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The Power of Self-Care
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On this episode of A Richer Life, host Rich Weingart speaks with Amy Shouse of NorCal Integrative Medicine about what inspired her to pursue integrative medicine, her experiences with trauma, and what it really means to engage in self care.
Episode Highlights:
- Amy came from a medical family, but her family members weren’t the most healthy and her father (an ER doctor) died at age 40 from a brain virus.
- Amy went to many medical doctors to get her health issues assessed, but she was misdiagnosed and had her concerns ignored by all of them until she went to an acupuncturist.
- Through her acupuncturist, she found another integrative medicine doctor who correctly diagnosed her with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis.
- Amy’s health concerns not being addressed properly inspired her to become an integrative medicine practitioner.
- Amy had a lot of what she refers to as “unmetabolized trauma.”
- Amy watched her dad’s health rapidly deteriorate over the course of about two years from the time she was about 13 to 15 years old.
- Amy believes that self care is a full time job, but people have resistance to it because we live in a society that is solely focused on being productive.
- Amy received a new chronic diagnosis this year of “Burning Mouth Syndrome.”
- Because her mom checked out when her dad died and Amy was the oldest child, she had to become the parent.
- The pandemic has changed so many things, and Amy has seen a huge increase in patients coming in for acupuncture for their anxiety.
- Functional medicine involves further testing and more detailed work than a typical physician would put in.
- Amy has recently gotten into paddle boarding with her family as a form of self care.
- Play and laughter are important parts of self care.
3 Key Points:
- Amy’s experiences with doctors misdiagnosing her Hashimoto’s was one of the things that inspired her to become an integrative medicine doctor.
- Many people have a lot of resistance to practicing self care because we live in a society that focuses almost exclusively on functionality.
- Unmetabolized, or unprocessed, trauma can have physical consequences and lead to chronic health issues.
Tweetable Quotes:
- “When you’re looking for a root cause, you’re not just asking what, you’re also asking why.” - Amy Shouse
- “You have to practice not being in resistance.” - Amy Shouse
- “None of us are in the game of perfection.” - Rich Weingart
- “Choose love, not fear. It’s as simple as that.” - Amy Shouse
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