027: The Good and Not-So-Good of Being an Altruistic Overachiever, Taming the Downright Vicious Inner Critic and Healing Through Chinese Elements with Brodie Welch

Meet BrodieBrodie Welch is a Licensed Acupuncturist, board-certified herbalist, Chinese Medicine expert, group coach, and self-care strategist. She’s the founder of Life in Balance Acupuncture in Corvallis, Oregon, where she has been treating patients since 2003.In addition to her clinical practice, Brodie helps caring, high-achieving, women put themselves on their own to-do lists so they can trade stress and burnout for energy, joy, and vibrant health.She has helped thousands of clients improve their digestion, sleep, and mood; dial in a regular bodymind practice, and step into the next version of themselves. She’s also the creator and host of A Healthy Curiosity: the podcast that explores what it takes to be well in a busy world.My fave moments from this conversation:Brodie and I share the whole cobbler's children have no shoes syndrome...Brodie in the form of her own self-care and me (not) being able to strategize and plan for me (but a whiz-bang doing it for others!).The messages you receive early on when your dad is a functioning alcoholic (and fairly absent) and your mom is basically Superwoman.How being around kids (Brodie became a step-mom to two children who'd lost their mom) tends to bring up all the not so great stuff about our childhoods (Can I get an AMEN!).Asking why we put such unnecessary pressure on ourselves? Just...why?The shame of being a healer and not being able to cure yourself.How to be a good step-parent when you haven't had the best of role models and not wanting to carry forward traumas and wounds from your own childhood.And so much more including lessons from step-parenting, being an overachieving altruist, and healing through work with the Chinese elements.People + Resources MentionedEmelia Symington Fedy's thoughts on radical inconvenience as it relates to self-care (check out Emelia's episode on Going There)Tara Gentile, CEO of CoCommercial (where Brodie and I first met)What's Your Chinese Element - Brodie's amazing resource for learning more about your Chinese elementConnect with BrodieWebsite |Facebook | A Healthy Curiosity Podcast (check out my episode!)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.