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Dr.Julia Bowlin: [00:00:00] There is a particular kind of discomfort that shows up when everything is technically working, when our account is fine, when the bills are paid, when by every reasonable measure things are okay, and yet something still feels off
Dr.Julia Bowlin: Take one deep breath and let this episode meet you where you are. I'm Dr. Julia Bowlin, and this is Mindset Medicine, and okay, we're gonna do this. We are actually talking about money this month, and before you close the app or hit stop, I promise this is not that conversation about budgets. No spreadsheets, no budgets, and no one is gonna tell you you have to stop buying coffee.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: What we are going to do is something that honestly takes more courage than a budget ever could. We're going to look at the relationship we have with money, the one that most [00:01:00] of us have been in for decades and have completely never examined. The one running quietly underneath how we earn, how we spend, how we rest, how we work, and how we show up for ourselves even when the numbers look perfectly fine on paper.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: This series is called Enough: What We Earn, How We Rest, and Whether We Deserve It. There's four episodes, one very honest conversation that most financial advisors never give to people anywhere. And here is why I built this episode series, because I have never met a single person whose relationship with money was actually only about the money.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: Not one, including me. Well, especially me. So let's go. So here's what we're gonna do this month, and I wanna give you the full picture before we really dive in. June is beginning a [00:02:00] four-part series called Enough: What We Earn, How We Rest, and Whether We Deserve It. And I built this series because scarcity is not just a financial experience, it is a system, one that runs quietly in the background of how we earn, how we spend, and how we rest, how we work, and how we show up in our lives, often without us ever realizing that program is even running in the background.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: The first episode is where we're gonna start the foundation, the relationship itself, the one most of us have never really actually examined. Next week in episode two, we go back even further to where these beliefs actually came from before they were beliefs, before they were patterns, to what actually got quietly handed down to us before we ever had the language of understanding what's been passed into us and around us around money.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: Episode three takes it even wider. We're going to really recognize, [00:03:00] because scarcity doesn't even stay contained to money. It moves. Scarcity moves into scarcity of time, scarcity of rest, into freedoms, into how we present ourselves in our own lives. And lastly, episode four, that's where we're gonna talk about what enough actually feels like, not as a concept, but as a lived experience of what is enough.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: Four episodes, one very honest conversation, and folks, it's all starts right here Here's what I've noticed, and I say this as someone who's lived this personally, not just observed it professionally. There is a particular kind of discomfort that shows up when everything is technically working, when our account is fine, when the bills are paid, when by every reasonable measure, things are okay, and yet something still feels off.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: Not dramatically [00:04:00] not off, not like this huge crisis, but just this low hum. Maybe a tightness that doesn't have a clear address or a sense that the math is right, but something in the equation feels unresolved. And here's what's funny about that, and I mean funny in the most human recognizable way. We will check our accounts again, as if checking it a second time is going to change the feeling, and here's a spoiler.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: It doesn't change the feeling. Or maybe the pattern looks different for you. Maybe spending is the thing that gives you relief. That little exhale of finally doing something for yourself, a little retail therapy, and then approximately four minutes later, guilt shows up right behind it like it's just been hanging out waiting for us.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: Maybe other people feel like it's something that has to be earned before allowed, like there's an invisible checklist somewhere that if you check off every single box, now you're okay, and [00:05:00] yet you might still feel like you're cheating when you spend money. We're all crazy about things like this, and I lived like that for a very long time.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: A very long time. And my husband would say, and bless him for his patience, because he said this about ten thousand times, "Just sit down for a minute. Just relax." And I would look at him like he suggested that was something completely unreasonable, because in my internal world, it was. There was always something else, something that needed doing before rest was earned or justified for me, and something that had to be earned before I was allowed to stop.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: He never got it because he never had that same internal processing. And here's the thing. For me, the earning never ended, and the rest never came. I just kept going. After work, after dinner, burning the midnight oil, tapped out, running on empty, and honestly, [00:06:00] irritable in a way that had nothing to do with what was actually happening around me, and this went on for a better part of several decades.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: Not because I didn't have enough, I've been very blessed. I've had enough. But because somewhere along the way, I had decided, without ever consciously deciding, that rest had to be deserved. And apparently, my bar for deserving it was set somewhere just out of reach always I hate to admit that. It's a little bit shameful actually for me.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: But, you know, especially since I, I preach mindset medicine and personal awareness medicine and taking care of yourself, but I promise I got there. I did, which is why I'm writing these episodes. Or maybe it's the finish line thing, the when I hit this number, I will relax thing. Except we might never hit the number Or we keep moving the finish line, and now there's a new number.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: So the relaxing keeps getting scheduled for [00:07:00] later and later and later because we never hit the number that we want to be able to relax. I've done all these things. At various points, I've done them all simultaneously at times, which is, in itself, kind of impressive actually. Well, anyway. And none of it, not one single piece of it, was actually a money problem.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: It was a meaning problem. The money was fine. The relationship with money, that was the thing worth looking at, and that is exactly where we are starting today. I want to start with something I've said to myself many, many times, and I'll put it out here first so it has a chance to land a little bit before anything else does.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: Money is one of the clearest mirrors most of us have, and we almost never look at it. Now, when I say that, I don't mean how much you have. I don't mean your net worth or even your savings rate or whether you've maxed [00:08:00] out your 401this year. That's not the mirror I'm talking about. What I mean is this: the way you relate to money, how you feel about it, how you move around it, what you tell yourself about it, what you do with it, and maybe more importantly, what you absolutely refuse to let yourself do with it.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: Now, that reveals something about your internal world that is remarkably consistent, remarkably patterned, and almost entirely invisible until someone holds it up in front of you. And that is not always a comfortable thing to see because most of us grow up in environments where money was talked about in a very specific ways or where it wasn't talked about at all, which is, in and of itself, a very specific kind of message.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: Either way, that shaped something, something that didn't come with a label, something that didn't announce itself. [00:09:00] It just quietly became the operating system that we acquire, and it keeps running long after the original circumstance was gone. I see it in myself, in my own story really clearly now, and I couldn't see it for a long, long time.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: Here's what my system actually looked like. My husband and I had his accounts, my accounts, and a joint account. The joint account covered all our household bills, our mutual expenses. We were each responsible for our own finances. He did his own investing. I got a financial advisor. Clean, organized, and responsible.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: And on paper, it was fine. More than fine. But here's the part that nobody saw, including me, for the longest time. I would move money around so I couldn't clearly see how much I actually had. Not because the money wasn't there, it was there. I would just redistribute it, [00:10:00] shift it, making the checking account look leaner than it was, because if I could see the abundance clearly, if the number was sitting right there in front of me, that was uncomfortable.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: I was afraid I would stop, stop pushing myself, stop creating, stop earning, stop having motivation to keep going if I saw abundance in my checking account. You might think some of that's crazy, but I'm telling you, scarcity is a motivator, right? And I manufactured scarcity deliberately as motivational energy.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: And I'm a physician. I know better. And I still did it for years. Because here's the thing, it worked. I got up every morning. I kept building. I kept creating. The manufactured not enoughness was my engine. Take that away from me, and who knew what was gonna happen? Well, meanwhile, and this is the part that still makes me laugh a little bit, [00:11:00] my husband operated as if he was always in abundance.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: He struggled growing up. There wasn't abundance. He's worked hard. He created abundance, and he was operating as if he was in abundance because he was, and he knew it, and he didn't need to hide it from himself to stay motivated. He would look at the accounts, he would feel fine, and he would go about his day.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: Quite the opposite of me. I would look at the accounts, immediately move something around, feel the familiar tightness, the motivational, that, that little scarcity feeling, and use that tightness to fuel the next thing on my list. Same household, same financial reality, two different internal experiences of it.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: So we also didn't really talk about money. Not in real, honest, honest, what does this mean to us kind of way. It wasn't a fight we avoided. It was just not a conversation that happened, and that silence has its own kind of [00:12:00] message. And what I didn't understand, what took me a genuinely embarrassing amount of time to really understand, is that none of that system was about money.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: It was what I believed would happen if I stopped running from the feeling of not enoughness. The money was fine. The relationship with money, now that was a thing that needed a much closer look. And that is what Mindset Medicine is designed to do. Not fix the account, but to look at the relationship And look, my version of this is just one version because money confusion is remarkably creative, and it shows up differently in almost everyone, and yet somehow it's always kind of recognizable.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: There's the person who genuinely does not look at their account, not because they're irresponsible, they're actually quite responsible, but because the number, whatever it is, [00:13:00] produces a feeling they'd rather not have before nine AM. So they keep the app closed. The statements go unopened. What you don't confirm can't ruin your morning.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: Then there's another person who spends when there's stress. Little retail therapy, maybe not recklessly, but just a little something, a purchase, a treat, a very reasonable item that was on sale anyway. Haha. And for about 11 minutes, everything might feel better. And then the package arrived. If you have never heard of Primesnia, the Amazon package from Prime arrives, and you're like, "Oh, what's in that?"
Dr.Julia Bowlin: And then the package arrives, and the relief is already gone, and there's a vague sense that this isn't really the solution. But next week, stressed again, back to the cart. Then there's a person who has plenty, genuinely measurably plenty, and still cannot bring themselves to spend it. They have the money.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: They will not use the money. The money sits there [00:14:00] growing while they debate for three weeks whether a new pair of shoes is justified. Their children will inherit a very healthy account and a complete inability to buy for themselves anything nice. Then there's another type of person who might have grown out without much, built something real, earns really well now, and still cannot walk past a clearance rack, still buys a lower brand, still feels a flicker of something when the bill comes in at the restaurant, even though they could pay for it 12 times over.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: The bank account changed, but the nervous system did not get the memo. Still feels uncomfortable. And how about another kind of person who tracks every single dollar with an almost athletic level of dedication, spreadsheets, categories, monthly reviews, color-coded even, and yet they're still anxious because the tracking was really not what it was about.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: It was about trying to feel in control [00:15:00] of something that has always felt slightly out of control. Then there's the person who will not accept help, cannot receive a gift without immediately calculating how to return the favor, cannot let someone pay for dinner without a low level of discomfort that does not fully resolve until they've picked up that next check.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: Generosity from others lands like debt. Then there's the one final particular one that I find fascinating. This is the kind of person who earns more and somehow ends up with the same amount left over. Every raise, every bonus, every increase gets quietly absorbed because their lifestyle expands. The number at the end of the month stays roughly identical.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: There's a ceiling on having enough that moves up every single time it gets approached. In other words, make more, spend more, make more, spend more. Different people, different patterns, different versions of the same underlying conversation. None of these [00:16:00] is a character flaw. Not one is a math problem. Every single one of them is about relationship because there's a meaning that we assign to money.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: And here's the thing about money that makes it so uniquely charged, and I mean charged in a way that almost nothing else in the human experience quite matches. We treat money like it's a purely practical thing, a tool, numbers on a screen. And on a logical level, that's exactly what it is. But here's what's actually happening underneath the logic.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: Every single one of us has an attached meaning to money that has nothing to do with money itself. What it says about us, what it proves, what it protects, what it signals to the world and to ourselves. And that meaning, not the balance, not the budget, not the number, is what's [00:17:00] actually running the show. The meaning.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: For some people, money means safety, not comfort, safety. And there's a difference. Comfort is a preference. Safety is a survival. And when money means safety at that level, even a small or temporary dip in the account doesn't feel like a minor inconvenience. It feels like a threat. That was me. The response is physical.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: The chest tightens. The mind starts running worst-case scenarios. And the actual dollar amount is almost besides the point because there was never really issues about the dollar amount. For some people, money means proof, proof of worth, proof that the work means something, proof that sacrifices added up to something real, which sounds reasonable until you realize what it also means, that without money or without enough of it, [00:18:00] the worth disappears too.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: And that, folks, is an exhausting equation to live inside. For some people, money means freedom. And the absence of it, or even the fear of the absence of it, means they're trapped, they're stuck, there's no options. And people who carry that meaning will make financial decisions that look completely irrational from the outside but make total sense from the inside.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: Because every decision is actually about preserving the feeling of being able to leave, to move, to choose. For some people, and this one doesn't get talked about nearly enough, money means love It's how love was demonstrated growing up. It's how care showed up. It's so spending on other people feels like loving them, and not spending feels like withholding something more than money.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: And receiving generosity from others, gifts, [00:19:00] gestures, someone picking up the check, lands with a discomfort that's oftentimes very hard to explain and really hard to shake if money means love. And for some people, and I will own this one completely, money means motive. Not enough is fuel. The slight scarcity, real or manufactured in my case, is why you get out of bed.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: It's what keeps you moving, keeps you building, keeps you creating. And abundance, real, visible, comfortable abundance feels dangerous. Like it might make you soft, like it might make you stop. And again, I know this one from the out- from the inside, and I'll tell you where I am right now with it because I think it matters.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: For most of my adult life, abundance felt suspicious. Even though I had abundance, it felt suspicious. It felt uncomfortable, like something that needed to be hidden from myself so I wouldn't lose my edge. I [00:20:00] redistributed my funds. I kept accounts looking leaner than they were. Scarcity was my engine. And then I lost my husband.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: Man, and this is a guy that liked to live in abundance, right? And something shifted in a way I did not expect. Because now there is a real sense of unsafety in my life, the kind that has nothing to do with an account balance, and grief does that. Loss does that. It pulls the floor out in ways that money cannot fix and cannot cause.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: And what I've noticed, what I'm actually actively working on right now, is that I'm letting the accounts sit for a lot of reasons. I'm not redistributing. I'm not manufacturing the lean, the lean, mean, keep it scarcity. I'm allowing the numbers to reflect what's actually true, which is that financially I am safe It is really unfamiliar and it's uncomfortable in a completely different way than [00:21:00] the old discomfort was.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: But it's honest, and for the first time, abundance feels less like a reason to stop and more like a reason to just allow me to exist, and that's important right now as I'm grieving on the regular. It's okay to feel abundance and safety right now. That's not a small gift. That took a long time for me to get to, and I'm still getting there.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: None of these meanings were consciously chosen. Nobody sat down at any point and decided, "I'm going to go out and assign this particular meaning to money and let it quietly run my entire internal world from here on." That is not how it works. These meanings got quietly built in childhood kitchens, on car rides, in overheard conversations, and things that were said once and never repeated, but somehow never left our brains.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: In what we celebrated and what was shaming and [00:22:00] what was simply just never discussed at all, and then we grew up. The circumstances changed, the meanings changed, which is why two people can sit inside the exact same financial reality, same income, same accounts, same household even, and have completely different internal experiences of it.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: Numbers are identical, the meaning is not, and it is always, always the meaning running the show So let me pause here for a second because what's happening right now isn't random. The reason money hits so hard emotionally, why a simple conversation about finances can just completely destabilize someone or make them shut down before it even starts, or produce a shame response that's wildly out of proportion to what's actually happening, is because something in our brains is literally doing it in real time.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: And I want to [00:23:00] explain this in a way that actually lands, not in some clinical way that sounds like a lecture. But here we go. Your brain is a meaning-making machine. That's it. That's what it does all day, every day, constantly assigning significance to everything. It doesn't just notice something and file it away neutrally.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: It notices something and immediately goes, "Okay, what's that mean? What is this signal? What do I do about this?" And then it stores the answer, not as this happened, but as a rule, a framework, and this is how it works that it will apply the next time similarly every time something shows up. It creates a rule, builds a framework, and then applies it over and over again.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: And here's the part that usually surprises people. You don't get to choose when it happens. You don't get a vote. It just happens in a [00:24:00] fraction of a second below our awareness before our conscious mind even gets a seat at this table. So you open a financial app, and what your brain does in that fraction of a second is it matches that number against every framework it has ever built around money, every conversation overheard, every moment of tension it felt in the room, every time someone reacted to a bill or a balance or a choice, every single thing.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: And before you've even fully registered what the number says, our body already knows how to feel about it. A tightness or a relief, or the urge to close it immediately, or the compulsion to check in again in four minutes thinking we might see something different. All of that is already firing. That is not us being dramatic.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: That is not us being irrational. That is our brain being incredibly efficient, and the [00:25:00] brain loves efficiency. It would rather be right than comfortable, and it would rather be fast than accurate. Now, here's what makes money particularly interesting to the brain. At a very deep, very old level, we're talking ancient brain here, money is connected to survival Resources equal safety.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: Resources equal whether you eat or you don't, whether you have shelter or you don't. So the brain does not treat money casually. It treats it like a survival-level input, which means when you get a message about money, good news, bad news, or no news at all, your nervous system is responding to it the same way it would respond to an actual threat.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: I'm not being poetic here. I'm being literal. Your nervous system sometimes cannot tell the difference between a [00:26:00] scary bank account and a bear. Seriously. Which explains why a conversation about finances can produce the exact same physical response, a racing heart, tightness, the shutdown, as an actual threat.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: So when there's that knot in your chest the moment you open an app, even when the balance is completely fine, you're not overreacting. Your brain is running a very old meaning to a very current moment. The knot is real. The trigger is real. The meaning underneath it? Now, that one's worth paying attention to.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: And here's what I want you to understand as we move through this. Your brain is not broken. It is not confused. It is not failing you. It has built a framework that makes complete sense at some point. Maybe when you were eight years old in your parents' kitchen, maybe when you were 16 and overheard a conversation that landed differently than it was meant to, [00:27:00] maybe a dozen different moments that added up to a rule.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: And that rule has been running ever since, efficiently, reliably, without even asking your permission. This isn't who you are. It's a pattern your brain learned. And the second we can see it, not fight it, not fix it, not shame ourselves for having it, just see it clearly, something shifts. And that shift is everything So here's where I have to be honest with you, because this is the part where a lot of people, myself included, for a long time, go looking for the fix, the strategy, the thing to do differently, the system that's finally gonna make money feel okay.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: And I've tried them all. I had the accounts, I had the financial advisor, I had the tracking and the spreadsheets and the very organized, very deliberate system that I told myself was just responsible [00:28:00] adult behavior. And none of it touched the actual thing, not because my systems were wrong, but because the system was never where the problem lived.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: I spent years calling what I do ambition, and there was real ambition in it. I'm not taking that away from myself. But underneath the ambition was something quieter and a lot more scared, something that had decided a very long time ago that it wasn't safe to stop, that ease was dangerous, that if I relaxed my grip even slightly, that something would slip.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: And I didn't know what was happening. I just knew I couldn't sit down. I knew rest felt like risk, and I knew that the accounts needed to look a certain way before I could breathe. And even then, the breathing was short. And folks, that's not ambition. That's a pattern running on an old, [00:29:00] very old belief. And here's the thing about patterns.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: They don't respond to willpower. They don't respond to better budgeting apps or financial planning or telling yourself to think more positively about money. Those things live on the surface, but the patterns lives underneath. All right, so what actually starts to shift things is so much simpler than any of that, and it's also so much harder.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: It's just getting curious instead of reactive Not fixing, not analyzing, not immediately trying to make things go away or trying to get the feeling to go away. Just when the feeling shows up, get genuinely curious about where it started. Because I can almost promise you it didn't start with your current bank account.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: It started somewhere earlier, something you watched, something you [00:30:00] absorbed, something that got decided before you were old enough to question whether it was even true. And that is worth knowing. Not so you can blame anyone, not so you can spread the next six months in your own head dissecting your childhood.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: Don't do it. Just so you can see it, that's all, so you can recognize it when it shows up and go, "Oh, there it is. That's the old thing," not the current thing. That tiny moment of recognition, everybody, that fraction of a second where you see the pattern instead of just living in it or reacting to it, that is where things start to loosen.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: And it's not dramatic. It doesn't feel like this monstrous breakthrough. It just feels like a little bit more room, a little bit more space between the feeling and the reaction, and that [00:31:00] space is everything. All right, I wanna offer something here. Not an assignment, not a homework situation. I promise I'm not gonna send you off with a list of things to journal about and a worksheet to complete by next week.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: I've done that in the past, I know. But just a moment. You know, in medicine, I say this to people all the time. Oftentimes you don't need another prescription, you don't need another medication, and you don't need another lab test. What you need is a prescription for personal awareness medicine, and that's exactly what this is.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: Instead of your physical health, we are applying it to your finances, to the relationship that you have with money, to the pattern that's been running so quietly and so efficiently that most people never even think to look at it. Because here's the thing about awareness, it doesn't require a diagnosis.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: It doesn't [00:32:00] require a crisis. It doesn't require hitting a wall before it becomes useful It just requires a willingness to notice. So here's your prescription for today. Think about the last time money came up for you, and it doesn't have to be dramatic again. It doesn't have to be a crisis or a big decision again.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: It could be as simple as checking an account, paying a bill, making a purchase you second-guessed immediately after, hearing someone else talk about what they earn or what they spend and what they have. Just pick a moment, any moment, and instead of going straight to the thought, instead of analyzing the situation, justifying the decision, or calculating whether it was right or wrong, just notice what was underneath it.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: That's it. Was there tightness? Was [00:33:00] there relief that surprised you? Was there a flicker of something uncomfortable that passed so quickly that you almost missed it? Was there guilt that showed up before you even finished the transaction? I've been there. I've been giving my credit card going, "Uh, I don't think I should buy this."
Dr.Julia Bowlin: Okay, whatever was there, that's the data. That's the prescription working. Not a verdict, not evidence that something is wrong with you or wrong with your situation, just information, a little breadcrumb pointing somewhere worth following. And you don't have to follow it today. You don't have to have an answer.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: You don't have to turn this into a massive project. Just be willing to notice. Because in my experience, both personally and professionally, that willingness to notice is almost always the beginning of something [00:34:00] real. Not the dramatic something, not the transformation something, just a quiet shift, a little more honesty with yourself about what has actually been running the show.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: And that is where personal awareness medicine does its work. Not in a lab, not on the prescription pad, right here in the moment you finally get curious about what's underneath it. So take a deep breath for a second and think about what we actually did here today. We didn't talk about budgets. We didn't talk about investing.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: We didn't talk about debt payoff strategies or savings rates or any of those things that usually show up when someone says the word money. What we talked about today was relationship, the relationship with money, the one that's been running quietly underneath it all, the one that shapes how we earn, how we spend, how we rest, and whether [00:35:00] we allow ourselves to stop.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: The one that most of us have never actually sat down and examined. Not because we didn't want to, because nobody told us that the conversation was worth having. And here's what I hope lands from today. Feelings around money are not random. They are not character flaws. They are not evidence that you are bad with money or bad at life or somehow behind where you should be.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: They're patterns built quietly over time from things you watched and absorbed and inherited before you had any say in the matter. And patterns, once you see them clearly, start to loosen. And that's not a promise of dramatic transformation. That is just how awareness works, slowly and quietly. And then one day you [00:36:00] respond, you notice that you responded differently than you used to.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: And suddenly you can't quite point to the moment it changed. It just did because the awareness popped in. That, folks, is personal awareness medicine doing exactly what it's designed to do. And next week we go deeper, and I mean that in the best possible way. Because if today was all about recognizing that the relationship exists, next week is about understanding where it actually came from.
Dr.Julia Bowlin: Before it was a pattern, before it was a belief, back where it started in the environments we grew up in, the things we absorbed before we had any words for it, and the stories that we've been living inside without ever consciously choosing them. That episode might be the one that makes something finally click, the one where you hear something and think, "Oh, that's where that came from."[00:37:00]
Dr.Julia Bowlin: I'll see you soon, and thank you for spending this time with me. Until next time, may you be happy, be healthy, and be fulfilled.
Outro: Thank you for listening to Mindset Medicine with your host, Dr. Julia Bowlin. To learn more about Mindset Medicine, go to www.juliabowlinmd.com and connect with Dr. Julia to find out how our team can help you today. Join us again next week for more expert tips, tools, and strategies to become healthier, wealthier, and wiser in your personal and professional life.
