Episode Details

What if being healthy isn’t simply about what we eat, how much we exercise, or how our bodies look?

Today’s guest is Dr. Katherine Lanning, an occupational therapist, founder of Transformed For Life, and host of the podcast of the same name.

Katherine’s professional experience includes working in hospital, school-based, and private-practice settings. Her own experiences with personal hardship and trauma, combined with her Christian faith, led her to think more deeply about the relationship between physical, mental, and spiritual wellbeing.

In this conversation, Katherine explains what occupational therapy actually means and why she believes meaningful daily activities are central to health. We also explore how her Christian faith changed the way she understood her own body, healing, purpose, and responsibility.

Together, we explore:

• What occupational therapy actually is
• Why “occupation” means more than employment
• The connection between meaningful activities and wellbeing
• Why health involves more than diet and exercise
• The relationship between mental, physical, and spiritual wellbeing
• Katherine’s personal experiences with hardship and trauma
• How her Christian faith changed her perspective on healing
• Self-development, positive psychology, and the limits of self-improvement
• Learning to care for the body rather than simply trying to change it
• The importance of rest, relationships, and meaningful activity
• What her hospital experience taught her about health
• Her concerns about false teaching and discernment within Christianity
• Why she believes Christians should engage with the world through both truth and love
• The role of integrity, service, and hope in Christian life

Katherine’s perspective is explicitly rooted in her Christian faith and professional experience in occupational therapy. Throughout the conversation, she shares her own beliefs about spiritual, mental, and physical health and how those dimensions have shaped her understanding of healing and transformation.

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Connect with Dr. Katherine Lanning

🌐 Transformed For Life

https://transformedforlife.net/

Katherine specifically gives this website in the interview and says she will post updates there when her book becomes available.

📱 Ministry social media

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📱 Occupational Therapy Instagram

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Katherine says her occupational therapy Instagram is specifically for her practice in North Carolina.

📖 Her forthcoming book

Katherine says she is hoping to have her book available on Amazon at the end of the summer. She says it will also be made available through her website, with updates posted on her website and social-media accounts when it is ready.