{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Physician, Heal Thyself The Podcast","title":"Spiritual Disharmony: The Root Most Doctors Won't Touch - EP110","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2401,"description":"Physical illness is often the last place disease shows up — not the first. Before it reaches the body, it travels through the spirit and the soul. And until we address what's happening there, we are treating the symptom of a symptom.\nIn this deeply personal episode, Dr. Ana Lara takes a full clinical and spiritual dive into the first and most commonly skipped obstacle to healing: spiritual disharmony. Drawing from naturopathic vitalism, Christian faith, and her own experience of disease at 27, she explains why so many chronic conditions cannot be fully understood — or fully resolved — without looking at what is happening in the spirit and soul of a person. She walks through what spiritual disharmony actually looks like clinically: unforgiveness, bitterness, chronic fear, loss of identity, unresolved grief, estrangement from God, and the wounds people carry from childhood that never got tended. She addresses the role of the vital force as the human spirit, the physician's role as one who identifies and removes obstacles rather than manufacturing healing, and the clinical observation that people in chronic disease states consistently report a lack of peace — with God, with others, and with themselves. She also shares a vulnerable personal story of walking to her desk at work and saying aloud, without realizing it, that her spirit felt like it was dying — long before her labs caught up to what her body was already announcing. This episode closes with practical spiritual interventions: prayer, scripture, forgiveness work, gratitude, Sabbath rest, and the simple, unstructured act of calling out to God from wherever you are.\nPhysical illness is often the last place disease manifests — it typically begins in the mind, soul, and spirit, and the body is simply where it finally becomes visible.\nSpiritual disharmony looks like unforgiveness, bitterness, chronic fear, hopelessness, identity confusion, isolation, moral conflict, and estrangement from God — all of which create...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/7BlbO0DlxZ9TfxfXnOie8HzzksLgXXsUBE22ReU_fyU/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9jYzA3/ZmYwMzJjZTkyMGUx/YzIyYWQxMTE5MGQ4/Mjc3Yy5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}