EP 161: How Life Initiates Us with Dr. Rose Kumar

The Flowerlounge with Katie Hess

In this episode I speak with Dr. Rose Kumar, founder of the Ommani Center and author of Becoming Real: Reclaiming Your Health in Midlife. She talks about how and why she left corporatized medicine 22 years ago to form her own private practice. She describes how 9 times out of 10 people intuitively know why they’re sick and how she practices medicine from a ‘how to transform the shadow’ perspective. She says that ‘getting over’ something can harm us, and how courageously making space for emotions prevents future illness. She describes the Four Body System, the difference between open and closed systems and how leaving a closed system is an act of self-love. She prefers the term ‘self-nourishment’ to self-love and encourages us to ask ourselves what nourishes us -- and do more of that.