Hello.
Welcome to The Own Your Health Podcast,
I'm Cyndi Lynne, and I can't wait to
help you step into your health power.
So I'm coming to you today after
getting a really interesting question or actually
comment from one of my listeners.
So I was excited to meet with and speak with one
of my listeners who has been here from the start.
This is episode number 50.
So she's been with me from the beginning, and the first
thing she said to me is, I love your podcast,
I love all the information, and
I don't go to doctors either.
And I said, what do you mean you don't go to doctors?
And she said, well, you always talk about owning
your own health and that you only go to
a doctor if you need a doctor.
And that's true.
I don't routinely go see physicians if
I don't need them for something.
And when I say see a physician, I do so for a
specific reason and see a specific type of physician to meet the
need or to give me the answer that I'm looking for.
And I found it interesting that her interpretation
was that I don't use physicians at all.
And when I inquired a little bit more about why
she felt strongly about not using them, she had a
lot of, I think a lot of what
a lot of people think that there's a lot of docs out
there now who just simply want to push pills, right?
There's a lot of docs out there who are just
looking for what's wrong with you so they can do
something, and it's human nature to want to help.
But there's also very few physicians who
are looking to help you help yourself.
There's very few physicians who are getting satisfaction
educating, and I say getting satisfaction out of
educating, primarily because I know a lot of
them have tried many times using education as
their primary tool, and patients simply don't want
to integrate the information they've learned.
So physicians, docs have started taking the
shortcut to just writing the prescription.
So when I use the medical system, I'm very intentional about
it, I'm very specific about it and what I need
and who I go to to meet those needs.
This woman, however, had a
little bit different approach.
She didn't want to go to a doctor because she was
afraid of what she was being going to be told.
She was afraid of what they were going to
make her do or what they, the doctor was
going to make her take in terms of medication.
So it was very much fear based.
She was afraid there might
be something wrong with her that
she didn't know about.
And I could tell by the way she talked about that,
that she was very not very in tune with her body.
She was going to, her model had been to look outside
of her to determine what was healthy, how she should feel,
what she should be doing to take care of herself.
So she looked outside sources for that.
But when she started to get a little bit nervous
and wonder about what was going on with her body,
her first reaction was to avoid doctors because she was afraid
of the news that she would hear.
And I do hear this quite often, and that is actually
people in the back of their mind have been paying attention
to their body, and they know something isn't right.
And very often if they don't sign, it's
not right for a fairly long time.
And then they get more and more afraid to go to
the doctor because they don't want to get the bad news.
I also know people who don't want to go
see the doctor because they already anticipate what therapy
is going to be, and they don't want that.
You know, they'll say, well, if I go to the
doctor, they're just going to make me have surgery.
Well, if you go see a surgeon,
the tool in his box is surgery.
If you go to a physical
therapist, their tool is not surgery.
So they are more inclined to give you tools
that they have in their toolbox.
And then if those don't work, referral to
surgery might be one of the options.
So we sat and talked this
woman, and it was enlightening.
It was a fun conversation.
She left feeling very, very relieved.
She left feeling very, very relieved.
And I think it's because she finally
pulled her head out of the sand.
She decided she wasn't going to let fear own her
health and that she wanted to step back into letting
herself own her health, letting the smarter part, the thinking
part of her brain, rather than the just very primitive
fear part of her brain, own her health.
And I gave her a couple of reminders, and I
thought maybe it would be helpful to some of you
to have these same reminders, because I know there is
a lot of anxiety when it comes to the doctoring,
to going, having something taken care of.
First off, see the doctor that you want to see.
If that means a referral, so be it.
If you need to shop for a different
physician, that's what you need to do. Okay.
I know people who will spend all kinds of time
shopping for a new washer and dryer, shopping for a
new car, test driving them, looking at them - months.
But when it comes to their health, they can take
the first doctor that's available, or they take someone that
their husband seen because they know one more.
They take someone that they've been seeing a long
time and they don't really like, but they don't
want to start over with somebody new. I get it.
It's a relationship.
But see someone you're comfortable with and then know
that you still have control that you ask for
what are the options.
You ask for what they think is going on.
You ask about what tests might be required
before an intervention, before medication, before surgery.
What can you do to find out the specifics?
Because you need that information as much as they
do so that you can make informed decisions. All right?
Your doctor can't make you do anything.
No one can make you have surgery, no one
can make you take the prescription and take the medication.
But you do need to be honest about it because if
you see a doctor and he wants to give you a
prescription, you take that prescription and then afterwards you kind of
decide, well, I'm not going to have it filled or I'm
only going to take part of it or I'm only...
That seems like a lot, I'm going to take half the dose.
Then you're not really giving him
real information when you return.
So you need to be honest your
decisions, you need to own them.
Part of owning your health is stepping
into that partnership with your physician, with
your provider, with your nurse practitioner. Right?
So nobody can make you do anything.
You go and you look for options.
And if the person talking with doesn't give you any
options, then you need to talk to someone who has
a different set of tools in their toolbox.
And there are loads of different
practitioners and specialties out there.
And the medical system, the American Medical
Association, the physicians union, is very vocal
on what they consider physicians.
But in terms of health practitioners, there's
loads of alternative individuals, there's loads of
traditional healers, there's all kinds of ancillary
personnel that have different sets of tools
that can provide different options for you.
So should you choose not to participate
in the medical system, not to doctor
routinely and continuously, that's great.
But if you need backup, if you need more information,
if you need someone else's expertise, then get it.
Don't back away because of fear, don't
hide your head in the sand.
Get the help that you need.
Be selective about it.
Make intelligent decisions, because that's
what's owning your health.
That's what owning your health is all about.
It's not about complete avoidance of any health.
So I hope this has been helpful for you.
If you have no clue where to
start looking for what you need,
you can book a free consult with me.
We'll talk 15-20 minutes and get you on the right track.
I'll put a link to that in the notes below.
Until then, have a great week and go out and own it.
