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Dr. Kimmy is a double Board Certified Pediatric Hospitalist, CEO of The Doctor Coach School™️, and host of The Doctor Coach School™ Podcast. This podcast was created in order to help doctors, particularly women doctors of color, create, market, and confidently sell transformational coaching programs. Dr. Kimmy first built her business as a Procrastination Coach in 2019, helping professional women break the cycle of self-sabotage so that they could level up their lives, after she was able to push through procrastination and develop systems and processes to overcome her own overwhelm. She built a multi 6-figure coaching business from scratch and while working full time. Dr. Kimmy then began helping women doctors master their messaging and learn how to sell. She was able to help several of her clients develop thriving coaching businesses and sell high-ticket, high-impact coaching. This led to the creation of The Doctor Coach School™️. In DCS, Dr. Kimmy recognizes that the very tools that she developed to coach herself and her clients are also effective to market and sell. DCS is the only coaching school created specifically for physicians and dentists: in it, she helps doctors utilize their unique training of diagnosis and treatment in order to help them achieve results for their clients, market their coaching business, and sell their coaching with confidence. On the DCS podcast, you will learn how to pivot your story into your intellectual property, master your messaging through StorySelling, and sell with confidence. You will learn how to overcome your own mental and emotional blocks, and to teach those very skills to your clients.
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Chronic Pain, Nervous System Healing, and Reclaiming Your Life with Dr. Michelle
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In this special client-takeover episode of The Doctor Coach School™ Podcast, we hear from Dr. Michelle Welch, a physician by training and inner work coach by evolution, who supports women over 35 living with chronic, medically unexplained pain.
This conversation is for caregivers and high-functioning women who have done “all the right things,” undergone extensive testing, followed medical recommendations, and yet continue to live with daily pain that disrupts their identity, confidence, and ability to fully participate in life.
Dr. Michelle offers a deeply compassionate and nuanced perspective on chronic pain that goes beyond symptom management. Drawing from both her clinical background and her personal journey with unexplained pain, she explores how prolonged stress, caregiving, emotional load, and nervous system dysregulation can shape the body’s experience of pain, even when scans and tests come back “normal.”
Rather than framing pain as something to fight or eliminate, this episode invites a new question: What might the body be trying to protect you from?
What You’ll Learn in This Episode
- Why chronic pain can persist even when medical tests show no clear cause
- How prolonged stress and caregiving can keep the nervous system in survival mode
- The difference between pain caused by injury and pain driven by nervous system threat perception
- Why pain is real even when danger is not
- How chronic pain can quietly erode identity, confidence, and self-trust
- The role of fight-or-flight physiology in long-term pain patterns
- Why symptom management alone often isn’t enough
- How restoring a felt sense of safety in the body supports true healing
- Why capacity, not productivity, is the foundation for recovery
Dr. Michelle introduces her Capacity Framework, a compassionate approach designed to support women over 35 who live with chronic, unexplained pain and long histories of caregiving and overperforming.
The framework focuses on:
- Rebuilding internal safety
- Increasing nervous system tolerance
- Processing long-held emotional and physiological load
- Restoring agency, self-trust, and function
- Expanding life gradually and sustainably
Rather than replacing medical care, this work complements it, helping women move from constant high alert to a state where the body no longer needs to “shout” through pain to be heard.
If you are living with chronic pain that has no clear medical explanation, your pain is real.
Sometimes healing doesn’t begin with fixing the body, but with listening deeply enough that the body no longer needs to scream.
Connect With Dr. Michelle
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelle-welch-406a126a/
- TikTok: @DrMichelle.TheJoyfulRX
- Podcast: The JoyfulRx Podcast
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