Welcome to the Learn True Health Podcast. I'm your host Ashley James. This is episode

two. A common saying amongst most of the people I know where you're listening for the

whisper so you don't get the Cosmic 2 by 4. Where life will set you up to

succeed. You will get warning signs. Your body doesn't just shut down and fail on you. You get a headache, you have sniffles, you have GI upset.

Something happens low down on the radar that gives you a warning sign that lets you know hey I got to pay

attention here and if I could figure that out for other people in their life

with medicine it seemed ridiculous to not listen to that in the greater aspect of my life as it was showing up.

Today I have a very special guest to introduce, but first let me tell you a bit about her.

Dr. Heidi Simani went through a very difficult time

in her life.

And you know, I know that all of you could relate to this

on some level because everyone has gone through something, some kind of

hardship at some point and this in particular blew me away. She was part of the Gulf disaster relief team for Hurricane Katrina.

She basically lived in a war zone for three months and through that I mean I'm

surprised she's not suffering from post-traumatic stress,

but she went through something horrific and the whole time was there to help others get out of that situation,

because she was working as a paramedic.

And during her experience, she not only wanted to help people,

but there is something in that that motivated her to become a naturopathic physician.

And so if you've ever had a hard time in your life or something's traumatized, you really listen to her words because

she shares how she was able to come out of the other side and then be able to survive medical school, naturopathic medical school,

and then be able to survive her residency and then be able to become an amazing doctor, being able to do that in the face of having been

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