Soul Medicine with Dr. Laura Brenes

What if beginning again isn't about going back? What if it's about finding the courage to move forward? In this episode of Soul Medicine , Dr. Laura explores why beginning again can feel so difficult after a major life transition and how true healing isn't about returning to the life we once had—it's about taking the next aligned step toward the life we're creating. Together, we'll explore why the...

In this episode of Soul Medicine , Dr. Laura explores a form of grief that often goes unrecognized: grieving the life we thought we would have. Together, we'll discuss visible and invisible grief, unmet expectations, changing timelines, and the emotional impact of life unfolding differently than we imagined. You'll learn why healing isn't about bypassing difficult emotions, but about acknowledging...

What if you don't need all the answers before moving forward? In this special birthday episode of Soul Medicine , Dr. Laura reflects on the unexpected twists, detours, and lessons that have shaped her healing journey—and the realization that life rarely unfolds according to plan. This episode explores the discomfort of uncertainty, the spiritual breadcrumbs that often guide us forward, and how lea...

Episode 8: The Sacred In-Between — Learning a New Dance Have you ever felt like the old version of you no longer fits, but the new version of you hasn't quite arrived yet? In this deeply personal episode of Soul Medicine with Dr. Laura , Dr. Laura reflects on a powerful experience that reminded her what it means to meet herself with compassion. Through a story of chronic illness, family stress, in...

Episode 7: Learning to Feel Safe in Stillness How to Begin Regulating a Nervous System Stuck in Survival Mode In this episode of Soul Medicine with Dr. Laura C. Brenes , we continue the conversation from Episode 6, When Healing Feels Unsafe , and explore what it truly means to begin creating safety within the body again. Dr. Laura shares her personal experience navigating nervous system dysregulat...

Episode 6: When Healing Feels Unsafe The Nervous System, Identity & Repeating Old Patterns Why does change sometimes feel uncomfortable… even when it’s exactly what we’ve been asking for? In this episode of Soul Medicine , Dr. Laura explores the connection between nervous system conditioning, subconscious programming, identity shifts, and the emotional discomfort that can arise during healing...

Episode 5: You Get to Rewrite the Program Have you ever noticed how certain thoughts repeat over and over again in your mind? In this episode of Soul Medicine with Dr. Laura , we explore how these thought patterns are formed, why they feel so automatic, and how they begin to shape the way we experience our lives. Many of the thoughts we carry—especially the ones that tell us we’re not doing enough...

🎙️ Episode 4: When Your Body Requires You to Stop What happens when the signals your body has been sending… are no longer quiet? In a previous episode, we explored the ways our body asks us to slow down—through subtle cues, fatigue, and the patterns we’ve learned to override. But what happens when we don’t listen? In this episode of Soul Medicine with Dr. Laura Brenes , I share a deeply personal e...

Episode 3: Why You Feel Stuck, Tired, and Overwhelmed (Your Nervous System May Be in Survival Mode) Why does it feel so hard to slow down… even when you know you need to? In a previous episode, we explored the ways your body asks you to slow down—through subtle signals like fatigue, overwhelm, and the urge to pause. But if you’ve ever found yourself pushing through anyway… this episode explores wh...

Episode 2: When Your Body Asks You to Slow Down What if the exhaustion you’ve been pushing through… is actually your body asking you to listen? In this episode of Soul Medicine with Dr. Laura , I explore the quiet signals our bodies send us—and what happens when we’ve been conditioned to ignore them. So many of us have learned to keep going, to push through, and to tie our worth to how much we do....

Soul Medicine with Dr. Laura C. Brenes Episode 1: When Your Body Speaks: The Birth of Soul Medicine There was a time in my life when I didn’t realize I had been living in survival mode for decades—pushing through, holding everything together, and ignoring the quiet signals my body was trying to send. Until I couldn’t anymore. In this very first episode of Soul Medicine , I share the deeply persona...

Welcome to Soul Medicine with Dr. Laura Brenes (Official Trailer) This podcast was born from a profound personal healing journey—one that challenged everything I thought I understood about medicine, my personal identity, and healing. After nearly two decades practicing Internal Medicine, a life-altering change in my own health and nervous system led me to turn inward. What began as a search for ph...