Hi guys welcome back to skincare anarchy this is your host Ecta and I am very very excited about this episode.

It's truly an honor to be hosting our guest today. I'm a huge fan of obviously her work in medicine

but also the amazing content that she puts out on

social media platforms for all of us to learn from to gain an understanding of

what you know wellness mental wellness really means and to understand it a little bit in our own way.

So without further ado, I want to introduce you guys to Dr. Judith Joseph, who is a renowned psychiatrist

and the chair of the Women in Medicine Initiative at Columbia University.

Dr. Joseph is also a clinical assistant professor for child and adolescent psychiatry at NYU medical center

and she's conducted extensive research in various areas of mental health.

So I'm really excited to host you, Dr. Joseph,

welcome the show.

It's an honor.

Thank you for having me.

Yeah, I would love to get started, if you don't mind,

just to learn a little bit about what sparks your interest in, obviously medicine, but specifically

psychiatry.

Everyone has a body, so we all have physical help, but we all also have a brain, and so we all have mental health and I think a lot of people don't acknowledge their mental health and they don't take the steps to protect their mental health the way that they do their physical health. You know, There's no annual mental health checkup,

but there are annual physicals for pediatric

and adult populations.

And when we neglect our mental health,

that mind-body connection is so strongly important and relevant in terms of our day-to-day functioning that if we neglect our mind-body connection, then we suffer.

So I was always interested in the mind-body connection and as an undergrad I studied

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