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What does it actually mean to help someone heal? 

This week on Cacao Conversations, Julietta is joined by Dr. Lani Braun, a board-certified internal medicine physician and founder of Healthee MD, for a conversation about health, healing, and what can happen when a doctor has the time to actually know the person sitting in front of her. 

Dr. Braun has practiced medicine across different countries, cultures and healthcare systems, experiences that have shaped the way she thinks about the relationship between physician and patient. Today, through her Direct Primary Care practice, she has chosen a different approach—one built around accessibility, longer-term relationships, personalized care and helping people become active participants in their own health. 

But this conversation goes beyond one model of medicine. We'll explore the difference between treating illness and supporting healing, the role nutrition and self-care play alongside medical treatment, why knowing the person behind the symptoms matters, and what gets lost when healthcare becomes rushed, fragmented or disconnected. 

We'll also talk about personal responsibility without blame. How much power do we actually have over our health? What belongs to the doctor, what belongs to the patient, and what happens when the two become partners instead of one simply telling the other what to do? And perhaps the bigger question: What might healthcare look like if we stopped seeing the body as a collection of problems to solve and started caring for the whole human being living inside it? 

Join us for a different kind of conversation about medicine, health and what it really means to heal. 

You can connect with Dr. Lani at https://www.healtheemd.com/

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Julietta Wenzel
 Founder of Body & Soul Ministries
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 Elder of Body & Soul Ministries
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