Episode #110. Awaken your wellness. You are given the gift of life today. Dr Simran Malhotra MD, what a palliative care doctor learnt about living and how she beat her breast cancer gene risk by bilateral mastectomy & total hysterectomy.
11/26/22 • 50 min
Imagine you are given the gift of life. You may have already have it but are caught up in the business of life. You may not realise it or you may have genes hidden in your history lurking to come out at any moment that change your wellness. Self-care is not selfish but self-preservation.
Dr. Simran Malhotra is a triple board-certified physician in internal medicine, hospice & palliative care, and lifestyle medicine as well as a certified health and wellness coach. On episode #110 of the Thriving minds podcast we discuss how she survived BRCA 1 previvor with a strong family history of breast & female reproductive cancers and underwent a risk reducing bilateral mastectomy & total hysterectomy in 2020 at the age of 32. This is podcast episode is dedicated to my beautiful friend Fiona Van Der Poorten, who was not as lucky to get the gift of DNA sequencing at 26 years old to reduce her breast cancer risk and passed this year leaving behind 5 sons. In the last few hours, she posted on Facebook that the last 24 hours were the best of her life. Fiona wants you to have the best 24 hours of your life today.
After learning about her own genetic risk of cancer and her professional experiences in palliative care, she founded Coach Simran MD, a platform where she works with and educates women at high risk for cancer with or without genetic mutations on the powerful impact that positive lifestyle changes can have on their quality of life and even longevity.
She describes wellness as a mindset. That food is medicine, sleep is medicine and exercise is medicine. Through her real-life experiences as a patient, family member and palliative care physician. She became passionate about empowering and guiding women, particularly those at risk for serious illness on the powerful impact that positive lifestyle changes can have on the quality of life and longevity. Making decisions and following them with committed action.
We discuss the things that matter the most for people at the end of her life. It is not what you think. Awakening wellness and trying to get lifestyle medicine into palliative care.
Website: Wellness By Lifestyle MD | By Coach Simran MD
Blog: The Highfive Blog | Wellness by Lifestyle MD (coachsimranmd.com) Instagram: Lifestyle & Wellness Coach (@drsimran.malhotra) • Instagram photos and videos
Facebook: Coach Simran MD | Facebook Linkedin: Simran Malhotra MD | LinkedIn
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Learn more at www.profselenabartlett.com
Imagine you are given the gift of life. You may have already have it but are caught up in the business of life. You may not realise it or you may have genes hidden in your history lurking to come out at any moment that change your wellness. Self-care is not selfish but self-preservation.
Dr. Simran Malhotra is a triple board-certified physician in internal medicine, hospice & palliative care, and lifestyle medicine as well as a certified health and wellness coach. On episode #110 of the Thriving minds podcast we discuss how she survived BRCA 1 previvor with a strong family history of breast & female reproductive cancers and underwent a risk reducing bilateral mastectomy & total hysterectomy in 2020 at the age of 32. This is podcast episode is dedicated to my beautiful friend Fiona Van Der Poorten, who was not as lucky to get the gift of DNA sequencing at 26 years old to reduce her breast cancer risk and passed this year leaving behind 5 sons. In the last few hours, she posted on Facebook that the last 24 hours were the best of her life. Fiona wants you to have the best 24 hours of your life today.
After learning about her own genetic risk of cancer and her professional experiences in palliative care, she founded Coach Simran MD, a platform where she works with and educates women at high risk for cancer with or without genetic mutations on the powerful impact that positive lifestyle changes can have on their quality of life and even longevity.
She describes wellness as a mindset. That food is medicine, sleep is medicine and exercise is medicine. Through her real-life experiences as a patient, family member and palliative care physician. She became passionate about empowering and guiding women, particularly those at risk for serious illness on the powerful impact that positive lifestyle changes can have on the quality of life and longevity. Making decisions and following them with committed action.
We discuss the things that matter the most for people at the end of her life. It is not what you think. Awakening wellness and trying to get lifestyle medicine into palliative care.
Website: Wellness By Lifestyle MD | By Coach Simran MD
Blog: The Highfive Blog | Wellness by Lifestyle MD (coachsimranmd.com) Instagram: Lifestyle & Wellness Coach (@drsimran.malhotra) • Instagram photos and videos
Facebook: Coach Simran MD | Facebook Linkedin: Simran Malhotra MD | LinkedIn
Subscribe and support the podcast at
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Learn more at www.profselenabartlett.com
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Episode #109 Becoming fearless through brain training. Belinda Neil, hostage negotiator, empowering people in conflict resolution, negotiation and crisis management skills
How do you go from being a police officer included in undercover operations, major crime and homicide investigation, police hostage negotiation and as team Leader at both domestic and counter Terrorist level to being afraid to leaving your house?
This is the untold story for many people on the front-lines who are serving the community, protecting and keeping us safe. Firefighters, police officers, survivors of domestic violence and psychiatrists are just some of the groups of people prone to the condition, and a lot of it goes unnoticed and untreated.
This a story of how to survive and overcome terror and fear but how to thrive through brain training exercises with the help of expert psychiatrists and psychologists using psychiatry, psychotherapy and cerebellar exercises to not only overcome fear but to learn how to thrive beyond to become fearless.
Belinda Neil wants to help others not go through the same fate she endured. To be shown a light through the darkness and despair. In her best-selling memoir ‘Under Siege’ she outlines policing experiences and the ‘lived experience’ with PTSD.
Belinda Neil is an international keynote speaker, author, and former New South Wales Police Inspector. Her 18 year career as a police officer included undercover operations, major crime and homicide investigation, and, as police hostage negotiation Team Leader at both domestic and Counter Terrorist level and one of the five Hostage Negotiation Team Leaders during the Sydney Olympics.
Belinda is a passionate advocate of the importance of prevention and early intervention , as well as the provision of effective management tools to identify and address mental health issues. She also has a keen interest and extensive experience in the empowerment of people in the areas of Confliction Resolution, Negotiation and Crisis Management skills.
Belinda is a Board member of the not for profit organisation - FearLess PTSD Australian New Zealand and an Ambassador for Australian Kookaburra Kids Foundation. FearLess is now trying to get the national conversation moving around the issue, and acknowledge the whole problem to support trauma survivors and the people that care about them.
https://fearless.org.au/team/belinda-neil/
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Episode #111 You cannot tame it until you name it. You are not alone with Dr Ken Duckworth MD.
Everything that remains in silence stays in silence and you feel it to heal it.
Please join Dr Ken Duckworth who discusses his journey into psychiatry started when he was a boy growing up with a dad who experienced severe bipolar disorder. His father was loving, kind and periodically quite ill, hospitalized for months at a time. Ken became a psychiatrist in part to help his father. Ken is double-board certified in adult and child/adolescent psychiatry. He serves as the Chief Medical Officer for National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI).
Being alone has many bad outcomes for people. If possible, over this period of time, you can find support by reaching out to communities that understands what you are going through. There are people that are welcoming and has lived experience.
We discuss his new book “You Are Not Alone: The NAMI Guide to Navigating Mental Health―With Advice from Experts and Wisdom from Real People and Families.” Book is written with authority and compassion, this is the essential resource for individuals and families seeking expert guidance on diagnosis, treatment and recovery, featuring inspiring, true stories from real people in their own words.
NAMI is a very special community with an amazingly important mission. NAMI envisions a world where all people affected by mental illness live healthy, fulfilling lives supported by a community that cares. It provides advocacy, education, support and public awareness so that all individuals and families affected by mental illness can build better lives.
Remember you are not alone and if you need to reach out over this challenging period of time in Australia the links are:
https://sunlightcentre.com.au/
https://www.beyondblue.org.au/
https://www.headspace.com/
The wisdom of trauma facebook group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/765092144141751/
https://www.profselenabartlett.com/contact
USA organisation links are at:
https://www.nami.org/
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