Your Healing Playground - Dr. Tina Koopersmith This episode is a love letter to the power of words, breath, and life force. My guest, Sandra Amado, is an integrative family physician with over 15 years of experience who reminds us that healing is never just physical—it’s an intimate conversation between body, mind, spirit, and the language we live inside. Sandra shares her holistic approach to medicine, weaving together traditional family medicine, integrative care, pranic healing®, aromatherapy, and one of her deepest passions: the conscious use of words. She invites us to see ourselves as living instruments—wind instruments, to be exact—where breath becomes sound, sound becomes language, and language becomes medicine… or poison. In this conversation, we explore how life force is more than breath alone. The words we speak, the stories we repeat, and the language we absorb all circulate back into our bodies, influencing our energy, emotions, nervous system, and health. Words, like breath, can energize us and bring us back to aliveness—or quietly drain us, like a slow leak in our internal battery. Sandra also explains how pranic healing® works as a complementary, non-touch biofield therapy, how aromatherapy protocols can support healing on multiple levels, and why awareness and intention are powerful tools available to every human being—right now. This episode is a reminder that healing is not about choosing either medicine or energy, either science or spirit. It’s a YES-AND world. And it starts with listening—to the body, to breath, and to the words we choose to live by. If you’ve ever wondered how language, energy, and medicine intersect—this one’s for you. Sandra Amado Medina, M.D. is a Family Medicine board-certified physician that currently practices medicine in Katy, combining allopathic medicine with integrative therapies. She has completed a fellowship in integrative medicine with AIHM (Academy of Integrative and Holistic Medicine) after graduating from her residency in family medicine with NYMC (New York Medical College). She obtained her medical degree from the University of Sabana in Colombia. She has been interested in learning more regarding other healing techniques and became a pranic healer in 2010. She has been committed to helping the community and participates in multiple healing activities and strives to educate in health and mindfulness to the general public and health care practitioners. https://holisticcarefm.com/en/ 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/