E48: Finding the Root Cause: How Integrative Medicine and Frequency Therapy Affect Change

From corporate wireless executive to holistic healer, Dr. Heidi Golding's path to founding Living Well Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture (soon to be Golding Integrative Health) began with personal tragedy and led to a revolutionary approach to healing chronic pain and trauma.

Working from her Loveland, Colorado practice alongside other integrative practitioners, Dr. Golding blends traditional Japanese acupuncture with cutting-edge frequency-specific microcurrent therapy to address issues that conventional medicine often misses. "There's a root to your problem," she explains, "we can't just keep putting band-aids on it." This philosophy guides her work with patients who've frequently exhausted other options without finding relief.

What sets Dr. Golding's approach apart is her understanding that physical pain often stems from emotional sources. "Emotions get stuck in the body as pain," she shares, describing how her treatments clear blockages in the body's energy meridians. Using ultra-fine Japanese acupuncture needles and precisely calibrated electrical frequencies, she can even unravel scar tissue decades old, reset the nervous system, and help patients access deep healing states. As a former All-American gymnast herself, she particularly enjoys helping athletes perform at their peak, recently supporting a client preparing to climb Mount Everest.

Dr. Golding's story reminds us that sometimes our greatest professional calling emerges from our deepest personal wounds. After losing her sister to a rare cancer at just 18, questions about conventional medical approaches lingered. Years later, after being laid off from her telecommunications career, these questions resurfaced, leading her to spend seven years earning her doctorate in Chinese medicine while raising her children. Now, she offers the community weekly free Qi Gong classes and provides 15-minute consultations to anyone curious about this transformative approach to wellness. Ready to find the root cause of your health challenges? Visit https://www.livingwellchinesemedicine.com/ to discover how ancient wisdom and modern technology can work together to restore your well-being.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Good Neighbor Podcast, the place
where local businesses andneighbors come together.
Here's your host, Nick George.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Welcome to the Good Neighbor Podcast.
Are you in need of amultifaceted approach to
wellness that blendsfrequency-specific microcurrent
with the wisdom of ancientclassical Chinese medicine?
One such practice might becloser than you think.
Today I have the pleasure ofintroducing your good neighbor,
Heidi Golding, with Living Well,Chinese Medicine and

(00:32):
Acupuncture.
Heidi, how's it going?

Speaker 3 (00:35):
It's great, great to be here.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
We're excited to learn all about you and your
business, which is ChangingNames, I hear.
Tell us all about you and yourpractice.

Speaker 3 (00:44):
So I am in Loveland, colorado, and I have Living Well
Chinese Medicine that I work inconjunction with Dr Christy
Hall at Living Well Nutritionand we also have a postural
therapist here and it's kind ofquite an integrative practice we
have we do foot baths, we havea Theta pod, we have red light

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beds.
It's a beautiful practice andmy part of it is.
I am a doctor of Chinesemedicine, a licensed
acupuncturist and an advancedpractitioner of frequency
specific microcurrent and Icombine a bunch of different
modalities to get to the root ofproblems, health problems.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
Well, Dr Golding, how did you get into this business?

Speaker 3 (01:33):
You know it's funny, I have a background in the
corporate world.
I worked in wireless tech formany, many years.
I worked at Lucent Technologiesin New Jersey and AT&T and they
moved me to San Diego to workwith Cricket Wireless.
I have a very deepunderstanding of wireless
technology and then I got laidoff because the telecom industry

(01:57):
kind of went down.
My company, lucent, got boughtby Nortel and I was like huh,
what do I want to do?
And I decided to go back toschool.
I had two young children and Idecided to spend my time with
them while going back to school.
So a four-year degree ingetting a doctorate well, a
master's of Chinese medicineturned into a five-year degree

(02:19):
getting my doctorate.
But it was really seven yearsit took me to do that.
So I kind of took my time whileraising my kids and ended up
practicing in San Diego and thenwe moved here about six years
ago.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
Oh, you're a local now.
Yes, they say it takes thatlong.
What are some myths ormisconceptions in your industry?

Speaker 3 (02:39):
I think that you know a lot of people think that
acupuncture and Chinese medicinecould hurt or cause problems
and that's the farthest from thetruth.
I practice the Japanese form ofacupuncture, which uses very
tiny needles.
The depths are much less thanChinese acupuncture and it's a

(03:01):
modality that doesn't hurt atall.
It might hurt for a second andthen it goes away, as it's
moving energy through meridians.
It works by getting rid ofblocks in the body, and
frequency specific microcurrentis the modality that I use with
it in pretty much every case andit's kind of like eStim, but it

(03:22):
uses very specific frequenciesto get rid of problems in the
body as well by entraining thebody using frequency.
So, for example, if you havescar tissue, we can run a
frequency of scar tissue 13hertz on the body and it
literally unravels scar tissuethat might have been there for
30, 40, 50 years or even acouple weeks.
We can do it up to 10 daysafter an injury and then it

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helps healing.
That might have been there for30, 40, 50 years or even a
couple of weeks.
We can do it up to 10 daysafter an injury and then it
helps healing.
And so my understanding ofChinese medicine whereby there
are blocks in.
There's all these channels inthe body, there's 12 main
meridians.
If those channels, kind of likerivers, are blocked or dammed,

(04:03):
you're going to have pain, andso by using acupuncture In
conjunction with this frequencymicrocurrent, we can literally
get rid of old blockages, fromscars that most you know
modalities can't really touch,and that relieves a lot of pain.
So it really gets to the rootof a problem.

Speaker 2 (04:23):
How do you get the frequencies?
How do you get the frequenciesin them?
Does it go through the needleso we can?

Speaker 3 (04:28):
do that.
It's kind of it's FDA approvedas a TENS machine, so we will
use, you know, the sticky padsthat they put on people.
Or you can use towels andconnect to the towels it's what
I use mostly and so waterconducts through the body.
It's painless, it's really likemusic to the body.
So it doesn't if anything.
You just feel calm and relaxed.

(04:49):
Everybody gets a concussionprotocol, which is it resets
your whole nervous system beforewe start.
So because what we've realizedis, if you can get someone in to
a very relaxed state they callit the parasympathetic, it's the
opposite of that fight orflight state Then they can heal.
So everything I'm doing istrying to get them to that state

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and then amazing healinghappens.

Speaker 2 (05:16):
Who are your target customers that you're trying to
reach right now, and how are youtrying to reach them right now?

Speaker 3 (05:22):
You know it's really it's.
A lot of referrals come to menow and it's people that have
not been helped elsewhere.
Often it's people that have notbeen helped elsewhere.
Often it's people that have hadchronic pain, people that have
pain that they think is physical, but it really stems from
trauma or it stems from anemotional.
You know something that'semotional because emotions get

(05:45):
stuck in the body as pain, so itmight seem like it's orthopedic
and then they go to theorthopedic person and they can't
the surgeon and they can'treally find the issue or that's
not resolved.
That's usually an emotion or atrauma that's stuck.
So I'm really good with helpingpeople through that kind of
thing or just any kind of pain,whether it's emotional or

(06:08):
physical.
I was also an All-Americanathlete in my past, so I was an
All-American athlete in my past,so I was an All-American
gymnast.
So I love working with athletesand helping them.
You know, do their best.
I just helped someone that hadthat was going to climb Everest.
So I like working with peoplethat want to work at their peak
level, because acupuncture andFSM helps with that as well.

(06:31):
So my target is anybody thatwants to better themselves,
anyone that wants to have hopeand they might not have had it
in the past, or anyone thatwants to perform at their peak
and age really well.

Speaker 2 (06:48):
It strikes me that you're in an industry that would
help a lot more people if theyunderstood how legitimate it was
.
Have you ever thought aboutdoing your own podcast?

Speaker 3 (07:00):
No, I don't think I'm very good at it.
That's why I appreciate youdoing this so much, but no.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
I'm not good at it.

Speaker 3 (07:08):
It's really not my thing, but I do want to get the
word out, and so I reallyappreciate you doing this,
because it's really hard toshare.
But I do want to get the wordout, and so I really appreciate
you doing this, because it'sreally hard to share what it is
that I do, and that's whyreferrals are my best friend.
You know, people that have hadthe experience they can share,
but they can only share it, youknow, with two or three to seven
people.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
So Right Outside of work.
What do you do for fun?

Speaker 3 (07:28):
Well, like I said, I was a gymnast so I kind of need
to keep moving.
So I am a big yogi, I love yoga.
I teach a Qigong class.
It's free for the communityEvery Friday morning at 8 am.
You are welcome to come, butit's in Benson Sculpture Park
right now and then we move itindoors into leveling community

(07:52):
yoga at 8am on Fridays when itgets colder.
So I do that.
I love, you know, yoga, qigong,skiing we're big skiers, my
whole family and just walkingand jogging.

Speaker 2 (08:10):
Let's switch gears.
Can you describe a hardship orlife challenge that you overcame
and how it made you stronger?
What comes to mind?

Speaker 3 (08:19):
Well, it's kind of like why I do what I do now is
because I loved being incorporate America.
I loved working with wirelesstech.
I loved working with wirelesstech.
But when I was young, in myteen years, my sister died of a
very rare sarcoma, and I was 16.

(08:40):
She was 18, and that was verydifficult for me and my family.
And so then I went off tocollege the year after she died.
It was so difficult and I hadgot, you know, I focused on my
career, but it was later when Irealized, well, what do I really
want to do?
I just got laid off.

(09:01):
I really wanted to look at thebody differently than they had
when she was sick.
I wanted to understand, wasalways curious.
You know, why did they give hera chemo that they gave
everybody else with that samecancer and she passed?
You know, why did they look atthe body that way?
Why didn't they tell her thatsugar feeds cancer?
Why didn't they do all thesethings?
Why didn't they understand theplant-based diet for cancer, et

(09:23):
cetera, all the things,understand the plant-based diet
for cancer, et cetera, all thethings.
And so this studying Chinesemedicine, studying this ancient
modality, and even understandingFSM it allows me to look at the
body in such a different wayand give people hope.
You know, give people hope thatotherwise wouldn't, and it it
just every day I wake up, wakeup and I just have tears that I

(09:46):
just can do this.
It's just the most amazingthing to see people finally have
hope and feel better.

Speaker 2 (09:55):
Yeah, that hits home with me as well, Heidi.
Please tell our listeners onething they should absolutely
remember about living wellChinese medicine and acupuncture
.

Speaker 3 (10:04):
There is a root to your problem and we can't just
keep putting band-aids on itbecause you won't feel that
you're healed.
But if you but living well,Chinese medicine can really help
you get to the root of yourproblem.

Speaker 2 (10:21):
How can our listeners that don't that live through
their screens learn more aboutliving well?
Chinese medicine andacupuncture.

Speaker 3 (10:31):
So we have a website, of course, living well, chin
med or Chinese medicine dot com,and I have an Instagram account
, facebook account not terriblyactive, but the website is there
.
You can find out a lot more onthe website.
You can even schedule on thewebsite and feel free to call me
.
I'm happy to discuss it.
I also give free 15 minuteconsultations and even allow you

(10:56):
to take FSM home with you.
There's ways to do that throughan app on your phone.
And, yeah, I would absolutelylove to talk to anyone that's
interested in hearing more.
And feel free to come to myQigong class on Fridays at 8 am
in Benson Sculpture Park, rightacross from the high school on
Beach and 29th Street.
And, yeah, feel free to give mea call or go to the website.

(11:19):
We will be changing the name andit will be Golding Integrative
Health, because I think it's alittle bit broader.
It's not just Chinese medicinethat I do.
I do work a lot with herbs.
I didn't mention that as well.
So that's, I have a diplomat oforiental medicine which is a
whole year of study of Chineseherbs and it is a big part of my
practice.
But still, I think GoldingIntegrative Health will describe

(11:42):
our practice a little bitbetter.

Speaker 2 (11:46):
Well, heidi, we really appreciate you being on
our show and we wish you andGolden Integrative Health the
best moving forward.

Speaker 3 (11:53):
Thank you so much and thank you for what you do.
Thank you for bringing allthese small businesses to life.

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