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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You Are the Ocean: Consciousness, Healing, and the Truth of Who We Are â with Dr. Tony Nader
Human OSâ˘: Mind Your Health, Rewired
What if the root of healing isnât in pills or protocols â but in consciousness itself? In this powerful episode of Human OSâ˘: Mind Your Health, Rewired, Dr. Connie Cheung sits down with Dr. Tony Nader, neuroscientist, author, and global leader of the Transcendental Meditation (TM) movement. Together, they explore the profound science of consciousness, the limitations of symptom-based medicine, and how awakening the deeper operating system within us leads to true health, peace, and power. Dr. Nader, with a background from MIT, Harvard, and decades of Vedic study, breaks down how our...
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The Default Operating System That Keeps You Sick | Rewire Your Health with Dr. Connie Cheung
Human OSâ˘: Mind Your Health, Rewired
Are you stuck in cycles of burnout, chronic illness, or self-sabotage â even though youâre doing everything right? In this powerful episode of Human OSâ˘: Mind Your Health, Rewired, Dr. Connie Cheung unpacks the hidden force driving most of our health breakdowns: your Default Operating System â the unconscious patterns wired into your brain and nervous system. Drawing from 25+ years in functional medicine, physical therapy, yoga, and lived experience with autoimmune illness and kidney failure, Dr. Connie explains: - What the âdefault modeâ is in your brain & body - Why youâre...
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The Moment Everything Broke â And I Chose to Rise
Human OSâ˘: Mind Your Health, Rewired
What do you do when everything falls apartâyour health, your business, your identity? In this powerful episode of Human OSâ˘: Mind Your Health, Rewired, Dr. Connie Cheung shares the raw and unfiltered story of the moment everything in her life brokeâand the defining choice she made to rise. From battling kidney failure and running a business while on dialysis, to confronting decades of trauma and perfectionism, this is not just a story of survivalâitâs a blueprint for personal transformation. Youâll discover: Why breakdown often comes before breakthrough How chasing control...
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The System Isnât BrokenâIt Was Never Built for Your Health
Human OSâ˘: Mind Your Health, Rewired
In this unapologetically honest episode, Iâm pulling back the curtain on our so-called âhealthcareâ systemâand why itâs failing so many of us. I share my personal experience of waiting hours for a 5-minute doctor visit, navigating systemic red tape, and facing medical negligence, dismissal, and even emotional harm from practitioners who were supposed to help. đż This system wasnât built for wellnessâit was built for crisis. For code-based billing. For symptom suppression. And if youâve ever felt unseen, unheard, or unsafe in a doctorâs office, youâre not imagining it. But...
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When Wellness Becomes a War: My Journey from Self-Rejection to True Health
Human OSâ˘: Mind Your Health, Rewired
In this deeply personal episode, I open up about the toxic relationship I once had with my own bodyâmasked as âhealth.â What looked like discipline and dedication was actually self-rejection, shaped by cultural expectations, internalized shame, and a fixation on being thin over being well. đż I share how chasing perfection and attaching my worth to a number on the scale led to physical imbalance, emotional depletion, and a complete disconnect from my body. But now, in my 50s, I see clearly: true health has nothing to do with aestheticsâand everything to do with how we treat ourselves...
info_outlineFamily relationships are layered and multifaceted, shaped by a mix of shared history, genetic differences, and individual experiences. đ
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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