Third Opinion MD
Your inner doctor is calling. Are you listening? Tap into knowledge you already possess about your health by adapting ancient wisdom to modern living. Barbara de la Torre is both a medical doctor and a physician trained in Chinese medicine. Liberate your perspective of health, recognize what your body tells you, and know what to do. It’s time for a healthcare EVOLUTION in each of us.
S3 Ep 9 - Season Finale Part 2: Looking Back is How You Move Forward for Your Health Strategy
In season 3 finale (Episodes 8 and 9), Ramey reflects back on her journey to form her unique Health Strategy.
She now understands health in a whole new way. The key ingredient is noticing.
Going Over Ramey’s Health Strategy
In Episode 9, Ramey completes her Health Strategy consult, and reflects on all the components that inform her health now and in the future.
She understands the power and value she brings to her health through balancing lifestyle, relationships, and nutrition.
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S3 Ep 8 - Season Finale Part 1: Looking Back is How You Move Forward for Your Health Strategy
Imagine a healthcare system where you actually matter. Not just the symptom you walk in with, but who you are as a person, the struggles you face, your family legacy, your family secrets. Imagine all of these things matter.
In the season 3 finale, Episodes 8 and 9 reveal Ramey’s layers of family history in the context of relationships and identity. By looking backward, Ramey moves forward with the knowledge and confidence to form her own Health Strategy.
The Genogram
In Episode 8, Ramey takes a deeper dive on how peo...
S3 Ep 7 - The Tapping Experience: Ramey Applies an Emotional Self-Care Tool for Her Health Strategy
Sometimes good medicine is so simple that people don’t even try it. In Episode 7, Ramey is prepared to practice a powerful self-care tool for emotional balance called EFT. When you learn to become a systems thinker, becoming healthier is not only possible, you believe in yourself again.
Be sure to also listen to Episode 6 on Ramey’s preparation for this transformative tapping experience.
Ramey Discovers the Power Within
Ramey has years of experience in therapy, as a teacher, and now working in the healthcare system. She reached a place in her life when...
S3 Ep 6 - Emotional Balance Can Be Right at Your Fingertips: Ramey's First Lesson in Tapping
In episodes 6 and 7, Ramey discovers a self-care technique for tapping acupuncture points to relieve negative emotions.
One of the most studied methods is called EFT, or Emotional Freedom Technique. EFT is an emerging, research-based example of how Eastern medicine bridges beautifully with Western psychology.
Listen to how Ramey prepares for her first tapping experience.
Mental Healthcare in America Could Use a Healthy Dose of Chinese Medicine
Most mental health treatment in America includes prescription medicine and psychotherapy. But results in the last century show that the biomedical healthcare system, a...
S3 Ep5 - The Superior Doctor is You: Ramey's First Day in the Health Strategy Program
In episode 5, Ramey starts her six-week Health Strategy program, and she’s ready to work on her wellness unlike any health visit she’s had before.
It starts with the skills to become a systems thinker. This mindset doesn’t just expand outside the box. Embracing the best of traditional and nontraditional medical models is both an art and skill you need to navigate today’s fragmented healthcare systems.
How Did We Get Here?
To understand your current state of health, you need to look back in time to the root causes. Roots are easier...
S3 Ep 4 - When to Take the Bird's Eye View for Your Health: Barbara Speaks with Ramey about Health Strategy at Third Opinion MD
In Episode 4, Ramey is at a crossroads with her health, and she is ready to learn about the Health Strategy program at Third Opinion MD. What's motivating Ramey to take this giant step now more than before? Listen to our conversation on how you can achieve so much more when you move beyond a linear and passive way to address your health.
The Bird’s Eye View
Part of forming a Health Strategy involves taking a step back to get the broad view of what’s going on with you, health wise, and exploring the best...
S3 Ep 3 - A Student's First Steps and a Master's Reflection: The Qigong Experience Then and Now
In Episode 3, my client, Ramey, shares how she feels after learning a qigong form in class for the first time. And there's a very special surprise in the second half of the episode where we go over how Ramey responds to practicing qigong for the last two months. I also reflect on my health journey with qigong because, in community, we can achieve much more than we can alone.
The Power of Self Cultivation
The healing path is usually not a straight line, but a cycle of ups and downs. I like to call it...
S3 Ep 2 – Your First Qigong Lesson: Discover the Branch of Chinese Medicine that Puts You in Charge Again
When is it the best time to work on your health? When you have more time? After you get sick?
Welcome to modern life!
But real preventive medicine always starts and ends with YOU. And the best time to address your health is NOW. Listen to this episode on how the practice of qigong puts you back in charge of your health.
Self-Care is Everything
Just look at what the ancient physicians wrote over two thousand years ago about their ancestors:
“In the past...
S3 Ep 1 - Open Your Eyes to the Possibilities for Health: Ramey Discovers the Theories of Chinese Medicine at Third Opinion MD
The power of healing is in the “Why.” In a rare opportunity to go behind the scenes, you’ll get to join Ramey on a unique health journey.
Ramey is a healthcare worker for eye issues. But she's also someone who's had eye problems for most of her life. She has that special insight from both sides of the healthcare fence. In this episode, she’s taking my class on self-care and prevention for the eyes.
Now Ramey wants to become a client and dig deeper. Through my Health Strategy Consult program, she learns to better man...
Season 3 Trailer - [Client Discussion] An Inside Look at the Health Strategy Journey from Start to Finish at Third Opinion MD
Creating a Health Strategy
In Season three, all episodes will follow one guest's journey to understand and achieve her best health potential. Each episode is recorded in a real-time sequence over the course of a 6-week consult to show how you can address your health in a more creative and individualized way.
My client, Ramey, graciously offered to share her time and health story with you as we work together on her Health Strategy from start to finish.
This approach doesn't exist in current mainstream healthcare, which is largely about gathering the information t...
