Your Healing Playground - Dr. Tina Koopersmith

Your Healing Playground - Dr. Tina Koopersmith  What if the biggest thing standing between you and the life you desire isn't your circumstances—but the story you're telling yourself about them? In this powerful episode of Your Healing Playground, Dr. Tina sits down with Carrie KC West, creator of The Life Rewrite System. After overcoming a traumatic childhood and years of searching for answers thr...

Your Healing Playground - Dr. Tina Koopersmith  Determination, Grit, and the Promises We Make to Ourselves When I think back on the lessons I learned at camp, I often remember the obvious ones: friendship, nature, community, and fun. But some of the most powerful lessons were hidden in plain sight. Camp taught me determination. Camp taught me grit. Camp taught me to finish what I started. Whether...

Your Healing Playground - Dr. Tina Koopersmith  Integrating Healers into the Academy For much of human history, patients had choices. Herbalists, midwives, physicians, body workers, spiritual healers, and countless healing traditions coexisted, each offering a unique perspective on health and wellness. Then came the rise of modern medicine. Scientific advances transformed healthcare and saved coun...

Your Healing Playground - Dr. Tina Koopersmith  Lessons about digestion and food and health from my summer camp mess hall. The food in the camp dining hall wasn't organic, gluten-free, grass-fed, or Instagram-worthy. We ate cookies. We drank bug juice. We devoured cereal from little cardboard boxes. And yet… Camp taught me one of the most important lessons about nutrition: How you eat may be just...

Your Healing Playground - Dr. Tina Koopersmith  In today’s healthcare system, pain is often treated quickly with medications, injections, or surgery. But what if pain is actually a signal—not the problem itself? In this episode of Your Healing Playground, Dr. Tina interviews Dr. Audra Lance, one of the most sought-after practitioners in her field. Known for her work with elite athletes—including C...

Your Healing Playground - Dr. Tina Koopersmith  What if healing isn’t about fixing yourself… but finally feeling yourself? In this deeply moving episode of Your Healing Playground, I sit down with hypnotist, veteran, and transformational guide Rick Marren to explore what happens when a man walks through the darkness of PTSD and discovers not only how to heal himself—but how to help others reconnec...

Your Healing Playground - Dr. Tina Koopersmith  What if some of the greatest lessons about wellness were never taught in school… but learned around campfires, on lakes, in cabins, and in nature? In this deeply personal solo episode of Your Healing Playground, I reflect on the profound life lessons I learned growing up at summer camp—and how those experiences shaped my understanding of healing, com...

Your Healing Playground - Dr. Tina Koopersmith  Summer is a state of mind...More on wellness, summer camp, and reinvigorating your life. How summer camp - like a summer vacation - can be a bridge. The launching pad that provides the momentum to joyfully jump into the next season of life. If summer is a state of mind, of freedom, of rediscovering safety, and reJOYvenating and resourcing then we nee...

Your Healing Playground - Dr. Tina Koopersmith  What if the thing holding you back… isn’t something you need to fix—but something you’re finally ready to free? In this deeply activating episode of Your Healing Playground, I sit down with —a relationship guide, masculine embodiment teacher, and author of Uncaged—to explore what it truly means to live, love, and lead from truth. We dive into: The in...

Your Healing Playground - Dr. Tina Koopersmith  If you’re scrolling at 10pm with your lights on… your body thinks you’re in danger. Let that land. We’ve forgotten how to rest. And your nervous system is paying the price. At camp, we lived differently: 🌇 Sunset = slow down 🔥 Firelight = safety 📵 No screens = better sleep 🛏️ Bedtime = sacred And even… a whole day with NO schedule (once a week). T...

Your Healing Playground - Dr. Tina Koopersmith  Where I Healed, Regrouped, and Resourced Every Summer Welcome to Dr. Tina Plays— where we remember that healing doesn’t have to be heavy… that your body is not broken… and that somewhere inside of you is a version of you that already knows how to feel safe, alive, and connected. And today… we’re going back there. Back to childhood, before all the con...

Your Healing Playground - Dr. Tina Koopersmith  Who are you--the power of now and alignment? And are you the same person today as you were yesterday… Or who you’ll be tomorrow? In this episode, we explore identity, time, and the stories we carry: Do your achievements define you? Are you chasing a destination… or living the journey? And what if all you ever truly have is NOW? We dive into: The illu...

Your Healing Playground - Dr. Tina Koopersmith  Let’s get metaphysical… In this episode, we step beyond the physical world and into the deeper questions of existence with Esther Alley—an ordained interfaith, interspiritual, and metaphysical minister, and professional life coach. But what is metaphysics, really? Is it something “out there”… or is it something we can feel, sense, and develop within...

Your Healing Playground - Dr. Tina Koopersmith  Nature or nurture? The truth is… it’s both. In this episode, we explore what it really means to be human: Made of earth, water, air, and fire Wired by DNA, but shaped by environment Designed for individuality and deep connection From breath to biology, from epigenetics to emotion—this is your reminder: You are not separate from nature… you are nature...

Your Healing Playground - Dr. Tina Koopersmith  In this episode of Your Healing Playground, Dr Tina Koopersmith sits down with Nancy Freedman, author of Happiness in Micromoments, and we discuss happiness: What is it? Is finding and feeling happiness a static practice or does it require action on our part? Are you waiting for happiness to arrive? What if your happiness wasn’t dependent on everythi...

Your Healing Playground - Dr. Tina Koopersmith  Today’s podcast episode was supposed to be an interview. But life had other plans. My guest got stuck and couldn’t make it — and I only realized it this morning because yesterday I intentionally checked out from email and digital communication. Sometimes the noise of modern life — texts, emails, calendars, notifications — becomes so overwhelming that...

Your Healing Playground - Dr. Tina Koopersmith  In this episode of Your Healing Playground, Dr. Tina invites you to rethink everything you’ve ever believed about your “nervous system.” What if it isn’t a system designed to make you anxious — but a powerful transformation system that constantly converts your life experiences into emotions, thoughts, and actions? Through breath, awareness, and curio...

Your Healing Playground - Dr. Tina Koopersmith  In this episode, I explore a question that quietly shapes our health, our beliefs, and our lives: What if much of what we call “truth” is actually just a story we’ve agreed to believe? From Western medicine to ancient wisdom, science to magic, modern life to indigenous ways of living—we’ve been taught to rank ideas as advanced or backward, right or w...

Your Healing Playground - Dr. Tina Koopersmith  This episode is a love letter to the power of words, breath, and life force. My guest, Sandra Amado, is an integrative family physician with over 15 years of experience who reminds us that healing is never just physical—it’s an intimate conversation between body, mind, spirit, and the language we live inside. Sandra shares her holistic approach to me...

Your Healing Playground - Dr. Tina Koopersmith  From survival to sovereignty. From inflammation to inspiration.    Flossie’s story reminds us that where you begin does not determine where you end. Born and raised in Kenya, Flossie grew up without shoes until she was 12, no modern amenities, and with limited access to education, and few visible opportunities. Yet somewhere deep inside, she carried...

Your Healing Playground - Dr. Tina Koopersmith  What if Wonder Woman isn’t a fictional character at all—but a lived identity we each carry inside? This week on Your Healing Playground, we welcome Char McCreadie, whose life journey moves from red-hot determination, through blue-steel discipline, with just enough yellow joy and green healing to remind us what being fully human really means. At 17, C...

Your Healing Playground - Dr. Tina Koopersmith  Consent — Can I vs May I?? Most people have a limited version of consent as it relates to physical touch and sexuality. And it's way bigger than that. Physical touch is only one way you are being touched every single moment of every single day. And ideally you are a conscious being of choice and you get to consent to everything that enters your life,...

Your Healing Playground - Dr. Tina Koopersmith  Breath is life. Breath is safety… or terror. Breath is pleasure… or anxiety. Breath is not just something we do — it is the steering wheel of the nervous system. From our very first inhale to our very last exhale, breath is with us “til death do us part.” It quietly shapes our energy, our emotions, our thoughts, and the way we interpret every circums...

Your Healing Playground - Dr. Tina Koopersmith  In this episode of Your Healing Playground, I sit down with Sarah Tacy to explore what happens when healing stops being about fixing—and starts being about listening. Sarah shares her powerful personal journey from elite athlete to chronic pain survivor, from treating the body as a tool for performance to discovering it as a wise, no-BS GPS for heali...

Your Healing Playground - Dr. Tina Koopersmith  Healing is not one-size-fits-all. It never has been. Your Healing Playground exists to remind us that healing comes in many forms, through many paths, and often in ways we never would have chosen—but must learn to walk. This is a YES-AND world, not an either/or one. Western medicine has its place, but healing is bigger than any single modality. And s...