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Integrating Your Health and Values with Michal Waldfogel (Naturopathic Physician) with Successful: The Podcast

Health and wellness are integral parts of living aligned to our values. A healthy mind and body allows us to live life to the fullest and in alignment with our values - because when we feel good, we're more likely to do the things that we love and bring us joy.  Our guest this week is Dr. Michal Waldfogel, a naturopathic physician.  She shares how she has aligned her values and her training in traditional as well as naturopathic medicine to help her patients do just that.  Key Takeaways:

• Your health enables you to thrive in the ways that are most important to you. Improving your holistic health helps give you enough energy to align with your daily values.

• Naturopathy is a holistic approach to wellness.  This can include all aspects of traditional medicine, integrated with herbal medicine, spirituality and mindfulness, massage therapy, nutrition and more.  As Michal puts it, it’s about treating the whole person, meeting them where they are, and where their values are.  

• Co-create your health plan with your medical provider to set your whole self up for success.  Michal walks us through ways we can take ownership of our own health information and intuition to help our physicians provide the care we need.  

• The primary driver behind most of the issues that people come to their doctors with is stress.  Understanding how stress affects our physiology, bringing awareness through mindfulness, identifying sources of hidden anxieties and thought patterns to better cope with daily stressors can be an important intervention to so many health concerns, from sleep to GI issues.