Chinese medicine is more than just treating health symptoms. It’s bringing the body back into balance using lifestyle improvements, self-care and -respect practices, and nourishing our vitality. Brodie Welch joins me to talk about how she uses acupuncture, qi gong, and Chinese medicine to help high-achieving women start enjoying their lives again.

How to Break Free of the Yang

Make time for joy
Make time for rest
Make time for proper nourishment
Rest your mind and observe where you’re coming from
Live from a place of balanced ease and balanced action
Treat yourself with the same kindness you would treat someone else

About Brodie Welch

Brodie Welch is a Licensed Acupuncturist, board-certified herbalist, and self-care strategist. Brodie helps self-aware, high-achieving women break the cycle of stress, overwhelm, and self-sabotage so they can enjoy the lives they’re working so hard to create, and truly embody self-respect.

Working at the confluence of wellness and personal development, she helps thousands of clients optimize their weight, digestion, hormones, sleep, mood, and vitality. A lifelong student of consciousness, Brodie has been practicing meditation, yoga, and qi gong for over twenty years and holds teaching certifications in each of these disciplines.

She synthesizes ancient techniques from Chinese Medicine, Ayurveda, and yoga with the latest research in neuroscience, functional medicine, and habit change to help her clients thrive. Her holistic self-care boot camp program “Level Up Your Life” helps women bridge the gap between what they know they should be doing to take care of themselves and actually doing it – without feeling guilty.

She’s the founder of Life in Balance Acupuncture in Corvallis, Oregon, where she has been treating patients since 2003. She’s also the creator and host of A Healthy Curiosity: the podcast that explores what it takes to be well in a busy world.

In This Episode

What Chinese medicine is [4:00]
Why we need to recognize and participate in the season or wintering [8:45]
Why it’s difficult to opt-out of the Yang culture that permeates Western culture [15:00]
What practices to adopt to break free of Yang addiction [16:15]
The link between self-care and self-respect [18:15]
How Chinese medicine treats stress [22:15]
How to move your life in the direction of life rather than imbalance [28:00]
What acupuncture is and how it impacts your health and body [29:00]