,” she reflects. “Actually, reach for the stars kind of energy.” By turning inward instead of outward for validation, she began to build a life that felt truly her own and anchored in authenticity.

From Sweats in the City to The Wellness Process

After co-running Sweats in the City for nearly a decade, it was time for a new chapter for Endres. “I’m really not someone who can do something half-assed,” she says. “I was kind of burning myself out by trying to maintain both things.”

Her decision to step away was guided by intuition—and supported by her business partner and close friend, Dale. “Our friendship has remained the top priority throughout all of this,” Endres says. “We’re both really excited for Sweats to have a 2.0 with Dale leading the way and also for the 2.0 of our friendship.”

Today, The Wellness Process is where Endres shares insight and vulnerability, creating the kind of conversations she once longed to hear. “I feel like my heart is racing right now talking about it, and not in a nervous way—in like a, I just feel so called to share and talk about it,” she says. “I feel so grateful.”

The power of slowing down

For Endres, alignment starts with her daily rituals. No phone in the bedroom, meditation each morning, and small acts of self-respect throughout the day, and her non-negotiables. “Even the way that I move my body now is out of self-respect,” she says. “It becomes the undertone to everything that you do.”

She’s learned that slowing down accelerates progress, rather than stalls it. “When I get really quiet, I find that throughout the day, during times when I would’ve normally filled that space with self-criticism or worry, instead I get ideas,” she says. “Slowing down isn’t going to put you behind. It’s actually going to make the path to where you’re supposed to be way more efficient and way less effortful.”

Now preparing for her wedding and a move to a new apartment she manifested, Endres says she feels more grounded and aligned than ever. “I really don’t feel mediocre at all in my career anymore,” she says with a smile. “I feel fully expanded…and I genuinely feel in my soul that this is just the beginning.”

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