Explore every episode of the podcast You Are Medicine!
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| Autumn, Ghosts & Chinese Medicine | 11 Sep 2024 | 00:46:47 | |
Join Thuy and Rosie as they discuss Ghost Month and the connection between ghosts and Traditional Chinese Medicine! Learn about the origins of Chinese medicine and reflect on our modern understanding of ghosts and their relationship with us — the living. — Episode Music by: — | |||
| TCM Seasonal Guidance: Summertime! | 15 Jul 2024 | 00:42:30 | |
In this dynamic podcast, Thuy offers a Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) view of the Summer qi available to us all as she talks to three young adults who are in the Summertime of their lives! Listen in to learn how TCM can both guide them and you through a healthy Summer season! — — | |||
| Fear, Trauma, and Batman | 01 Jul 2023 | 00:55:17 | |
In this thought provoking program, Thuy and Dr. Bayo Akomolafe offer a radical shift in perspective as they discuss modern medicine vs healing, illness as medicine, and partnering with fear. — Episode Music: “Falkensteiner Memories” by Lobo Loco is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 “Thriller Intro” by Tyops is licensed under CC BY 4.0 — | |||
| What Should I Eat? | 30 Jun 2023 | 00:57:16 | |
Join Thuy and nutritionist Rosie Ueng in conversation about how our relationship with food and ourselves affect our nourishment in profound ways. We discuss familiar topics like “clean” eating from a fresh perspective and emphasize the importance of love and gratitude in eating. — Episode Music: — | |||
| Walking the Red Road | 22 Jun 2023 | 00:56:22 | |
Healing means different things to different people. What it means to your life will lead you down different paths towards it. The Red Road is an indigenous path of healing that explores healing beyond what modern medicine recognizes. Join Thuy as she talks to William Verburg about his healing path down the Red Road. — You Are Medicine! affirms your innate healing powers and interconnectedness, offering health and healing wisdom from Traditional Chinese Medicine and Indigenous world view perspectives. You Are Medicine! is a production of Thuy Nguyen and Berkeley Community Acupuncture. Learn more at bcaclinic.com/youaremedicine. | |||
| Spirituality & Healing | 22 Jun 2023 | 00:58:07 | |
Traditional Chinese Medicine can affect healing towards all aspects of the human experience, including the spiritual. Join Thuy as she tells of a mind bending experience with a patient whereby profound spiritual healing was activated through acupuncture that defies our usual understanding of how healing works. — You Are Medicine! affirms your innate healing powers and interconnectedness, offering health and healing wisdom from Traditional Chinese Medicine and Indigenous world view perspectives. You Are Medicine! is a production of Thuy Nguyen and Berkeley Community Acupuncture. Learn more at bcaclinic.com/youaremedicine. | |||
| Creativity & Healing | 21 Jun 2023 | 00:55:57 | |
Join Thuy as she discusses a much neglected topic concerning our health: creativity. We all have creative energy, but for many of us it remains undiscovered, dormant or stagnant. Thuy converses with creatives of all kinds on what might be blocking us creatively, and how to unblock and re-engage our creative energy for health and well-being. View Creative Works: Debbie Huey, Jennifer Parker, Paul Wang, Sebastian Snow, Melody Copp — Episode Music: You Are Medicine! affirms your innate healing powers and interconnectedness, offering health and healing wisdom from Traditional Chinese Medicine and Indigenous world view perspectives. You Are Medicine! is a production of Thuy Nguyen and Berkeley Community Acupuncture. Learn more at bcaclinic.com/youaremedicine. | |||
| Everything is Medicine: Chief Justice Robert Yazzie | 14 Jun 2023 | 00:51:32 | |
Thuy and Former Chief Justice of the Navajo Nation, Robert Yazzie, talk about the parallels between Chinese Medicine and Indigenous knowledge: nature, patterns, connection, and how there is always medicine available even in trying times. — You Are Medicine! affirms your innate healing powers and interconnectedness, offering health and healing wisdom from Traditional Chinese Medicine and Indigenous world view perspectives. You Are Medicine! is a production of Thuy Nguyen and Berkeley Community Acupuncture. Learn more at bcaclinic.com/youaremedicine. | |||
| Trailer: You Are Medicine! | 12 Jun 2023 | ||
Welcome to You Are Medicine!, a podcast that affirms your innate healing powers and interconnectedness through the lens of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Indigenous Wisdom. Produced and hosted by Thuy Nguyen of Berkeley Community Acupuncture. — | |||
| The Force that Heals & Creates: A Conversation w/ Naomi Rose | 17 Apr 2024 | 00:54:23 | |
Join Thuy and creative midwife Naomi Rose as they discuss Thuy’s latest book, The Spirit of Spring. The conversation becomes a meditation on the healing and creative forces that are ever present and invites the listener to be in relationship to this magnetic pull in their own lives. It’s an invitation to go within, listen deeply and to feel the inherent creative, healing force that is urging and bringing all things together, effortlessly. Learn more about Naomi on her website: rosepress.com. To purchase a copy of Thuy’s book, The Sprit of Spring, visit us in-person at BCA, or online here. — — | |||
| Wood Dragon Chinese New Year: What's In Store | 29 Jan 2024 | 00:50:03 | |
The Lunar New Year is February 10th and it is a Yang Wood Dragon year! Sounds exciting, doesn't it? But what does it actually mean? Listen in as Thuy and her friends—Rosie & Daniel—discuss the meaning of this coming year and how to understand it from a lens that is beneficial and healing for you! — — | |||
| What is a Healer? Interview w/ Sabine Wilms | 07 Dec 2023 | 00:57:28 | |
What did it mean to be a healer in ancient times and how is it different now? Listen in as Thuy discusses this topic with Sabine Wilms, PhD, medical anthropologist, writer and translator of ancient Chinese medical texts. Their discussion spans wide reaches of time and space as they attempt to make meaningful and relevant ancient wisdom to our modern times, discovering the deeper meaning of healer and healing. — — | |||
| Pain: An Interview w/ Mitch Jeserich | 19 Oct 2023 | 00:59:54 | |
What is pain, and how can we heal from it? Thuy talks with Mitch Jeserich, who shares his personal journey with pain, treatment, and healing. Together they discuss pain in terms of Traditional Chinese Medicine and the involvement of spiritual aspects along the healing journey. — — | |||
| Chinese Astrology: The 12 Zodiac Animals (Part 2) | 08 Sep 2023 | 00:44:05 | |
(Part 2 of 2) Chinese Astrology is the study and mapping of recurring cyclical patterns in nature. The 12 Zodiac Animals are a playful representation of patterns in human-nature. Join Thuy and Daniel as they delve into the 12 Chinese Zodiac animals through discussions with patients and family members, as they help each person to understand and embrace their natural tendencies and patterns. Episode Notes: — — | |||
| Chinese Astrology: The 12 Zodiac Animals (Part 1) | 08 Sep 2023 | 00:41:33 | |
(Part 1 of 2) Chinese Astrology is the study and mapping of recurring cyclical patterns in nature. The 12 Zodiac Animals are a playful representation of patterns in human-nature. Join Thuy and Daniel as they delve into the 12 Chinese Zodiac animals through discussions with patients and family members, as they help each person to understand and embrace their natural tendencies and patterns. Episode Notes: — — | |||
| Sweat It! Easy Healing at Home | 28 Jul 2023 | 00:50:23 | |
In this month's podcast episode, Thuy teaches five patients how to do Xong hoi, or Vietnamese folk sauna. She instructs the patients in this easy home remedy and they report their experiences. The conversations explore the profound healing possibilities of folk wisdom and knowledge that is lost in our fast pace modern living. — — | |||
| Death, Elderhood, and Wisdom | 01 Jul 2023 | 00:56:06 | |
Join Thuy and Stephen Jenkinson as they wonder out loud on the topic of death. Together they discuss how the dominant North American culture influences our understanding of death and elderhood and demonstrate what activism may look like in such a culture. — Episode Music: — | |||