Podcast 144: Interview with Dr. Kierstin DeWitt

Dr. Kierstin DeWitt is a Licensed Naturopathic Doctor and Registered Acupuncturist practicing community Acupuncture at a non-profit Community Acupuncture Clinic in Ann Arbor, Michigan as well as providing NADA protocol and guided meditation for addiction rehabilitation facilities.  Dr. Kierstin is also a virtual Naturopathic Consultant where she utilizes her Naturopathic, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and training in mind-body medicine to empower her clients through the reconnection of the self in mind, body, and to the world around us. This allows for whole-person healing and long-lasting changes towards health.  Where to find Dr. DeWitt: Instagram: @vibrantly.well  Website: www.vibrantlywell.com Facebook: @vibrantlywell Enjoy the show! If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS people, resiliency, behaviors, important, self regulation, pathak medicine, body, health, mind, connected, awareness, patterns, starting, dewitt, gaining, self awareness, talk, acupuncture, naturopathic, life 00:05 Hello, everyone, its Dr. Sam, I'd like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. Hey everybody, it's Dr. Sam and I want to welcome you to another EyeClarity podcast. We have a very interesting guest today. She's a friend of mine. I actually met her on clubhouse. And I was on her Instagram show and she's an amazing healer. Her name is Dr. Kierstin DeWitt. She's a licensed naturopathic doctor registered acupuncturist and she is based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, that's a beautiful place. She is in a private practice. She's got a virtual naturopathic practice that where she utilizes things like traditional Chinese medicine, natural empathy, training and Mind Body medicine. She's also done a lot of things in the mental health world. She just hosted a health summit. And I'd like to bring her on. Dr. DeWitt, thanks for joining us and I want to start in and I want to ask you, why is it important to begin to address the mind mental emotional component to health early on? 02:00 Hmm Yes, thank you so much for having me on Dr. Sam, it's so great to see you again and to be able to chat with you it's always a pleasure chatting with you. Um, so I for me what I kind of discovered as I began working with people with nature Pathak medicine is that if you if we don't address the what I call the inner self, or that mental emotional component of the self, it's really challenging to be able to stick with something right. So often with nature, Pathak medicine, we're, we're counseling people on how to make those lifestyle changes that are going to help them in the long term. And that takes work, right, it takes you have to have the mindset to be able to make those changes, right, because often we've developed these behaviors and these patterns really early on our environment can influence those, right, there's a lot of external factors. So we need to have that internal or intrinsic drive to want to make those changes. And so if the mind isn't on board, right, it's really hard to get the momentum to have the body on board as well. And so it's really important to start with the mind to start with that inner self, so that we can connect with that part of ourselves,