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

episode 134. My guest today is one of my heroes. He has been nominated as one of the 20 most spiritually influential living people on the planet today

and I absolutely agree with that. When I first was introduced to Dr. Bernie Siegel through taking the

training with the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, which is this health coaching training

program that I've been in for the last seven months now.

When I saw his videos, I wept and wept and wept.

Just the hot tears of inspiration and healing were rolling down my cheeks and the whole time I was thinking I want the entire world to hear Bernie speak because what he had to share was just like touched my soul and so I

reached out to him and and he agreed to come on the show and I feel like I'm walking on clouds right now.

It's so surreal to be speaking with you.

Thank you so much for coming and sharing with the Learn to Health listeners about healing and about your wonderful

books and your wonderful message.

So welcome.

Thank you Ashley.

You know you may remember many years ago if I may get right into something.

I attended a workshop because I wasn't happy as a doctor.

I didn't feel I was trained to care for people.

Well, this sentence says at all.

Doctors are trained to treat the result and not the cause.

So I used to get blamed for asking my patients what's happening in your life.

And when I say blamed it was, oh you're blaming your patients for getting sick

by asking them about their life.

And I say no, I'm trying to find many ways of helping them to heal

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