Healing Anxiety, Depression, & Grief Through Acupuncture: Stephanie's Story | Healing Heroines

In the newest installment of our Healing Heroine series, Chandler sits down with Stephanie, a wife, mother, yoga teacher, and Reiki master. Stephanie reflects on her profound journey that began with infant loss and led her to a spiritual awakening. Alongside her is Acupuncturist and Hero Jacques Depardieu, an expert in East Asian Medicine and a core figure in Stephanie’s healing.

Stephanie opens up about her fertility struggles, the loss of her child, and her experience with years of debilitating depression. Her search for relief eventually led her to yoga, Reiki, and ultimately - acupuncture.

Together, Stephanie and Jacques explore how reconnecting spiritually, reframing beliefs, and how learning to trust intuition transformed her sense of self, motherhood, and daily life.  

What You Will Learn

• [00:06:20] How years of loss, infertility treatments, and medical trauma built into unresolved grief and anxiety.
• [00:08:48] What it felt like when panic attacks began taking over daily life and becoming overwhelming.
• [00:10:31] How discovering yoga and meditation revealed the mind-body-spirit connection she had been missing.
• [00:11:47] Why her body rejected certain treatments and pushed her toward deeper answers.
• [00:20:37] What felt different the first time she met Jacques and why his approach stood apart from other acupuncturists.
• [00:24:51] How acupuncture helped her reconnect with her intuition and experience moments of peace in her own body.
• [00:39:09] The importance of energetically supporting her children by leading with love rather than fear.
• [00:49:00] How reframing her beliefs helps her navigate harder days and stay grounded in her spiritual growth.

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