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February 2, 2026 55 mins
Your Healing Playground - Dr. Tina Koopersmith  What if Wonder Woman isn’t a fictional character at all—but a lived identity we each carry inside? This week on Your Healing Playground, we welcome Char McCreadie, whose life journey moves from red-hot determination, through blue-steel discipline, with just enough yellow joy and green healing to remind us what being fully human really means. At 17, Char set her sights on becoming an athlete and a military officer. From the military to medicine, her early life was shaped by rules, structure, service, and achievement—proof that worth was earned through devotion, grit, and relentless forward motion. Like so many of us, she was taught that work was life, and service was success. Then, in her late 20s, her battlefield changed. An unexpected reproductive cancer diagnosis began a nearly two-decade journey of healing—while raising a family, serving full-time in the military, and building early entrepreneurial dreams. Eventually, Char made a radical and courageous realization: life is precious, and work alone is not the point. Play, joy, gratitude, and connection became her medicine. Loving her body—rather than fighting it—helped her heal not only from cancer, but from rigidity, burnout, and disconnection. She rediscovered that life is sweetest when we meet heart to heart, soul to soul, and allow ourselves to dance through it. This episode is an invitation to every woman: To know your inner warrior To honor your strength and your softness To live with joy in your heart and rhythm in your step Because Wonder Woman isn’t imaginary. She’s remembering herself—and so can you. Tune in this week wherever you listen to podcasts. This Overcomer's story takes you on the ride of your life with a lifetime of lessons. Warrior. Fighter. Veteran. Thriving Survivor. Champion. Speaker. Leader. Multi-time Best Selling Author and Mobile Entrepreneur. Char McCreadie served in Desert Shield/Storm and is a 9-11 Pentagon Survivor, and part of the first decade of women to graduate from the US Air Force Academy with an Officer Commission. She also received three Masters Degrees through the US Air Force Institute of Technology Non-resident Program. As the Lead Warrior Woman, Char helps entrepreneurs create greater freedom and success by connecting with their Inner Warrior using her 3-Step Transformational System. Using her diverse background, blended with her real- life warrior experience and healing journey, she offers practical steps to help others live a courageous life in bold humility mixed with humor and fun too! The Warrior Mindset & Power tools aren't just for soldiers - they are for All! After all, Wonder Woman is NOT a fictional character! https://mydigitalhomepage.com/char-mccreadie/ What Am I – Children’s Book   Author Dr. Tina Koopersmith   https://tinakoopersmith.com/what-am-i-childrens-book/   ~ More About Your Healing Playground with Dr. Tina Koopersmith ~  Dr. Tina Koopersmith has practiced Western medicine for over 30 years. But she is so much more than a physician. An integrative medicine and fertility specialist, she is a transformational healer and coach who not only brings life to her patients but reminds them that it is their responsibility and, in their power, to bring themselves back to vibrancy and vitality. Root cause healing starts with energy, emotions, communication—between your cells and your soul. As a speaker-coach-author as well as mother, nonconformist, and recovering perfectionist, she is dedicated to modifying our health care system from one focused on illness and sickness to one devoted to prevention and wellness. She reminds us all that love, play, pleasure and purpose are the secret ingredients to wellness. She starts with the premise we all have the same parts and very similar DNA, and yet we all have different experiences and imprinting. Our unique signature means we are all wired to access safety and pleasure in a slightly different fashion; this diversity is to be praised and celebrated. When our body feels safe, we can move from our “childhood” survival stress mode to our “Wise Sage Self”. Healing, recovery and regeneration thrive only when we stop resisting what is and celebrate all of life with acceptance of the NOW. Health and Wellness is nourished with empathy, compassion innovation and connection—a total integration of the mind body, the heart body, the physical body and the energetic. ALL are worthy of self-care, self-acceptance and self-love. To learn more: https://drtinaplays.com/  or drtina@drtinaplays.com   To get more of Your Healing Playground with Dr Tina Koopersmith, be sure to visit the archives page for replays of all her shows here: https://www.inspiredchoicesnetwork.com/podcast/your-healing-playground-dr-tina-koopersmith/
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