The Healing Power of Joy with Tanmeet Sethi, MD

Tracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCC

How can you find joy amidst even the most profound pain?
My guest today, Dr. Tanmeet Sethi, a board-certified integrative family medicine physician, author, and esteemed faculty member at the Center for Mind Body Medicine, shares her remarkable insights on cultivating well-being and trust in life, even during times of intense suffering.

We talk about how negative cultural messaging and trauma can chip away at our trust in life and ourselves, and she shares the science behind the cell danger response and how an extended trauma reaction can hinder our power to thrive.

Tanmeet speaks of her journey of discovering unconditional love through her son's fatal diagnosis and how it sprung open a door to greater joy.

We explore the rejuvenating world of movement as a powerful form of healing. Tanmeet beautifully articulates how emotions can be propelled by movement to help us transcend a narrow experience of our pain and open to let it be held in a larger narrative.

We learn how to break free from the cycle of suffering by understanding where the pain lies and how to sit with it, how gratitude fuels compassion and why grace takes forgiveness to a whole other level.

Our conversation today promises to be a source of strength for anyone seeking to find joy and trust in life amidst the toughest of challenges.
Today’s Guest:

Tanmeet Sethi, MD is an Integrative and Psychedelic Medicine Physician, activist, author, and TEDx speaker who has dedicated her career to care for the most marginalized patients in Seattle’s refugee, uninsured and homeless populations as well as global communities traumatized by manmade and natural disasters as Senior Faculty for the Center for Mind Body Medicine.

She has been Core Faculty in residency medical education for the last two decades focusing on inpatient and outpatient family medicine, integrative medicine, and anti-racism in medicine. She is one of the primary clinical researchers at the University of Washington on a study of psilocybin for COVID burnout of frontline medical workers.

She is certified in Functional Medicine through the Institute of Functional Medicine and fellowship trained in Integrative Medicine from the University of Arizona. She lives in Seattle, WA with her husband and three children and her first book, Joy Is My Justice, was published on May 2, 2023.

Tanmeet’s Website: https://www.tanmeetsethimd.com

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Hoofdstukken

1. Finding Joy Amidst Pain (00:00:00)

2. Justice, Trust, and Healing in Body (00:14:33)

3. Belonging, Movement, and Healing (00:21:11)

4. Finding Meaning and Joy Through Gratitude (00:36:59)

5. Lessons From Spirits and Imagination (00:49:11)

6. Story's Power and Joy's Discovery (00:59:00)

7. Supporting the Show and Encouraging Engagement (01:14:04)