Narrative Medicine: Why Your Story Matters in Healing
In this episode, Andrea discusses why modern healthcare can sometimes reduce people to their diagnoses, why protocols alone cannot capture the complexity of an individual life, and how a person’s history, relationships, stress, sleep, joy, grief, and identity all belong in the healing conversation.
The Truth About Your Health
In this episode, Andrea breaks down what functional medicine actually means and explains its three foundational principles. She discusses the difference between functional medicine and functional nutrition, and why what happens between medical appointments can be just as important as what happens inside the doctor's office.
The Pause Between Your Symptom and Your Next Fix
In this episode, Andrea discusses the moment when you feel something is off and immediately reach for a fix. Andrea explores what happens if you don't reach quite so fast, and why that tiny space might be the thing that changes everything.
A New Way to Understand Your Body in Midlife
In this episode, Andrea discusses the note-card model of medicine and why it never told the whole story, unpacking the framework of story, soup, and skill that shapes real healing and shifting the focus from diagnosis to the whole person.
Looking Beyond Symptoms to the Roots of Health
In this episode, Andrea discusses how there is rarely just one "root cause," how our bodies function as interconnected systems, and why understanding the whole person—body, mind, environment, lifestyle, and lived experience—can completely change the way we approach healing.
Narrative Medicine & The Stories We Carry in the Body
In this episode, Andrea discusses how our personal stories and internal narratives shape our health, healing, and overall well-being.
Beyond the Labs: Embracing Narrative Medicine for True Healing
In this episode, Andrea takes us through her pioneering approach to functional nutrition and her evolution into narrative medicine, where the client's story and context become as essential as their lab results.
Redefining Aging
In this episode, Andrea flips the aging narrative, revealing how many factors including: society, diet, and even our beliefs shape our experience of getting older and how we can reclaim our vitality and purpose at any age.
Why Bone Health Isn't About Hacks
In this episode, Andrea discusses how digestion, blood sugar balance, inflammation, stress, hormones, and lifestyle factors all contribute to bone strength and healthy aging.
Messenger, Not Archive
Grief taught me the difference between the body keeping the score and what it's still reporting—right now.
The Answer Economy: A Pause Before You Accept the Next Solution Served
For two decades, I trained practitioners in functional nutrition. Thousands of them, across dozens of countries, learning to work with patients that the conventional system couldn't fully see. And the question that kept surfacing—from them, from their patients, from anyone trying to make sense of what this kind of care actually was—came down to the same thing.
Separate the Problem from the Solution
In this episode, Andrea discusses why many women struggle to find lasting answers for their health and what needs to change in the way we think about wellness.
It’s Not Just Your Body—It’s Your Story
In this episode, Andrea discusses why so many high-achieving women are doing everything right—yet still feel stuck in cycles of stress, burnout, and unresolved health issues. She unpacks the powerful connection between your biology and your biography, and why healing requires more than protocols—it requires understanding you.
Mending 12: reclaiming
Welcome to mending, a monthly haven where words meet inner wisdom, and stories intertwine with the art of health and healing. At the heart of Narrative Medicine is a belief in the power of the human story. Words, among other human expressions, have the ability to enlighten and connect us to our most vulnerable or even seemingly insignificant moments in life.
The Art of Transition: Why You Don't Need to "Fix" Your Next Chapter
In this episode, Andrea discusses transition, aging, and what it truly means to navigate life's changes with intention. Andrea challenges the "quick-fix" and "anti-aging" culture, inviting listeners to reimagine aging as a creative, meaningful, and self-defined experience rather than something to resist or reverse.
It’s Not Menopause, Mood Swings, or Motivation
In this episode, Andrea discusses how to decode your body’s signals, uncover hidden root causes, and reclaim your energy through science and self-awareness.
When Our Health Journeys Lead to Clutter
In this episode, Andrea discusses the importance of both traditional medicine AND functional medicine—and why the term "functional medicine" has been exploited to encourage overconsumption.
Passage 8: Provisional States — The craft of becoming
Portland looked like summer. Café doors open, sunlight pooling on the sidewalk, people moving as if the day had neither weight nor consequence. But for me, it wasn’t just a summer afternoon. It was split-screen.
When Hormone Therapy Isn’t the Answer
In this episode, Andrea discusses what happens when hormone replacement therapy (HRT) isn’t the right fit. Andrea shares how to navigate perimenopause and menopause naturally, focusing on root-cause healing, functional nutrition, and the body’s terrain—including sleep, gut health, blood sugar balance, and stress.
How Beliefs About Aging Affect Midlife Health and Longevity
In this episode, Andrea discusses how age beliefs influence inflammation, cortisol, heart health, memory, recovery, and even longevity.