Renaturing: How Our Animal Instincts Hold the Key to Healing Chronic Illness & Trauma | Dr. Brad & Betsy Kudlinski

What if everything modern medicine has been missing about chronic illness, trauma, and mental health dysfunction could be found in the way animals live, eat, move, and heal?In this groundbreaking first episode of the HealthfullyU Podcast, host Dr. Brad Montagne sits down with Betsy Kudlinski — a trauma recovery coach with over 30 years of professional animal experience — to introduce a concept she calls "Renaturing": the radical idea that returning to our animal nature is the most direct path to lasting health.Betsy brings a one-of-a-kind lens to healing. Having worked with pets, zoo animals, horses, farm animals, and herds of all kinds, she now applies the same observational skills to the human nervous system. Her work draws on somatic experiencing — a body-based trauma modality — to help people stop overriding their body's natural intelligence and start healing from the inside out.In this episode, you'll discover:🐾 Why we are animals pretending we're not — and why that pretense is making us sick🐾 How herd animals like deer, wolves, and horses live in extended family structures that mirror healthy human community (and what we've lost)🐾 What watching a deer eat in the wild can teach us about the destruction of monochromatic, repetitive diets🐾 The ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) study — and why one caring adult can counteract enormous childhood trauma🐾 The "prefrontal cortex running a meat robot" problem: why treating your body like a machine it should obey is a root cause of breakdown🐾 Dr. Brad's incredible story of raising championship horse competitors at age 13 — and what that connection reveals about healingDr. Brad also shares a deeply personal insight: decades of prison ministry gave him a first-row seat to the effects of childhood trauma — and a profound understanding of what it takes to build trust, confidence, and self-worth from the ground up.Whether you're struggling with chronic illness, emotional dysregulation, anxiety, or simply feel disconnected from your body and community, this episode will shift the way you see yourself — and your path to wellness.🎙️ Guest: Betsy Kudlinski | [email protected] | betsykudlinski.com🩺 Host: Dr. Brad Montagne | healthfullyu.com | YT @yourhealthreclaimed📲 Follow Betsy: FB & Bluesky @betsykudlinski | YT @RenaturingwithBetsyKSubscribe to HealthfullyU on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube for new episodes every Monday and Thursday.