Hello and welcome back to the podcast where you are invited for lighthearted conversations about things that matter as you seek to live your most meaningful, beautiful, and joyful life.

I'm your host, Dr. Edie Wadsworth, and I hope you enjoy your stay here at the House of Joy.

Well, hey everybody, welcome back to the podcast. Welcome to House of Joy.

House of Joy. I'm on this side of the podcast today. We are so excited to have Katie Martin with us,

who's always our producer of the podcast. Hello. It's true. If you haven't met Katie,

I'm so happy for you to meet her today. Katie has been working for us

six months, more than six months. Since like September. Yes. And she's amazing. She is our social

media marketing guru, manager, magician. Whatever the hats are. She's really amazing at her job.

And this was a really interesting topic that we wanted to cover today, which is modern

medicine from a doctor's perspective.

So although I'm no longer practicing medicine, I was in medicine for about 20 years.

And what I've learned as far as dealing with a lot of my own issues,

holistically, so holistic health, and then getting to the root cause of like what's really

going on with you physically or emotionally or in whatever way. And Katie has a great story because,

and I'm going to let her share some of that.

We're going to ask her lots of good questions.

We both have kind of similar stories, except I'm about, I don't know, eight or nine years

past my initial thing, and Katie is right in the middle of it.

So I'm so excited that she agreed to come on the podcast and talk about some struggles she's

been having and how she has decided to really take things as much as possible into her

own hands and get to the root cause and really help herself feel a lot better.

So I want to start, though, by saying that as a family doctor who practiced

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