Mindset Medicine Show With Dr. Julia Bowlin

Julia A Bowlin, M.D.
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This Mindset Medicine Podcast is the place to hang out with a “Doc” who steps out of the Box (Or should I say exam room)….This is a no nonsense unfiltered and in your face place to just hang and learn strategies on how to be happier, healthier, and more fulfilled at work AND at home. Dr. Julia and her guests remove their professional veneer and verbal filters to bring you REAL tips, tools, and hacks that she and her colleagues have found to be helpful after 40 years in the self-help and health industry that helps them unwind, organize, and manage the chaos that life and personal belief systems create.

  1. 5d ago

    When Giving Everything Leaves Nothing for You

    When Giving Everything Leaves Nothing for You Everything still looks like love. The late nights, the "of course, I don't mind," the way we make sure everyone else is okay before we even ask about ourselves. But somewhere along the way, one of those things quietly stopped being love — and started being the reason we ended up last on our own list. In This Episode, We Explore: Why the same word — devotion — can describe both real love and a slow disappearing act How one small, loving decision can turn into a pattern nobody consciously chose What happens in a relationship when a voice that's been quiet for years finally speaks up Why finding a voice again isn't what breaks things — and what that distinction actually means A different way to think about giving, using two pictures that make it click instantly This week's Unicity Moment™: an invitation to notice what a long-quiet voice might actually be saying Key Insight It looks like being easygoing. It gets called devotion, or being low-maintenance, or just "how I am." What it actually is, sometimes, is a voice that went quiet so long ago, we forgot it used to speak — and started calling the silence a virtue instead. A Note on the Unicity Moment™ The Unicity Moment™ featured in this episode is offered for general reflection and wellness purposes only. It is not therapy, medical treatment, or a substitute for professional mental health care, and listening to it does not create a therapist-client, doctor-patient, or coaching relationship between Dr. Julia Bowlin and the listener. If you are experiencing a mental health crisis, please contact a licensed professional or your local emergency services. Reflection Question Is there a place in my life right now where I'm calling something "love" or "being easy to get along with" — that might actually be a voice that's gone quiet? Stay Connected Want to know when I'm hosting live events or offering something new? That's exactly what my newsletter is for — it's where I share it first, before anywhere else. Join at [juliabowlinmd.com]. Books Worth Your Time To Me I Thee Wed— my own book on identity, and the stories we tell ourselves about love.  Overcoming the Superwoman Syndrome by Marjorie Hansen Shaevitz — a clear-eyed look at what happens when doing it all quietly becomes an identity — and what it takes to set that identity down.  Connect With Dr. Julia Linktree (all links): https://linktr.ee/JuliaBowlin.MD Website: https://www.juliabowlinmd.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIasxi_iBRBFd1CYuCEeD-g Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrJuliaBowlin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/juliabowlinmd/ Twitter / X: https://twitter.com/JuliaBowlinMD LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliabowlinmd/ Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/juliabowlinmd Thank You for Listening Thank you for spending time with me. Until next time, may you be happy, be healthy, and be fulfilled. Dr. Julia. 📣 Affiliate Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. Some links included here are affiliate links, meaning I may receive a small commission at no additional cost to you if you purchase through them. I only recommend products, books, and resources I personally use and believe in. Thank you for your support!

    When Giving Everything Leaves Nothing for You

  2. Jul 10

    Stop Waiting to Feel Ready: Why your instincts and gut have always been ahead of what your brain was willing to admit.

    Stop Waiting to Feel Ready Why your instincts and gut have always been ahead of what your brain was willing to admit. Most of us have something we already know. A pull. A quiet certainty. A decision that's been half-made in the back of our minds for months — maybe years — waiting patiently for us to feel "ready enough" to act on it. This episode is about that voice. Where it comes from, why it's smarter than it gets credit for, and what happened when one interrupted an ordinary walk across a college campus and rearranged an entire life in about ten seconds. In This Episode We Explore The difference between waiting for information and waiting for fear to leave — and why one works and the other never will The story of the voice on the oval: how a sociology-anthropology senior ended up in medical school What the Predictive Brain is — and why gut feelings aren't magic, they're logic that ran ahead of us The difference between a knowing and a whim, and how to tell which one is talking Why "readiness" is not a feeling — and what to ask instead of "am I ready?" One very unprepared first-year resident, one vibrating beeper, and one unforgettable July 1st Key Insight We were trained to believe certainty has to come before action — that being sure is the same thing as being safe. But life doesn't work the way school did. Sureness follows movement; it doesn't lead it. The shift isn't learning to leap without fear. It's moving from "I need to be sure" to "I'm willing to find out." Sure is a destination. Willing is a direction. And a direction is all any of us actually needs to begin. Reflection Question Is there something you've already known for a while… that you've been waiting to feel ready for?   Books Worth Your Time To Me I Thee Wed: How to Love, Honor, and Cherish Yourself Forever After by Dr. Julia Bowlin The relationship every other relationship is built on is the one with yourself — and learning to listen to your own inner voice is where it starts. If this month's theme is speaking to you, this is where to go next. Thank You for Listening Thank you for spending time with me. Until next time, may you be happy, be healthy, and be fulfilled. Dr. Julia. Connect With Dr. Julia Linktree (all links): https://linktr.ee/JuliaBowlin.MD Website: https://www.juliabowlinmd.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIasxi_iBRBFd1CYuCEeD-g Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrJuliaBowlin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/juliabowlinmd/ Twitter / X: https://twitter.com/JuliaBowlinMD LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliabowlinmd/ Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/juliabowlinm Affiliate Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. Some links included here are affiliate links, meaning I may receive a small commission at no additional cost to you if you purchase through them. I only recommend products, books, and resources I personally use and believe in. Thank you for your support!

    Stop Waiting to Feel Ready: Why your instincts and gut have always been ahead of what your brain was willing to admit.

  3. Jul 2

    The Plan That Was Supposed to Help You :What happens when other people’s goals for us design our life — and stop fitting who we actually are.

    Mindset Medicine with Dr. Julia Bowlin: The Plan That Was Supposed to Help You What happens when other people’s goals for us design our life — and stop fitting who we actually are. Most of us didn’t choose the first version of ourselves. Someone handed it to us. A parent. A family expectation. A plan built from love that fit their vision perfectly — and maybe never quite fit us at all.   This episode is where July begins. Not with the dramatic reinvention moment. With something quieter and harder to name — the moment we start to wonder if the life we’ve been living was ever really ours to begin with.   In This Episode We Explore Why the plans that come from love are the hardest ones to question What Familiarity Bias is — and why our brains cling to inherited identities even when they no longer fit What an unexpected year selling vacuum cleaners taught about rejection, giving without transaction, and trusting your own instincts The difference between the map someone draws for us and the life we actually need to live Why questioning a plan that came from love isn’t betrayal — it’s the first honest act of knowing yourself We tend to call it loyalty. Or gratitude. Or just the way things are. But sometimes what looks like staying the course is actually staying inside someone else’s story — one that was written before we had a pen in our hand. The shift isn’t about letting go of the people who loved us... it’s about recognizing that their map and our life are two different things. And that noticing the difference… is where everything begins to change.  Is there a path, a role, or an expectation that’s been with you so long it started to feel like yours?   Books Worth Your Time To Me I Thee Wed: How to Love, Honor, and Cherish Yourself Forever After by Dr. Julia Bowlin This is the book that started it all for me — and if July’s theme is landing for you, this is exactly where to go next. It’s about the most important relationship you’ll ever be in: the one with yourself. The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune A note before you pick this one up — it’s fiction. Fantasy, actually. But it is one of the most quietly powerful explorations of identity and how we label people that I have ever read. If you’ve ever felt reduced to what others decided you were capable of, this book will sit with you for a long time.   The Midnight Library by Matt Haig Another novel — and one I think about often. It follows a woman who gets the chance to explore every version of her life she didn’t live. What it quietly asks is the same question we’re sitting with all month: who are we underneath the choices, the roles, and the roads not taken? If you haven’t read it yet, clear your weekend. I loved this one!   Thank you for spending time with me. Until next time, may you be happy, be healthy, and be fulfilled. Dr. Julia.   Connect With Dr. Julia Linktree (all links): https://linktr.ee/JuliaBowlin.MD Website: https://www.juliabowlinmd.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIasxi_iBRBFd1CYuCEeD-g Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrJuliaBowlin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/juliabowlinmd/ Twitter / X: https://twitter.com/JuliaBowlinMD LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliabowlinmd/ Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/juliabowlinmd   Affiliate Disclosure As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. Some links included here are affiliate links, meaning I may receive a small commission at no additional cost to you if you purchase through them. I only recommend products, books, and resources I personally use and believe in. Thank you for your support!

    The Plan That Was Supposed to Help You :What happens when other people’s goals for us design our life — and stop fitting who we actually are.

  4. Jun 24

    What Enough Actually Feels Like: Some Things We Arrive At, Not Think Our Way Into

    There's a version of "enough" that doesn't show up on a balance sheet. It shows up on a porch. In a cup of coffee. In an hour you didn't know you were choosing — until you were. In This Episode We Explore What changes once "enough" stops being something to calculate, and starts being something to feel. Not a finish line. Not a number. Something closer to... arrival. Key Insight We tend to call it "falling behind" — the week the laundry piles up, the shower gets skipped, the to-do list goes untouched. But what if that week isn't behind at all? What if, underneath the label, it was actually... enough? Reflection Question Is there a moment — even a small one — that might have already been enough, without ever needing to be called that? Stay Connected Sign up for the newsletter at juliabowlinmd.com to learn more about live events and future get-togethers. Thank You for Listening This was the last episode in the Enough series — and if some of it landed, and some of it didn't, and some of it might land later, in the shower, for no reason at all — that's exactly how this kind of thing tends to work. Something's been quietly building underneath this whole series. Once "enough" stops being about what's been earned... a different question starts to surface. Not do I have enough — but who am I, underneath all of this? That's where things go next.  Thank you so much for spending time with me. May you be happy, be healthy, and be fulfilled. Dr. Julia  Connect With Dr. Julia Linktree (all links): https://linktr.ee/JuliaBowlin.MD Website: https://www.juliabowlinmd.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIasxi_iBRBFd1CYuCEeD-g Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrJuliaBowlin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/juliabowlinmd/ Twitter / X: https://twitter.com/JuliaBowlinMD LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliabowlinmd/ Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/juliabowlinmd Books Worth Your Time The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown — on letting go of who we think we're supposed to be, and embracing the simple, hard truth that we're already enough. Die With Zero by Bill Perkins — a sharp, practical case for living fully now, instead of deferring everything to "someday." 📣 Affiliate Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. Some links included here are affiliate links, meaning I may receive a small commission at no additional cost to you if you purchase through them. I only recommend products, books, and resources I personally use and believe in. Thank you for your support!

    What Enough Actually Feels Like: Some Things We Arrive At, Not Think Our Way Into

  5. Jun 17

    When Scarcity Runs The Whole House And Spreads Beyond Money — into time, rest, freedom, and presence

    Everything still looks like it's working. You're getting things done. But underneath it all, something feels hollow. Exhausted. Like you're running on fumes and nobody knows. What if the pattern isn't about money anymore? IN THIS EPISODE WE EXPLORE How a single belief — that there's not enough — spreads like water through cracks. Beyond your bank account. Into your time. Your rest. Your freedom. Your presence with the people you love. What it looks like when an entire life gets quietly organized around scarcity. And what happens when you finally see the pattern clearly. KEY INSIGHT Scarcity isn't a money problem. It's a nervous system problem. The patterns that protected you — that got you through medical school, kept you safe, made you capable — they don't stop just because the context changes. They keep running. They colonize every room of your life. Your mornings become a jolt into productivity. Your evenings become a collapse. Your relationships become casualties of your own survival mode. But here's what shifts everything: rest isn't something you earn. Rest is a practice. A skill. An activity you choose. Not after you collapse. Not as a reward. But as the foundation that everything else is built on. REFLECTION  What habit around rest, food, hydration, or sleep feels most elusive for you right now? And what would it cost you to treat that as your first priority — not eventually, but today?   BOOKS WORTH YOUR TIME Sacred Rest: Recover Your Life, Renew Your Energy, Restore Your Sanity by Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith — This is the book that opened my eyes to the fact that rest isn't one thing. It's seven different kinds: physical, mental, emotional, social, sensory, spiritual, and cognitive. Knowing which kind of rest you actually need changes everything. THANK YOU FOR LISTENING This episode is part of a larger conversation about what "enough" actually means — not just financially, but spiritually, physically, mentally. We've looked at where your beliefs come from. Now we're looking at how those beliefs have spread. Next week, we'll explore what shifts when the system finally starts to loosen. CONNECT WITH DR. JULIA 📱 Follow on Instagram: @juliabowlinmd 🎙️ Listen to the full podcast: Mindset Medicine with Dr. Julia Bowlin 📧 Join the newsletter: juliabowlinmd.com 💡 Work with Julia: [Your coaching/services link] May you be happy, be healthy, and be fulfilled.  Dr. Julia 📣 Affiliate Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. Some links included here are affiliate links, meaning I may receive a small commission at no additional cost to you if you purchase through them. I only recommend products, books, and resources I personally use and believe in. Thank you for your support!

    When Scarcity Runs The Whole House And Spreads Beyond Money — into time, rest, freedom, and presence

  6. Jun 13

    What We Absorbed About Money Before We Could Question It. Some Things We Learn Without Anyone Teaching Us

    What We Absorbed About Money Before We Could Question It Some Things We Learn Without Anyone Teaching Us June Series: Enough — What We Earn, How We Rest, and Whether We Deserve It Some of it arrived before there were words for it. Before opinions formed. Before options existed. Before anyone stopped to ask — what exactly are we teaching here?   The patterns around money that feel the most automatic, the most stubborn, the most impossible to logic away — most of them didn't start with a decision. They started with an environment. A tone. A conclusion drawn quietly, by a very young brain, before anyone knew a conclusion was being drawn. This episode goes back to that origin. And to what becomes possible once it can be seen clearly.   In This Episode We Explore Why the brain stores emotional memories differently — and why knowing things are fine doesn't always make them feel that way How money patterns get absorbed through households, culture, religion, and relationships — long before there's language to question any of it Three stories, three completely different origins, and the same underlying mechanism running all of them Why these patterns were never character flaws — they were adaptations What it looks like when the nervous system files a lesson under permanent policy instead of isolated incident The Unicity Moment™ — a guided inner awareness experience to explore what was absorbed, and what it might feel like to set some of it down   Key Insight The patterns that feel the hardest to shift are usually the ones that made the most sense at the time they formed. They weren't mistakes. They were reasonable responses to real environments. The work isn't about fixing what's broken — it's about recognizing what was learned, and deciding whether it still belongs.   Reflection Question Think of something that happens around money that has never had a clear explanation. Where did that get learned?   Books Worth Your Time The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel — Find it on Amazon How personal history shapes every financial decision. The most direct companion to this episode.   The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown — Find it on Amazon On worthiness, shame, and what it means to stop treating patterns like verdicts.   Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much by Mullainathan & Shafir — Find it on Amazon The research behind why a scarcity mindset reaches far beyond finances — and why thinking alone rarely moves it.   Outrageous Openness by Tosha Silver — Hard Cover Find it on Amazon Paperback Find it on Amazon After an episode about holding tight and bracing for impact — this one opens the door toward trust and release. 📣 Affiliate Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. Some links included here are affiliate links, meaning I may receive a small commission at no additional cost to you if you purchase through them. I only recommend products, books, and resources I personally use and believe in. Thank you for your support! Thank You for Listening If this episode resonated, share it with someone who might need to hear it.   Thank you for joining me on Mindset Medicine with Dr. Julia Bowlin.   May you be happy, be healthy, and be fulfilled Connect With Dr. Julia Website: www.juliabowlinmd.com Facebook: facebook.com/DrJuliaBowlin Instagram: instagram.com/juliabowlinmd LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/juliabowlinmd X: @JuliaBowlinMD

    What We Absorbed About Money Before We Could Question It. Some Things We Learn Without Anyone Teaching Us

  7. Jun 4

    The Relationship We Never Examined. MONEY. June Series: Enough — What We Earn, How We Rest, and Whether We Deserve It

    Show Notes — June Episode 1 The Relationship We Never Examined June Series: Enough — What We Earn, How We Rest, and Whether We Deserve It The account is fine. The bills are paid. Nothing is actually wrong. And something still feels off. Not dramatically. Not in a way that’s easy to explain. Just — a low hum. A tightness that doesn’t have a clear address. A sense that the math is right but something in the equation is still unresolved. That’s not a money problem. That’s a relationship problem. And it’s exactly where this episode begins. What This Episode Is Really About This is the first episode of Enough — a four-part June series — and it goes somewhere most financial conversations never reach. Not budgets. Not strategies. Not a better system. The relationship. The one that’s been running quietly underneath how we earn, spend, rest, and show up — often for decades — completely unexamined. The Reframe We’ve been treating our money feelings as information about money. What if they’re actually information about the meaning we attached to money — long before we had any say in it? What it looks like: discomfort, guilt, the need to keep going, the inability to stop. What it gets called: a money problem, a discipline issue, a mindset block. What it actually is: a pattern. Running exactly as it was built to run. That’s not a character flaw. That’s a system. And systems, once seen clearly, begin to shift. What You’ll Hear Inside Why money is one of the clearest mirrors we have — and why most of us never look directly at it The surprisingly specific ways money confusion shows up — and why every single one is recognizable What the brain is actually doing when finances feel emotionally loaded Why ambition and fear can look identical from the outside Your prescription for Personal Awareness Medicine — applied to finances This Month’s Reading List This series draws from some(in my opinion) of the most honest writing available on money, worth, and the stories we carry. These are books I personally use and believe in — and they’re worth having on your shelf long before the series ends. 📣 Affiliate Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. Some links included here are affiliate links, meaning I may receive a small commission at no additional cost to you if you purchase through them. I only recommend products, books, and resources I personally use and believe in. Thank you for your support. It’s Not Your Money — Tosha Silver The Psychology of Money — Morgan Housel Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much — Mullainathan & Shafir You Are a Badass at Making Money — Jen Sincero Your Money or Your Life — Vicki Robin Die With Zero — Bill Perkins Daring Greatly — Brené Brown The Beautiful No — Sherry Salata What’s Coming Next Next week we go further back. Before the patterns became patterns. Before the beliefs became beliefs. To what got quietly handed down — before anyone had the language for what was being passed along. Episode 2: What We Absorbed Before We Had Words for It. If this episode opened something — next week is where it deepens. You’ve been in a relationship with this longer than you probably realized. The fact that it’s starting to have a name — that’s where the work begins. Mindset Medicine with Dr. Julia Bowlin New episodes every week — subscribe so you don’t miss what’s next. Personal Awareness Medicine™ May you be happy, be healthy, and be fulfilled.  Dr. Julia

    The Relationship We Never Examined. MONEY. June Series: Enough — What We Earn, How We Rest, and Whether We Deserve It

  8. May 27

    The Other Side of Stuck- What's Already Trying to Emerge

    The Other Side of Stuck: What's Already Trying to Emerge There's a kind of exhaustion that doesn't come from doing too much. It comes from trying too hard to figure something out. The 3am loop. The journaling that goes in circles. The same conversation with the same trusted person that somehow produces more questions instead of fewer. The mental rehearsal of a situation that keeps resisting resolution no matter how much thought gets applied to it.  Most people call that overthinking.  Sometimes it's something else entirely.  Sometimes it's the nervous system doing exactly what it was designed to do… applied to a situation it was never designed to solve.   This episode is about what happens when the forcing finally stops. Not dramatically. Not all at once. Just… enough to let what's already been there — underneath all of that noise — finally have room to surface. There's also a Unicity Moment™ in this episode. The deepest one yet. An invitation into the kind of stillness that took three days on a Harley to discover… and changed everything after. If the last two episodes opened something… this one is where it gets to breathe. Called, Not Chased closes out this month. June opens somewhere new — and I think something in you already knows it's the right next step. May you be happy, be healthy, and be fulfilled.  Dr. Julia  Resources Referenced in This Episode Hard Cover Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender — David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D Paperback Letting GO:  the Path of Surrender - David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D The Collected Regrets of Clover — Mikki Brammer Kindle Paperback Atomic Habits — James Clear  Paperback Audio Book The Big Leap — Gay Hendricks  Kindle PaperBack   HardCover   About The Unicity Method™ Learn more about Dr. Julia Bowlin's signature Personal Awareness Medicine™ framework www.JuliaBowlinMD.com   Affiliate Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. Some links included here are affiliate links, meaning I may receive a small commission at no additional cost to you if you purchase through them. I only recommend products, books, and resources I personally use and believe in. Thank you for your support!

    The Other Side of Stuck- What's Already Trying to Emerge
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This Mindset Medicine Podcast is the place to hang out with a “Doc” who steps out of the Box (Or should I say exam room)….This is a no nonsense unfiltered and in your face place to just hang and learn strategies on how to be happier, healthier, and more fulfilled at work AND at home. Dr. Julia and her guests remove their professional veneer and verbal filters to bring you REAL tips, tools, and hacks that she and her colleagues have found to be helpful after 40 years in the self-help and health industry that helps them unwind, organize, and manage the chaos that life and personal belief systems create.

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