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  • Consent – What Is It Anyway? – Dr. Tina Koopersmith

    Consent – What Is It Anyway? – Dr. Tina Koopersmith
    Jan 26 2026
    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 world, your reality. Because every day thoughts, emotions, and energy from others and your environment from your reality are trying to invade your space. Let’s review Bette Martin’s Wheel of Consent: You vs they Give vs receive And how that affects every experience of your life. Are you allowing yourself to be touched for their pleasure or your pleasure? Are you touching another for their pleasure or your pleasure? And remember touch can be a thought, an emotion, and an energetic state, not just physical. So are you consenting to allow the external reality to affect your inner peace— your inner safety? What Am I – Children’s Book Author Dr. Tina Koopersmith https://tinakoopersmith.com/what-am-i-childrens-book/ ~ More About Your Healing Playground with Dr. Tina Koopersmith ~ Dr. Tina Koopersmith has practiced Western medicine for over 30 years. But she is so much more than a physician. An integrative medicine and fertility specialist, she is a transformational healer and coach who not only brings life to her patients but reminds them that it is their responsibility and, in their power, to bring themselves back to vibrancy and vitality. Root cause healing starts with energy, emotions, communication—between your cells and your soul. As a speaker-coach-author as well as mother, nonconformist, and recovering perfectionist, she is dedicated to modifying our health care system from one focused on illness and sickness to one devoted to prevention and wellness. She reminds us all that love, play, pleasure and purpose are the secret ingredients to wellness. She starts with the premise we all have the same parts and very similar DNA, and yet we all have different experiences and imprinting. Our unique signature means we are all wired to access safety and pleasure in a slightly different fashion; this diversity is to be praised and celebrated. When our body feels safe, we can move from our “childhood” survival stress mode to our “Wise Sage Self”. Healing, recovery and regeneration thrive only when we stop resisting what is and celebrate all of life with acceptance of the NOW. Health and Wellness is nourished with empathy, compassion innovation and connection—a total integration of the mind body, the heart body, the physical body and the energetic. ALL are worthy of self-care, self-acceptance and self-love. To learn more: https://drtinaplays.com/ or drtina@drtinaplays.com To get more of Your Healing Playground with Dr Tina Koopersmith, be sure to visit the archives page for replays of all her shows here: https://www.inspiredchoicesnetwork.com/podcast/your-healing-playground-dr-tina-koopersmith/
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  • Breath As The Steering Wheel Of Life With Guest Jonathan Robert

    Breath As The Steering Wheel Of Life With Guest Jonathan Robert
    Jan 19 2026
    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 circumstance in our lives. And yet, in modern society, most of us are left entirely on our own with this most powerful tool. No teachers. No mentors. No guidance. In earlier civilizations — Native American cultures, yogic lineages, Tantric traditions — the power of breath was known, protected, practiced, and shared. Breath was understood as medicine, as prayer, as a bridge between body and spirit. Today, we are finally remembering what ancient wisdom has always known: breath has the power to heal — physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. On this episode of Your Healing Playground, I’m joined by Jonathan Robert, a breath work facilitator, retreat guide, and embodied leadership coach who helps people return to authentic alignment through breath, somatic awareness, song, and lived truth. Jonathan’s journey is as powerful as his work. More than 16 years ago, his life shifted dramatically — from addiction and disconnection in Las Vegas to a path rooted in yoga, embodiment, spirituality, and conscious living. His work bridges lived experience with practical tools for self-regulation, clarity, and conscious creation — helping people shorten the distance between who they are and how they live. In this conversation, we explore: Why breath can instantly shift the nervous system from survival to safety How breath changes perception — not circumstances, but how we experience them The difference between practicing breath alone vs. in guided, communal spaces Why working with skilled facilitators can compress years of healing into minutes How breath reconnects us to embodiment, presence, and lived truth Breath work is free. It is always available. And it is profoundly powerful. But when we work and play with breath in community — guided by those who have walked the path — healing accelerates exponentially. What once took years can unfold in moments. What felt unreachable suddenly becomes embodied and real. This episode is an invitation to remember that your breath is not just keeping you alive — it is guiding you home. Tune in to hear how Jonathan Robert transformed his life — and how breath may be the key to transforming yours. Jonathan Robert is a breath work facilitator, retreat guide, and embodied leadership coach who supports people in returning to authentic alignment through breath, somatic awareness, song and lived truth. His path includes a profound shift from addiction and disconnection in Las Vegas to a life rooted in yoga, spirituality, and embodiment, beginning over 16 years ago. Jonathan’s work bridges lived experience with practical tools for self-regulation, clarity, and conscious creation - helping people shorten the distance between who they are and how they live. www.livealigned.life What Am I – Children’s Book Author Dr. Tina Koopersmith https://tinakoopersmith.com/what-am-i-childrens-book/ ~ More About Your Healing Playground with Dr. Tina Koopersmith ~ Dr. Tina Koopersmith has practiced Western medicine for over 30 years. But she is so much more than a physician. An integrative medicine and fertility specialist, she is a transformational healer and coach who not only brings life to her patients but reminds them that it is their responsibility and, in their power, to bring themselves back to vibrancy and vitality. Root cause healing starts with energy, emotions, communication—between your cells and your soul. As a speaker-coach-author as well as mother, nonconformist, and recovering perfectionist, she is dedicated to modifying our health care system from one focused on illness and sickness to one devoted to prevention and wellness. She reminds us all that love, play, pleasure and purpose are the secret ingredients to wellness. She starts with the premise we all have the same parts and very similar DNA, and yet we all have different experiences and imprinting. Our unique signature means we are all wired to access safety and pleasure in a slightly different fashion; this diversity is to be praised and celebrated. When our body feels safe, we can move from our “childhood” survival stress mode to our “Wise Sage Self”. Healing, recovery and regeneration thrive only when we stop resisting what is and celebrate all of life with acceptance of the NOW. Health and Wellness is nourished with empathy, compassion innovation and connection—a total integration of the mind body, the heart body, the physical body and the energetic. ALL are worthy of self-care, self-acceptance and self-love. To learn more: https://drtinaplays.com/ or drtina@...
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  • When Healing Listens Instead Of Fixes With Guest Sarah Tacy

    When Healing Listens Instead Of Fixes With Guest Sarah Tacy
    Jan 12 2026
    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 healing and truth. We talk about the moment pain became her initiation into mind–body healing, the mysterious experiences of spontaneous healing that changed her relationship with energy and touch, and how science, curiosity, and somatic awareness helped her hold both skepticism and wonder. Together, we explore: How the nervous system shapes pain, emotions, identity, and possibility Why safety—not force—is the gateway to healing The role of play, curiosity, and attuned presence in repair and transformation Why community and being accompanied matter just as much as individual practices How motherhood, grief, and transition deepen—not derail—our healing path This conversation is a gentle reminder that healing doesn’t happen through willpower alone. It happens when the body feels safe enough to soften, to explore, and to play. When we slow down, listen deeply, and allow support, wisdom emerges—and the body remembers how to heal. If you’ve ever felt stuck in pain, burnout, anxiety, or self-doubt… If you’ve ever sensed there’s more intelligence in your body than you’ve been taught to trust… This episode invites you back into your Healing Playground—where safety, curiosity, and play make transformation possible. Sarah Tacy is a nervous system specialist and somatic guide for high-achieving women who are done with burnout—but not with ambition. She helps clients move from urgency to choice, from survival patterns to deep self-trust, and into a more human pace where vitality, clarity, and mystery can coexist. For over 20 years Sarah has worked with former Olympians, professional athletes, executives, entrepreneurs, while also guiding professional mind/body certification. She has a masterful understanding of the way the body functions, and how its function impacts how we feel and how we perceive reality. Her work blends neuroscience, somatic healing, and sacred strategy to support women in reclaiming their wholeness. She’s the creator of Resourced a 12 Week nervous system repatterning journey, and host of the Threshold Moments podcast, known for her grounded presence and ability to hold space for what’s real, raw, and ready to rise. Sarah is an evolving mother, wife, and friend. She believes that the body is always speaking to us, and if we can create space and support on as many dimensions as possible, repair and transformation will unfold. https://www.sarahtacy.com/ What Am I – Children’s Book Author Dr. Tina Koopersmith https://tinakoopersmith.com/what-am-i-childrens-book/ ~ More About Your Healing Playground with Dr. Tina Koopersmith ~ Dr. Tina Koopersmith has practiced Western medicine for over 30 years. But she is so much more than a physician. An integrative medicine and fertility specialist, she is a transformational healer and coach who not only brings life to her patients but reminds them that it is their responsibility and, in their power, to bring themselves back to vibrancy and vitality. Root cause healing starts with energy, emotions, communication—between your cells and your soul. As a speaker-coach-author as well as mother, nonconformist, and recovering perfectionist, she is dedicated to modifying our health care system from one focused on illness and sickness to one devoted to prevention and wellness. She reminds us all that love, play, pleasure and purpose are the secret ingredients to wellness. She starts with the premise we all have the same parts and very similar DNA, and yet we all have different experiences and imprinting. Our unique signature means we are all wired to access safety and pleasure in a slightly different fashion; this diversity is to be praised and celebrated. When our body feels safe, we can move from our “childhood” survival stress mode to our “Wise Sage Self”. Healing, recovery and regeneration thrive only when we stop resisting what is and celebrate all of life with acceptance of the NOW. Health and Wellness is nourished with empathy, compassion innovation and connection—a total integration of the mind body, the heart body, the physical body and the energetic. ALL are worthy of self-care, self-acceptance and self-love. To learn more: https://drtinaplays.com/ or drtina@drtinaplays.com To get more of Your Healing Playground with Dr Tina Koopersmith, be sure to visit the archives page for replays of all her shows here: https://www.inspiredchoicesnetwork.com/podcast/your-healing-playground-dr-tina-koopersmith/
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  • Grief Has No Map: Healing Life After Suicide – Guest Dorothy Goulah

    Grief Has No Map: Healing Life After Suicide – Guest Dorothy Goulah
    Jan 5 2026
    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 sometimes… healing begins after unimaginable loss. No one plans to lose a loved one to suicide. And grief after suicide carries its own unique weight—shock, confusion, guilt, anger, unanswered questions, and a kind of silence that can feel isolating and overwhelming. In this deeply human episode, Dr. Tina is joined by Dorothy Goulah, a life coach, grief educator, mentor, and bridge-builder who helps others navigate life after suicide loss. Dorothy is herself a survivor of a family member’s suicide—an experience that forever altered her life’s path. Years ago, when mental health conversations were far less open than they are today, Dorothy had to find her own way through grief. As an actress and model, she learned to inhabit many roles—perhaps part of her own healing journey. Later in life, she returned to school, defying age-based expectations, becoming the first in her family to graduate college and earning advanced degrees after her children were grown. Dorothy teaches not just from textbooks—but from lived experience, wisdom earned through pain, resilience, and courage. In this conversation, we explore: The unique grief that follows suicide loss Why healing after suicide looks different for everyone How we make meaning when a life ends by choice How play, creativity, and embodiment can coexist with grief How someone becomes a bridge for others after walking through darkness What it means to keep choosing life after loss This episode does not offer easy answers—because there aren’t any. But it offers presence, compassion, permission, and hope. Because even after devastation, healing is possible. And sometimes, those who have suffered the most become the greatest guides. Dorothy Goulah, after a successful 35-year career as a model and actress, it was time for a change and Dorothy became the first person in her extended family to attend college. Dorothy’s academic career began in the field of Sociology at Valley College where she was inspired to continue her studies at California State University at Northridge earning her bachelor’s degree in Sociology in 2016. With the encouragement of supportive professors, Dorothy applied to and was accepted into the master’s degree program in sociology at CSUN. The graduate program challenged and broadened Dorothy’s interests and abilities fulfilling her lifelong desire to be an academic. Dorothy’s auto-ethnographic essay, titled “Suicide Years in the Making”, was published in peer-reviewed journal Qualitative Inquiry in 2020. Dorothy was awarded top honors in the Distinguished Thesis/Graduate Project Competition for her research titled, “Suicide Loss Survivors: Navigating Social Stigma”, which was published as “Suicide Loss Survivors: Navigating Social Stigma and Threats to Social Bonds” in peer-reviewed journal OMEGA: Journal of Death and Dying, in 2021. Dorothy is a facilitator at Solace, a peer-led support group for survivors of suicide loss and is coordinator for greater Los Angeles and central California of Healing Conversations, a program providing one-on-one support to suicide loss survivors through the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention where she is chair of the board for the Greater Los Angeles and Central Coast chapter. Dorothy is also a certified former crisis responder for the City of LA Mayor’s Office, responding to sudden and traumatic death scenes to support survivors, until recently was a certified mediator with the Centinela Youth Services restorative justice team, and is a certified grief educator and life coach. dorothygoulah.com What Am I – Children’s Book Author Dr. Tina Koopersmith https://tinakoopersmith.com/what-am-i-childrens-book/ ~ More About Your Healing Playground with Dr. Tina Koopersmith ~ Dr. Tina Koopersmith has practiced Western medicine for over 30 years. But she is so much more than a physician. An integrative medicine and fertility specialist, she is a transformational healer and coach who not only brings life to her patients but reminds them that it is their responsibility and, in their power, to bring themselves back to vibrancy and vitality. Root cause healing starts with energy, emotions, communication—between your cells and your soul. As a speaker-coach-author as well as mother, nonconformist, and recovering perfectionist, she is dedicated to modifying our health care system from one focused on illness and sickness to one devoted to prevention and wellness. She reminds us all that love, play, pleasure and purpose are the secret ingredients to wellness. She starts...
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  • You Made A Difference: A Year-End Reflection On Impact – Dr. Tina Koopersmith

    You Made A Difference: A Year-End Reflection On Impact – Dr. Tina Koopersmith
    Dec 29 2025
    Your Healing Playground - Dr. Tina Koopersmith As the year comes to a close, many of us rush ahead—already planning, fixing, optimizing, and preparing for January. But before we move forward… What if we paused to look back? Not just at goals achieved or missed—but at impact. In a world of nearly eight billion people, it’s easy to forget that every single human life matters. That there are no accidents in nature. No extra organs. No useless systems. Our bodies are designed with purpose, redundancy, and wisdom—always with backup pathways to ensure survival and function. So if our bodies are made without mistakes… Why would any human be born without purpose? In this year-end episode of Your Healing Playground, Dr. Tina invites you into a gentler, more meaningful reflection—one rooted in belonging, safety, and contribution rather than pressure or performance. We explore questions like: What does it really mean to “make an impact”? How do small, everyday actions ripple outward? How often do we recognize impact in others—but forget our own? What becomes possible when humans feel safe to belong? Can we forgive past generations who were focused on survival? Can we celebrate that we are here now—precisely because we’re needed? Impact isn’t always loud. Sometimes it’s a smile at the checkout line. A thank-you to the mail carrier. Showing up for your child. Living with discipline, kindness, or joy. Being a steady presence in a chaotic world. This episode is a reminder that you belong—to your family, your community, the human race, and this planet. And that being alive at this moment in history is not random. As we close 2025 and prepare for 2026, this is an invitation to reflect: What difference did you make this year? And how do you want to show up next? What Am I – Children’s Book Author Dr. Tina Koopersmith https://tinakoopersmith.com/what-am-i-childrens-book/ ~ More About Your Healing Playground with Dr. Tina Koopersmith ~ Dr. Tina Koopersmith has practiced Western medicine for over 30 years. But she is so much more than a physician. An integrative medicine and fertility specialist, she is a transformational healer and coach who not only brings life to her patients but reminds them that it is their responsibility and, in their power, to bring themselves back to vibrancy and vitality. Root cause healing starts with energy, emotions, communication—between your cells and your soul. As a speaker-coach-author as well as mother, nonconformist, and recovering perfectionist, she is dedicated to modifying our health care system from one focused on illness and sickness to one devoted to prevention and wellness. She reminds us all that love, play, pleasure and purpose are the secret ingredients to wellness. She starts with the premise we all have the same parts and very similar DNA, and yet we all have different experiences and imprinting. Our unique signature means we are all wired to access safety and pleasure in a slightly different fashion; this diversity is to be praised and celebrated. When our body feels safe, we can move from our “childhood” survival stress mode to our “Wise Sage Self”. Healing, recovery and regeneration thrive only when we stop resisting what is and celebrate all of life with acceptance of the NOW. Health and Wellness is nourished with empathy, compassion innovation and connection—a total integration of the mind body, the heart body, the physical body and the energetic. ALL are worthy of self-care, self-acceptance and self-love. To learn more: https://drtinaplays.com/ or drtina@drtinaplays.com To get more of Your Healing Playground with Dr Tina Koopersmith, be sure to visit the archives page for replays of all her shows here: https://www.inspiredchoicesnetwork.com/podcast/your-healing-playground-dr-tina-koopersmith/
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  • Energy, Pleasure & Power: Erotic Blueprints With Guest Laurie Love

    Energy, Pleasure & Power: Erotic Blueprints With Guest Laurie Love
    Dec 22 2025
    Your Healing Playground - Dr. Tina Koopersmith Sexuality is one of the most powerful forces in the human body—yet it’s barely taught, deeply misunderstood, and often framed only through fear. In this episode of Your Healing Playground, Dr. Tina and EROTIC BLUEPRINT coach, LAURIE LOVE explore these Blueprints as a powerful healing modality—one that helps us understand our nervous systems, our energy, and how we either nourish or drain ourselves every day. From a young age, most of us are taught about sex only in terms of danger: the danger of pregnancy, the danger of disease, the danger of desire. What we are not taught is that pleasure and safety are essential for health, and that we are all erotic beings—not just sexual ones. Erotic energy is life force energy. It is emotion. Sensation. Creativity. Drive. Dharma. Whether we acknowledge it or not, this energy is always moving through us. When we don’t know how to work with it, we leak it, suppress it, numb it, or act it out—through addiction, aggression, perfectionism, overworking, self-abandonment, or chronic anxiety. The Erotic Blueprints give us a language and framework to understand: How our nervous system is wired What fills us up versus what drains us Our energetic superpowers—and our shadows How we lose energy and how to refill our internal bank account How pleasure, safety, and embodiment restore balance and healing In this episode, Dr. Tina is joined by Laurie Love, who shares her powerful journey of healing through coaching with the Erotic Blueprints—and how learning to work with her own energy helped her move away from destructive coping patterns, including alcoholism, and back toward wholeness. This conversation is about reclaiming our bodies, our energy, and our capacity to heal—individually and collectively. Because when we learn to channel energy with awareness, compassion, and pleasure, we don’t just heal ourselves—we help heal generations. Laurie Love is a Love & Life Coach who empowers individuals and couples to navigate the intricacies of intimacy through the 5 Erotic Blueprint™ types. This framework helps identify how you are wired for pleasure and seeing your wants, needs and desires from a new perspective. Through her 10+ years of experience in a wide variety of healing modalities, Laurie brings a wealth of expertise in helping you explore intimacy and overcome obstacles. Laurie helps her clients create deeper connection and understanding of self and others, inside and outside of relationships, taking the guess work out of sex to overcome frustration and unlock sexual satisfaction. Laurie offers 1 on 1 private coaching virtually, where she holds space for clients to go on a journey of self-discovery and expansion, exploring what is possible in a safe, loving, respectful container free from judgement. She is an inclusive guide working with humans of all genders, sexual orientations and relationship statuses. www.laurielove.org What Am I – Children’s Book Author Dr. Tina Koopersmith https://tinakoopersmith.com/what-am-i-childrens-book/ ~ More About Your Healing Playground with Dr. Tina Koopersmith ~ Dr. Tina Koopersmith has practiced Western medicine for over 30 years. But she is so much more than a physician. An integrative medicine and fertility specialist, she is a transformational healer and coach who not only brings life to her patients but reminds them that it is their responsibility and, in their power, to bring themselves back to vibrancy and vitality. Root cause healing starts with energy, emotions, communication—between your cells and your soul. As a speaker-coach-author as well as mother, nonconformist, and recovering perfectionist, she is dedicated to modifying our health care system from one focused on illness and sickness to one devoted to prevention and wellness. She reminds us all that love, play, pleasure and purpose are the secret ingredients to wellness. She starts with the premise we all have the same parts and very similar DNA, and yet we all have different experiences and imprinting. Our unique signature means we are all wired to access safety and pleasure in a slightly different fashion; this diversity is to be praised and celebrated. When our body feels safe, we can move from our “childhood” survival stress mode to our “Wise Sage Self”. Healing, recovery and regeneration thrive only when we stop resisting what is and celebrate all of life with acceptance of the NOW. Health and Wellness is nourished with empathy, compassion innovation and connection—a total integration of the mind body, the heart body, the physical body and the energetic. ALL are worthy of self-care, self-acceptance and self-love. To learn more: https://drtinaplays.com/ or drtina@drtinaplays.com To get more of Your Healing Playground with Dr Tina Koopersmith, be sure to visit the archives page for replays of all her shows here: https://www.inspiredchoicesnetwork.com/podcast/...
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  • The Nervous System Knows: Pleasure, Safety & Parasympathetic Power – Dr. Tina Koopersmith

    The Nervous System Knows: Pleasure, Safety & Parasympathetic Power – Dr. Tina Koopersmith
    Dec 15 2025
    Your Healing Playground - Dr. Tina Koopersmith What if pleasure wasn’t indulgent—but essential? In this episode of Your Healing Playground, Dr. Tina explores the deep and often misunderstood relationship between pleasure and safety, and why both are required to shift the body and mind into true healing mode. Most of us are living with nervous systems shaped in early childhood—primed for survival, hyper-vigilance, and constant “ON” mode. Even when danger is no longer real, our bodies respond as if it is. Over time, this chronic stress drains our internal battery, leading to burnout, anxiety, depression, inflammation, and dis-ease. Here’s the truth: Healing doesn’t happen through force or thinking harder. It happens when the body feels safe. Pleasure and play are powerful biological signals that tell the nervous system, “You’re okay. You can rest now.” When safety is felt in the body—not argued in the mind—the parasympathetic system activates, allowing us to rest, digest, repair, reproduce, and renew our joy for life. In this episode, you’ll learn: Why safety is a felt sense, not a thought How early childhood wiring keeps us stuck in survival mode Why pleasure is a gateway to healing, not a reward How embodiment rewires the brain and restores vitality Why your stories are editable—and meant to serve your joy This is an invitation to turn off the engine, recharge your system, and remember what it feels like to truly enjoy being alive. What Am I – Children’s Book Author Dr. Tina Koopersmith https://tinakoopersmith.com/what-am-i-childrens-book/ ~ More About Your Healing Playground with Dr. Tina Koopersmith ~ Dr. Tina Koopersmith has practiced Western medicine for over 30 years. But she is so much more than a physician. An integrative medicine and fertility specialist, she is a transformational healer and coach who not only brings life to her patients but reminds them that it is their responsibility and, in their power, to bring themselves back to vibrancy and vitality. Root cause healing starts with energy, emotions, communication—between your cells and your soul. As a speaker-coach-author as well as mother, nonconformist, and recovering perfectionist, she is dedicated to modifying our health care system from one focused on illness and sickness to one devoted to prevention and wellness. She reminds us all that love, play, pleasure and purpose are the secret ingredients to wellness. She starts with the premise we all have the same parts and very similar DNA, and yet we all have different experiences and imprinting. Our unique signature means we are all wired to access safety and pleasure in a slightly different fashion; this diversity is to be praised and celebrated. When our body feels safe, we can move from our “childhood” survival stress mode to our “Wise Sage Self”. Healing, recovery and regeneration thrive only when we stop resisting what is and celebrate all of life with acceptance of the NOW. Health and Wellness is nourished with empathy, compassion innovation and connection—a total integration of the mind body, the heart body, the physical body and the energetic. ALL are worthy of self-care, self-acceptance and self-love. To learn more: https://drtinaplays.com/ or drtina@drtinaplays.com To get more of Your Healing Playground with Dr Tina Koopersmith, be sure to visit the archives page for replays of all her shows here: https://www.inspiredchoicesnetwork.com/podcast/your-healing-playground-dr-tina-koopersmith/
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  • Disability Or Superability? With Guest Stephanie Ward

    Disability Or Superability? With Guest Stephanie Ward
    Dec 8 2025
    Your Healing Playground - Dr. Tina Koopersmith In this episode of Your Healing Playground, Dr. Tina opens with a provocative reframe: Is it disability… or superability? Who decides what is “normal,” “able,” or “limited”? What if our abilities were determined not by society’s labels but by how we choose to see ourselves? We explore how language shapes reality — how words like disability, disorder, deficit, or slow cast spells that limit potential. And how one shift in perspective, like seeing a stutter as a superpower, can open entirely new pathways of possibility. Together with guest Stephanie Ward — founder of Spicy Brain Collective and mentor to neurodivergent entrepreneurs — we dig into what neurodivergence really means, how differently-wired brains often hold immense creativity and innovation, and why “regression to the mean” has harmed generations of brilliant minds. Stephanie shares her personal story of reclaiming her neurodivergence as a gift, not a liability, and how she helps others create structures, tools, and environments where unconventional brains can thrive. This episode is about rewriting the narrative of ability, shifting from limitation to potentiality, and recognizing that every human is capable of meaningful contribution, connection, and success — when given the right language, support, and freedom to self-express. Stephanie Ward is the founder of the Spicy Brain Collective and Spicy Brain Energy. These companies help neurodivergent entrepreneurs with a range of done-for-you and done-with-you business services, so that they can achieve the success they deserve in business. Stephanie is an experienced virtual assistant with a broad range of skills developed across 12 years as a freelancer. First starting as a copywriter in 2012 as a way to pass her maternity leave, she has developed a plethora of services in her one-stop-shop group of companies, ranging from web design, to diary management, to Amazon KDP campaign development, to fundraising, to strategic coaching. She fell into this line of work and unexpectedly found it to be something she loved to do. Stephanie is a firm advocate for implementation of AI in business, but is concerned about it’s usage by neurodivergents, instead believing that we need to use and develop our own intuition for internal validation. thespicybraincollective.com What Am I – Children’s Book Author Dr. Tina Koopersmith https://tinakoopersmith.com/what-am-i-childrens-book/ ~ More About Your Healing Playground with Dr. Tina Koopersmith ~ Dr. Tina Koopersmith has practiced Western medicine for over 30 years. But she is so much more than a physician. An integrative medicine and fertility specialist, she is a transformational healer and coach who not only brings life to her patients but reminds them that it is their responsibility and, in their power, to bring themselves back to vibrancy and vitality. Root cause healing starts with energy, emotions, communication—between your cells and your soul. As a speaker-coach-author as well as mother, nonconformist, and recovering perfectionist, she is dedicated to modifying our health care system from one focused on illness and sickness to one devoted to prevention and wellness. She reminds us all that love, play, pleasure and purpose are the secret ingredients to wellness. She starts with the premise we all have the same parts and very similar DNA, and yet we all have different experiences and imprinting. Our unique signature means we are all wired to access safety and pleasure in a slightly different fashion; this diversity is to be praised and celebrated. When our body feels safe, we can move from our “childhood” survival stress mode to our “Wise Sage Self”. Healing, recovery and regeneration thrive only when we stop resisting what is and celebrate all of life with acceptance of the NOW. Health and Wellness is nourished with empathy, compassion innovation and connection—a total integration of the mind body, the heart body, the physical body and the energetic. ALL are worthy of self-care, self-acceptance and self-love. To learn more: https://drtinaplays.com/ or drtina@drtinaplays.com To get more of Your Healing Playground with Dr Tina Koopersmith, be sure to visit the archives page for replays of all her shows here: https://www.inspiredchoicesnetwork.com/podcast/your-healing-playground-dr-tina-koopersmith/
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