315: When The "Difficult Patient" Is You
Wise Traditions
Weston A. Price Foundation
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
When doctors are stymied by a patient's case, they often label the patient "difficult." What can you do when that label has been put on you? Dr. Cynthia Li, author of "Brave New Medicine," understands where you're coming from. Because it happened to her, too. A functional medicine physician, she once was labeled "difficult" while dealing with a debilitating auto-immune condition.
Today, she describes her own personal journey to health, and how she had to shift her paradigm from one of relying on external authorities and rationality, to moving toward embracing intuition, instinct, and ancestral wisdom. She discusses the importance of "not trying harder but trying differently." And how, for her, true healing came as she pursued connecting with herself on a profound level.
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| 0:00.9 | Now, what happens often is that because we're really in a pit, we need to seek out people, |
| 0:08.1 | right, like a health coach, or like my acupuncturist, or a functional medicine doctor, |
| 0:13.8 | or yeah, a nutritionist, whatever it is, and that's totally fine. But healing and awakening |
| 0:19.3 | are solitary journeys that cannot be done alone. So both parts of those are challenging when |
| 0:25.6 | you're in a pit. It's like, it's mine to do. My journey is just mine to do. And then at the same |
| 0:31.9 | time, I cannot do it by myself. From the Weston A Price Foundation, welcome to the Wise |
| 0:42.7 | Traditions podcast for Wise Traditions in Food, Farming, and the Healing Arts. We are your |
| 0:48.2 | source for scientific knowledge and traditional wisdom to help you achieve optimal health. |
| 0:59.1 | Hey, Hilda here. Pursuing health can take a lot of time and energy. And sometimes after knocking |
| 1:05.6 | on a lot of doors, a person can still come up empty. Their health can turn completely puzzling |
| 1:11.5 | from every angle. And when it stumps the doctors, the patient is often labeled difficult. |
| 1:16.8 | What to do if that label is put on you? This is episode 315 and our guest today is Dr. Cynthia |
| 1:23.8 | Lee, the author of Brave New Medicine. Cynthia understands both sides intimately. She is a functional |
| 1:30.8 | medicine physician who is trying to heal her own challenging autoimmune condition when she herself |
| 1:37.1 | was described as difficult. Today, she explains her own personal journey to health, how she had |
| 1:42.8 | to shift her own paradigm from one of her lying on external authorities and rationality to moving |
| 1:49.0 | toward embracing intuition, instinct, and ancestral wisdom. She discusses the importance of not trying |
| 1:55.9 | harder, but trying differently. And she goes over how it is that she came to see that life and |
| 2:01.5 | medicine should not be approached with a paint by numbers mentality. Instead, she reminds us that |
| 2:06.8 | to see what is true, we must pursue the deep interpersonal connection to ourselves. Before we get |
| 2:13.4 | into it, do you have friends who are off-grid? We have a new offering on our website's store. |
| 2:19.5 | It is a USB flash drive of Wise Traditions podcast from January to March of this year. |
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