Why It’s Your Duty to Have Good Health

As doctors we see first hand the toll illness and disease can take on our patients. 

We see them:

• missing out on work and income due to chronic pain
• taking medications with various side effects
• needing surgeries that take weeks to recover from
• losing abilities like walking, talking or even swallowing

Watching our patients suffer, we lament at how some of these illnesses, especially the ones caused by lifestyle diseases, were preventable. 

Oftentimes it is not until we lose our health ourselves though (whether short term or indefinitely) that we realize it’s true value.  

That begs the question, what is health to begin with? 

One common way of thinking about health is being free from disease. 

But I recently heard a definition I liked even better from author Sahara Rose in her book Discover your Dharma. 

She writes “The purpose of health is so that you don’t have to worry about your health anymore and you can instead focus on your purpose and dharma (your soul’s purpose).”

This definition rings so true to me because all it takes is one even short term illness, like the flu, to realize how difficult it can be to do our dharma.

But it goes beyond that. 

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Health for me is not just being free from illness, extra weight and chronic knee or back pain, but it’s also about having strength, energy, an upbeat mood and focus so that I’m able to fully live my dharma as a mom, wife, doctor and coach. 

Another common definition of dharma is “duty.” 

And what I have come to realize is that it is my duty to take care of this body, this gift, this vehicle that God gave me to house my soul for an entire lifetime. 

Because without my body functioning properly and having good health, then I’m not able to show up as my best in my roles as a mom, doctor and coach.  

As the phrase goes, "The genetic gun may be loaded, but it is we with our lifestyle who pull the trigger."

While not everything about my health is under my control, when it comes to chronic lifestyle diseases, there is so much power in my hands and so much I can do to keep my body healthy for as long as possible. 

And this is exactly what I teach Mama Docs just like you to do within my Mama Docs Weight Loss Accelerator.  

If you’re ready to step into your power and take back control of your health so you can truly live into your dharma as a mom and doctor, apply to work with me by clicking the button below, and I’ll show you the way to better health and your goal weight.