Dr Gladys McGarey

The Proper Mental Podcast

Welcome to episode 185 with Dr. Gladys McGarey, who is a 103-year-old still-consulting doctor who is internationally recognised as the ‘Mother of Holistic Medicine’.

Dr Gladys was born in 1920 and grew up in India. She joined Women’s Medical College during the second world war and when she began practising, women couldn’t even have their own bank accounts.

Gladys co-founded the American Holistic Medical Association and she was the first physician to utilise acupuncture in the U.S.

In this episode I chat to Dr Gladys about her childhood in India, her early interest in healing and what it was like to be a female doctor when being a female doctor wasn’t a thing.

We chat about training during WW2, how that influenced the language used in medicine and how she moved towards a different approach and started to think holistically.

We chat about finding purpose, learning to listen, claiming your voice and why grief is something that we do rather than something that happens to us. And we chat about the 5 L’s that underpin Dr Gladys’ approach to a long and fulfilling life.

Dr Gladys is also a bestselling author and her latest book ‘The Well-lived Life’ is out now.

You can follow Dr Gladys on social media @begladmd and learn more about her life and work on her website www.gladysmcgarey.com.

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