The Mind Your Health Podcast is about all things Gut Health! As a healthcare practitioner with over 25 years of experience, Dr. Connie Cheung focuses on a holistic approach integrating her educational background in Psychology, Nutrition, Physical Therapy, Functional Medicine, and Yoga. She started the Mind Your Health Podcast to help as many people as possible get rid of pesky gut symptoms so that they can look and feel their best while living their fullest lives. Dr. Connie has struggled an ...
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Navigating Positive Chaos and Finding Balance Through Functional Yoga Medicine
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In this powerful episode of the Functional Yoga Medicine Podcast, we sit down with Dan Thurmon, motivational speaker, author of Off Balance On Purpose and Positive Chaos, and a member of the FYM community. Dan shares his unique insights on how to embrace uncertainty, find balance amid chaos, and thrive in an ever-changing world. Drawing from his pe…
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Power of Mindfulness and Acceptance in Difficult situations
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Practicing mindfulness and acceptance can transform how we handle life's challenges by fostering inner calm, emotional resilience, and better decision-making. By staying present and acknowledging our reality without judgment, we reduce stress and anxiety, improve our emotional strength, and cultivate compassion for ourselves and others. Simple dail…
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The Link Between Repetitive Injury and Weight Gain
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This podcast encore episode is all about why repetitive injury can be the culprit for weight gain. Repetitive injury can often be an overlooked culprit behind weight gain. When you suffer from chronic or recurring injuries, your ability to engage in regular physical activity can be significantly hindered. This reduction in physical activity leads t…
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Impact of Unworthiness on Chronic Illness and Nervous System
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This week, Dr. Connie explores how deeply ingrained feelings of unworthiness can be the hidden root cause of chronic illness, affecting both mental and physical health. When negative self-beliefs and low self-worth are internalized, they create chronic stress, dysregulating the nervous system and immune responses. This can lead to increased inflamm…
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Yoga As Medicine - Functional Yoga Medicine ™
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In this powerful episode, Dr. Connie shares how Yoga has helped her overcome and become stronger through all her health and life struggles and find her way back home to herself. That health is, in a nutshell, "inner Balance," which Yoga helps to cultivate. This is an episode you don't want to miss as Dr. Connie shares the dualities and the paradox …
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Unlock the Secret to Lifelong Vitality with our Insights on why Health can't be bought - It's something you Cultivate Every Day
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Unlock the secret to lifelong vitality with our insights on why health can't be bought—it's something you cultivate every day. Prioritize prevention, embrace inner balance, and make conscious lifestyle choices to achieve lasting well-being. Discover practical tips and advice and insights from Dr. Connie to transform your health from the inside out.…
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How Your Mindset Determines Your Health Experience: The Power of Positivity
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A positive mindset on health and wellness focuses on the interplay between mental attitude and physical well-being. This approach emphasizes the power of optimism, gratitude, and resilience in fostering overall health. In this week's podcast, Dr. Connie discusses the importance of a positive mindset and how to cultivate it despite your impending li…
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My Journey: Why I Created Functional Yoga Medicine
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Dr. Connie shares her vast experiences that led her to create Functional Yoga Medicine. That fragmented approach does not work, and dependence on medications is a recipe for health crisis. There is a great need for a growing number of individuals for a different approach to health, wellness, and longevity. No matter what health struggles you may be…
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Total Gut Recovery - Reclaim Your Health for Life!
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Special Episode: Total Gut Recovery - Reclaim Your Health for Life! Are you looking in all the wrong places for solutions to your gut woes? In this webinar, Dr. Connie explains the common mistakes you are making and the essential skills you need to recover your gut and reclaim your health for life! The E.A.S.E. Method is the ultimate solution that …
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How to Overcome Challenges WhenYou Have Little Motivation
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Going through challenges in life can often feel like keeping a flickering candle lit during a storm. Difficult experiences or phases of life are inevitable – they’re just part of the human experience. But often, these experiences are paired with a lacking sense of control and an inability to be the person we used to be up until that point. Which ca…
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How I Created a Fulfilling Life By Going Against My Doctor's Advice
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“Stay away from the sun. Don’t eat any junk food. Don’t work full-time. Take these medications for the rest of your life. And most importantly…DON’T have kids.” These were the exact words my doctor told me when I was diagnosed with lupus almost 25 years ago. And as an almost Doctor of Physical Therapy getting ready to graduate and embark on a new l…
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When Doctors Have No Answers: My Eye-Opening Kidney Failure Story
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Have you ever had something happen that completely changed life as you knew it? For me, that moment was March 2021 when I got the Covid vaccine. Within 6 months after the vaccine, my kidneys shut down and I experienced complete kidney failure. Fast forward to unrelenting sickness where I could barely get out of bed, to getting a kidney transplant a…
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Exponential Healing: How to feel better FAST
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If you were traveling to the other side of the world, would you rather take a jet or a paddleboat? Which one would get you there faster? Exponential healing will have you reaching your health goals with jet-like speed, but most people unknowingly approach their health as if they were traveling across the world in a paddleboat. In this episode of th…
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Hormone Imbalance Cascade: Why Your Pill is Just a “Band-Aid” Fix
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Imagine you get a paper cut on your finger and you slap a band-aid on it… …is it the band-aid itself that heals the cut? Of course not – the band-aid covers the wound and might stop the bleeding temporarily, but it doesn't heal the wound or prevent it from getting infected. Prescription pills, supplements, or other drugs work the same way, especial…
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How to Easily Identify Stress in Your Life So It Doesn't Wreck Your Health
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The fact that you have symptoms that interfere with your daily life, whether it’s gut discomfort like bloating, gas, constipation, OR fatigue, headaches, foggy brain, weight gain, aches and pains, etc.… …means you have some level of stress in your life. Stress equals symptoms. Let me explain… Stress is part of human nature, and our bodies have a na…
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Food is Not the Enemy: Why Fearing Food Actually Contributes to Gut Issues
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“I wish someone would just tell me what to eat!” If you’ve ever thought this to yourself, then chances are you can relate to this… Mealtimes honestly used to feel like a chore to me. I would stress out over choosing what to eat. And if I was on any type of restrictive diet, it was often difficult figuring out which foods I could eat that would allo…
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Why is Gut Health Essential for Optimal Health and Well-Being?
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Gut Health is a trending topic these days, but are you familiar with the gut’s many functions and WHY it plays such a big role in overall health and well-being? In Functional Medicine, the gut is considered the root of all symptoms and diseases. So whether you’re struggling with gut specific issues, such as bloating, gas, and constipation, or other…
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How I Achieved Breakthrough Results Without Working Harder
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You’re eating a healthy diet, you’re exercising regularly, and you’re doing your best to manage stress. So why aren’t you feeling better yet?! If this is you, I was in your shoes not too long ago. I always prided myself on being disciplined and working hard, yet my results were not matching up with the efforts I was putting in. And this applied to …
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Take Control of Your Health: 5 Simple, Yet Overlooked Tips
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If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that relying on doctors, experts, or specialists to figure out the answer to your symptoms will only keep you in a cycle of sickness. How do I know that? With my recent struggles with kidney failure, it’s been crucial for me to just find a path forward every single day, even on my hardest days. But it’s been …
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Frustrated By the Endless Cycle of Ineffective Wellness Approaches?
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If you’re like most people who struggle with irritating symptoms that they just can’t figure out, whether it’s gut issues like bloating and constipation, chronic fatigue, stubborn weight gain, foggy brain, etc., maybe you’ve gotten stuck on what I call the “hamster wheel” of ineffective health and wellness solutions. I’ve been there too – going fro…
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Your Symptom Root Cause Might Be Something You Can't See, Measure, or Test
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If you've ever been confused about your symptoms and you know there's something that's not quite right with you, yet your doctors just shrug their shoulders because your labs come back "normal", then this episode is for you. I have a unique perspective when it comes to the medical system because I've not only studied various health disciplines, inc…
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The Holistic Healing Path: From Doubtful to Transformed
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This week's Mind Your Health podcast is a special one. I interviewed my colleague and friend Aaron, who is a successful entrepreneur. He's special because it took many years for him to finally understand the "root" cause of his mysterious symptoms and go within to uncover the hidden traumas that many of us unknowingly struggle with. When traumas an…
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Is Hormonal Imbalance Causing Your Weight Gain?
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Hormones are chemical messengers that impact your overall health and metabolism, and hormones play a huge role in weight loss. If you've been struggling with weight gain, hormonal imbalance may be the culprit. When we think of hormones, we typically think of sex hormones like testosterone, estrogen, and progesterone. But there are other hormones th…
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Your Childhood Trauma Can Affect Your Health
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We have aspects of ourselves that we are "aware" (conscious) of, and we also have aspects of ourselves that we are "unaware" (subconscious) of. But did you know that the subconscious parts of you actually dictate your self image and how you see yourself? And how we see ourselves dictates our abilities and what we are capable of. This is significant…
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Spark Passion in Your Relationship Through Self-Love, Trust, and Honesty
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Spark Passion in Your Relationship Through Self-Love, Trust, and Honesty If you are like most, you didn't exactly learn how to set healthy boundaries or the ability to communicate authentically in your home. This single, profound realization can catapult your relationships to a new level, especially with your partner. How do I know? I've spent year…
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