135. When You Know Something Is Wrong: Trusting Your Gut and Fighting for Answers
From The Well Nourished Mama by Brooke Harmer
May 19, 2026 · 51 min · Episode 135
About this episode
Brooke Harmer shares her family's health journey, emphasizing the importance of advocacy and individualized care.
In this deeply personal solo episode, I share a recent update about my daughter’s health journey and the long road it took to finally receive answers. After more than a year and a half of researching, advocating, and pushing through dismissal from providers, I explain how one doctor finally listened—and why that changed everything for our family. This message goes beyond one diagnosis and highlights a lesson every mama needs to hear: you have to keep advocating for yourself and your children, even when you feel unheard. I also shares how early intervention and individualized care can completely shift the trajectory of health and healing. Click HERE to access the show notes for this episode and get direct links to any of the resources or other podcast episodes I mentioned in this show.
People in this episode
Host: Brooke Harmer
Topics covered
- health journey
- advocacy
- individualized care
- early intervention
- motherhood
- trusting your gut
Keywords
- health
- advocacy
- motherhood
- individualized care
- early intervention
- trusting your gut
- health journey
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