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Good Neighbor Podcast: Fort Collins
E48: Finding the Root Cause: How Integrative Medicine and Frequency Therapy Affect Change
From corporate wireless executive to holistic healer, Dr. Heidi Golding's path to founding Living Well Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture (soon to be Golding Integrative Health) began with personal tragedy and led to a revolutionary approach to healing chronic pain and trauma.
Working from her Loveland, Colorado practice alongside other integrative practitioners, Dr. Golding blends traditional Japanese acupuncture with cutting-edge frequency-specific microcurrent therapy to address issues that conventional medicine often misses. "There's a root to your problem," she explains, "we can't just keep putting band-aids on it." This philosophy guides her work with patients who've frequently exhausted other options without finding relief.
What sets Dr. Golding's approach apart is her understanding that physical pain often stems from emotional sources. "Emotions get stuck in the body as pain," she shares, describing how her treatments clear blockages in the body's energy meridians. Using ultra-fine Japanese acupuncture needles and precisely calibrated electrical frequencies, she can even unravel scar tissue decades old, reset the nervous system, and help patients access deep healing states. As a former All-American gymnast herself, she particularly enjoys helping athletes perform at their peak, recently supporting a client preparing to climb Mount Everest.
Dr. Golding's story reminds us that sometimes our greatest professional calling emerges from our deepest personal wounds. After losing her sister to a rare cancer at just 18, questions about conventional medical approaches lingered. Years later, after being laid off from her telecommunications career, these questions resurfaced, leading her to spend seven years earning her doctorate in Chinese medicine while raising her children. Now, she offers the community weekly free Qi Gong classes and provides 15-minute consultations to anyone curious about this transformative approach to wellness. Ready to find the root cause of your health challenges? Visit https://www.livingwellchinesemedicine.com/ to discover how ancient wisdom and modern technology can work together to restore your well-being.
This is the Good Neighbor Podcast, the place where local businesses and neighbors come together. Here's your host, Nick George.
Speaker 2:Welcome to the Good Neighbor Podcast. Are you in need of a multifaceted approach to wellness that blends frequency-specific microcurrent with the wisdom of ancient classical Chinese medicine? One such practice might be closer than you think. Today I have the pleasure of introducing your good neighbor, Heidi Golding, with Living Well, Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture. Heidi, how's it going?
Speaker 3:It's great, great to be here.
Speaker 2:We're excited to learn all about you and your business, which is Changing Names, I hear. Tell us all about you and your practice.
Speaker 3:So I am in Loveland, colorado, and I have Living Well Chinese Medicine that I work in conjunction with Dr Christy Hall at Living Well Nutrition and we also have a postural therapist here and it's kind of quite an integrative practice we have we do foot baths, we have a Theta pod, we have red light beds. It's a beautiful practice and my part of it is. I am a doctor of Chinese medicine, a licensed acupuncturist and an advanced practitioner of frequency specific microcurrent and I combine a bunch of different modalities to get to the root of problems, health problems.
Speaker 2:Well, Dr Golding, how did you get into this business?
Speaker 3:You know it's funny, I have a background in the corporate world. I worked in wireless tech for many, many years. I worked at Lucent Technologies in New Jersey and AT&T and they moved me to San Diego to work with Cricket Wireless. I have a very deep understanding of wireless technology and then I got laid off because the telecom industry kind of went down. My company, lucent, got bought by Nortel and I was like huh, what do I want to do? And I decided to go back to school. I had two young children and I decided to spend my time with them while going back to school. So a four-year degree in getting a doctorate well, a master's of Chinese medicine turned into a five-year degree getting my doctorate. But it was really seven years it took me to do that. So I kind of took my time while raising my kids and ended up practicing in San Diego and then we moved here about six years ago.
Speaker 2:Oh, you're a local now. Yes, they say it takes that long. What are some myths or misconceptions in your industry?
Speaker 3:I think that you know a lot of people think that acupuncture and Chinese medicine could hurt or cause problems and that's the farthest from the truth. I practice the Japanese form of acupuncture, which uses very tiny needles. The depths are much less than Chinese acupuncture and it's a modality that doesn't hurt at all. It might hurt for a second and then it goes away, as it's moving energy through meridians. It works by getting rid of blocks in the body, and frequency specific microcurrent is the modality that I use with it in pretty much every case and it's kind of like eStim, but it uses very specific frequencies to get rid of problems in the body as well by entraining the body using frequency.
Speaker 3:So, for example, if you have scar tissue, we can run a frequency of scar tissue 13 hertz on the body and it literally unravels scar tissue that might have been there for 30, 40, 50 years or even a couple weeks. We can do it up to 10 days after an injury and then it helps healing. That might have been there for 30, 40, 50 years or even a couple of weeks. We can do it up to 10 days after an injury and then it helps healing. And so my understanding of Chinese medicine whereby there are blocks in. There's all these channels in the body, there's 12 main meridians. If those channels, kind of like rivers, are blocked or dammed, you're going to have pain, and so by using acupuncture In conjunction with this frequency microcurrent, we can literally get rid of old blockages, from scars that most you know modalities can't really touch, and that relieves a lot of pain. So it really gets to the root of a problem.
Speaker 2:How do you get the frequencies? How do you get the frequencies in them? Does it go through the needle so we can?
Speaker 3:do that. It's kind of it's FDA approved as a TENS machine, so we will use, you know, the sticky pads that they put on people. Or you can use towels and connect to the towels it's what I use mostly and so water conducts through the body. It's painless, it's really like music to the body. So it doesn't if anything. You just feel calm and relaxed. Everybody gets a concussion protocol, which is it resets your whole nervous system before we start. So because what we've realized is, if you can get someone in to a very relaxed state they call it the parasympathetic, it's the opposite of that fight or flight state Then they can heal. So everything I'm doing is trying to get them to that state and then amazing healing happens.
Speaker 2:Who are your target customers that you're trying to reach right now, and how are you trying to reach them right now?
Speaker 3:You know it's really it's. A lot of referrals come to me now and it's people that have not been helped elsewhere. Often it's people that have not been helped elsewhere. Often it's people that have had chronic pain, people that have pain that they think is physical, but it really stems from trauma or it stems from an emotional. You know something that's emotional because emotions get stuck in the body as pain, so it might seem like it's orthopedic and then they go to the orthopedic person and they can't the surgeon and they can't really find the issue or that's not resolved. That's usually an emotion or a trauma that's stuck. So I'm really good with helping people through that kind of thing or just any kind of pain, whether it's emotional or physical.
Speaker 3:I was also an All-American athlete in my past, so I was an All-American athlete in my past, so I was an All-American gymnast. So I love working with athletes and helping them. You know, do their best. I just helped someone that had that was going to climb Everest. So I like working with people that want to work at their peak level, because acupuncture and FSM helps with that as well. So my target is anybody that wants to better themselves, anyone that wants to have hope and they might not have had it in the past, or anyone that wants to perform at their peak and age really well.
Speaker 2:It strikes me that you're in an industry that would help a lot more people if they understood how legitimate it was. Have you ever thought about doing your own podcast?
Speaker 3:No, I don't think I'm very good at it. That's why I appreciate you doing this so much, but no.
Speaker 2:I'm not good at it.
Speaker 3:It's really not my thing, but I do want to get the word out, and so I really appreciate you doing this, because it's really hard to share. But I do want to get the word out, and so I really appreciate you doing this, because it's really hard to share what it is that I do, and that's why referrals are my best friend. You know, people that have had the experience they can share, but they can only share it, you know, with two or three to seven people.
Speaker 2:So Right Outside of work. What do you do for fun?
Speaker 3:Well, like I said, I was a gymnast so I kind of need to keep moving. So I am a big yogi, I love yoga. I teach a Qigong class. It's free for the community Every Friday morning at 8 am. You are welcome to come, but it's in Benson Sculpture Park right now and then we move it indoors into leveling community yoga at 8am on Fridays when it gets colder. So I do that. I love, you know, yoga, qigong, skiing we're big skiers, my whole family and just walking and jogging.
Speaker 2:Let's switch gears. Can you describe a hardship or life challenge that you overcame and how it made you stronger? What comes to mind?
Speaker 3:Well, it's kind of like why I do what I do now is because I loved being in corporate America. I loved working with wireless tech. I loved working with wireless tech. But when I was young, in my teen years, my sister died of a very rare sarcoma, and I was 16. She was 18, and that was very difficult for me and my family. And so then I went off to college the year after she died. It was so difficult and I had got, you know, I focused on my career, but it was later when I realized, well, what do I really want to do? I just got laid off.
Speaker 3:I really wanted to look at the body differently than they had when she was sick. I wanted to understand, was always curious. You know, why did they give her a chemo that they gave everybody else with that same cancer and she passed? You know, why did they look at the body that way? Why didn't they tell her that sugar feeds cancer? Why didn't they do all these things? Why didn't they understand the plant-based diet for cancer, et cetera, all the things, understand the plant-based diet for cancer, et cetera, all the things. And so this studying Chinese medicine, studying this ancient modality, and even understanding FSM it allows me to look at the body in such a different way and give people hope. You know, give people hope that otherwise wouldn't, and it it just every day I wake up, wake up and I just have tears that I just can do this. It's just the most amazing thing to see people finally have hope and feel better.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that hits home with me as well, Heidi. Please tell our listeners one thing they should absolutely remember about living well Chinese medicine and acupuncture.
Speaker 3:There is a root to your problem and we can't just keep putting band-aids on it because you won't feel that you're healed. But if you but living well, Chinese medicine can really help you get to the root of your problem.
Speaker 2:How can our listeners that don't that live through their screens learn more about living well? Chinese medicine and acupuncture.
Speaker 3:So we have a website, of course, living well, chin med or Chinese medicine dot com, and I have an Instagram account, facebook account not terribly active, but the website is there. You can find out a lot more on the website. You can even schedule on the website and feel free to call me. I'm happy to discuss it. I also give free 15 minute consultations and even allow you to take FSM home with you. There's ways to do that through an app on your phone. And, yeah, I would absolutely love to talk to anyone that's interested in hearing more. And feel free to come to my Qigong class on Fridays at 8 am in Benson Sculpture Park, right across from the high school on Beach and 29th Street. And, yeah, feel free to give me a call or go to the website.
Speaker 3:We will be changing the name and it will be Golding Integrative Health, because I think it's a little bit broader. It's not just Chinese medicine that I do. I do work a lot with herbs. I didn't mention that as well. So that's, I have a diplomat of oriental medicine which is a whole year of study of Chinese herbs and it is a big part of my practice. But still, I think Golding Integrative Health will describe our practice a little bit better.
Speaker 2:Well, heidi, we really appreciate you being on our show and we wish you and Golden Integrative Health the best moving forward.
Speaker 3:Thank you so much and thank you for what you do. Thank you for bringing all these small businesses to life.
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