About this episode

In this episode, Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby discusses the disconnect between the nervous system and physical healing with guest Amy Kurtz, who shares her journey through medical trauma and recovery.

Here's something I keep seeing in my office that almost nobody has language for. Your body and your nervous system run on completely different timelines. Your labs can be clear. Your divorce can be final. Your treatment can be done. And your nervous system can still be living inside the chapter you just survived, because nothing about getting through a hard thing actually tells your body it is safe to stop bracing. In this episode, I sit down with Amy Kurtz, the patient advocate who spent close to two decades trying to figure out why her body kept shutting down on her. Amy is a Hachette author whose new book But You Look Fine launches the day after this episode airs, and she coined a phrase for the exact experience I just described. She calls it Medical Trauma Brain. Her message has been endorsed by Mark Hyman, her own physician, and by David Perlmutter, Kris Carr, and Sharon Salzberg. After 36 doctors and a late-stage neurological Lyme diagnosis at 35, she didn't just heal physically. She figured out the part nobody warned her about. The part that comes after. In This Episode The exact phrase Amy's husband said in their kitchen that finally named what she could not name herself…

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby

Guest: Amy Kurtz

Topics covered

• nervous system
• medical trauma
• chronic illness
• healing
• mental health
• patient advocacy

Keywords

• nervous system overload
• medical trauma brain
• healing journey
• chronic illness recovery
• patient advocacy

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: But You Look Fine

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