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On this episode, we have a very special guest, Brian Asbill, MD! He wears many amazing hats: ✅1st ever Board certified Lifestyle Medicine Physician ✅Board certified cardiologist ✅Medical Director Cardiac Rehab at Mission Health, Asheville NC ✅Cofounder: Lifestyle Medicine Advancement Group, Asheville NC ✅Cofounder: Ruckus Health He became frustrated because even though his patients were on the right meds and well managed (cholesterol & sugars), they would continue to have cardiac events underg...

Today it is time to M.O.V.E.! In this episode, I share with you how you can use the word M.O.V.E. as a powerful acronym to get you to where you want to go in your life. As physicians we tend to think methodically in an organized fashion and have learned a lot of things through the use of acronyms as an easy way to learn a list of things and to remember them. And acronyms are really fun! The M.O.V.E. acronym gets you from point A to point B in your life. Whatever that goal may be….nothing is to...

On this episode I will be sharing with you how your exhale breath is like an amazing trusted friend that you can count on at any time to help you quickly relieve your stress and anxiety so that you can feel calm and grounded whenever you need to. We will start with a little physiology of respiration/breath: focusing here on 2 important concepts of your breath: Concept #1= components (inhale/exhale) Concept #2= length of your breath How these components relate to your autonomic or "automatic" ...

In this episode I answer 2 common questions that I am frequently asked: #1 -- What is self-care? #2 -- Why do I need to do it? I like to think of self-care as anything and everything that you do to keep yourself as healthy as possible. We can deconstruct and simplify this into what I call “5 to Thrive”-- 5 main categories drawn from both the work of Dr. Dean Ornish as well as Lifestyle Medicine— to keep you as healthy as possible not just survive and scrape by getting through each and every da...

On today's episode, you will learn how to relieve those very 1st thing in the morning jitters so you can instead start your day off feeling calm and grounded and ready for whatever comes your way. So…Does this ever happen to you? You are asleep in bed, your alarm goes off, you turn it off, and then pow! Anxiety sets in…. You feel your body immediately tense up Heart starts to race Jaw tightens Breath becomes shallow Start to sweat And your mind is going a mile a minute…thoughts, more thou...

Welcome to our 1st episode together! I have sooooo much amazing information that I want to share with you and it is so hard to choose just what to start with first! So let's start at the very beginning simply with our "who, what, and why", to set the foundation, and then let’s go from there! I'll go first...to be honest....feeling a bit vulnerable but putting myself out there.... so that you know you are not alone....and telling you my story of: who I am, how I hit rock bottom in burnout, what ...

Hi & welcome to the StressFreeMD Podcast! I’m Doctor Robyn Tiger, a board-certified physician, life coach, yoga therapist & iRest® meditation teacher, and....a proud burnout thriver! I used this unique combination of medical licensure and trainings to actually save my own life… to actually relieve my own stress & anxiety (and a whole bunch of other symptoms) and now live an incredibly happy fulfilling life! It was so amazing to do this 180 and turn my life around, that I have been dedicating mys...