Breaking the Cycle of Fear and Stepping into Your Power
Human OSâ˘: Mind Your Health, Rewired
Why does it feel so hard to changeâeven when you know whatâs good for you? In this episode of Human OS: Mind Your Health, Rewired, Dr. Connie Cheung dives into the neuroscience of resistance and explains what happens in your brain when you try to step into a new identity. Whether you're: Setting boundaries for the first time Leaving a toxic cycle Trying to rewire patterns that keep you stuck âyour amygdala will scream to keep you in the familiar. But youâre not broken. Youâre just wired for survival. In this episode, youâll learn: Why fear...
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Gut Health: Beyond Diet to True Nourishment
Human OSâ˘: Mind Your Health, Rewired
Gut Health: Beyond Diet to True Nourishment Weâve been taught that gut health is all about what you eat. But at Functional Yoga Medicineâ˘, we know the truth runs deeper: đ Healing the gut isnât just about foodâitâs about nourishment. In this episode, Dr. Connie Cheung unpacks the profound difference between fuel and true nourishmentâand why restrictive diets and elimination plans may be doing more harm than good. Youâll learn: Why food and nourishment are not the same thing How to decode your bodyâs signals (like cravings, fatigue, and...
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From Breakdown to Breakthrough: My Dialysis Story When life brought me to my knees â I listened, rewired, and rose.
Human OSâ˘: Mind Your Health, Rewired
There was a moment â in the sterile hum of a dialysis clinic â when Dr. Connie Cheung realized everything she had built, every identity she held, was breaking. Her education, her training, her health, her motherhood, her womanhood â all felt stripped away. And yet⌠in that breakdown, something else awakened. In this intimate and powerful episode, Dr. Connie shares the full story of how kidney failure forced her into stillness, grief, surrender â and ultimately, transformation. Youâll hear what saved her when nothing else could, what healing actually looks like...
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What They Never Taught Us in Health School And how I had to break the system to find the truth about healing
Human OSâ˘: Mind Your Health, Rewired
You can have all the credentials â the degrees, the protocols, the frameworks â and still feel like something is missing. In this raw and powerful episode, Dr. Connie Cheung shares what happened when she hit the edge of evidence-based care, both as a practitioner and a patient. With decades of training in physical therapy, dietetics, functional medicine, and somatics, she still found herself burning out â and ultimately breaking down. What she discovered? Healing isnât about fixing symptoms. Itâs about reconnecting the system â body, mind, and spirit. This episode is for the...
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Healing Begins the Moment You Stop Outsourcing Your Safety
Human OSâ˘: Mind Your Health, Rewired
The most overlooked truth in healing â and how to reclaim your power. You've tried the protocols, followed the experts, taken the supplements, booked the healers â and you're still stuck in the same patterns. Why? Because true healing doesn't come from outsourcing your power. It comes from rebuilding your internal sense of safety. In this episode, Dr. Connie Cheung shares the hard truth she learned through personal illness and professional expertise: most people are stuck not because they lack tools, but because theyâve never been taught how to feel safe in their own body. This...
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The Gut-Brain Betrayal: What No One Told Me About Healing How gut dysfunction drives your mood, weight, and fatigue.
Human OSâ˘: Mind Your Health, Rewired
Youâre doing everything ârightâ â eating clean, taking supplements, exercising â but youâre still bloated, exhausted, anxious, or stuck in a fog. What if itâs not your willpower? What if your gut is running the show? In this episode, Dr. Connie Cheung unpacks one of the most overlooked but powerful connections in healing: the gut-brain axis. You'll learn how chronic stress, trauma, and inflammation in the gut hijack your mental clarity, emotional stability, and energy â and what to do to finally break the cycle. This isnât just about probiotics or food sensitivities â...
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What happens when love becomes medicine?
Human OSâ˘: Mind Your Health, Rewired
In this powerful and heart-opening episode, I sit down with my dear friend Chrissy â a woman whose generosity and spirit changed my life forever. Chrissy is not only a dedicated student at Functional Yoga Medicine, sheâs also the living donor who gave me her kidney. Together, we share the evolution of our friendship, from casual connection to sacred sisterhood, and how our community held space for both of us through one of the most vulnerable and transformative chapters of our lives. We dive into: - How FYM created a safe space for breath, embodiment, and ease - Chrissyâs journey from...
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Why yoga â the very thing I built my life and identity around â stopped working for me.
Human OSâ˘: Mind Your Health, Rewired
For years, I believed yoga would save me. And for a while â it did. Until it didnât. In this episode, Dr. Connie Cheung opens up about the point in her journey when her beloved practice stopped working â when meditation became too hard, movement felt disconnected, and her body could no longer be âfixedâ through willpower. What followed was a radical redefinition of what healing really is. Youâll hear how Functional Yoga Medicine⢠was born â not as another method, but as a reclamation. And how most people are practicing yoga with a nervous system still stuck in survival⌠which...
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Why You Canât Heal When Youâre Still in Survival â And How to Finally Reset Your Bodyâs Opera
Human OSâ˘: Mind Your Health, Rewired
If youâve been feeling stuck â like your body isnât responding, your efforts arenât working, and your mind keeps spinning â youâre not broken. Youâre in survival mode. In this episode, Dr. Connie Cheung decodes how your nervous system silently drives your habits, health, and healing â and why most wellness approaches fail because they ignore this root-level operating system. Youâll learn the 4 Nervous System Archetypes, how to recognize them in yourself and others, and what it really takes to reset your body and mind from the inside out. This is the episode to bookmark,...
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The Moment I Lost My Leverage â And Found My True Power
Human OSâ˘: Mind Your Health, Rewired
When credentials werenât enough, I chose to rise as medicine. In a world that celebrates trends over truth, what happens when everything youâve built â your degrees, your credibility, your reputation â suddenly feels invisible? In this powerful opening episode, Dr. Connie Cheung shares the deeply personal story of what happened when her advanced education and experience began to feel irrelevant in the age of AI and algorithms. What followed wasnât just a professional crisis â it was a spiritual awakening. This episode is a call to every practitioner, healer, teacher, or soul...
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Each family member interprets events differently based on their role, personality, and perspective, which can lead to misunderstandings and emotional triggers. đ
Being pigeonholed into a specific roleâlike âthe responsible oneâ or âthe troublemakerââcan feel restrictive, especially as we grow and change. These dynamics are further influenced by birth order, emotional memory, and the way family expectations often conflict with personal growth.
Coping with these complexities requires setting boundaries, redefining our identity within the family, and embracing our individuality without seeking validation from others. â¨
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