It was more than just the pain or the discomfort I was feeling in my physical body, right?

You know, plantar fasciitis, weight gain, back pain, throwing out my back, all those things.

Those were all signals and signs, warning signs for me, right?

That I think the biggest thing was is that I felt so disconnected from all of the people in my life,

whether it was my children, my family, my husband, my parents, or more importantly, my patients.

I just felt like I was not connecting in any way with other human beings.

And that was really, I think, what stopped me in my tracks.

And then when I started to think about it, I felt I was like, oh my gosh, you're not only disconnected

with everyone else outside of you, you're disconnected with yourself, right?

You don't even know what is important to you anymore because you're on this hamster wheel

of just doing what you need to do to get through another day.

And that was really, I think, what changed everything.

So is energy medicine real? What about Ayurveda? What about Western modern medicine?

What's right and what's not so right about it?

Does the gender of a patient make a difference in how they're treated or in their health outcomes?

What about the role of plants or herbs or intuition?

These are all questions that have come up in conversation over the years as I've had the incredible opportunity

to sit down with women who are leaving voices and often voices of change and advocacy and activism.

In various approaches and lenses on medicine and well-being,

and in today's episode we have curated key elements from four of those conversations

to share and potentially pull back the curtain to so many myths, misunderstandings, and confusion,

and hopefully plant some seeds to explore a different lens.

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