Amy Kurtz: Kicking Sick

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2017

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Amy Kurtz is a health coach and Pilates instructor whose painful, multi-decade struggle with chronic illness made her decide to stand up and take better charge of her life. Now much healthier and happier, Amy describes her nightmarish journey through modern medicine—and how you too can take the reins of your health issues—in the new Sounds True book Kicking Sick: Your Go-To Guide for Thriving with Chronic Health Conditions. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Tami Simon and Amy discuss her approach to whole health. They talk about the need for an "A-Team" of expert support during the healing process and how only you can intuitively know what your body needs. Finally, Amy describes becoming what she calls a "glow warrior" and what it takes to truly stand tall in the face of chronic illness. (59 minutes)

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0:00.0	This program is brought to you by sounds true.com.
0:04.0	At sounds true.com you can find hundreds of downloadable audio
0:08.0	learning programs, plus books, music, videos, and online courses and events. At sounds true.com, we think of ourselves
0:17.1	as a trusted partner on the spiritual journey, offering diverse, in-depth, and life-changing wisdom.
0:24.0	Sounds True.com, guest is Amy Kurtz. Amy Kurtz is a 32 year old
0:48.1	young woman who made a commitment to becoming an active participant in her own health after facing a series of health challenges.
0:57.0	Following a trip abroad, Amy was confronted with a thyroid disorder, celiac disease, parasite infections, and a severe gastric
1:07.4	motility disorder of the colon. An intense journey through doctor's offices, medical clinics, specialists, and spiritual communities
1:17.2	led Amy to the decision to become more involved, educated, and invested in her own healing process. educated and
1:25.0	Amy now coaches clients
1:30.0	Amy now coaches clients to become
1:32.0	wellness warriors. She's a Pilates instructor, a detox
1:36.7	expert, and the author of a new book with sounds true called Kicking Sick, your go-to guide for thriving with chronic health
1:46.5	conditions. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Amy and I talked about how to take an empowered approach to your health and
1:56.2	see food as medicine and movement as medicine. We also talked about the importance of creating an A team of support for one's healing
2:07.0	journey and how to honor your own instincts, even when they contradict what a doctor says, that you know your body better than anyone else.
2:18.0	Finally, we talked about what it means to be what Amy calls a glow warrior,
2:24.3	someone who journeys successfully through adversity
2:28.2	and communicates a light of inner strength and resilience. Here's my conversation with the young, brave, and outspoken Amy Kurtz. Amy, one of the things I learned from your new book, Kicking Sick, that I didn't know that really
2:51.9	surprised me was that one out of every two people has a chronic health condition.
2:59.2	Talk a little bit about that. I mean that means you know one out of every two people that I run into that I
3:04.5	walk by on the street or when I'm doing an errand or here it sounds true has a
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