In today's episode, Jena talks with Katie Garrott, fellow CNS practitioner at VivaWise Functional Wellness and founder of the Functional Practitioner Academy. Jena and Katie focus on the impact of stress management and emotional processing on chronic pain and other health outcomes. Katie will share her journey into functional medicine, and she'll also talk with Jena about how she serves both functional medicine patients and nutrition patients at her clinic, the roles of teamwork, empathy, and self-care in practice, the impact of emotional freedom techniques when it comes to stress and chronic pain, the role of the nervous system in reframing and managing pain, and the power of mindset in health outcomes. She will also share a powerful case study of one of her own clients, highlighting how she helped them use Emotional Freedom Techniques to confront repressed stressors and finally start to manage their debilitating back pain.

To work with Katie as a client, go to vivawisefw.com. To work with her as a fellow practitioner, go to fxpractitioner.com, click here to check out her free resources, or take a look at her YouTube channel.

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